$100,000, the amount necessary to erect and maintain an insti¬ The new laboratories at Manguinhos, Brazil, for the pro¬ tution of 100 beds at first. A suitable site for the building, duction of plague serum and vaccin are completed and are about nine miles from Toronto, has been secured. models in every respect, the Brazil Médico asserts. The differ¬ ent on 1500 feet with Montreal. pavilions are separate hills, about apart, the building for the horses in the valley between. The entire Dr. Laberge, city health officer, has returned from Paris. establishment is in charge of Prof. Pedro Affonso and Oswaldo Dr. J. Alton Harris has returned from active service in Cruz. South Africa. The Deutsche Med. Woch. states that the calendar published The last case of smallpox has been discharged from the by the Vienna Bote has been confiscated by the authorities on civic hospital. account of the advertisements contained in it of Thierry's has shared The Medical Faculty of Bishop's College opened on October "Wunderbalsam" and salve. Another calendar the a in 1, with a fairly large attendance of students. same fate on account of advertisements of charlatan and the of a firm in The Bohemian The Medical Association for St. Frances Xavier District Saxony salve Budapesth. have the to met in Sherbrooke last week. An important question dis¬ authorities forbidden "Nature-Healing Company" establish new branch establishments. cussed was that of a medical tariff, and it was decided to pub¬ lish the discussion in the Montreal and country papers, so that The French Railway du Nord has constructed a two-story its for and there might be a clear understanding between the physicians building in connection with Paris depot receiving for the in an accident. detail to ensure and public generally on the subject. caring injured Every asepsis and ample illumination day and night has been care¬ three rooms on the first floor can FOREIGN. fully studied. The large be thrown into one if required. There are waiting and con¬ The library of the is now sold great chemist, Bunsen, being sultation rooms, facilities for massage and radioscopy and the at Leipsic. numerous attendants are drilled regularly in the entire pro¬ a of the notifica¬ Lannelongue, of Paris, has been made commander cesses of preparing for and applying first aid after French Legion of Honor. tion that an accident has occurred. The Lariboisiere Hospital be The professor of psychiatry at Jena, Dr. Ziehen, has ac¬ is close at hand and very severely injured persons will taken care will cepted a call "to the chair of psychology at Utrecht. directly there, but those requiring merely temporary be at railroad station. The friends of Senator and Busch, of Berlin, celebrated the treated the emergency twenty-fifth anniversary of their connection with the faculty September 14. Another medical victim to the Swiss glaciers is Dr. Max Schaeffer, a promising young rhinologist of Bremen, who was in found dead in a crevasse. Degeneracy the Army. The court physician to the Ameer of Afghanistan is, or Chicago, Oct. 4, 1900. was until recently, a woman. Her name is Miss Lillias Hamil¬ To the Editor:\p=m-\TheAmerican Journal of Insanity for July ton, M.D., Brux. and London School of Med. for Women. contains an article by Dr. Charles E. Woodruff on "Degeneracy Yersin was awarded the Audiffred prize of 15,000 francs in the Army," and remarks anent army musicians that "with last spring for "his acts of devotion," and has applied the sum the high musical sense there seems to be a liability of inferior- to the extension of his plague-serum laboratory at Nha-Trang. ity in some other ways, for they possess physical stigmata in of Ethiopia, has been awarded the first far greater proportion than does the average soldier. They Menelik, Emperor have to be different rules of prize on the list offered by the French Society against the managed by entirely discipline." What is true of musicians is also true of musicians in Abuse of Tobacco, as he prohibited the use of tobacco through¬ army state institutions for defective classes, etc. The most out his dominions under severe penalties. degen- erate individuals of an institution are usually to be found The death of Sir William Stokes in South Africa was fol¬ among the members of the band. In many cases they are the lowed in a few that of his talented sister, Miss Mar¬ days by most difficult to manage. A notable illustration is that of the Stokes, in Dublin. She was the author of several noted garet band at the New York State Reformatory at Elmira. At one works on Irish ecclesiastical architecture and archeology. time more than two-thirds of the band were dressed in the The friends and admirers of Professor Potain, of Paris, uniform of the lowest grade; physical stigmata were so marked to him a medal on the occasion propose present with souvenir as to attract special attention. of his retirement from the Charité next spring. Subscriptions It should also be remembered that marked imbecility may are received by P. Masson, 120 Boulevard Saint-Germain. co-exist with great musical powers, as witness the ease of The friends of Dr. Li Willems, of Hasselt, Belgium, have "Blind Tom." Music, being one of the primitive arts of the called upon all who profited by his discovery of preventive race, is hence less likely to be affected by degeneracy than later- inoculation of pleuropneumonia in cattle to co-operate in cele¬ acquired arts. brating his fiftieth professional anniversary, October 14. Eugene S. Talbot, M.D. The Graefe prize for the best works that appear in von Graefe's Archiv f. Ophthalmologie during the years 1896 to A Uniform Classification for Health Statistics. 1899, has been divided between Dr. Hess, for his work on "Ac¬ Lansing, Mich., Sept. 17, 1900. and for his studies on the "Nucleus commodation," Bernheimer, To the Editor:\p=m-\Referring to your editorial in The Journal of Motor Oculi." the of September 15, under the above title, I desire to say that it El Siglo Medico announces that the Spanish government gives a somewhat imperfect impression of the nature and Dr. has appropriated $8000 to enlarge Cajal's laboratory at progress of the movement for the adoption of a uniform classi- Madrid, with $4,800 annually for its maintenance and a pen¬ fication of causes of death, which is now an assured success. As of for the on the sion $1,600 distinguished scientist, whom the subject is one of very great practical importance, I trust Moscow was Medical Con¬ prize bestowed by the International that you will afford me the opportunity of making a more cor- gress. rect statement of the facts. The pilgrims constantly arriving at Rome to celebrate the In the first place the classification quoted by you on page "holy year" are filling the streets with beggars and the hos¬ 706 in the report of the proceedings of the International Con- pitals with incurables. The sanitary conditions are menaced gress of Hygiene and Demography is evidently one of the most by this state of affairs and the Italian minister of the interior condensed forms of the Bertillon classification, and does not has issued an order forbidding the further organization of fully exemplify its nature as usually employed. This classifi- pilgrimages composed entirely of the sick and indigent. cation is not merely the "Paris classification, but is the classifi- Downloaded From: http://jama.jamanetwork.com/ by a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY-DAL-11762 User on 05/18/2015 cation recommended for adoption to the International Statis- [If the Bertillon classification is to be universally adopted tical Institute by a committee headed by Dr. Jacques Bertillon it is to be hoped it will receive the modification it needs. Up at its session in Chicago during the World's Fair in 1893. to the present time we can not consider it a satisfactory one Since that time it has been employed in Paris, Moscow, Madrid, by any means; it is in some respects out of accord with modera Buenos Ayres, Montevideo, Havana, Boston, Baltimore, Buf¬ pathologic ideas and almost ridiculous in some of its minor falo, Milwaukee, Toledo, and many other cities of this country, details, as given in the pamphlet published in this coentry. besides in the States of Michigan, Vermont and Indiana and the —Ed.] Canadian Provinces of Ontario and Quebec. The classification reported by Dr. Bertillon's committee to the International Statistical Institute was in three forms, viz., an extended or full classification, a short form and an intermediate form. The long form is that usually referred to and is best adapted to the use of states and large cities. It contains about 160 titles, Practical Gynecology. A Comprehensive Text-Book for instead of the 38 given by your correspondent from Paris, and Students and Physicians. By E. E. Montgomery, M.D., is abundantly full for all ordinary statistical purposes. The Professor of Gynecology, Jefferson Medical College. With all of which been drawn and short forms are presented merely for the use of such cities as 527 illustrations, nearly have for this work, for the most from may find a condensed list more convenient for use. engraved especially* part original sources. Cloth. Pp. 819. Price, $5.00. Phila- The American Public Health Association did not adopt the delphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co. 1900. at in 1897, it as a measure of system Philadelphia regarding Fashion in medical book-making seems to be running to the and one the fullest very far-reaching importance requiring composite, which may be advantageous, and the means of consideration.