William A. Briant, M.D. Missouri Medical College, St. Louis, 1883; a member of the Arkansas Medical Society; for several terms a member of the Arkansas died at his home legislature; Epoch-Making Contributions to Medicine, Surgery and the in Hope, September 4, from cancer of the kidney, aged 47. Allied Sciences. Collected by C. N. B. Camac, A.B., M.D. Cloth. Pp. 435, with illustrations. Price, $4. : W. B. Saun- Urban P. Stair, M.D. Medical ders Co., 1909. School, a member of the Wisconsin State Med¬ Chicago, 1862; This work consists of of those articles which ical Society; surgeon of volunteers during the Civil War; died mainly reprints at his home in Fort Atkinson, Wis., September 6, aged 71. first brought to the notice of the scientific world the epoch\x=req-\ observations of such men as Auen- Henry H. Cheatham, M.D. Barnes Medical St. Louis, making Lister, Harvey, College, Morton and Holmes. There are also 1895; formerly of Bainbridge, Ga.; for two years a practi¬ brugger, Laennec, Jenner, tioner of Havana. Fla.; while hunting near that place, August given brief biographic sketches of the observers themselves. The 26, was accidentally shot in the leg, and bled to death. collector of these papers calls attention to the fact that the Oliver Dwight Paine, M.D. American College of Medicine in teachings of the original observers are by no means obsolete, a Pennsylvania and Eclectic Medical College of Philadelphia, point that will forcibly impress itself on the reader. Such a I860; a practitioner of Youngstown, Ohio since 1848; died at resurrection of communications that have in many cases been his home, September 1, from senile debility, aged 90. buried in a mass of more or less indifferent literature is an John James Alexander Smith, M.D. Atlanta (Ga.) Medical achievement for which Dr. Camac deserves the thanks of the College, 1858; a Confederate veteran, and at one time a mem¬ medical profession. The teachings of great authorities in other ber of the legislature from Greene county, Ala., died at his branches of science and art have long been accessible; that in 81. home Union, September 9, aged the same has not been true in medicine is of no great credit to William E. Haines, M.D. University of Pennsylvania, Phila¬ the profession. The selection and arrangement of the material delphia, 1868; a member of the American Medical Association, is all that could be wished. The physician who is interested in and a veteran of the Civil War, died at his home in Bushnell, the "scientific side of the mind" will not be will¬ 60. investigator's 111., September 12, aged to be without the book. Taylor M.D. Harvard Medical School, Bos¬ ing Henry Barstow, General Surgery. Ehrich Professor of a member of the American Medical Association and By Lexer, M.D., Surgery, ton, 1884; University of . Translated from Second German Edition the Harvard Medical Club; died at his home in Boston, re¬ by Dean Lewis, M.D., Instructor in Surgery, Rush Medical Col- cently, 50. lege. Edited by Arthur Dean Bevan, M.D., Professor of Surgery, aged Rush Medical College. Cloth. Pp. 1041, with illustrations. Price, Mary Pradt-Harper, formerly a medical missionary among $6.00. New York : D. Appleton & Co., 1908. the Navajo Indians in Arizona, died in the State Hospital for the Insane, Mendota, Wis., Dec. 16, 1908, from cerebral hemor¬ This volume is an English translation from the German of rhage, aged 56. that part of Lexer's work which treats of the general prin- Erasmus S. Dodd, M.D. Eclectic Medical Institute, Cincin¬ ciples underlying the practice of surgery. The chief object in nati, 1849; for sixty-five years a practitioner of Michigan; presenting this translation was to furnish the English-reading died at his home in Buchanan, September 13, from senile de¬ student with the most authoritative volume, containing latest bility, aged 90. additions to the very essential subjects usually grouped under Joseph Fryer Bazill, M.D. University of Nashville, Tenn., the title of general surgery; and in the selection of Lexer's 1894; Vanderbilt University, Nashville, 1894; of Crayon, Ohio; work the translators have made no mistake. Every practi- died in the State Hospital for the Insane, Columbus, Septem¬ tioner must always remain a student and there are no subjects ber 1. 58. aged in medicine about which any one man's knowledge is so com- E. M.D. the Philip Hepler, University of South, Sewanee, plete and so perfect that it is unnecessary to review constantly of died at the home of his Tenn., 1895; Bridgeport, Ohio, in order to keep well informed. Hence a work like this on so\x=req-\ brother in Bethlehem, Pa., September 6, from tuberculosis, called intended for is aged 37. principles while primarily students, of as much value to the The work has been Edward P. M.D. Medical of just practitioner. Gould, College Ohio, Cincinnati, numerous additions made the 1868; a member of the Ohio State Medical Association; died considerably improved by by at his home in Sheridan, September 5, from nephritis, aged 65. American editor, notable among which are the chapters on nitrous oxid on blood on blasto- Joshua C. Boullee, M.D. Trinty Medical College, Toronto, gas anesthesia, examinations, 1875; of ; died in St. Vincent's Hospital, Sep¬ myeosis, etc. The work is a creditable one and ought to be tember 8, from the effects of a fall from his porch, aged 57. welcomed by the practitioner as well as the undergraduate. William M. Barnes, M.D. Baltimore Medical College, 1882; Surgery, Its Principles and Practice. By various authors. a member of the Medical and Chirurgical Faculty of Maryland; Edited by William Williams Keen, M.D., LL.D., Emeritus Professor died at his home in 85. of the Principles of Surgery and of Clinical Surgery, Jefferson Baltimore, September 11, aged Medical College, Philadelphia, and John Chalmers DaCosta, M.D., Amelia Wilkes Lines, M.D. Hygeio-Therapeutic College of Professor of the Principles of Surgery and of Clinical Surgery, New York, New York 1851; died at her home in Brook¬ Jefferson Medical College. Philadelphia. Vol iv. Cloth. Pp. 1194, City, with illustrations. Price, $7.00. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders lyn, N. Y., September 11, from senile debility, aged 85. Co., 1908. Mary F. Stryker, M.D. Woman's Medical College of Georgia, In this volume of Keen's system are discussed the died at her home in New York surgery Atlanta, 1890; City, September of the intestines, the rectum and anus and hernia; 12, from cerebral 40. including hemorrhage, aged surgery of the genitourinary organs; surgery of the eye and Hugh Thomas Adams, M.D. School of Physic, Trinity Col¬ of the naval and and the influ- died at his home in ear; military, tropical surgery lege, Dublin, Ireland, 1869; Jersey City, ence of sex and in The author 63. race, age surgical affections. September 8, aged selected to write each in is Richard M. M.D. of Ann on particular subject question Johnson, University Michigan, as one for the task. Arbor, 1871; died at his home in Northville, Mich., September recognized eminently qualified 9, from uremia, aged 66. It is impossible to review each chapter in extenso, but atten- tion is directed to a few features. The absence of Roy Welch. M.D. St. Louis University, 1907; died at his special any home in Lincoln, 111., from malignant endocarditis, September mention of the injection treatment of hernia is to be re- 7, aged 30. gretted, not because of any merit which it may possess, but because a Edwid American Eclectic its great popularity with certain class makes it Charles Louth, M.D. College, Cin¬ desirable that its should cinnati. 1886; died at his home in Cleveland, Ohio, August 25, demerits be exposed. aged 66. The chapter on examination of the urine in relation to kid- disease will be a shock to enthusiasts in that Charles M. Snyder ( license, Mich. ) ; died at his home in Lake ney many line, Odessa, Mich., September 5, from pernicious anemia, aged 58. but it is a practical exposition of the subject by a thoroughly Jesse Longfield, M.D. Bennett Medical College, Chicago, 1SJ3; practical man. Under surgery of the genitourinary organs, died at his home in Turney, Mo., September 2, aged 78. the chapters on the bladder and the prostate deserve special mention, while under surgery of the intestines, of special in¬ terest are the inflammation of the Axel Otto Lindfors, M.D. professor of gyneeology and ob¬ remarks on various di- verticula and on the As be ex¬ stetrics in the University of Upsala, Sweden; an able writer in the chapter appendix. might his specialties: a man of letters and a lyric poet; died sud¬ pected from the subjects, this volume is perhaps thus far the denly August 18, at Duren, Rhine Provinces, Germany, aged 57. most interesting of this very excellent system.

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