fully fight the invisible enemy. His vigilance is sleepless. Should we suffer a repetition of the dreadful visitation of 1867, it will be no fault of our indefatigable health officer, but of the near sighted wisdom of those who control the finances of the State.

AS WE GO to press (September 28th), we are able to say that there is not a case of yellow fever in Texas; but the air is full of rumors of "suspicious cases" everywhere. No one can foresee the end.

Medical News and Miscellany.

Dr. C. M. Ramsdell, has removed from Hagerman, N. M. to Lampasas, Texas, his old home.

Dr. L. G. Thornton, late of Columbus, Texas, has removed to Luling where he has formed a co-partnership with Dr. J. J. McCollum.

Want to buy a home and practice, with school and railroad facilities. Northern or Central Texas preferred. Address, P. O. Box, 542, Bonham, Texas.

Dr. James E. Morris, of Madisonville, son of our long time friend, Dr. John E. Morris, has gone to Louisville, Ky., to take a post-graduate course at the Medical Department, University of Louisville.

Fine Location, black land, railroad town, small competition, will induct purchaser into practice. Residence and office

for sale. If you mean business, write for terms, etc. "Juan" care of TEXAS MEDICAL JOURNAL.

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Medical Students attending the Louisville schools are invited by the Y. M. C. A. of that city, to make themselves at home at the headquarters of the Association. The Secretary, Mr. Danner, requests the JOURNAL to say that an effort will be made to establish a branch in each college, and its members will be given privilege of gymnasium, baths, swimming pools, library, entertainments, etc., at reduced rates. For details address E. A. Forbes, 318 W. Broadway, Louisville, Ky.

Hymeneal. We have received cards announcing the marriage of Dr. G. H. Wooten, of Austin, son of Dr. T. D. Wooten, President of Board of Regents, to Miss Ella Newsom, of McKinney, Texas, to take place at McKinney, on 5th of October, inst.

Raised his Salary.-The JOURNAL is informed that Dr. McLaughlin of this city, who has just been elected to the Chair of Practice, in the Texas Medical College, declined the offer at the salary paid his predecessor, $2,500. and that the Regents increased the pay to $3,000.

Prof. J. F. Y. Paine, M. D., Professor of Gynecology and Dean in the Medical Department of the University of Texas, has resigned the deanship of the college despite the wishes and over the protests of the Regents. Prof. Allen J. Smith, M. D., Professor of Pathology and Microscopy, has been elected dean.

The Chair of Physiology in the Texas Medical College made vacant by the resignation (?) of Dr. Clopton, has been filled by the appointment by the Regents, of a young man by the name of Carter, assistant to the Chair of Physiology, University of Pennsylvania; a graduate of Johns-Hopkins University.

The New York Polyclinic.-We have for sale at a discount two orders for $50.00 each on this famous school. These orders can be presented and will be accepted in lieu of cash. To a physician who is going to take a post-graduate course during the coming fall or winter this is a chance to save some money. Address the TEXAS MEDICAL JOURNAL.

Dr. J. A. Bodine, who has been associated with Dr. John A. Wyeth, for the past five years, has located in San Antonio, where he expects to confine his practice to surgery. We know Dr. Bodine, and know that he is held in high esteem by Dr. Wyeth, and we bespeak for him a successful career in the Lone Star State.

Our esteemed contemporary of the Northwestern Medical and Surgical Reporter, Prof. Edgar Capps, M. D., Professor of Physiology and Lecturer on Diseases of the Brain in the Medi

can Department of the Fort Worth University at Fort Worth, Texas, is spending several months in New York City, taking special courses on the eye, ear, nose and throat under Professors Herman Knapp and May, at the New York Polyclinic and the College of Physicians and Surgeons. After some months of special preparation Dr. Capps will return to Fort Worth and will limit his practice exclusively to these branches of medicine.

Book Notices.

A TEXT-BOOK UPON THE PATHOGENIC BACTERIA-By Joseph McFarland, M. D. 113 illustrations. W. B. Saunders, 925 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. 350 pages. Price, $2.50. While much is being written on the subject of bacterology the importance of the subject is such that we cannot have too much literature on it provided it is of the right kind. This book will prove especially valuable to the student of bacteriology, since it contains desirable information which cannot be obtained in any other single volume. The technique of bacteriological examinations, with description of culture methods, and the examination of air, water and soil, are given careful consideration. The author discusses immunity, susceptibility, sterilization, disinfection; also the life history of pathogenic bacteria, their culture, appearance, etc. The book is well illustrated, is written in a pleasing style, and altogether is one of the best and most instructive on the subject on which it treats. It is well worthy of a place in any physician's library. H.

STUDENTS' MEDICAL DICTIONARY-By George M. Gould, A. M., M. D., Author of "An Illustrated Dictionary of Medicine, Biology and Allied Sciences," etc. Tenth Edition Rewritten and Enlarged. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston, Son & Co., 1896. Small 8vo. Half-dark Leather, $3.25 net; Half $4.00 net.

Morocco. Thumb index. This edition is much superior to those which have preceded it. Many new words have been added and the book enlarged and otherwise improved. Besides containing most of the medical words and terms, it contains elaborate tables of the bacilli, micorcocci, ptomaines, leucomains, etc.; also of the arteries, muscles, nerves; of weights and measures, etc. The author has adopted the new orthography, leaving off as far as possible all silent letters in a word.

The system of pronunciation adopted

is a very simple one, and easily understood.

The definitions are brief and clear, making them easy for the student to understand. This dictionary is intended for the medical student and it will serve well the purpose for which it is designed.

H.

A MANUAL OF MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE AND TOXICOLOGYBy Henry C. Chapman, M. D., Professor of Medical Jurisprudence in the Jefferson Medical College, etc., etc. Second edition, revised. With 55 illustrations and 3 plates in colors. W. B. Saunders, Publisher, Philadelphia. Pp. 254. 1896. This is one of the best manuals on the subject of medical jurisprudence and toxicology. It has passed through its first ddition, this one being the second; and students have found it very satisfactory as a text book. It is well arranged and covers in a concise way all the practical subjects embraced in a work of this kind. The author is to be congratulated on getting so much useful information into so small a space.

TWENTIETH CENTURY PRACTICE.

H.

An International Encyclopedia of Modern Medical Science. By Leading Authorities of Europe and America. Edited by Thomas L. Stedman, M. D., New York City. In Twenty Volumes. Volume XI. "Diseases of the Nervous System." New York: Williamı Wood & Company. 1897.

Dr. James Hendrie Lloyd, of Philadelphia, contributes the opening chapter in this volume on "Diseases of the CerebroSpinal and Sympathetic Nerves." This is an extensive article, covering 476 pages, and embraces the following special subjects: General anatomy of the nerves; general physiology of the nerves; electrotonus; modes of sensation; the reflexes; general pathology; general symptomatology; disorders of motion; disorders of sensation; disorders of nutrition; disorders of the reflexes; disorders of the circulation; diseases of the cranial nerves, including combined palsies of the ocular muscles, headache, tic douloureux, torticollis, etc.; diseases of the spinal nerves, including sciatica, multiple neuritis and diseases of the cauda equina; diseases of the sympathetic nervous system.

The second contribution is by Dr. Charles K. Mills, of Philadelphia, on "Trophoneuroses" (excluding scleroderma, acromegaly, and adiposis dolorosa).

The following are the special subjects treated of in this chapter: Hemifacial atrophy; hemilingual atrophy; hemifacial hypertrophy; hypertrophy of one-half of the body; locilized atrophies and hypertrophies, hyperostosis of the cranium; Raynaud's disease; perforating ulcer of the foot; ainhum.

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