After lunch the society discussed the cases of the morning. Everyone was well pleased with the work of the Grinnell members, and with the very interesting program which they presented.

AMERICAN MEDICAL EDITORS' ASSOCIATION

The fifty-second annual meeting of the American Medical Editors' Association will be held at the Hotel Lenox, Boston, Massachusetts on Monday and Tuesday, June 6 and 7, under the presidency of Dr. H. S. Baketel, editor of the Medical Times.

A novel feature of our literary program will be introduced this year in the shape of a symposia, which will be discussed by various members. The subjects will be: "Group Practice and the Diagnostic Clinic;" What Should be the Attitude of the Profession Toward Health Centers;" "The Correlation Between Editorial, Advertising and Subscription Work."

Every doctor, even remotely interested in medical journalism, will find it to his advantage to attend, and is most cordially invited.

PERSONAL MENTION

Dr. M. R. Hammer of Newton, Iowa, has moved to Manchester, Tennessee. However he retains his membership in the Jasper County Medical Society, also Iowa State.

Drs. J. D. Dunshee and A. L. Nielsen announce Dr. Nielsen's location in Harlan and their association for the practice of medicine.

CORRECTION

Near the bottom of the page 89, March, 1921 number, Dr. Schuman's paper, appears this statement: Two years later Dr. Stewart wrote as follows: On December 4, 1917, following the examination, etc. The date should have been December 4, 1919.

MARRIAGES

Dr. Louis Franklin Talley and Miss Meta Lillian Watson, March 27, 1921, Marshalltown, Iowa.

OBITUARY

Dr. C. H. Hermann, Sr., of Middle Amana, died at his home March 6, 1921. Dr. Hermann was born at Ebenezer near Buffalo, New York, October 5, 1849. Came to Iowa in April, 1864. Dr. C. H. Hermann, Jr., succeeds his father at Middle Amana,

Dr. M. W. Thornburg of Redfield died at Mercy Hospital, March 14, following an operation for gallstones. Dr. Thornburg was educated at the State College, Ames, and received his medical degree at Northwestern University Medical School.

charm, the diverse talents, the professional ability so marked in comparison with the youth of their possessor, all gave promise of a career rich in values to himself, his relatives and associates, and to the general community.

We lament his loss to us, and the untimely termination of a life of the highest usefulness.

Struck down by contagion while in the act of rendering service in his capacity as physician Doctor Allen is as surely enrolled among those dead on the field of honor as though fallen in battle, and in his passing leaves for our comfort and contemplation the high spectacle of duty nobly accomplished.

This tribute we inscribe on the minutes of our society, and tender with all sympathy and respect to his bereaved parents.

E. O. FICKE, M.D.,
President.

ROBT. E. JAMESON, M.D.,
Secretary.

OBSEQUIES, DR. W. MARCH WHITE, SIOUX CITY

The funeral of the late Dr. W. March White, Iowa State University, 1912, who was killed in action at Battle of Argonne-Muese, November 4, 1918, was held at Sioux City, Sunday, April 24.

It was the largest as well as the most impressive funeral ever held in Sioux City and a most fitting tribute to the memory of our only physician to lose his life in the late war.

Every physician and dentist who was in the service, about forty in number, composed the guard of honor, followed by eight overseas nurses in uniform. The Legion of Honor, Woodmen of the World, Masonic and other orders made a procession of 5,000 and more than twice that number attended the service at Graceland cemetery, which was conducted by the Masonic lodge.

Dr. White was twenty-nine years of age at the time of his death. He was a member of the Woodbury County, the Sioux Valley, Iowa State and American Medical Societies.

Dr. Victor Brown, Sec'y.

BOOK REVIEWS

THE ENDOCRINES

By Samuel Wyllis Bandler, M.D., F.A.C.S., Professor of Gynecology in the New York Post-Graduate School and Hospital. Octavo of 486 Pages. W. B. Saunders Company, 1920. Cloth, $7 Net.

Dr. Bandler has given much study to the general subject of internal secretions and in a work on gynecology published a few years ago, dwelt particularly on the influence of internal secretions in certain diseases of women which, while the theories were yet tentative, threw a new light on some obscure condi

tions which might be improved by referring to a balance in the endocrines. Studies since that time have tended in support of Dr. Bandler's contentions.

Dr. Bandler now writes a book on a new philosophy of disease in which psychology rests largely on the state of the endocrines. We can easily imagine the feelings of the metaphysical school of philosophers represented by Sir William Hamilton on reading a book which holds that certain psychic manifestations are related to the internal secretions.

The first chapter relates to environment and heredity. The author considers the normal child, the man and the woman, and proceeds to consider the abnormal, the effect of the endocrine unbalance. The effect of environment and heredity are treated in the usual manner but when we reach the abnormal a different interpretation is given from what we are accustomed to consider. The physician should inquire into the condition of the organs of internal secretion as a means of considering a rational treat

ment.

The author in chapter three introduces the subject of endocrines in the following language: "The influence and action of the endocrine glands are evidenced by somatic, mental and psychic changes." If we consider the activity of the hypophysis gland and the thyroid gland in the development of the growing child we may understand why the individual develops as he does, and if we can reason out what the ductless glands have done to that individual after puberty, we may understand why so many changes have occurred in him. The influence of the testis and ovaries on the changes in the adrenals, pineal and hypophysis are considered in relation to the peculiarities and characteristics of the male and female. Certain abnormalities as dysmenorrhea, menorrhea, and amenorrhea may be the somatic or psychic evidences of endocrine abnormality.

We cannot enter further into the discussion of this phase of the subject. The author now takes up the discussion in chapter four, each of the glands of internal secretion, and follows in chapter five, and following chapters, the endocrines in gynecology and other conditions.

The chapters on the endocrine relations to the nervous system is a subject of intense interest, the instincts, the emotions, mental and nervous defects, the neuroses and psychoses, phobias, the autonomic nervous system. This is a group of subjects that have until recently been beyond the understanding of the physician and psychologist, now, thanks to research are placed on a basis for rational study with a hope for the future. In further elucidation of the subject the author takes up a study of the balance between the endocrines, and each individual endocrine. This is from its nature a difficult philosophic discussion but of great importance in reaching a basis for rational therapeutic measures.

Under the head of therapeutic suggestions concerning endocrines this statement is made in introduction; "the human body is managed by the endo

crine glands of the body." Now when we have worked out the problem of the balance of endocrines, we are prepared to make the therapeutic application. As an aid in this direction a detailed account of the history and symptoms is presented, supplemented by a series of clinics.

We suggest to the reader who is interested in this subject a careful reading of this interesting book.

THE STORY OF THE AMERICAN RED CROSS
IN ITALY

By Charles M. Brakewell. The Macmillan
Company, New York, 1920.

The activities of the Red Cross in the Great War will be a subject of interest to the end of time. We are introduced to the reading of this book by the statement, "The purpose of this book is not to give a detailed statistical account of Red Cross activities in Italy, but rather to tell the American people who contributed so generously to the Red Cross funds the simple tale of what their dollars did in Italy."

The story begins on the fifth day of May, 1915, and we are carried through Italy's entrance into the war, marking interesting facts, incidents, and persons until in the summer of 1917 when the American Red Cross sent a commission to Italy under George F. Baker, Sr. The story is an interesting one with many illustrations. We are carried from city to city and we have revealed to us the feelings, the trials, and the sorrows of these interesting people, and the needs for help from outside. Italy had been the battlefield for centuries before civilized methods of caring for the distressed had been organized. To one who has read the history of the wars between the different states of Italy and with foreign nations since the building of Rome must be moved by a spirit of thankfulness that organized means of relief have been established for mitigating the distress of war. From the beginning to the end of the book interest newer flags, and our affection for the Red Cross and our willingness to give freely to this great organization increases. Our regret is that we did not give more.

SHORT TALKS ON PERSONAL AND COMMUNITY HEALTH

By Louis Lehrfeld, A.M., M.D., Agent for the Prevention of Disease, Department of Public Health, Philadelphia.

This book has been compiled with a view to teaching the public some of the things it should know about the prevention of disease and ways to avoid sickness. It is the idea of the author, that perhaps the greatest drawback in the problem of dealing with the preventable diseases, is that much of the opposition encountered by health officials, is the ignorance of people in general concerning these matters. Education of the public has been tried through various agencies, but the great difficulty seems to be that many of those who should be taught, are illiterate,

at least as regards the English language and have also a disinclination to adopt new ways of living.

The author suggests that much may be accomplished by teaching directed toward the younger part of our population whose minds are more open to the reception of new ideas, and it is with this in mind that he has prepared the volume under consideration, The text treats of preventable diseases and how to avoid them, and considers several items under the head of spring and summer subjects, subjects for the holidays and miscellaneous topics. Foods and water are next discussed followed by talks about infants and children, concluding the work with a chapter on first aid to the injured.

The subject matter is quite readable, using plain, simple language, and avoids tedious statistics and charts, which might deter many from reading the text. The book might well be called a health primer, and should be of more benefit to the lay public than many more pretentious works.

H. R. Reynolds,

Surgeon U. S. P. H. S.

PRACTICAL MASSAGE AND CORRECTIVE EXERCISE WITH APPLIED ANATOMY

By Hartig Nissen, Director and Instructor in Numerous Schools and Training Schools. Fourth Revised Edition with 98 Original Illustrations, Including Several Full-Page Half-Tone Plates. F. A. Davis Company, Philadelphia, 1920. Price $2 Net.

The value of massage is fully recognized by the medical profession but little practiced by the physician himself from lack of knowledge of its application, and more particularly because of lack of time. As a matter of fact, massage is a branch of treatment which cannot be made effective without special training. It is, however, a branch which the physician should be familiar with, and thus be in a position to direct its application in suitable cases. This book will serve as a valuable aid in his work.

MEDICAL CLINICS OF NORTH AMERICA,

Volume 3, Number 4 (St. Louis Number),
Octavo of 280 Pages, 30 Illustrations. W. B.
Saunders Company 1920. Published Bi-
Monthly. Price Per Clinic Year, Paper $12,
Cloth $16.

We have before us a volume of clinics from leaders in internal medicine of St. Louis. First: Focal infection and arthritis by Dr. George Dock followed by a demonstration of four cases of endocrine amenorrhea by Dr. William Engelbach of St. Johns Hospital.

The relation of the endocrines to gynecology is attracting so much attention of late that we read this paper with much interest, because of the analytic detail with which the paper is presented. Then we have a paper on essentials in neurologic diagnosis by Dr. W. W. Graves of St. Louis City Hospital, which

presents certain principle facts in diagnosis that should be considered in modern methods of examination.

The interest attached to severe diarrheas in infancy is presented by Dr. McKine Marriott of St. Louis Children's Hospital. Neuropsychic Reactions in Distrubances of Ovarian Function is presented in an interesting clinic by Dr. F. M. Barrces, Jr. Supplementing the paper by Dr. Engelbach is a discussion on the basal metabolic rate in endocrine disturbance by Dr. John L. Tierney of St. John's Hospital. There are other subjects presented of interest, subjects better understood but having less academic value to the practitioner, but of more practical relation to every day work. We welcome this St. Louis contribution.

THE SURGICAL CLINICS OF CHICAGO October, 1920, Volume IX, Number 5, with 46 Illustrations. Published Bi-Monthly. W. B. Saunders Company. Price Per Year $12.00,

We recognize in this number names which have been familiar in Chicago surgery for many years. The first, Drs. E. Wyllys, Edmund Andrews and Dr. Charles L. Mix at St. Luke's Hospital, “Dumping Stomach." The patulous pylorus, the large splashing stomach for which a gastro-enterostomy had been made for drainage, and failure, now comes a pylorectomy and a "simple reverse gastroenterostomy."

Dr. David C. Straus, Cook County Hospital, Perinephritis Abscess-subcapsular nephrectomy: Clinic Drs. A. D. Bevan and L. C. Gatewood at Presbyterian Hospital.

Clinic of Dr. Kellogg Speed, Cook County Hospital; Dr. A. J. Ochsner, Augustana Hospital; Dr. D. N. Eisendrath at Michael Reise Hospital on his favorite subject-the kidney.

Dr. Allen B. Kanaval at Wesley Hospital, eye and ear clinics; Dr. Richard J. Tinonen at Mercy Hospital and Dr. George E. Shambaugh at Presbyterian Hospital.

We are not able to refer specifically to individual clinics but note the special interest of this number.

MATERNITAS

A Book Concerning the Care of the Prospective Mother and Her Child. By Charles E. Paddock, M.D., Professor of Obstetrics, Chicago Post-Graduate Medical School; Assistant Clinical Professor of Obstetrics Rush Medical College; Attending Obstetrician St. Luke's Hospital. Cloyd J. Heald & Company, 304 South Dearborn St., Chicago. This book of 210 pages is intended for the instruction of the prospective mother, not as a manual for the physician, and may with great advantage be placed in her hands. It will be recalled that at our last annual

meeting, the retiring president in his address called attention to the dangers of race degeneration from neglect of the prospective mother, the warning is emphasized in this book. The book is written in an attractive style and begins with a chapter on instruction as to the duty of the mother to the daughter in preparing her for the functions of maternity. Then follow chapters as to facts about pregnancy and the hygiene of pregnancy, including dress, exercise and other matters well known to the physician, but often disregarded. Two chapters relate to the preparation for confinement and convalescence. These chapters are illustrated as to suitable dress, corsets, binders, also as to the preparation of the lying-in room, the care of the breasts, nursing, and other related matters. The second part of the book is devoted to the baby with the thought to the finest development; the baby's food, disease and injuries.

The physician who has the interests of his maternity cases in mind and a desire to lend his aid to the mother and child of this generation and the future and who cannot give constant personal attention to their welfare will render a material service by placing this book in her hands. We would urge the physician and obstetrician to read this book, the contents will suggest to him the good he may do with it.

PRACTICAL PREVENTIVE MEDICINE

By Mark F. Boyd, M.D., C.P.H, Professor of Bacteriology and Preventive Medicine in the Medical Department of the University of Texas. Octavo Volume of 352 Pages with 135 Illustrations. Philadelphia and London. W. B. Saunders Company, 1920. Cloth, $4.00 Net.

Dr. Boyd names five groups of diseases which are warrantably classed as preventable. The first three are those commonly so considered; diseases produced by invasion of the body by micro-organisms; diseases resulting from faulty or deficient diet, and classes resulting from unhygienic or insanitary conditions of employment. The fourth group, diseases arising from the puerperal state, and the fifth, those transmitted from parent to offspring, are as justly entitled to be considered as preventable as are the others, yet are unlikely to be so thought of, unless the attention is particularly called to them. In fact, it is the opinion of the reviewer that these latter groups are to be considered as equally important with the first three, a view somewhat substantiated by the increased attention of late years by obstetricians to the causes of morbidity and mortality in cases occurring in their special line of practice.

The author, in his introduction, calls attention to the direct and indirect economic losses, both general and individual, caused by preventable diseases, which added to the more sentimental and humanitarian considerations which lie at the root of all efforts either (Continued on Advertising Page xvi)