best interest of the Academy and for the maintenance and I heard Dr. Woodbridge give equally remarkable prognoses promotion of harmony and good fellowship with all in cases in the same both of which were concerned. two,other family, verified the both cases cured in less than In closing, the members of your committee beg leave to by results, being express their regret at not being able to complete their ten days. work more satisfactorily, but at the same time they can as¬ I have since treated cases of typhoid fever by this method, sure you that under the circumstances they have tried todo without consultation, with equally wonderful results. It their and in the duty carefully, impartially, conscientiously, seems to me that the most remarkable about Dr. interest of the promotion of railway surgery and the rail¬ thing way companies of this continent. Woodbridge's treatment is the rapidity with which patients Very respectfully submitted. regain their strength and vigor after the temperature R. Harvey Reed, Chairman, touches normal. J. H. Bennett, M.D. Consulting Surgeon & O. R. R., Columbus, Ohio. C. K. CoLE.M.D., Chief Surgeon Montana Cent. R. R., Helena, Mont. W. H. Elliott, M.D., Chief Cent. Ga. Surgeon Georgia R.R., Savannah, Weekly Medical Review, Pocket Reference Book and Visiting List. On motion of Dr. W. H. Meyers, the report of the Com¬ Perpetual. St. Louis: J. H. Chambers & Co. 1895. mittee on Permanent Organization was received and A useful annual, handy and convenient. referred to the Committee on Publication, and the com¬ mittee discharged. The Sympathetic Nervous System. A Chart. By Byron Robin- On motion of Dr. F. H. Peck, Dr. C. K. Cole, Dr. R. Harvey son, M.D. Chicago : E. H. Colegrove & Co. Reed and Dr. F. H. Caldwell, were appointed a Committee This useful chart represents the careful and accurate dis- on Constitution and By-Laws. section of the and trunks of the (To he continued.) ganglia great sympathetic nerves. A numbered index in the margin gives the names of the parts displayed. The pelvic plexus has been very care- fully dissected and deserves especial commendation. Obstetric Surgery. By Egbert H. Grandin, M.D., Obstetric Minutes of Ophthalmic Section\p=m-\ACorrection. Surgeon to the New York Maternity Hospital, Gynecolo- gist to the French Hospital, etc.; and George W. Jarman, Denver, Col., Dec. 19,1894. M.D., Obstetric Surgeon to the New York Maternity Hos- To the Editor.\p=m-\Inthe number of the Journal for Septem- pital, Gynecologist to the Cancer Hospital, etc.; with 85 ber 15, in a report of remarks made by me before the Sec- illustrations in the Text and Fifteen full-page Photo- Plates. 220 Extra tion on Ophthalmology, which report was published without grahic Royal octavo, pages. cloth, $2.50, net. Philadelphia: The F. A. Davis Co., Publishers, 1914 my knowledge or revision, occurs a passage (page 419, foot and 1916 Cherry Street. of first so worded as to be of column) capable interpreta- This timely volume is elaborately illustrated, and gives a tion as a personal reflection on a fellow member of the As- clear description of the modern obstetric operations. The sociation. No such reflection was and I am not intended; titles are as follows : aware that any one who heard my remarks so misunderstood Obstetric Asepsis and Antisepsis (Introduction). Chapter them. I, Obstetric Dystocia and Its Determination ; II, Artificial would have been better thus: My argument reported Abortion and the Induction of Premature Labor ; III, The "The is not a at all. It does Congress representative body Forceps; IV, Version; V, Symphyseotomy ; VI, C\l=ae\sarean not invite from other associations. It has a differ- delegates Section ; VII, Embryotomy ; VIII, Surgery of the Puerpe- ent basis of Others in the work of membership. prominent rium ; IX, Ectopic Gestation. this section intend to be at the but it has present Congress, This book gives in moderate compass the details of applied not occurred to them that should be delegates appointed principles of aseptic obstetric surgery. It is carefully writ- from this body. Dr. be as a as Savage might good delegate ten and we commend its perusal to our readers. we could find, but we should not appoint delegates merely A of Medicine. Allan McLane because it has been suggested to us to do so. To appoint System Legal By Hamilton, and Lawrence Godkin, With the Collabora- where were not invited would be un¬ M.D., Esq. delegates delegates tion of James F. Babcock, Esq. ; Lewis Balch, M.D.; Judge dignified." S. E. Baldwin ; Louis E. Binsse, Esq. ; C. F. Bishop, Esq. ; If possible, I should like this correction published in the N. T. Bristow, M.D. ; B. F. Cardozo, Esq.; C. G. Chaddock, current volume. Cordially M.D.; A. F. Currier, M.D. ; C. L. Dana, M.D.; G. R. Fow- yours. M.D. W. T. W. S. Haines, F. A. Edward M.D. ler, ; Gibb, M.D.; M.D.; Jackson, Harris, M.D. ; W. A. Hornblower, Esq. ; Chas. Jewett. M.D. ; P. C. Knapp, M.D.; R. C. McMurtrie, Esq.; C. K. Mills, Treatment of Typhoid Fever. M.D. ; J. E. Parsons, Esq.; C. E. Pellew ; E. M. Judge ; C. B. R. Haselton, Ohio, Dec. 19, 1894. E. Pratt; W. A. Purrington, Esq. ; Sachs, M.D.; F. Sturgis, M.D. ; Brandreth Symonds, M.D. ; V. C. Vaughan, answer to To the Editor:\p=m-\In Dr. A. S. Caldwell, of Free- M.D. Illustrated. Pp. 738. Vol. II. New York : E. B. port, Ill., I should like to report my experience with Dr. Treat (5 Cooper Union). 1894. Woodbridge's treatment of typhoid fever. I called him in We have already expressed our high estimate of the first consultation on October 27, last, to see the wife of a brother volume of this work, and we can only reiterate what we physician, who had been sick ten days with typhoid fever. then said, as applying equally to the volume under consid- The pulse was 120; her temperature was 1045; rose spots eration. abundant, marked tenderness in right iliac fossa, with enor- The volume opens with a paper by Mr. Hornblower on mous tympanitic distension. Her nervous symptoms were the Duties and Responsibilities of Medical Experts ; then very bad ; in fact, it was a typical and severe case of typhoid follow II, Insanity in its Medico-Legal Bearings, by Allen fever, with a feeble breath and a pulse which became di- McLane Hamilton ; III, Mental Responsibility of the Insane crotic. I heard Dr. Woodbridge say in answer to the hus- n Civil Cases, by Judge Pratt; IV, Insanity and Crime, by band's anxious inquiries that he did not consider her in as IB Sachs ; V, On the Relations of Mental Defect and Disease much danger as he would a well person, taking the ordinary to Criminal Responsibility, by L. E. Binsse ; VI, Aphasia risks of out-door life. Her temperature went to normal on and other Affections of Speech, by C. K. Mills; VII, The the tenth day of treatment and never rose above normal Effects of Electric Currents of High Power upon the Human after that day. Body, by Allan McLane Hamilton and G. DeF. Smith ; VIII

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