deposited urates. In fact, Weintraud considers it necessary to administer sodium bicarbonate simultaneously with Medical Education and State Boards of atophan in order to prevent precipitation of free uric acid from the urine, possibly resulting in renal colic. Registration 2. The so-called tasteless castor oil is said to be free from decomposition products which it is claimed cause the bad COMING EXAMINATIONS taste of castor oil. Arizona: Phoenix, April 4-5. Sec, Dr. John Wix Thomas, 200 3. Alcresta ipecac is a combination of ipecac alkaloids with National Bank of Arizona Bldg., Phoenix. fullers' earth, said to be insoluble in acid liquids, and there¬ Arkansas: Regular, Little Rock, May 9. Sec., Dr. T. J. Stout, fore not decomposed in the stomach. It is said to be decom¬ Brinkley; Eclectic, Little Rock, May 9. Sec, Dr. C. E. Laws, 712 alkaline fluids in the intestine with the liberation Garrison Ave., Fort Smith. posed by California: , April 4. Sec, Dr. Charles B. Pinkham, of ipecac alkaloids. Alcresta ipecac is described in New and Room 527 Forum Bldg., Sacramento. Nonofficial Remedies for 1916, p. 160. : , April 4. Sec, Dr. D id A. Strickler, 612 Denver. 4. We are unable to find any reference to the use of injec¬ Empire Bldg., District of Columbia: Washington, April 11. Sec, Dr. E. P. Cope- tions of liquid petrolatum intra-abdominally as a cure for land, The Rockingham. local or general peritonitis. Idaho: Boise, April 4. Sec, Dr. Charles A. Dettman, Burke. 5. Iodin (free) should rarely or never be injected inter¬ Illinois: , May 4-6. Sec, Dr. C. St. Clair Drake, Springfield. Minnesota: Minneapolis, April 4-7. Sec" Dr. Thomas S. McDavitt, nally. 814 Lowry Bldg., St. Paul. 6. on was A list of books the history of medicine published Montana: Helena, April 4. Sec, Dr. William C. Riddell, Helena. in The Journal, Feb. 7, 1914, p. 476. Among the more recent Nevada: Carson City, May 1. Sec, Dr. Simeon L. Lee, Carson City. may be mentioned : New : Sante Fe, April 10. Sec, Dr. W. E. Kaser, East Las Vegas. Garrison, F. H. : Introduction to History of Medicine, Philadelphia, Oklahoma: Oklahoma City, April 11-12. Sec, Dr. Ralph V. Smith,. W. B. Saunders Company, $6. 502 Daniel Bldg., Tulsa. Bass, J. H.: Outline of History of Medicine, , W. R. Porto Rico: San Juan, April 4. Sec, Dr. Quevedo Baez, 66 Allen Jenkins Company, $6. St., San Juan. Neuberger, M. : History of Medicine, New York, Oxford University Rhode Island: Providence, April 6. Sec, Dr. Gardner T. Swarts, Press, Vol. I, $9; Vol. II, in preparation. 315 State House, Providence. Park, R. : Epitome of the History of Medicine, Philadelphia, F. A. Utah: Salt Lake City, April 3-4. Sec, Dr. G. F. Harding, 407 Davis Company, $2. Templeton Bldg., Salt Lake City. 7. Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, semimonthly, price, $5. Published by Messrs. Bale, Sons and Danielsson, Illinois October Ltd., 83 Great Titchfield St., , W., . Report Dr. C. St. Clair Drake, secretary of the Illinois State Board of Health, reports the written examination held at ARTICLES ON STERILIZATION OF THE UNFIT Chicago, Oct. 13-15, 1915. The total number of subjects To the Editor:—Please tell me where "Ï may secure literature on the examined in was 10; total number of questions asked, 100; the in as sterilization of unfit as practiced Indiana state institutions percentage required to pass, 75. The total number of can¬ well as in other states. A j Kearns< m.d.; Loup City, Neb. didates examined was 109, of whom 86 passed and 21 failed. Two candidates did not the Answer.—The following is a list of articles on this subject: complete examination. The fol¬ lowing colleges- were represented : Swift, H. M.: Sterilization of Unfit, Maine Med. Assn. Jour., Decem¬ Year Total No. ber, 1914. PÄSSED The Davis Case and the Iowa Sterilization Law, Medical Economics, College . Grad. Examined The 340. Bennett Medical College.(1913) (1914, 3) (1915, 18) 22 Journal, July 25, 1914, p. of Medicine and Pogue, M.: Sterilization, Segregation or Custodial Care of Mental Chicago College Surgery. Illinois Med. Jour., 1914. .(1909) (1913) (1914, 6) (1915, 12) 20 Defectives, October, Chicago of 2 Peters, A. W. : Sterilization of Mental Defectives from Hospital College Medicine.(1915) Physiologic Chicago Medical College.(1884) 1 Standpoint, Med. Ree., New York, Aug. 29, 1914. Hahnemann Med. Coll. and Hosp., Chicago. ... (1914) (1915) 2 Law Providing for Sterilization of Epileptics in Charitable Institu¬ Medical The Jenner College.(1914) (1915,7) 8 tions Not Constitutional, Medicolegal, Journal, March 14, Northwestern University .(1914) (1915,3) 4 1914, p. 875. Rush Medical College.(1896) (1915, 4) 5 Lydston, G. F.: Is Sterilization Destined to be a Social Menace? University of Illinois.(1915) 6 Illinois Med. Jour., , 1913; Med. Ree., New York, Tufts College Medical School.(1913) Nov. 8, 1913. Harvard University .(1899) Carey, H. M.: Compulsory Sterilization and Segregation of Mental Barnes Medical College.(1898) Defective, Illinois Med. Jour., November, 1913. Missouri Medical College.(1894) National University of Arts and Champions, W. L. : Sterilization of Confirmed Criminals, Idiots, Sciences.(1914) Feebleminded and Other Defectives, Med. Assn. St. Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons.(1908) Rapists, Georgia St. Louis University.(1914) Jour., August, 1913. of Denver University Nebraska.(1915) Bowers, E. L. : Sterilization of Degenerates, Med. Times and Cornell University .(1915) Utah Med. Jour., September, 1912, p. 148. Starling Medical College.(1884) Mack, C. W. : Psychiatric Aspects of Sterilization Law, Michigan Eclectic Medical College, Cincinnati.(1894) State Med. Soc. Jour., August, 1913. University of Virginia.(1915) Singer, H. D.: Sterilization of Insane, Criminal and Delinquent, Milwaukee Medical College.(1911) Illinois Med. Jour., May, 1913. Marquette University .(1914) Hegar, .: Sterilization of the Unfit, München, med. Wchnschr., National University of Athens.(1908) (1913) Feb. 4, 1913. C. Plea Imbeciles failed Clark, M.: for Sterilization of Criminals, Epileptics, Bennett and Northwest December, 1912. Medical College.(1914,2) (1915,4) 6 Insane, Med., of Med. and 6 H. : Denver Med. Times and Utah Med. Jour., Chicago College Surg.(1914,2) (1915,4) Ellis, . Sterilization, Chicago Hospital College of Medicine.(1915) 3 September, 1912, p. 14. College of Med. and Surg., Chicago, Physio-Medical. (1910) and Minor Notes, The Journal, Oct. 23, 1909, p. 1415; Illinois Queries Medical College.(1910). March 8, 1913, p. 769; Dec. 13, 1913, p. 2179. State University of Iowa, College of Medicine.(1890) University of Louisville.(1913) National University of Arts and Sciences.(1914) Conservation of Food Supply.—The Depart¬ Meharry Medical College.(1908) ment of Agriculture has established a laboratory to study the and fermentation of food products with the decomposition New Mexico October object of lessening the great waste that occurs from these Report causes. This work is in addition to the work of detecting Dr. W. E. Kaser, secretary of the New Mexico Board of adulteration. The investigations by this laboratory are Health and Medical Examiners, reports the written exami¬ intended to establish better methods for handling, packing, nation held at Santa Fé, Oct. 11-12, 1915. The total number storing and shipping fish, poultry and eggs. The breakage of subjects examined in was 13; total number of questions of eggs in transit has heretofore occasioned great loss; this asked, 100; percentage required to pass, 75. One candidate has been reduced by the adoption of methods developed by was examined and passed. Twelve candidates were licensed the laboratory for bracing eggs in cases, bracing cases in on satisfactory credentials. The following colleges were cars, and bracing, buffing and shifting cars. Experiments represented : determine the best method of Year Per are under way to feeding College passed Grad. Cent. poultry to increase weight and quality. Chattanooga Medical College.(1903) 75

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Volume VI, just at hand, is fully equal to the previous volumes. It contains numerous New York October Report short biographic sketches of such physicians as Lister, Malpighi and Murchison. Among the larger subjects dis- Mr. Harlan H. chief of the examinations division Horner, cussed are the liver and its diseases, the lungs, lupus, the of the New York State Board of Medical Examiners, reports lymphatic system, malaria, mastoid operations, medical licens- the written examination held at Albany, Buffalo, New York ing boards, the history of medicine, meningitis, mental dis- and 1915. 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The Fordham University.(1913, 2) (1914, 3) (1915, 3) 8 section on nephritis is complete and modern. Max Hühner Long Island College Hospital.(1910) (1914,2) (1915,6) 9 New York Homeo. Med. Coll. and Flower Hospital... discusses the sexual neuroses, and Dyer the subject of nevus. .(1914, 7) (1915,8) 15 The discussions of treatment are rational and extraor¬ Univ. and Bellevue Hosp. Med. Coll.(1914,4) (1915,12) 16 University of Buffalo.(1914) 2 dinarily free from the taint of "patent medicine" prescribing. Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital.(1915) 1 Nascher discusses old age. The article on organotherapy, by Jefferson. Medical College.(1912) (1914, 2) (1915) 4 Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia.(1914) 1 Croftan, appears somewhat optimistic, but is this not true of LTniv. of Pennsylvania.. (1897) (1899) (1909) (1912,2) (1915) 6 practically all articles on this subject? The volume is well Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania_(1914) (1915) 2 illustrated the colored been Vanderbilt University .(1913) 1 ; plates have carefully chosen University of Texas.(1912) 1 and are instructive. Under the subject of optometry is an University of Vermont.(1903) (1913) (1915, 3) 5 excellent test letter chart. The University of Virginia.(1913) 1 Reference Handbook of McGill University .,_(1913) 1 Medical Sciences continues to sustain a well deserved good Oueen's University .(1912) 1 University of .(1908) 1 reputation. University of Palermo.(1905) 1 Syrian Protestant College, Beirut.(1911) 1 Bone-Graft Surgery. By Fred H. Albee, A.B., M.D., F.A.C.S., Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at the New York Post-Graduate failed Medical School. Cloth. Price, $6, net. Pp. 417, with 332 illustrations. University of California.(1900) 1 Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Company, 1915. Georgetown LTniversity.(1913) 1 George Washington University.(1915) 1 This is an important contribution to the field of bone surgery. College of Phys. and Surgs., Baltimore.(1913) (1914) 2 Tohns Hopkins LTniversity.(1909) 1 Too much is claimed for the bone graft as a therapeutic agent. University .(1909) 1 Operations in which a transplant is used have been devised Albany Medical College.(1914, 5) (1915) 6 Columbia Univ., Coll. of Phys. and Surgs_(1913) (1915) 2 and recommended for conditions in which perfectly satis- Cornell University.(1915) 1 factory results can be obtained methods. The Fordham University.(1912,2) (1913,2) (1914) (1915,3) 8 by simpler Long Island College Hospital.(1911) (1915) 2 impression is conveyed that almost every case treated by the New York Homeo. Med. Coll. and Flower Hospital. author's methods will terminate no 7 successfully, whereas .(1914, 5) . (1915,. . 2) New York Med. Coll. and Hosp. for Women.(1913) 1 evidence is given that some of his operations have as yet University of Buffalo.(1901) 1 been performed on man. More clinical experience must be Medical College of Ohio.(1900) 1 Jefferson Medical College.(1912) (1913) 2 forthcoming before these measures can be accepted so unre- Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia.(1915) 2 servedly. University of Pennsylvania.(1902) 1 University of Vermont.(1912) (1915) 2 The first of the eight chapters deals with the fundamental Medical College of Virginia.(1915) 1 principles underlying the use of the bone graft. The views Queen's University .(1911) (1915) 2 University of Brussels.(1913) 1 are given of various workers as to the part played by the University of Naples.(1883) (1905) (1912) 3 periosteum, compact bone and endosteum. The transplant should consist of all three layers and be inserted by the inlay method so that they are in apposition with the same layers Wyoming October Report of the portion into which it is inserted. General and specific Dr. H. E. McCollum, secretary of the State Board of indications are enumerated for the use of the transplant. Medical Examiners of Wyoming, reports the written exami¬ The author points out that a transplant placed in an infected nation held at Laramie, Oct. 13-15, 1915. The total number area may be successful, but holds out perhaps too much for its use in such cases. A list of neces¬ of subjects examined in was 10; total number of questions encouragement the sary instruments is with detailed instruction as to their asked, 100; percentage required to pass, 75. The total num¬ given use. The of driven ber of candidates examined was 5, all of whom passed. The advantages electrically saws, drills, lathes and burrs is out. The author takes too much following colleges were represented : pointed credit Year Per for the introduction of these agents, as they were previously PASSED College Grad. Cent. in use in one type or another. His outfit, however, is one of University of Colorado.(1912) 81.5; (1913) 89.9 the most and combinations that has University of Nebraska.(1914) 81.3, 76.7 complete practical been University of Munich.(1912) 87.9 made. The chapter dealing with the intraspinal inlay for

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