the work: "The remedies that were not found in the text-book of Cowperthwaite I brought together to form a text-book of materia medica and therapeutics of the rare homoeopathic medicines. A physician by means of the text-book of Cowperthwaite and with the help of the present supplement will now have the whole homoeopathic materia medica at his disposal." The book may be obtained of Otis Clapp & Son on receipt of price, $1.50.

We append a few extracts giving the therapeutics and characteristic symptoms of a few of the remedies mentioned in the book:

"ALUMEN.Characteristic Symptoms: Burning pain down. the oesophagus. Yellow diarrhoea like an infant's; afterwards constipation. Blood with stool. Urging to urinate. Frequent micturition. Pressure in fauces as from a plug, with dryness and feeling of a splinter or an ulcer. Tickling in larynx from talking, causing cough. Dry cough in evening after lying down. (Nux Vom.) Cramp-like drawing in planta of right foot.

"Therapeutics: Lead colic and constipation. Pharyngitis sicca. Hemorrhages from the bowels in febris typhoida, when there is discharge of great blood clots."

"CUPRUM ARSENICOSUM. — Therapeutics: Violent enteralgia or neuralgia abdominalis, with considerable uneasiness. Cholera nostras. Cholera asiatica. Chorea. Epilepsy. Paralysis on the left side. Diarrhoea in phthisis pulmonaria, when other remedies fail to ameliorate."

"ZINCUM VALERIANICUM.-Therapeutics: Recommended in stenocardia. Good remedy in hysteria, when the patients cannot sit still, or when they must keep the legs in constant motion. This symptom is often present in old cases of uterine disease. Chronic ovarialgia; the pain shoots down the limb of the affected side, even to the foot. Epilepsia without aura."

DR. W. J. GRAVES, class of 1899, Boston University School. of Medicine, has an office at the Peabody, Ashmont, Mass.

REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS.

SKIN DISEASES: Their description, etiology, diagnosis, and treatment according to the law of similars. By M. E. Douglass, M.D., Baltimore, Md. Lecture on dermatology in the Southern Homoopathic Medical College: Boericke & Tafel.

The profession is to be congratulated on having a book on this important subject by one of our own school. The work is in the main well written; a short but sufficiently practical description of the various ailments of the skin, with a brief account of modern thought on etiology, diagnosis, etc., being given. The treatment, both external and internal, has been evidently written with great care and is to be especially commended, the indications for each drug being given in most cases. If the author has erred at all, it seems to us it is in the wealth of remedies which he suggests in certain diseases; thus: he gives indications for twenty-five different remedies in psoriasis; as in an experience of some years exclusively devoted to this specialty we have never been certain of any results from internal medication in this disease, and have only suspected results from three or four drugs (the best of which, arseniate of strychnia, the author does not mention), we feel that both the general practitioner and the student may be misled by the recommendation of so many remedies.

On the whole the work is to be commended, and will be of great value to the physician in the management of this most trying class of diseases.

THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY, which was established in 1872 by the Appletons and which has at present the largest circulation of any scientific journal in the world, is now being edited by Prof. James McKeen Cattell, of Columbia University, and published by McClure, Phillips & Co. Professor Cattell is well known as a psychologist and as the editor of Science.

The July number contains, among other articles, a paper by Simon Newcomb, the astronomer, entitled " Chapters on the Stars"; a new paper by Dr. Haffkine, the discoverer of the preventive against the plague, on "Preventive Inoculation"; an article on the recent

solar eclipse by Sears P. Langley of the Smithsonian Institution; and articles on "New Sources of Roentgen Rays," on the "Massachusetts Institute of Technology," "Malaria and the Malarial Parasite," by Dr. Patrick Manson, and on "Washington as Explorer and Surveyor." This contents gives promise that the magazine will be well cared for by its new management.

PERSONAL AND NEWS ITEMS.

DR. HOWARD A. STREETER, class of 1898, Boston University School of Medicine, has located at Clinton, Mass.

DR. THOMAS M. DILLINGHAM, class of 1874, Boston University School of Medicine, has removed to No. 8 49th Street, New York City.

DR. F. W. COLBURN, class of 1897, Boston University School of Medicine, has opened an office at No. 35 Newbury Street, Boston, after a year of study in Europe on diseases of the ear.

A GRADUATE of the class of 1899, Boston University School of Medicine, wishes a position as substitute or physician's assistant at a salary. Address "J. E. M.," care of Otis Clapp & Son, 10 Park Square, Boston.

WANTED TO PURCHASE. - A practice within easy reach of Boston. A considerable town or small city preferred — not a country practice. Address "D. B. X.," care of Otis Clapp & Son, 10 Park Square, Boston, Mass.

DR. DE LANCEY H. BARCLAY died late Monday night at the Miller Sanitarium, 1734 St. Paul Street. He had been in bad health for the last three years. He continued his practice until June 21. On the twenty-third he was operated on for kidney trouble. Dr. Barclay was born June 19, 1854,

in this city. He was the son of Walter Channing and Grace

Douglass Barclay. Dr. Barclay was educated in the North, and graduated from the New York Homoeopathic Medical College in 1876. Since that time he had been practising in this city. Dr. Barclay enjoyed a very large practice. He was one of the best homoeopathic physicians in this city. Dr. Barclay was known in social as well as medical circles. At one time he was an oarsman of local reputation. He was formerly a commodore in the Ariel Boat Club. He was a member of the Maryland Homoeopathic and the Maryland Historical Societies. Deceased is survived by a widow and two daughters, Misses Grace Douglass and Louise Barclay. Baltimore American.

THE Fourteenth Annual Class for instruction in Orificial Surgery will be held in the amphitheatre of the Chicago Homœopathic College during the week beginning September 17, 1900. The class will have a four hours' daily session throughout the week. On Wednesday and Thursday of the same week in Chicago will be held the annual meeting of the American Association of Orificial Surgeons. Those desiring particulars concerning the class can obtain them by addressing Dr. E. H. Pratt, 100 State Street, Suite 1203, Chicago, Ill.

[Read before the Massachusetts Homœopathic Medical Society.]

President and Colleagues: -What to-day is offered you is. a brief summarizing of principles and established facts in that branch of medical science which has been termed hypnosuggestion or applied psychology.

It would be inappropriate to apologize for so doing. The subject itself is an important one; it has emerged from the doubtful and prejudicial stage; it is experimental psychology in a higher degree, in closer touch with man and his surroundings; it is individual instead of mechanical, it is clinical psychology. For these reasons, and because your position as advanced physicians requires that you should investigate and not theorize before you judge, the subject claims more than your superficial attention and knowledge. Your practical interest will quicken whatever disinclination or apathy there may exist, and idiosyncrasies will yield to experience.

My personal title to present this topic rests upon two years' clinical instruction under Professor Bernheim at Nancy, and Professor Krafft-Ebing at Vienna, including comparative psychological study with Professor Charcot at the Salpetriere, and with Professor Forel at Zürich. For about ten years

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