D., Sc. D., Ph.D., Waukegan, Ill. Journal of the American Association. Reprinted from the "AN EXPERIMENTAL INQUIRY CONCERNING ELASTIC CONSTRICTION AS A HEMOSTATIC MEASURE;" read before the National Association of Railway Surgeons, Point Comfort, Va., May 28, 1892; by Nicholas Senn, M. D., Ph. D., Chicago. Reprint from International Medical Magazine. "THE PHYSICIAN'S VISITING LIST FOR 1893," published by Lindsay & Blakiston, Philadelphia. The fact that this Visiting List has been published annually for forty years is sufficient guarantee of its excellence and popularity. The new U. S. Pharmacopoeia, which will be published in 1893, adopts the metric system of weights and measures. In order to meet this, a very complete table of the doses of all drugs in both the English and metric systems is contained in this edition. Aside from its other features, its size and weight recommend it. It measures 63x33 inches, and the smallest size weighs but three and one-half ounces, and is only three-eighths of an inch thick. The large sizes are a little thicker and heavier. It is the smallest and lightest visiting list published; a very great advantage, when you consider the number of articles the physician has to carry in his pockets. It is arranged for 25, 50, 75 and 100 patients per day or week, dated and undated, with or without interleaves for special memoranda. A new undated monthly edition has also been added to the series. The large sizes can be had bound in two volumes, each volume covering six months, for greater convenience. The editor of the MEDICAL VISITOR has used this list for nearly thirty years. Homœopathic League Tract, No. 42: The Cholera. This tract is taken from the Monthly Homoeopathic Review for October, 1892. New York Letters on Orthopedic Surgery by Stewart Le Roy McCurdy, M. D., Dennison, Ohio. Reprint from Columbus Medical Journal. THE DECEMBER COSMOPOLITAN.—In view of the fact that Sir Edwin Arnold will very likely be the next poet-laureate, one turns with interest to his most entertaining article in the December Cosmopolitan on a "Japanese Watering Place." The same number contains seven portraits of Tennyson and interesting views of his late home and surroundings. Thomas Gorman has penetrated the mysteries of the silent trappists' monastery with a profane kodak; Murat Halstead discusses "Varieties of American Journalism;" Hermann throws "Light on the Black Art,” and Theodore Roosevelt and Maurice Thompson each contributes interesting articles. A feature of the number is twenty-four portraits of Parisian journalists, with sketches of their work. The Cosmopolitan will mark its first edition of 150,000 copies that for January-by the offer of 1,000 free scholarships. In return for introducing the Cosmopolitan into certain neighborhoods the Cosmopolitan offers to any young man or woman free tuition, board, lodging and laundry at Yale, Vassar, Harvard, or any of the leading colleges, schools of art, music, medicine or science. They send out a pamphlet on application telling how to obtain one of these free scholarships. "The Collegiate Degree as an Evidence of Fitness for the Study of Medicine." By L. Harrison Mettler, A. M., M. D., Chicago. Ill. Reprint from the Bulletin of the American Academy of Medicine. "Compound Adjustable Support vs. The Plaster Jacket." By E. P. Banning, M. D., Cleveland, Ohio. Read before the Cleveland Academy of Medicine. "Report of the Calcutta Homœopathic Charitable Dispensary for the year 1891-2. No. VIII." D. Patients to the number of 2,620 were treated during the year, 2,437 being Hindus and the remainder Mahommedans. V. Banerjee, M. D., physician. "Pocket Manual on Cholera, in English and Bengali, containing its History, Sanitary and Hygienic hints, Treatment and Selection of Diet." By Dr. B. N. Banerjee. Transactions of the Maine Homoeopathic Medical Society at its 26th annual meeting held at Portland, June 7-8, 1892. Nearly one-half of the volume is devoted to the President's address (Dr. W. H. Shepard, of Bangor), which is a history of Dr. F. O. Lyford the society for the past quarter of a century. Dr. J. T. G. "The Choice between Extirpation and Colotomy in Cancer of the Rectum." By Charles B. Kelsey, M. D., Professor of Diseases of the Rectum at the New York Post-Graduate Hospital. Reprinted from the New York Medical Journal for November 12, 1892. "Live Questions, including our Penal Machinery and Its Victims." By John P. Altgeld. The Humboldt Publishing Co., New York. This volume forms No. 50 of the Twentieth Century Library, and is, as its title indicates, a consideration of some of the urgent questions of the day. Since the book was published its author has become the Governor-elect of the great commonwealth of Illinois, but as the reviewer has not made any application for office or for favors of any kind to Mr. Altgeld, his judgment is not thereby warped. Among the "live questions" discussed are the Arbitration of Strikes, Pensions, Administration of Justice, Divorce, Immigration and the Eight Hour Movement. They are treated with great clearness, originality and force, and in nearly every case a sound conclusion is attained. Mr. Altgeld is said to be a rich man, but if so, he is one of the few rich men who have not allowed their humanity or their sense of justice to be perverted by great possessions. In every case he is on the side of the masses, and the laborer and the artizan find in him an eloquent and able champion for their rights. The questions concerning the prostitute and the jail-bird are intelligently and ably considered, and remedies proposed with a boldness and confidence which evince deep thought on the subject. GOSSIP. J. B. S. KING. Dr. Charles Adams, of Chicago, who has been dangerously ill with pneumonia, is now on the road to recovery. * * * Thanks are due to Dr. George B. Peck, of Providence, for the Rhode Island list of physicians printed in this number. Subscriptions for the new year are now in order. A happy New Year to all, and may we see you all at the Fair. * * Dr. W. A. Dunn, of Chicago, became infected with diphtheritic poison, through a cut upon the thumb. is now out of danger. Fortunately he PROPOSED MONUMENT IN HONOR OF SAMUEL HAHNEMANN. At the recent meeting of the American Institute of Homœopathy, held in Washington city, it was: Resolved, That a national monument be erected to the memory of Samuel Hahnemann, in the city of Washington, and that a committee be appointed to solicit subscriptions and take charge of the project. The following committee was appointed in accordance with the resolution: J. H. McClelland, M. D., chairman, Pittsburg, Pa.; I. T. Talbot, M. D., Boston, Mass.; J. P. Dake, M. D., Nashville, Tenn.; J. S. Mitchell, M. D., Chicago, Ill.; Tullio S. Verdi, M. D., Washington, D. C.; J. B. G. Custis, M. D., Washington, D. C.; Henry M. Smith, M. D. (secretary and treasurer), Spuyten Duyvill, New York city. The Columbian Year is counted a most auspicious time to enter upon the project of raising a monument to this veritable Columbus of Medical Discovery, and the Committee feels confident that the profession and the people will join with enthusiasm in doing honor to the man whose learning and genius brought about the greatest reformation in the history of medical science, by the discovery of a rational theory of drug action. The plans look to the erection of a heroic statue in bronze upon a granite pedestal; a grand work of art which will make necessary a fund of from $50,000 to $75,000. Upon the announcement of the scheme in Washington over $1,000 was subscribed at once, and at a meeting of the International Hahnemannian Association additional subscriptions to nearly as large an amount were received and a committee appointed composed of Drs. Custis, of Washington, C. C. Howard, 64 West 51st. street, New York, and R. L. Thurston, 136 Boylston street, Boston. It is confidently expected that every homoeopathic physician will feel proud to have a share in this work, and will also find subscribers among the laity, people who have profited much from the discoveries and labors of the illustrious Hahnemann. It is urgently suggested that State and local societies appoint energetic committees to canvas the membership for subscriptions, and that action be taken at once; also that names and amounts subscribed be forwarded immediately to the treasurer or any member of the committee, in order that a full list may be published. Checks should be drawn to the order of the "Hahne mann Statue Committee." SUBSCRIBERS TO HAHNEMANN STATUE. RECEIVED AT THE MEETING OF THE INSTITUTE AT WASHINGTON. Chester G. Higbee, M. D., St. Paul, Minn. 25.00 Scott B. Parsons, M. D., St. Louis.. 50.00 G. W. Worcester, M. D., Newburyport, Mass. 10.00 Wm. H. Tomlinson, M. D., Philadelphia. 10.00 |