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The book is handsomely printed, and the paper the best age of 17 and graduated from the medical college, then quality. The Society will next year meet in Baltimore. located at Castleton, Vt., in 1846. After graduation he lo¬ cated in Ticonderoga, N. Y. He removed to California for Prescribing and Treatment in Diseases of Infants and Children, his health, but was to up practice there Philip the compelled give owing By E. Muskett, Late Surgeon to Sydney Hos- to the high winds. He removed to New York City. A reverse pital, etc., etc. Third edition. Edinburgh and London. of circumstances led him to again return to his profession Young J. Pentland. 1894. and he located in Amherst in October, 1879.-C. AV. Cole- This is a handy book that may be carried in the pocket. man, M.D., of Wiiliamsburg, Va... September 15. He was Its formul\l=ae\are excellent, and the book is a useful one. born in Williamsburg, Va., July 18, 1827, and was educated at the College of AVilliam and Mary. He studied medicine Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of New York, at the Medical College of the University of Pennsylvania. for the year 1894. Published by the Society. Pp. 507. After graduation, he began the practice of his profession in This volume contains the minutes of the eighty-eighth Richmond, but shortly removed to his native town, with annual session held at Albany, Feb. 6, 1894, under the Pres- which place he remained intimately identified professionally and the war he served as a in the idency of Dr. Herman Bendell, of Albany, and the papers socially. During surgeon Confederate Army, and was for some time in charge of a read at the meeting. hospital in Richmond.-Charles E. Ives, M.D., of Savan¬ The book is handsomely printed and well edited by the nah, Ga., September 19, aged 63 years.-Levi AV. Clapp, M. Secretary, Frederick C. Curtis, M.D., of Albany. D.. of Pawtucket, R. I., was instantly killed September 19, by falling down the bank wall in the rear of his Dr. George Henry Fox, of New York, was elected Presi- residence, a distance of twenty feet. He was a graduate of Brown Uni¬ dent. versity and Harvard Medical School, graduating from the Abbott's Bacteriology. The Principles of Bacteriology: A Prac- latter institution in 1873. He had been in practice twenty- tical Manual for Students and Physicians. By A. C. Abbott, one years, two years of which was spent in Baltimore and M.D., First Assistant, of Washington. He leaves a widow and three children.- Laboratory Hygiene, University John of of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. New (2d) Edition. In one R. Thornberry, M D.. Crawfordsville, Ind., Septem¬ 12mo. volume of 472 pp., with 94 illustrations, of which 17 ber 19, aged 44 years.-H. A. Bolles, M.D., of Cortland, N. J. are colored. Cloth, $2.75. Philadelphia: Lea Brothers & Y., September 16, aged sixty-eight.-J. Hofstetter, M.D., Co. 1894. of Sabula, Iowa, September 20, aged 74 years. He had prac¬ ticed medicine in that for This book is considerably larger than its predecessor, and city fifty years. much new matter has been added. It is in every way worthy of the success which it has met with, and is destined to be- SOCIETY NEWS. come a general favorite. Tri-State Medical Association.\p=m-\Theannual meeting of the NECROLOGY. Tri-State Medical Association of Iowa, Illinois and Missouri was held in Jacksonville October 2 and 3. The meeting was J. Harding, M.D., of Washington, D. C, September 21. called to order by the President, Dr. Brockman, of Ottumwa, He was a Virginian by birth, and removed from Roanoke Iowa, who spoke of the aims of the Association. The Ad- County, Va., to this city in 1875. where he resided up to the dress of Welcome was delivered by Dr. T. J. Pitner, of Jack- time of his death. He was 75 years of age.-J. M. McKay, sonville, and was responded to by Dr. F. B. Dorsey. The fol- M.D., of Ticonic, Iowa, September 13.-Wilbur F. Crutch- lowing doctors presented papers : F. B. Dorsey, of Keokuk, ley, M.D., of Brooklyn, . Y., September 18, at Lord's Valley, Iowa ; James H. Etheridge, of Chicago ; C. E. Black, of Jack- Pa. He was born in 1842, at Harper's Ferry, W. Va., and sonville, Ill. ; Ellet Orrin Sisson, of Keokuk, Iowa ; F. Hen- was graduated at the Columbian University, AVashington, rotin, of Chicago; Bayard Holmes, of Chicago; F. P. Nor- in 1868.-James G. Jewell, M.D., of San Francisco, Septem¬ bury, of Jacksonville, Ill. In the evening Dr. N. S. Davis, Jr., of Chicago, delivered an address in the State Street ber 17. He was for many years Superintendent and Resident Church. Addresses Dr. John Punton, of of the Home for Inebriates in that He was Presbyterian by Physician city. Kansas and Dr. Holmes, of were also born in County, Pa., in 1830. and his educa¬ City, Bayard Chicago, Allegheny early delivered. Several musical numbers were rendered, and at tion was received in that county. He was at graduated the close, of the evening meeting all were invited to the Medical D. C, in 1854. AVhen the war Georgetown College, Jacksonville Sanitarium, where were entertained with broke out he helped to raise the First of the they Regiment a lunch and reception by Dr. C. E. Black. Papers read on District of Columbia, and retired with the rank of Major. Drs. of S. the the second day were by Robert H. Babcock, Chicago ; He was U. Consul to Singapore during administration J. H. of Battle Creek, James A. of of President Grant. On his return, he medicine Kellogg, Mich.; Close, practiced St. Louis : James M. Ball, of St. Louis ; Emory Lanphear, of in New York for a few years and in 1874 he went to Califor¬ 111. D. has of St. Louis ; AV. M. Catto, of Decatur, ; C. Broekman, of nia, where he since resided.-—P. S. Moser, Boone, Ottumwa, Iowa and of 26. was born in S ; Adolph Myer, Chicago. Iowa, September He Charleston, O,in 1829, for the were as : the Officers ensuing year chosen follows and was graduated at Pniladelphia Medical College in President, Dr. James M.Ball,of St. Louis. 1852. In 1854 he moved to Boone, formerly known as Boons- of to the time of his Senior Vice-President, Dr. Bayard Holmes, Chicago. boro, where he resided up death. He was Junior of State Vice-President, Dr. L. A. Malone, Jacksonville, a member of the Iowa Medical Society, the Central 111. Iowa District Medical Association, of which he was the first Dr. and American Treasurer, C. S. Chase, of AVaterloo, Iowa. president, the Medical Association.-B. Y. Secretary, Dr. F. P. Norbury, of Jacksonville. Herndon, M.D., of Sanford, Fla., September 26.-Hiram S. the of N. St. Louis was chosen as next place meeting, in Griswold, of Syracuse, Y., September 25, aged 74 years. 1895. -Hanbury Smith, M.D., of New York, September 13, aged April, &4 years. He was born in Staffordshire, England, and stud¬ ied medicine in a London college. He was graduated in MISCELLANY. 1831, and then went to Stockholm, Sweden, to continue his studies. the cholera there in 1834 he was During epidemic to senior of the cholera He came to this Change of Address.—Dr. I. S. Stone 1449 Rhode Island physician hospital. D. C. •country in 1847 and went to Cincinnati, where he was after¬ Avenue, Washington, ward a health inspector and superintendent of the Ohio Dr. J. S. B. Alleyne, for so many years Professor of Materia Lunatic In 1859 he State Asylum. came to New York, and Medica in St. Louis Medical College has taken the chair was among the first to introduce mineral water treatment tor chronic diseases.--Theodore Kern, M.D., of Kokomo, of the History of Medicine in the Barnes Medical College. Ind., September 21, aged 39 years.-AVm. Barney Mix, M. Treatment of Equine Rheumatism by Sulphur Baths.—The Brit¬ D., of Milwaukee, 17, 52 AAr. September aged years.-C. ish Weekly states that the town council of Baden, near Hall, M.D., of Amherst, N. H„ September 18. Dr. Hall was voted some to be in the instal¬ born in Sudbury, \Tt.. March 29, 1825. He matriculated un¬ Vienna, has ,£2,000 expended der the eminent Dr. Horton, whose office he entered at the lation of sulphur baths for the use of rheumatic horses. The Downloaded From: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/ by a University of Victoria User on 06/05/2015.