sented building to trustees. Dr. Williams made acceptance speech. The building is open for inspection of public. The second annual graduation exercises of the Mercy Hospital Training School for Nurses were held recently in the auditorium at Powers-court, Anamosa. At the recent meeting of the medical and dental staff of Finley Hospital, Dr. H. B. Gratiot and Dr. L. H. Fritz of the hospital laboratory committee, announced that the negotiations to bring Dr. F. P. McNamarra to Dubuque had been successful. Dr. McNamarra will take charge of the Pathological Laboratory of Finley Hospital about July 1. Those of the medical profession in Dubuque and throughout this section of the country are deeply interested in the announcement of Dr. McNamarra's coming, as it will assure for Dubuque one of the best pathological laboratories in the country. Sev eral large cities were after him, but Dubuque won out. Pathologists of high standing are in great demand at the present time, and the announcement has aroused considerable enthusiasm in medical circles. Dr. McNamarra is a graduate of the Harvard medical school. In 1918, he became assistant in pathology and bacteriology to Dr. M. C. Winternitz, formerly of Johns Hopkins University, which he left to become dean of the Yale medical school. Dr. McNamarra is at present instructor in pathology and bacteriology in the Anthony Brady Memorial laboratory of Yale University and is also assistant resident pathologist in the New Haven Hospital of the Yale Medical School. He was also city pathologist for the City of New Haven. Hotel Colfax, the big mineral springs resort a mile east of Colfax has been leased by the government for a period of ten years to be used as a hospital for ex-service men. The government pays $45,000 a year for a period of ten years for the use of it, after which the government may purchase it. PERSONAL MENTION Dr. H. L. Wyatt, who served during the war in the U. S. Navy, and who was placed on the reserve list after the armistice was signed, has been called into service and will report to his ship, the Alert, at San Diego, California, in a short time. Dr. and Mrs. D. Sickler leave in a couple of weeks for the East. They will visit at the Doctor's old home New York state and not return to their home in Ogden for two or three months. Miss Helen Brockman, daughter of Dr. D. C. Brockman, prominent Ottumwa surgeon, is well on the way toward achieving prominence as an x-ray technician. It is only seven years since she began her studies in x-ray work under Dr. Trostler, famous Chicago technician, but she has already won wide spread recognition among those who are familiar with this line of activity. After finishing her course under Dr. Trostler, Miss Brockman was employed by the Victor Ray Corporation. Following the sale of a machine to a doctor, she would be sent out to install the machine and would spend two months in instructing the buyer. Miss Brockman is now located in Mason City, where she does x-ray work with four doctors who are associated in a clinic. Another daughter of Dr. Brockman, Miss Hilda Brockman, took up nursing as a profession. She was stationed during the World War at Camp Pike, Arkansas. She is now taking a post-graduate nursing course in Columbia University at New York City. During the summer vacation she is to have charge of a Y. W. C. A. camp on Long Island. Her younger sister, Ruth Brockman is the matron of Altoona hall at Cornell College at Mt. Vernon, where Dr. Brockman's fourth daughter, Louise, has occupied a similar position in Bowman hall until very recently. Dr. Ira N. Crow of Iowa City, who for six years was a member of the faculty of the State University Medical College, has decided to locate in Fairfield for the practice of his profession-the specialty of eye, ear, nose and throat. Dr. Crow left the university at the beginning of the war, volunteered and went to France with Hospital Unit R. He was for a time detached from Unit R and sent to the front where he was wounded in action, being the only member of Unit R, who was wounded in battle. Dr. B. H. Criley arrived recently from Los Angeles, for a visit at the old home, combining business with pleasure we expect. The Doctor never wore a healthier glow on his cheeks and he says he is feeiing as fine as he looks. Dr. O. C. Morrison will be one of the principal speakers on a program at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Carroll doctor, who has become so well known in circles of railway surgeons, has been asked to read a paper before a large meeting of surgeons of the Pennsylvania railroad system. Dr. Walter William Daut of Muscatine, formerly of Iowa City, was re-elected city health physician by the board of health of the Pearl City, He is an alumnus of the University of Jowa College of Liberal Arts and Medicine, Class of 1915. Dr. C. P. Frantz had a good hunch recently and played it. It was late in the afternoon when he insured his car with the Wesner Insurance Agency and a few hours later the hood and motor meter were stolen. The matter was adjusted on the following day. Joseph and James Priestley, grandsons of Dr. and Mrs. J. T. Priestley, who are students at the University of Pennsylvania, plan to spend the summer vacation in Europe. They will sail from New York June 16 for Naples, and will tour Italy, Switzerland, France, Holland and England, returning to the United States about September 1. Mrs. J. T. Priestley will leave Saturday evening for Philadelphia for a visit with the young men before their departure. Before returning Mrs. Priestley will go to New York City. Dr. George Braunlict of Davenport has been appointed county physician of Scott county. Dr. Paul A. White of Aberdeen, South Dakota, formerly of Rochester, Minnesota, will become affiliated with Dr. W. L. Allen of Davenport. Dr. E. C. Junger of Soldier was recently operated upon by Dr. Donald Macrea at the Jennie Edmundson Hospital, Council Bluffs for gall-stones. It appears that Dr. Junger has suffered sometime from this disease and finally consented to have his gallbladder removed. OBITUARY Dr. William Samuel Grimes was born in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, May 20, 1842, and died at his home in Wapello, Iowa, June 7, 1921, aged seventy-eight years and seventeen days. When only nineteen years of age he enlisted in the Confederate Army at the beginning of the Civil War and served to its close. In 1867 he removed to Iowa, took collegiate work at the State University for two years and graduated DR. WILLIAM SAMUEL GRIMES in medicine at Rush Medical in 1874. He also took post-graduate work at the same institution in 1887. He practiced his profession in Wapello, Iowa, for forty-five years. Dr. Grimes joined the Iowa State Medical Society in 1885 and took an active part in its work till failing health prevented; and continued a member till the time of his death. He also was a member for many years of the A. M. A., the Southeastern Iowa and the Louisa County Societies. In both the latter he served as president. He was a member of the A. F. and A. M. O. E. S. the I. O. O. F. and Rebekah lodges. Dr. Grimes was well known in his own locality as the friend of the young doctor, and was highly esteemed by all who knew him. Dr. D. S. Tiffany died at his home in Waterloo, June 1, 1921. Dr. Tiffany was born December 14, 1860, at Stockton, Illinois. Received his education in the schools of his home town. Graduated from Rush Medical College, Chicago. He located in practice at Keota, Iowa, later moving to Chicago. He came to Waterloo sixteen years ago. Dr. E. D. Beauchamp was born July 31, 1858, on a farm near Pulaski, Iowa, and was the fourth son of Levi and Mary Jane Beauchamp. He died at his home in Bloomfield, Iowa, April 11, 1921. He left surviving him his widow, Anna May and two children, R. Clarence Beauchamp of Hollywood, California, and M. Fay Geurnsey of 1138 Linda Vista Terris, Los Angeles, California. His mother, Mary Jane Beauchamp, now resides in Pulaski, his father and one brother, Will Beauchamp, having departed this life shortly before he did. Of his father's family of nine children the following survive him: Dr. Joseph W. Beauchamp, Bedford, Iowa; James H. Beauchamp, Caldwell, Idaho; Robert S. Beauchamp, Emma J. Beauchamp, Sarah Elizabeth Mathews and L. Frank Beauchamp, all of Pulaski, Iowa, and Charles E. Beauchamp of Bloomfield, Iowa. Dr. E. D. Beauchamp was a graduate of the Keokuk Medical College and began the practice of medicine at Pulaski, Iowa. He took a medical postgraduate course in New York City and worked for some time in Bellevue Hospital. He married Anna May Shelton, daughter of Dr. W. H. Shelton of Pulaski, Iowa, July 13, 1887, and in 1888 came to Bloomfield where he has remained in the active practice of medicine and surgery up to his death. Dr. W. B. Graham of Waterloo, pioneer physician in Iowa, died recently at the Methodist Hospital following an extended illness. He is survived by a wife and three children, Richard M. Graham of Chicago, and the Misses Margery and Nancy Graham of Waterloo. Funeral services were held in Waterloo. Dr. E. R. Hutchins, former Des Moines physician, who with his daughter has been operating a hotel at Lake Okoboji, died Wednesday, May 25. He was eighty years old. The doctor was at one time a professor in Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, professor chemistry Iowa State College, Ames, and practiced in Des Moines after coming West. After his retirement he had charge of the business women's home on Pleasant street. He was a lifelong repub lican. Many years ago he was prominent in local politics. Dr. J. M. Knott, seventy-five years old, one of the oldest physicians in Sioux City is dead. Announcement of his death at Los Angeles, at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Frank P. Clarkson, was received in Sioux City recently. He died of angina pectoris. He was a practicing physician in Sioux City more than forty years. He had been in failing health for the last five years, going to California slightly more than a year ago in an effort to regain his health. During the last four weeks of his illness he had been confined to his bed. He was born at Clifton, Ohio, March 5, 1846. At the age of seventeen years, while studying for the medical profession, he gave up his studies to enlist in the Union Army. He joined the 153d Ohio Infantry and upon being transferred to the 186th Ohio Infantry, he was commissioned a captain. He served two years in the Civil War. When he was mustered out, in 1865, he entered George Washington University at Washington, D. C., being graduated from that institution with the class of 1870. In the same year he married Miss Caroline Van Buren a descendant of President Van Buren. He practiced at Joliet, Ohio, for two years and on the afternoon of March 8, 1872, he arrived in Sioux City. The town at that time had only 3,500 people. There were only two railroads, and travel was difficult. Hardships the veteran physician encountered during the early days have oftentimes been recalled by old time residents. Dr. Knott had a horse and buggy. Over miles and miles of rough roads, through all kinds of weather, he went to help the sick. When he arrived in Sioux City he formed a partnership with Dr. George W. Beggs, at that time the oldest physician in Sioux City. On March 3, 1920, two months before he went West, the Sioux Valley Medical Association tendered Dr. Knott a farewell banquet as a token of esteem for the invaluable services he rendered to the community in the early days. Besides the Sioux Valley Medical Association, he was a member of the Iowa State Medical Society and the American Medical Association. He was one of the best known physicians in the Middle West. Since his seventieth birthday, his health started to decline. He had oftentimes said, while a young man, that when one has reached "three score and ten," his work on earth is done. His wife died in Sioux City in 1916. They lived at 910 Jackson street for more than thirty years. Surviving him are two sons, Dr. Van Buren Knott, formerly of Sioux City, and Dr. Fred Knott of St. Louis, Missouri, and two daughters, Mrs. Clarkson of Los Angeles and Mrs. Harve Badgerow of Chicago. MARRIAGES Dr. John Russell was married to Miss Sadie Ann Caquelin, graduate nurse of Iowa Congregational Hospital, at Omaha, Thursday evening, May 12. Dr. Carl G. Bretthauer and Miss Muriel Amish were married at Des Moines, April 14, 1921. Dr. Bretthauer will locate in Boone and become assistant to Dr. L. A. Bassett. Dr. C. H. Dewey of Des Moines and Miss Edna Thompson of Des Moines. Major Dewey entered the U. S. Medical Service as a lieutenant, went overseas with the Three Hundred Fifty-Second Ambulance Company. Was made director of the Eightyeighth Division and was later transferred to the First Division as Sanitary Inspector. Returned to the United States as Division Surgeon of the First Division. Dr. Thomas H. Van Camp and Miss Media A. Dierf, both of Somers, Iowa, June 15, 1921. BOOK REVIEWS GYNECOLOGY By Brooke M. Anspach, M.D., Associate in Gynecology, University of Pennsylvania. With an Introduction by John G. Clark; 752 pages and 526 Illustrations. J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia and London. Price $9.00. Dr. Clark in introducing this book to the profession calls attention to the ample references which are so arranged as not to burden the reader and which are placed at the end of the chapter to be consulted by the reader or not, as suit his convenience, a fact to be commended. The first four chapters are devoted to embryologic, anatomic and physiologic considerations. A short chapter is given to the causes of pelvic disorders. Chapter six considers history-taking and symptomatology. Chapters seven and eight to General Physical Examination, and Examinations of the Pelvis and Abdomen, illustrated by many excellent cuts, and chapters nine and ten to Examinations of the Urinary Organs, the Anus and Rectum. These chapters prepare the reader to consider diseases of the different organs. First comes diseases of the external genetalia and the vagina which are so important to the general practitioner who is often consulted for troublesome external conditions. Injuries to the Perineum and their results appear in their right place, at the beginning of gynecologic conditions, which have so important a bearing on the common welfare of the woman. The methods of restoration are presented by a description of methods and by illustrations. An excellent chapter is given on Diseases of the Cervix. Chapter fifteen presents an interesting discussion on Changes in Form and Position of the Uterus. This is a subject that is not as well understood by the occasional surgeon as it |