with the Kansas City profession. He was a charter member of the Kansas City Academy of Medicine, and served as president, censor, and almost continuously as treasurer to the time of his death. Dr. Hardin has also been honored with the presidency of the Jackson County Medical Society and the Medical Society of the Missouri Valley. He was a member of all the local associations leading to the A.M.A. membership. He was an untiring and devoted medical worker and a frequent contributor to program work. His last contribution, "Landry's Paralysis," to the Academy of Medicine was read Oct. 19th, 1910, and published in the Herald, page 37, Vol. 30. 1911. The last paper he wrote, "Ulcers of the Stomach and Duodenum," was read before the Southwest Medical Association at Oklahoma City, and is found in the Herald, page 290, Vol 31, 1912.

Dr. Hardin is survived by his widow, a son, Samuel D., and a daughter, Mrs. Adelbert D. Barber. Interment was in Mount Washington Cemetery. S. G. G.

MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE MISSOURI VALLEY.

The twenty-sixth annual meeting of this society will be held in Omaha, Neb., Thursday and Friday, September 18-19, under the presidency of Dr. H. B. Jennings of Council Bluffs. A feature of the second day's program will be a symposium on Pregnancy. On Thursday evening the members and their wives will be given an informal dinner at the Rome Hotel, at 6:30. Immediately following the dinner the oration in Surgery by Dr. Chas. Mayo, and in Medicine by Dr. Alfred C. Croftan will be heard. Following is the

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM.

SYMPOSIUM ON PREGNANCY.

(a) Diagnosis, Cause and Management of a Normal Pregnancy, Dr. A. B. Somers. (b) Abortion, Accidental and Criminal, Dr. A. L. Gray.

(c) Ectopic Pregnancy," Dr. Palmer Findlay.

(d) Eclampsia, Dr. Don Carlos Guffy. (e) Advice to Expectant Mother, Dr. Pollard.

(f) The Medical and Hygienic Management of Moderately Abnormal Cases of Pregnancy, Dr. Mary Strong.

(g) Title unannounced, Dr. H. C. Crowell, The New Knowledge of Disease, Prevention and Cure, Dr. L. A. Merriam.

After the Obstetrician, the Gastro-enterologist, Dr. J. M. Bell.

The Ice-bag, the Main Contributing Factor in the Present High Mortality of Appendicitis, Dr. A. J. McKinnon.

Cysts of Bone-Illustrative Cases, Dr. A. F. Tyler.

Suggestions Regarding the Surgical Technique in the Treatment of Jonnesco's (Jackson's) Membrane, Dr. Jno. E. Summers Nerve-block Anesthesia - Neglected Method of Choice, Dr. H. H. Everett.

Auto-Intoxication and Dis-Intoxication in Relation to Etiology and Treatment of Nervous and Mental Diseases, Dr. Henry S. Munro.

The Newer Views on Nephritis, Dr. L. W. Littig.

Common Errors in Gall Tract Surgery, Dr. C. E. Ruth.

Local Foci of Infection Causing General Systemic Disturbances, Dr. Chas H. Mayo. External Eye Diseases Apparently of Nasal Origin, Dr. J. M. Patton.

New Operation, Plastic; for Entropion and Trichiasis, Dr. Flavel B. Tiffany.

X-Ray Treatment of Uterine Fibroids, Dr. E. H. Skinner.

The Rome Hotel will be headquarters and meeting-place. Rooms should be reserved in advance.

Chas. Wood Fassett, Secretary.

The Kansas City Academy of Medicine.

The first meeting of the Academy will be held the evening of the first Saturday in October. The principal order of business will be the annual reports of committees and the election of officers. Members are urged to be present to actively start the year's work, and see that the new officials duly respect the sanctity of the "post-academic repast."

New York and New England Association of Railway Surgeons.

The twenty-third annual session of the New York and New England Association of Railway Surgeons will be held at the Hotel Astor, New York City, on Wednesday, October 22d, 1913. A very interesting and attractive program has been arranged. Dr. Hugh H. Young, of Baltimore, will deliver the "Address in Surgery." Railway surgeons, attorneys and officials and all members of the medical profession are cordially invited to attend.

Dr. John W. LeSeur, Pres., Batavia, N. Y. Dr. George Chaffee Corresponding Secretary, 338 47th St. Brooklyn N.Y.

Monday, Oct. 6, 8 A.M.-Clinics in all Hospitals. Monday, 8 P.M., Parlor of Coates Hotel-Meeting of Executive Committee.

Tuesday, Oct. 7, 9 A.M.-General Session. 9:15 A.M.-Address of president.

10:00 A.M.-Presentation of Scientific Papers.

2:00 P.M.-Continuation of Scientific Program, Each Section meeting separately.

8:00 P.M.-Address by Dr. J. A. Witherspoon, President A.M.A.

9:00 P.M.-Smoker and Vaudeville, tendered the visiting physicians by the Profession of Kansas City.

Wednesday, 9:00 A.M.-Reports of Committees and Election of Officers, followed by Scientific Program in General Session.

2:00 P.M.-Continuation of Scientific Program, each section meeting separately.

8:00 P.M.-Scientific Program, by Sections, and Election of Section Officers.

The date for the Auto Ride, Theatre Party and Luncheons for the Ladies will be announced later. Thursday, Friday and Saturday-Continuation of Clinics.

SECTION ON GENERAL MEDICINE. "The Principles of Treatment in Nephritis," Dr. Martin H. Fischer.

"Acute Nephritis in Children, with Especial Reference to Etiology and Treatment," Dr. H. M. McClanahan.

"Skin Diseases," Dr. Alfred Schalek. "Studies on Rheumatism and Endocarditis, with Demonstrations of Specimens," Dr. E. P. Rosenow.

"Some Parasitic Infusoria,' Lantern Slides, Dr. T. A. Jones.

Illustrated by

"Immunity with Especial Reference to Tuberculosis," Dr. W. S. Gregory.

"Unusual Cases in a Professional Career of 43 Years," Dr. Wm. Nairn.

"Treatment of 100 Consecutive Cases of Typhoid Fever," Dr. J. S. Langford.

"Paper, subject to be announced, Dr. M. L. Perry.

"Medical Inspection of the Schools." Dr. A. B. Leeds.

"Vicious Medication of the Anterior Urethra," Dr. Thomas M. Paul.

"The Abnormal Mind from the Psychological Viewpoint," Dr. F. B. Erwin.

"Treatment with Vaccines and Phylacogens," Dr. E. D. Holland.

Tamponade, More Tamponade, Most Tamponade; Why is the Most Tamponade a Failure?" Dr. Frances A. Harper.

"Uses of Nitrites in Hypertension Together with Some Experimental Data,' " Dr. C. H. Neil

son.

"A Brief Summary of the X-Ray as a Therapeutic Agent," Dr. Everett S. Lain.

SECTION ON SURGERY.

"The High Incision for Caesarean Section,” Illustrated, Dr. H. S. Crossen.

"Thrombosis of the Mesenteric Artery,"-Medical Aspect, Dr. Woodson Moss; Surgical Aspect, Dr. Frank D. Nifong.

"Cancer of the Uterus," Dr. J. E. Gilcreest. "Paper," Dr. Jas. E. Thompson.

"Paper," Dr. S. N. Mayberry.

"Sterilization of Cancer," Dr. A. C. Scott.

"The Use of Pig Skin in Extensive Grafts,'' Illustrated, Dr. C. S. Venable.

"Different Ways of Treating Infections," Dr. E. H. Troy.

"Symposium on Constipation," Dr. A. L. Blesh. "Gastric and Duodenal Ulcer," Dr. F. H. Clark. "Pyosalpinx," Dr. E. E. Rice.

"Prolapse of Uterus and Bladder." Dr. J. T. Ax

tell.

"Paper," Dr. Leroy Long.

"Post-Operative Gastric Dilatation," Dr. E. W.

Shelton.

"The Advisability of Early Suprapubic Prostatectomy in the Aged," Dr, Albert Smith.

"Decompressive Operations from Their Neurological and Other Aspects," Dr. Archibald Church. SECTION ON EYE, EAR, NOSE AND THROAT.

"The Complete Removal of the Tonsil in Its Capsule, with Exhibition of a New Mouth Gag and Tonsillotome," Dr. J. Ellis Jennings.

"Nasal Headache, Its Diagnosis and Treatment," Dr. R. 'H. T. Mann.

"Complications of Suppurative Otitis Media," Dr. W. T McCurry.

"Tumors of Naso-Pharynx; Operations and Results," Dr. C. L. Williams.

"The Pathology of the Voice," Dr. E, M. Seydell. "Mastoid Disease, report of Some Operative Cases," Dr. L. H. Lanier.

"Surgical Treatment of Tonsillitis," Dr. T. L. Higginbotham.

"Pseudomembranous Angina of the Nose and Throat," Dr. Hugh B. Caffey.

"Great Aurist and Famous Anatomist," Dr. J. M. Ball.

"Paper," subject to be announced, Dr. Wm. Breathwit.

"Personal Experiences, with Some Modern Advances in Oto-Rhino-Laryngology," Illustrated by Lantern Slides, Dr. Jos. C. Beck.

"Some Observations on the Diagnosis of Glaucoma," Dr. J. O. McReynolds.

"Suggestions in Diagnosis and Treatment of Thrombosis of the Lateral Sinus," Dr. William D Black.

Diseases of Women. A Clinical Guide to Their Diagnosis and Treatment. By George Ernest Herman, M. B., F.R.C.P. Lond., F. R. C. S. Eng., Consulting Obstetric Physician to the London Hospital, etc., assisted by R. Drummond Maxwell, M. D. Lond., F. R. C. S. Eng., Assistant Obstetric Physician to the London Hospital and Physician to Queen Charlotte Lying-in Hospital. Enlarged edition, revised. With 8 colored plates and 292 figures in the text. New York: The Funk and Wagnalls Company. 1913. (Price $7.50.)

When this work was submitted to me for review I recognized an old friend with a few innovations. During my ten years as professor of Gynecology in the University Medical College of Kansas City I used Herman almost exclusively for my lectures. I found him to be a good clinical guide of more than usual scope. The text is clear and comprehensive, valuable to both student and practitioner; nothing expected of such a text-book seems to be missing, and much is to be found that is correlative and useful. H.C.C. Coprostasis; Its Causes, Prevention and Treatment.

By Sir James Sawyer of London, Doctor of
Medicine of University, F. R. C. P., F.S.A., F.
R.S., Queen's Hospital. Birmingham, Eng-
land: Cornish Bros., 1912.

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A very readable monograph, much to the point, which may be digested by any practitioner to advantage. If any criticism were offered it would be the tendency of the author to compromise with medicine. prostasis has never been cured by medicine. The inflexible method by which only a cure may be effected is through a properly selected diet, rationally eaten combined with bodily exercise. Patients unwilling to take the necessary sacrifice of time involved must go forever uncured. The author does speak of this principle, but is not sufficiently emphatic. Until the medical profession is a unit on the therapeutic value of hygiene, intestinal stasis will continue both as a disease entity and as a complication of universal occurrence. J.M.B.

A Text-Book of Biology. For Students in Medical, Technical and General Courses. By William Martin Smallwood, Ph.D. (Harvard), Professor of Comparative Anatomy in the Liberal Arts College of Syracuse University, etc. Octavo, 285 pages; illustrated with 243 engravings and 13 plates, in colors and monochrome. Philadelphia and New York: Lea & Febiger, Publishers, 1913. (Cloth, $2.75, net.)

The appearance of a modern text-book, designed for medicial students, is also received by those of us who studied many years ago, with great interest and profit. Biology is recognized as one of the funda

mental sciences in the study of medicine, is required for college entrance, or is included as part of the preliminary instruction. This book is of great interest and value as it gives the general practitioner a broader interest in his work.

Progressive Medicine. A quarterly digest of advances, discoveries and improvements in the medical and surgical sciences. Edited by Hobart Amory Hare, assisted by Leighton F. Appleman. March 1, 1913. Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger. (Published quarterly at $5.00 per year.)

The contents of this number include reviews on the surgery of the head, neck and thorax, infectious diseases, including acute rheumatism, croupous pneumonia and influenza, diseases of children, rhinology and laryngology and otology. In the article on Rhinology Dr. George B. Wood speaks of the local anesthesia in operative work in the nose and throat becoming more general and that filtration anesthesia is being grad ually preferred over simple applications when there is much operative work being done. Dr. Arthur B. Duel has a splendid article with good illustrations on the subject of meningitis, particularly its surgical treatment. There is a good review on the subject of Otosclerosis. This number of "Progressive Medicine" maintains its usual high standard.

Gonorrhea in Women; Its Pathology, Symptomatology, Diagnosis and Treatment; together with a review of the rare varieties of the disease which occur in men, women and children. By Chas. C. Norris, M.D., Instructor in Gynecology at the University of Pennsylvania. Octavo of 521 pages, illustrated. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders Company, 1913. (Cloth, $6 net; half morocco, $7.50 net.)

The study of the venereal peril is paramount at the present time. We are entering an era of prevention, and this book by C. C. Norris shows the necessity for activity along these lines. The author is acquainted with all modern literature, as shown by his conclusions, and the bibliography is one of the most complete we have seen. He begins with the history of this infection of women from the time of Christ to the present. The literature really useful to the practical physician appears in monographs, such as "Gonorrhea in Women." There is a prolific discussion of the methods of the different stages and classes of infection. It is a volume that should prompty be referred to by the general practitioner who has such cases to treat. We congratulate the author upon this good

book, upon the detail and minutia of the subject involved. The profession appreciates his efforts.

Blood Pressure, From the Clinical Standpoint.

By

Francis Ashley Faught, M.D., of the MedicoChirurgical College, Philadelphia. Octavo of 281 pages, illustrated. Philadelphia and London: W.B. Saunders Company, 1913. (Price,$3 net.)

The reading of the blood pressure and the conclusions therefrom have not only reached the practical stage in studying disease of the circulatory system, but life insurance companies demand to know the result of the physical examination of the body to show the tension of the blood pressure. The sphygmomanometer, aside from its value to life insurance companies, assists in the early discovery of arteriosclerosis, disease of the kidney and heart and in many other conditions of the body.

This book covers the subject in a very complete manner and assists the physician in studying the conclusions of blood pressure instruments and their interpretations. The work is a necessity to all those interested in making physical examinations and life insurance examinations. The author ranks as an authority.

Massage-Its Principles and Technic. By Max Bohm,

M.D., of Berlin, Germany, edited, with an introduction, by Charles F. Painter, M.D, Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Tufts Medical School, Boston. Octavo of 91 pages, with 97 illustrations. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders Company, 1913. (Cloth, $1.75 net.)

In Germany physical therapeutics in all its forms is employed far more widely than it is here. The beneficial effect of massage is much more fully appreciated than with us, because of its wider application. These physical therapeutic measures are ably presented to the medical profession in this country. This book is of considerable value to all practitioners. The directions for massage are practical and clearly expressed.

International Clinics. Twenty-third Series, Vol.

II. Philadelphia and London: J. P. Lippincott Co., 1912. (Price, $2.00.)

This well-known publication, with lectures by many eminent and practical clinicians maintains its usual high standard. This volume contains articles on Diagnosis and Treatment, Medicine, Neurology, Surgery, Obstetrics, Medicolegal and Electrotherapeutics.

There are three colored plates and numerous illustrations. You will keep in touch with the new discoveries by reading "International Clinics" a long time before such information finds its way into general text-books. Busy men

who wish to keep abreast of medical thought should become subscribers, if they are not so already.

Hygiene and Sanitation. A Text-Book for Nurses. By George M. Price, M.D., Director, Joint Board of Sanitary Control; Director of Investigation, New York State Factory Commission. 12mo., 236 pages. Philadelphia and New York: Lea & Febiger, Publishers, 1913. (Cloth, $1.50, net.)

The possibility of hygiene and preventive medicine is the hope of medicine, and it will be largely achieved through the education of the public, and to attain this end no factor is as important as the nurse. The new work by Dr. Price is admirably suited to the needs of the nurse in the discharge of her duties. In the preface the author says that no longer are her duties limited to the care of the sick, but that the nurse has become the priestess of prophylaxis. This work teaches her the elements of hy giene in its various branches.

How to Collect a Doctor Bill. By Frank P. Davis, M.D., of Enid, Okla. 98 pages. Published by the author. (Cloth bound, price, $1.) If you need good advice you will find it in this little practical "business" book. It contains a form for an "order note" the use of which will save the doctor much money. Pages are devoted to the subject of collection letters, and to limitation and collection laws. The doctor closes his preface as follows: "If this book shall be the means of causing any physician to study the business side of professional life, and get what is due him, I will feel that I have not worked in vain."

Health and Longevity Through Rational Diet: Practical Hints in Regard to Food and the Usefulness or Harmful Effects of the Various Articles of Diet. By Dr. Arnold Lorand, Carlsbad. Philadelphia: F. A. Davis Company, Publishers, 1912.

We have many books on dietetics from the scientific to the popular discussion. Dr. Lorand has an immense experience at Carlsbad with patients requiring a study of their food to the different diseases and peculiarities of their patients. This book is written so that an intelligent layman can profit by its perusal, as well as the physician who can pick up many useful hints in the management of their patients. shows an intimate knowledge of the gastronomic predilections of various countries. with judicious criticisms directed against the most questionable customs. The book is a worthy contribution to the subject and the American edition is a credit both to the writer and publishers. It should be on the shelf of every physician.

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Medical Miscellany

Eugenics Plus Biology.

Dr. Charles B. Davenport, the distinguished biologist, who is secretary and resident director of the Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor, Long Island, has prepared a bulletin on marriage laws, judged from the biological viewpoint, which has just been published. The purpose of this study is summed up in these sentences from the author's preface:

The present bulletin is intended to present to legislators the results of scientific investigation into some of the problems that trouble them-problems that have first of all a biological basis. It is as a bioloIt is as a biologist that the author contributes this study of the biological basis of marriage laws.

If the demand for cheap labor in the North shall long continue to lure the weaklings of Europe to our Northern cities the North will soon have on its hands as large a problem as the South now has a problem which in its turn arose from the demand for cheap labor.

Both sections alike must not be content merely to bow their heads before the oncoming storm, but must take positive measures to increase the density of socially desirable traits in the next generation-by education, segregation, and sterilization; and by keeping out immigrants who belong to defective strains.

The author writes that "legislating may be said to be a favorite American panacea, for social evils. It is cheap, at least." He goes on to deplore that the fact that legislatures will not spend money in studies of these subjects, saying on this point:

"Is it not time that legislators stopped to think if there is any knowledge extant upon which to base their laws and, if not, to make an appropriation to get the knowledge? Today, if a legislature is urged to ture any social evil, it proceeds to look for and, if found, to copy any other legislation on the subject, but not to spend a dollar on a study of the subject. Very slowly, but I trust none the less surely, will legislation come to recognize that research is a basic function of the State.

"Laws restricting marriage selection are designed," says Dr. Davenport, "on the one hand, to protect the rights of the consort who would suffer through helplessness or ignorance and, on the other, to prevent the legal consummation of such matings as are calculated to produce physically or mentally handicapped children-those deprived of the right to be well born.' It is

chiefly with this latter aim that we have here to do.

"If present legislation is inadequate, what legislation is suggested? First of all, no legislative restrictions as to marriage of imbecile, epileptic and insane persons have any great value. Socially dangerous imbeciles should not be at large, in throughout the reproductive period. any case. They should be in custoidal care Legislation as a means of preventing their procreation is worse than useless.

"Second, any legislation directed toward the insane and epileptic should take account of kinds and degrees. It is futile to legislate against the marriage of progressed cases of dementia precox or 'constitutional inferiority' or other types of youthful degeneration for the same reason as in the case of imbeciles. In all the lighter cases of the disorder the prohibition is, as pointed out above, of doubtful benefit."

To Aid Expectant Mothers in New York City.

Mrs. Robert H. Sayre has just signed a lease of five lots on the shore of Oak Beach, Long Island, where a home for expectant mothers-the first of its kind-will be erected the latter part of this year.

The home for mothers, which will consist of five buildings, will be the first of a number of prenatal feeding, educational and social centers which Miss A. Mabel Parke, president of the Babies' Aid and Milk Station Association, plans to establish in and about the city. in and about the city. Funds for the five buildings, which include a dining room, sitting room, kitchen and laundry and cottages containing single rooms for one hundred mothers, will be supplied by a wealthy woman, whose name is withheld for the present.

"Mrs. Sayre has been interested in work among prospective mothers for several years, "said Miss Parker. "The milk stations have carried on this work in a small way and the infant death rate has been reduced 50 per cent. But many babies still die of inanition, because their mothers have been insufficiently nourished or have worked too hard before they were born.

"We propose to take the expectant mother as early as posssible and keep her for a month at our home, where she will not only be well fed, but will be taught to make her baby's layette and will have les sons in the care and feeding of children.

"When she is able to do so she will be expected to pay a dollar a week, for the people we want to reach are the thrifty poor who are not on the rolls of the charity societies."