pledge themselves to pay a sum of money ranging from $10.00 upwards per annum for five years, such subscriptions to be secured by promissory note, or otherwise. The handling of this scheme, and of the expected fund, should be vested in a joint committee of the Alumni Association and the Faculty. We present this in brief outline, and would recommend to your Honorable Body that you make this proposition a special order of a meeting to be called in the near future. Respectfully submitted, ROBT. LUEDEKING, W. H. WARREN, The amendments to the Charter of the City of St. Louis regarding the administration of the city institutions as recommended by the St. Louis Medical Society were unanimously approved. It was moved, seconded and carried that the chair appoint a committee of three to draw up resolutions expressing the regret of the society at the death of Prof. E. H. Gregory and its sense of his value to the school, the medical profession and the community at large. The society then proceeded to its scientific program, which was as follows: Dr. Willard Bartlett: Sub-lingual Cyst. Presentation of patient, description of operation and demonstration of microscopic sections. * Dr. W. H. Rush: Case of Malarial Nephritis. † Dr. George Gellhorn: The Diagnosis of Tubal Pregnancy before Rupture, with Presentation of Specimens. ‡ After discussion of the above papers the society adjourned. p. 151. p. 157. * Published in full among the Clinical Reports of this number. +Published in fuli among the Clinical Reports of this number. See See p. 162. Published in full among the Clinical Reports of this number. See NEWS AND PERSONAL MENTION. The special attention of the alumni is called to a communication from three members of the faculty urging that the alumni as a body aid in the upbuilding of the school. This matter was brought up and considered by the Faculty at a special session held on February 19th and met with their indorsement. The Alumni have expressed themselves favorably concerning the correctness and necessity of the movement. It is expected that a ready response will be forthcoming; it is the start of such things that is most difficult; we commend that no hesitation be seen in a cause so intimately concerning the good of the school and its younger students. Thanks are due Dr. O. Wayne Smith for his initiative in this movement; the credit for its conception belongs to him. A memorial gathering to Dr. E. H. Gregory, of the faculty, staff and students, was held in the surgical amphitheater at the University Hospital, at five o'clock on February the fourteenth. The dean directed the attention of those present to the purpose of the meeting, and in a short and deeply impressive talk, paid tribute to the loss that the profession had sustained in the death of this man. He spoke of the work that Dr. Gregory had done for and in the school, of his position in the medical world and of the many lessons that his life should teach us. Dr. Luedeking then called upon Dr. N. B. Carson, asking for a word from one of the earlier pupils and later associates. Dr. Carson's praise of his former teacher embodied the feelings * See Proceedings of the Alumni Association on p. 170. of one who has lost a very close and dear friend; he spoke of Dr. Gregory as the leader of the medical profession in the Mississipi Valley States. Dr. Baumgarten spoke of the teacher's gift for demonstration, and mentioned particularly the interest that the earlier classes had displayed in following their courses in anatomy under Dr. Gregory. The remarks made by Dr. Tupper, were those of closest sympathy; he mentioned with much feeling the great simplicity of the man. Dr. Fischel recalled a personal acquaintance that had been very dear to him, and spoke about Dr. Gregory's kindness and devotion to his pupils, and of his love for his profession, stating that Dr. Gregory was the last member of that distinguished old guard who had advanced the best in medicine. Dr. Grindon's tribute concerned Dr. Gregory's eloquence as a teacher, his rare gift of imparting knowledge and convincing his listeners; the honesty and courage of his thoughts in ethics, politics and religion. The dean called upon Dr. Tuholske for a word about Dr. Gregory and the surgical profession; Dr. Tuholske, in his eulogism, recalled the student love for Dr. Gregory, his qualities of heart and mind, his cool judgment as a consultant, his advanced ideas in surgery and pathology even in later years, and his skill as a debater. He praised the staunch courage, the absence of ostentation, the moral grandeur of the man. BOOK NOTICES. Diabetes. The seventh volume of monographs written by Carl von Noorden, in a series entitled, Clinical Treatises on the Pathology and Therapy of Disorders of Metabolism and Nutrition, by CARL VON NOORDEN, Physician-in-chief to the City Hospital, Frankfort a. M. Authorized American Translation. Edited by Boardman Reed, M.D., Late Professor of Diseases of the Gastrointestinal Tract, Hygiene and Climatology, Department of Medicine, Temple College; and Physician to the Samaritan Hospital, Philadelphia; Physician to the American Oncologic Hospital, etc. Translated by Florence Buchanon, D.Sc., and I. Walker Hall, M.D. Part VII., Diabetes Mellitus, its Pathology and Treatment. Lectures delivered in the University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York, Herter Lectureship Foundation. E. B. Treat & Company: New York. 1905. For those who are acquainted with von Noorden's previous lectures on the disorders of metabolism, extensive review of this work would be superfluous; it is in every way just as excellent and in many ways far better than others. It is a classic work, and is filled with our best knowledge of the subject. It is apparent, however, that the writer recognized that there were undergraduates present, for none of the more recent experimental work appears. For all of us this is perhaps fortunate, it would necessitate sifting and time. This little volume might be considered an epitome of von Noorden's larger work on the subject. price at $1.50 is very reasonable. Syphilis, a Symposium, by seventeen distinguished authorities. 12mo. 125 pages. $1.00 net. E. B. Treat & Co.: New York. 1902. The idea of this little work is excellent, and it is fairly well carried out. We find among its contributors: Fournier, Cabot, Lydston, Keyes, Robin and other well-known names. Each authority gives here his views on one of the important questions of this vast subject. The collection of so much material into one little volume, makes it of great value. We cannot refrain, however, from suggesting the demand for a revision. The remarks in the chapter devoted to the etiology of lues are necessarily incomplete. Man and His Poisons.-A practical exposition of the causes, symptoms and treatment of self-poisoning. By ALBERT ABRAMS, A.M., M.D. (Heidelberg), F.R.M.S. Consulting physician Denver National Hospital for Consumptives, the Mount Zion and the French Hospitals, San Francisco; President of the Emanuel Sisterhood Polyclinic; formerly Prof. of Pathology and Director of the Medical Clinic Cooper Medical College, San Francisco. Illustrated. E. B Treat: New York. 1906. Dr. Abrams has here written a splendid book. We should not recommend it to the physician seeking information on the subject of the autointoxications: he would find very little information on this subject of a concrete or authoritative character. He would, however, find a careful consideration in a general way of the complex matters related thereto. There is much said about the psychic phase, about the broad field of its influences and of the value of controlling them in the neurotic disorders so frequent in metabolic derangements. The writer is too much taken up with his subject and is for this reason inclined to underestimate the value of drugs and other remedies to which the physician usually has recourse in the autointoxications. The book would be deeply interesting and instructive to the layman as well as the physician. The Blues (Splanchnic Neurasthenia). Causes and Cure. By ALBERT ABRAMS, A.M., M.D. (Heidelberg), F.R.M.S. |