How often do we see, in the present day. poor victims of that LL.D., with an Appendix Containing a R\l=e'\sum\l=e'\of the Principal so-called tinkering local treatment week after week, with in- Views Held Concerning Inflammation. by Wm. A. Spitzley, struments that have been used on patient after patient, with A.B., M.D. Illustrated. 8vo., Cloth. Pp.398. Price $2.50, only the cleaning that soap and cold water is able to give; ad- net. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders. 1899. W. T. Keener, mitting that proper sterilization has been done, the deli- Chicago Agent. cate endometrium has been subjected time and again to the System of Diseases of the Eye. By American, British, ravages of the cotton probang? It is true, as Dr. Ward says, Dutch, French, German, and Spanish Authors. Edited by Wm. that the application of medicine to the vaginal vault for dis- F. Norris, A.M., M.D.. and Charles A. Oliver, A.M., M.D., of eased appendages is quite as scientific as it would be for us to Philadelphia. Vol. iv: Motor Apparatus, Cornea, Lens, Re¬ wash our faces in a bichlorid solution for the cure of post-nasal fraction, Medical Ophthalmology. With 51 Full-page Plates catarrh. Would that this article might be printed in abstract and 211 Text Illustrations. Svo*; Cloth. Pp. 950. Price, $20. form and mailed to every physician in the land, and especially Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co. 1899. to the country practitioner, who does so much of this, never Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year stopping to think of the many poor victims he sends out into 1897-98. Vol. i, containg Part 1. Pp. 1280. Washington: the world, injured rather than benefited. G.P.O. 1899. F. A. Packard, M.D. Manual of Organic Materica Medica and Pharmacognosy. An Introduction to the Study of the Vegetable Kingdom and- the Vegetable and Animal Drugs Comprising the Botanical Association News. and Physical Characteristics, Source. Constituents. Pharma- copeial Preparations, Insects Injurious to Drugs, and Pharma- cal Lucius E. B.S., Ph.M. Second Edition, Rates for the Atlantic American Botany. By Sayre, City Meeting.\p=m-\The Revised. With and By William C. Medical Association's on has for Histology Microtechnique. Committee Transportation Stevens. Illustrated. Cloth. 684. Price, $4.50. some communication with the different *8vo., Pp. time been in passenger P. Blakiston's Son & Co. 1899. associations for the of reduced rates to the Philadelphia: purpose securing Water and Water Supplies. John C. Thresh, D.S.C. June The Committee has asked a one-fare round By meeting. M.D. D.P.H. Second with extension for that and at (London); (Victoria); (Cambridge). trip fifteen-day occasion, present Revised Edition. 8vo, Cloth. 438. Price $2. Philadel¬ has a but will a full Pp. preliminary report,, present report P. Blakiston's Son & Co. 1900. The Journal, in the next issue. phia: through probably Blank Book for Autopsy-Protocols. Aldred Scott Section on and most excellent By Laryngology Otology.\p=m-\A Warthin, M.D., Ph.D., Assistant Professor in in the for the in Atlantic June is an- Pathology program meeting City. next, of Ann Arbor: Wahr. 1899. nounced for this Section. The list of papers to be University Michigan. George presented The Lute and Lays. Charles Stuart Welles, M.D. now and the is full. Those who are to read By is complete program 12mo.; Cloth. 104. Price $2. New York: The Mac- are to send their abstracts so as Pp. papers urged by May 1, to Millan Company. 1899. give the Committee ample time to suitably arrange the topics for publication. C. R. Holmes, chairman; J. A. Stucky, secretary. Deaths and Obituaries.

Books Received. Vandyke G. Schibneck, M.D,. a graduate of the University of Maryland (medical department) died at Hagerstown, Ind., Acknowledgement of all books received will be made in this January 30, aged 55 years. He was a native of Frederick column, and this will be deemed by us a full equivalent to those County, Maryland, took his medical degree in 1882, and prac¬ sending them. A selection from these volumes will be made for ticed in Baltimore until about twelve years ago, when he re¬ review as dictated by their merits, or in the interests of our readers. moved to Indiana. General and Local Anesthesia. By Aimo Paul Heineck. Gerard F. Mason, M.D.. died in Charlestown, W. Va., of gen¬ M.D.. Clinical Instructor in Genito-L'rinary Diseases, College eral debility, on the 30th ult. He was born in Virginia in 1815, of Physicians and Surgeons, Chicago; Clinical Instructor in and took his medical degree at the Jefferson Medical College Gynecology, Chicago Clinical School ; Clinical Instructor in in 1841, locating in Charlestown early in 1842, where he con¬ Surgery. Northwestern University Woman's Medical College. tinued to practice until about four years ago. 124 pages. Price $1. Chicago: G. P. Engelhard & Co. 1899. Horace Vaughan, M.D., Middletown, Conn., died January Urine Clinical Chemistry The and the of the Gastric 22. He was born in Delaware in 1859, was graduated from the Contents, the Common Poisons, and Milk. By J. W. Hol¬ Jefferson Medical College in 1888, and was a member of the land, M.D., Professor of Medical Chemistry and Toxicology, Delaware State Medical Society. Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. Sixth Edition, Re¬ R. B. Skinner. M.D., Barton, Yt.. born in 1834 and gradu¬ vised and Enlarged 12mo., 41 Illustrations. Price $1, net, ated from the medical department of Harvard University, class Cloth. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co. 1899. of 1858, died recently. During the Civil War he served as a Manual of Diseases of the Eye. By Edward Jackson, surgeon of the 3d Militia Regulars of Vermont, and later was A.M., M.D.. late Professor of Diseases of the Eye in the Phila¬ a member in the legislature in that state. delphia Polyelinic and Colleges for Graduates in Medicine. E. T. Painter, M.D., Redlands. Cal., aged 44, died January 12mo, over 600 Pages, with 178 Illustrations from Drawings 22. After graduating in medicine he took a post-graduate by the author. Philadelphia: W. B. Sanders. 1900. W. T. course in and , and was later connected with a Keener. Chicago Agent. Pittsburg medical journal, moving to Redlands in 1891. King's College Hospital Reports : Being the Annual Re¬ Ernest George Metcai.fe, M.D., Long Island College Hospi¬ port of King's College Hospital and the Medical Department of tal. Brooklyn. N. Y., 1872, died at his home in that city, from King's College. Edited bv Nestor Tivard. M.D., F.R.C.P., W. renal disease. February 2. He was for four years a lunacy ex¬ Watson Cheyne, F.R.C.S." F.R.S., John Phillips, M.A., M.D., aminer in the charities department and from 1886 to 1888 was F.R.C.P., and W. D. Halliburton, M.D., D.R.S. Vols, iv and v. a civil service commissioner. 8vo. Cloth. Price $1.80. London: Adlard and Son. 1898-99 A. J. Axtell, M.D., Bloomington. Ind., born in 1827 in Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmiioltz. Bv John Pennsylvania, died January 25. He began the study of medi¬ Gray McKendriek, M.D., LL.D., F.R.SS.L. and E. 8vo., cloth. cine in 1847 and in 1852 was Captain of Co. A, 97th Volunteers. Pp. 300. New York: Longmans, Green & Co. 1899. G. S. Lauterman, M.D.. Bellevue, Ohio, died January 29, Medico-Chirurgical Transactions. Published by the Royal from blood poisoning. He was 55 years old, was at one time Medical and Chirurgical Society of London. Vol. 82; Second mayor of his city, and during the Civil War served in the 3d Series, Vol. 64. 8vo., Cloth. Pp. 478. London: Longmans, New York Light Infantry. Green & Co. 1899. Frank Hodgkin, M.D., Chestertown, Maryland, died in Wil¬ Lectures on the Principles of Surgery. Delivered at the mington, Del., January 31. He studied medicine in Chicago University of Michigan by Charles B. Nancrede, A.M., M.D., and had practiced medicine about six years.

Downloaded From: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/ by a University of Iowa User on 05/26/2015 James J. Oatman, M.D., Altoona, Pa., died in that city meaner, and the penalty imprisonment for a term not exceeding January 30, aged 02 years. He was a graduate of the Jeffer¬ five years of hard labor in the city jail. The Iowa laws against son Medical a College and veteran of the Civil War. importing bodies into that state are also said to be very strict. Among others we note the following deaths : Differentiation of the James M. Early Idiocy.—By testing sensibility Briggs, M.D., Bowling Green, ., January 26, to the taste and the attention, has been able to CS pain, Czerny aged years. differentiate or in and Elsworth New imbecility idiocy very young infants, Colton, M.D., Britain. Conn., January 26, the career of the child has confirmed his 42 subsequent diagnosis aged years. in every case. (Deutsche Med. Woch., 11.) The tests J. J. M.D., Ga.. 24. January Cooper, Barnett, January are reliable when the infants are and if G. Ft. only physically sound, Eldridge Decker, M.D., Fairfield, Me., January 29, there is coexistent affection be until 74 any they should postponed aged years. An entire lack of attention the W. W. 111., recovery. indicates severest Duncan, M.D., Louisville, February 1, aged 70 form of idiocy, an abnormally attention, hard to hold, years. fleeting as in the "agile imbeciles," offers the best prognosis. The taste William Halsey, M.D., Caldwell, N, J., February 2, in his is tested with 25 cent, of 85th per solution saccharin; 2 per cent, year. solution of quinin etc., and the of Edward D. Hitchcock, M.D., 26. sulphate, expression pleasure Newton, Mass., January at the sweet and at the sour taste is evident even in 45 disgust aged years. the normal children. But the is Wirt M.D., 25. youngest only positive sign the Johnston, Jackson, Miss., January permanent analgesia of the entire surface of the which D. S. Marquis, M.D., Rochester, Pa., January 31, 79 body, aged only occurs in the imbecile. Very imbecile or idiotic children, years. even several M. G. years old, can be severely pricked with a needle Olivier, M.D., Berwick, La., January -26, aged 37 years. and again again without eliciting any expression of pain or Elijah S. Shirley, M.D., Xenia, 111., February 1, aged 73 fear. years. A. J. Thomson, 59 Smallpox Prevalent.—The following cases have been re¬ M.D., Cadillac, Mich., January 27, aged to the S. years. ported U. Marine-Hospital Service: Alabama, Jan¬ 2-22, 6 M. H. Van Riper, M.D., Kankakee, 111., January 29, aged 67 uary cases; Florida, January 13-16, 3; Georgia, Janu¬ 'years. ary 4-20, 60 ; Louisiana, Dec. 20. 1899, to January 20, 366 cases and 11 West M. G. Whittier, M.D., 52 deaths; Virginia, January 26, 26 cases. In Colo¬ Fairfield, Pa., January 30, aged rado there has been years. no widespread epidemic since last year, and the total Lloyd Wilbur, M.D., Hightstown, Pa., January 27, aged 70 of cases reported since January 1, is 17. The years. : ' following measures to stami! out the disease are strictly en¬ forced: 1. DEATHS abroad. Immediate isolation of all cases. 2. Compulsory vaccination and Thomas Grainger Stewart, a noted Scotch died in detention for fourteen days following exposure. physician, 3. with for , February 3, aged 63 years. He was born in Edin¬ Fumigation sulphur twenty-four hours, using five burgh in 1837, and educated at the University of Edinburgh. pounds to each one thousand cubic feet of space, and destruction After graduating he studied in the universities and by fire of such articles as can be burned. Vaccination is urged hospitals on all citizens. of Berlin, , and Vienna. On his return to The Georgia epidemic started in a Savannah Edinburgh, and he became resident physician in the Royal He hospital was traced directly to importation from Porto Infirmary. Rico. to the time was made to this institution and, in was Up present there have been 500 to 000 cases pathologist 1876, ap¬ in pointed professor of the practice of physic in the University of the vicinity of Brunswick. In nearly every instance it has in so mild a form that Edinburgh. He published works on and nervous appeared many physicians failed to kidney, lung, the diseases. He was president of the recognize disease. Although the mortality has been less Medico-Chirurgical Society 4 the of Edinburgh and of the medicine section of the British Medical than per cent., disease in Southeastern Georgia, with re¬ markable Association, and at the time of his death president of the rapidity, extended along the lines of railways and has assumed a serious form. Royal College of Physicians in Edinburgh and physician in In Ohio, now that the medical pro¬ ordinary to her Majesty, the Queen, in Scotland. fession has accepted the diagnosis of smallpox, the disease, while still appearing here and there, is making little headway, and there is not much probability of the development of epi¬ Miscellany. demic conditions such as prevailed last year. ANTIVIVISECTION: A REVIEW Mosquitoes and Malaria.--An unofficial letter from Java, OF THE PROPOSED LAW. to the Berlin Post, states that Koch and his Dutch assistants Washington, D.C., Jan. 26, 1900 Honorable1 Commissionees. District of Columbia. are more and more convinced that a becoming single family of Gentlemen: Referring to a bill entitled "A Bill for the further mosquitoes is the propagator of malarial infection. Investiga¬ prevention of cruelty to animals In the District of Columbia" tion at the hill resorts where the seek and find (S. 34), which has been referred to me for an expression of opinion people refuge relative thereto, I have the honor to submit the from malaria showed the absence of this—the following report : complete white The bill now under consideration is Identical In its terms with spotted-wing—variety. Senate bill 1063. similarly entitled, which, having been favorably reported by the Committee on Traffic in Cadavers.—The the the District of Columbia, was pend¬ newspapers of last few days ing In the Senate at the time of its March have contained accounts of the adjournment, 4, 1899. discovery, at Sioux City, Iowa, It undertakes to accomplish Its purpose solely by the regulation of of a body shipped by express from Baltimore, Md. A janitor experiments on living animals, and must be considered in its rela¬ from the of and tion to mischievous practices, if any, tolerated by existing law. The College Physicians Surgeons, Baltimore, has seem arrested and following statutory provisions to bear upon this subject been committed to jail in default of$1000 on the (Abert's Statutes in Force, etc. p. Ö40 et seq.) : chaige of shipping bodies out of the state. It was found that Sec. 5.whoever, having the charge or custody of any animal, either as owner or otherwise, inflicts there had been no foul the man been struck unnecessary plaj', having by cruelty upon the same, shall for every such offense be pun¬ a in ished in not . one street-car, dying consequence at the city hospital after an by imprisonment jail. . exceeding year, or by fine The not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars or by both such ineffectual trephining. body had then been sent, as usual, imprisonment. fine and to the for 6. city morgue, identification, and after remaining there Sec. Every owner, possessor, or person, having the charge or of who . the usual time, a burial was custody any animal, knowingly and au unclaimed, certificate given hj the thorizes or the same to be wilfully permits . to coroner and subjected unnecessary tor¬ the body turned over to the health department, ture, suffering, or cruelty of any kind, shall be punished for every which consigned it for anatomic use to the of such offense in the manner provided in section one. College Physicians Sec. 9. Whenever complaint is made by any member of the Asso¬ and The it in a the Surgeons. janitor shipped box marked "books," ciation for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Washington Humane on oath to Sioux City. He lias implicated a former resident physician Society), or affirmation, to any magistrate au¬ of the of thorized to issue warranta in criminal cases, that the complainant College Physicians and now of Sioux believes, and has reasonable cause to believe, that the laws in rela¬ Surgeons, City, tion and further intimated that he had been bodies in the to cruelty to animals have been or are being violated in any shipping particular building or place, such magistrate, if satisfied that there same manner for some time The is cause past. Maryland law bearing reasonable for euch belief, shall issue a search warrant, on such cases is very stringent, making the offense a misde- authorizing any marshal, deputy marshal, constable, police officer, or any member of the Association for the Prevention of Cruelty to

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