By Drs. J. G. Kiernan, of Illinois, and H. St. Ash, Pennsylvania:

That the Committee of Necrology be abolished, and the work of that committee be made the duty of the editor of THE JOURNAL.

By Dr. J. C. Culbertson, Illinois :

That all business affairs of the Association be referred, without discussion or comment, to an Executive Committee, composed of two members to be appointed by each State Society in affiliation with this Association, who shall carefully consider and recommend such action as they may deem most advisable.

That the time of meeting of the Sections be from 9 A.M. to 12 м., and from 2 to 6 P.M., and that the time of the general sessions shall begin at 12 M., and continue until adjournment. By Dr. A. L. Gihon, United States Navy:

That Wednesday be the day for delivery of the President's Address.

ADDRESSES.

On General Medicine, by Dr. J. S. Cain, Nashville, Tenn. On General Surgery, by Dr. John B. Hamilton, Chicago, Ill. On State Medicine, by Dr. Chas. A. Lindsley, New Haven, Conn.

Committee of Arrangements: Dr. Henry O. Walker, Chairman, 27 Adams ave., East, Detroit, Mich.

SECTIONS.

"The Chairman of each Section shall prepare an address on the recent advancements in the branches belonging to his Section, including suggestions in regard to improvements in methods of work, and present the same to the Section over which he presides, on the first day of the annual meeting. The reading of such address not to occupy more than forty minutes. .”—By-laws.

"A member desiring to read a paper before a Section, should forward the paper, or its title and length (not to exceed twenty minutes in reading), to the Chairman of the appropriate Section, at least one month before the meeting."-By-laws.

William B. Atkinson, M.D., Permanent Secretary, Philadelphia, 1400 Pine st., S. W. cor. Broad.

MEDICAL AND SURGICAL MONOGRAPHS.-The November issue of the Medical and Surgical Monographs will be sent to subscribers about December 26th, and the December issue will follow during January or February, 1892. The delay is in consequence of the translating of some new books included in these issues. The further publication of the Medical and Surgical Monographs will cease with the issue of December, 1891, but the thirty-six numbers, comprising twelve volumes, can be purchased either in separate numbers, price $1 each, or as bound books containing three numbers each as issued. A prospectus containing prices, description of binding, and terms of sale of the bound form of the work will be sent upon application to the publishers. Wood's Medical and Surgical Monographs are not supplied through the Book Trade on any terms. All orders should be sent direct to William Wood & Co., Medical Publishers, New York.

Ar the stated meeting of the Medical Society of the County of New York, on Monday, January 25, 1892, the subject for discussion was the epidemic of influenza.

The discussion was opened by Dr. Janeway, and after addresses by Drs. Jackson, Draper and Robinson, Dr. Francis Delafield addressed the Society on the treatment of influenza. He stated as follows: The treatment consisted of putting the patient to bed, and seeing that he was well nursed and had proper diet while the disease was running its course. It was possible, however, for the physician to interfere with advantage in the case of certain complications. Of all the remedies suggested for the treatment of influenza and its complications, such as severe headache or neuralgic pains, etc., he had found nothing so reliable as Phenacetine in doses of five grains every two hours. The catarrhal throat trouble so often present he had treated successfully with aconite or salicylate of soda, with a solution of cocaine for local applications.-Med. Rec.

IMPORTANT NEW MEDICAL WORKS now in preparation, ready for delivery about June 1, 1892: I. An American Textbook of Surgery. By Professors Keen, White, Burnett, Conner, Dennis, Park, Nancrede, Pilcher, Senn, Shepherd, Stimson,

Thomson and Warren, forming one handsome royal octavo volume of about 1200 pages (10x7 inches), profusely illustrated with wood cuts in text, and chromo-lithographic plates. Many of them engraved from original photographs and drawings, furnished by the authors. Price, cloth, $7; sheep, $8. II. An American Textbook of the Theory and Practice of Medicine, according to American teachers. Edited by William Pepper, M.D., LL.D., Provost of the University of Pennsylvania. To be completed in two handsome royal octavo volumes of about 1000 pages each, with illustrations to elucidate the text wherever necessary. Price per volume, cloth, $5; sheep, $6; half Russia, $7. For sale by subscription only. Agents wanted. For particulars address W. B. Saunders, publisher, 913 Walnut street, Philadelphia, Pa.

GLEET. So uniform has been our success of late in handling cases of gleet, that we hope to encounter but little trouble in the future with this annoying class of patients. Aware of the fact that most of these cases have urethral strictures, thickenings or narrowings, etc., it has long been our custom to use an alterative in conjunction with such local treatment as we might adopt. Since the introduction of Renz & Henry's Three Chlorides we have adopted this remedy for internal use and have gradually come to abandon all local effort, and now get quite as satisfactory results without as with the latter. The protracted use of the remedy is of course necessary, as is the protracted use of any other remedy or combination of remedies in chronic gonorrhea.

MARRIED.

"Dr. Jas. E. Hope, late of Water Valley, Miss., and Mrs. A. K. Waltman of Collins, La., were married at the latter place on the 6th inst. The bride is a young and handsome lady with a large circle of friends, and the groom is one of the most promising young physicians in North Louisiana. The Telegraph-Bulletin begs to extend hearty congratulations."

We clip the above from the Telegraph-Bulletin of Monroe, La., the home of the happy couple. We can most heartily wish the MONTHLY in the shoes that the home paper has prepared for itself. Regarding the bride, with whom we have

the pleasure of an acquaintance, the T.-B. voices our taste. Dr. Hope is one of our "own boys," a graduate of the Memphis Hospital Medical College, and we are proud of him.

On December 23, 1891, S. I. Colvin, M.D., of Vienna, La., to Miss Josie Culbertson of Minden, La.

"Two souls with but a single thought,

Two hearts that beat as one."

No one is more entitled to the resulting happiness than our young friend and professional brother, Dr. Colvin.

NECROLOGICAL.

DIED. Dr. J. W. Whitworth of Golden, Texas, December 21, 1891, of typhoid fever.

He was attended by Drs. A. B. Duncan, J. G. Goldsmith, W. E. Smith, W. H. Smith, N. S. Cockrane and S. A. Hart.

The deceased was a graduate of Class of 1890-91 of Memphis Hospital Medical College. He leaves a wife and three children, other relatives, and a numberless host of friends.

The Faculty join the friends and relatives in sorrow and sympathy.

DIED. Dr. Henry Crumley of Chattanooga, Tenn., January 25, 1892, from pneumonia, age 33 years.

We are pained to record the death of this young and promising physician. He was a native of Ohio; was educated at Dartmouth College, and a graduate in medicine from the Columbus, Ohio, Medical College. He had resided in Chattanooga five years, and at the time of his death was Prof. of Diseases of the Nervous System and Anatomy in the Chattanooga Medical College. Dr. Crumley was regarded by his associates as one of the brightest practitioners in Chattanooga.

DIED. Dr. J. C. Shapard of Winchester, Tenn., died suddenly of angina pectoris on the 4th of last month. He had practiced medicine in Franklin county and in Winchester for forty years, and was one of the best-known and highly-respected physicians in Tennessee.

The death of Dr. Henry Ingersoll Bowditch of Boston is announced as having occurred January 14, in his 84th year. The name of this distinguished physician is well known to the

profession, especially in connection with the advancement of the operation of paracentesis thoracis and the study of phthisis pulmonalis. His loss is a serious one to the American profession.

BOOK NOTICES.

The medical books noticed under this heading can be procured at publisher's prices, from Messrs. YOUNG & BROTHER, 248 Main street, Memphis.

A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON DISEASES OF THE EAR, Including a Sketch of Aural Anatomy and Physiology. By D. B. St. John Roosa, M.D., Professor of Diseases of the Eye and Ear in the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and President of the Faculty; Surgeon of the Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital; Consulting Surgeon to the Brooklyn Eye and Ear Hospital; formerly Professor of Ophthalmology in the University of the City of New York, etc., etc. Seventh revised edition, 741 pages, 140 woodcuts. William Wood & Co., New York, 1891.

This valuable work opens with an interesting synopsis of the history of otology from the days of the philosopher of Cos down to the present time. During this long period, many hundreds of volumes have been written on this subject, but until the seventeenth century aural therapeutics continued to be purely empirical, and but little was known of the anatomy and physiology of this important organ. Something of value was established during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but not until our own day did the science of otology attain equal rank with other branches of medicine. If antiquity can lend dignity to the subject it assuredly occupies a proud position, for in the Royal Saxon Library in Leipsic is a monograph on "Medicines for Ears Hard of Hearing" and "for Ears from which there is a Putrid Discharge," said to have been unearthed in Egypt in 1861 with the bones of an Egyptian who had slept with his fathers more than three thousand years. With its contents, however, we are not familiar, as beyond its index it has not been translated. In the fourth century (B. C.) Aristotle knew of the membrana tympani, and in the time of the Ptolemies Erasistratus described correctly the acoustic nerve. In the second century many terms now used in otology were employed, such as helix, lobe, tragus, etc. Marinus, the preceptor of Galen, termed the acoustic and facial nerves one under the name of the fifth pair, an error afterward corrected by his celebrated pupil, who pointed