Harry M. Moore, M.D., Instructor in Dept. Anatomy. S. B. McPheeters, A.B., Student Instructor Dept. Anatomy. Eli Thomas Brand, Student Instructor Dept. Anatomy. Albert Wilson Olds, Student Instructor Dept. Anatomy. Eugene P. Cockrell, Ph.B., Student Instructor Dept. Pharmacy. Richard H. Fuhrmann, M.D., Chief of Clinic Dept. Gynecology and Obstetrics, O'Fallon Dispensary. George O. Gauen, M.D., Clinical Asst. Dept. Gynecology and Obstetrics, O'Fallon Dispensary. Earl Thomas, M.D., Clinical Asst. Dept. Gynecology and Obstetrics, O'Fallon Dispensary. Richard H. Fuhrmann, M.D., Chief Wash. Univ. Lying-in Hospital. George O. Gauen, M.D., Resident Physician, Lying-in Hospital. Alexander E. Horwitz, A.B., M.D., Clinical Asst. Dept. Ortho. Surgery, O'Fallon Dispensary. Theodore Greiner, M.D., Clinical Asst. Dept. Dermatology, O'Fallon Dispensary. PROBATIONERS. Henry B. Miller, M.D., Clinical Asst. Dept. Rhinology and Laryngology, O'Fallon Dispensary. Edmund A. Babler, M.D., Clinical Asst. Dept. Surgery, O'Fallon Dispensary. D. Buie Garstang, M.D., Clinical Asst. Dept. Genito Surgery, O'Fallon Dispensary. J. F. Shoemaker, M.D., Clinical Asst. Dept. Ophthalmology, O'Fallon Dispensary. F. L. Parker, M.D., Clinical Asst. Dept. Ophthalmology, Wash. Univ. Dispensary. L. Williamson, M.D., Clinical Asst. Dept. Ophthalmology, Wash. Univ. Dispensary. John T. Beckert, A.B., M.D., Clinical Asst. Dept. Surgery, Wash. Univ. Dispensary. Eugene T. Senseney, A.B., M.D., Clinical Asst. Dept. Otology, Wash. Univ. Dispensary. W. T. Yount, M.D., Clinical Asst. Dept. Otology, Wash. Univ. Dispensary. Arthur T. Kimball, A.B., M.D., Clinical Asst. Dept. Gynecology, Mullanphy. John F. Ross, Student Interne Wash. Univ. Hospital. Martin J. Glaser, Ph.B., Student Interne Wash. UnivHospital. OBSTETRICAL DEPARTMENT. In order to secure for the student the necessary facilities that the practical might accompany the theoretical course in this department, there was established some years ago what has been styled the Out-clinic, with headquarters in the college building, 1806 Locust street, and officered by two regular graduates ranking respectively junior and senior assistant, under the direct supervision of the Professor of Obstetrics, Dr. Henry Schwarz. The idea of procuring the necessary and much needed material from the lowly and indigent, resulted not only in a success but a great benefit to the institution. Prompt attention to the applicants for our services has obtained the confidence of the people. The work was at first confined to the immediate neighborhood, but now has been extended to all parts of the city. In many places the surroundings oppose discouraging as well as dangerous obstacles to the proper application of the physician's services. Rather than continue to contend with such conditions, and in order that the material might be used to better advantage, the Medical Department finally decided to establish a Lying-in Hospital. Here the Department offers practically free of charge everything that is necessary, and the patient is at all times in charge of competent nurses and physicians. The Lying-in Hospital is located on the second floor of the Washington University Hospital building, situated at 611 N. Jefferson avenue. The building in its entirety has been refitted to meet the requirements of a modern hospital, equipped with an elevator and all conveniences incident to a first-class institution of its nature. A number of apartments comprise the maternity, viz., the reception, examination, delivery, general wards, and quarters for the resident physician and senior students. The wards are so arranged as to accommodate both the white and colored patients, but each in a department separate from the other. When a patient is accorded the privilege of admission, there is substituted for her street attire the regulation uniform of the hospital, her clothing being stored away in lockers for that purpose. After the patient is properly prepared, a complete history of the case is taken and filed away, for clinical and statistical purposes. The patient is then returned to the ward where the women spend most of their time previous to and after parturition in doing such work as they are capable of performing. The delivery room is well lighted and ventilated, containing all the modern appliances, combined with every safeguard known to the profession. It is so situated that ready access may be had to it from the general wards and physicians' quarters, yet so constructed that noises emanating thence may not annoy others in the various apartments. In this room, to which the woman is conveyed on a carriage when in the incipient stage of labor, there are in attendance the physician in charge, nurses and those senior students, who are on obstetrical duty at the time. After parturition she is again returned to the ward and there placed in the care of a competent nurse. Throughout the puerperium, the senior students who were witnesses of the case are in attendance, and act under the supervision of the resident physicians. The consultation hours for applicants either to the Maternity or to the Out-clinic are from 10 to 12 daily. Henry Schwarz, M.D., Director; R. H. Fuhrmann, M.D., Physician in Chief. G. O. Gowen, Earl Thomas, Resident Physicians. We extend to the Alumni and to the medical profession at large an invitation to visit the hospital, where they will always be heartily welcomed, and we bespeak for the institution their kindly co-operation. R. H. F. BOOK REVIEWS. The Detection of Poisons and Strong Drugs Including the Quantitative Estimation of Medical Principles in Certain Crude Materials. - By Dr. WILHELM AUTENRIETH, Professor of the University of Freiburg. Authorized Translation from the Third Enlarged German Edition, by WILLIAM H. WARREN, Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry, Medical Department of Washington University, St. Louis, Mo. 8vo. xii + 222. Seventeen Illustrations. P. Blakiston's Son & Co., Philadelphia. 1905. A translation into English of Prof. Autenrieth's invaluable little manual has long been a desideratum. In making a translation such as the above, the translator has two courses open to him. He may either adapt the work to the special needs of American readers, thus practically writing a new work on the basis of the original, or he may make a close translation, leaving his readers to compare the German with the American methods and to replace the former by the latter when they see fit to do so. The many excellencies of the original have made the translator prefer the second method and he has confined his own additions to a number of useful footnotes. The first four chapters are devoted to the qualitative and quantitative determination of the four great groups, into which poisons may be divided. The first group includes volatile substances that distill undecomposed from an acid solution with steam. The second group contains those non-volatile organic poisons that may be extracted from extraneous matter with hot alcohol containing tartaric acid. To this group belong the alkaloids. The third group includes all poisonous metals and the fourth a number of substances that cannot be grouped in the |