ner, opened wide this most interesting subject, and in equally as masterly a manner, dealt with it; and though he used but comparatively few words, yet this little volume is equal in information to any we have ever read. These three lectures are models for brevity, lucidity, comprehensiveness, original thought, thorough investigation. н. н. INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL ANNUAL AND PRACTITIONER'S INDEX. A Book of Reference for Medical Practitioners. 1893. Eleventh year. $2.75. E. B. Treat, 5 Cooper Union, New York. Of many works of this character that are issued every year this is one of the best. It is well edited by an able corps of American and foreign writers, many of whom have made excellent contributions themselves. All departments of medicine and surgery are reviewed as thoroughly as circumstances would permit, and full mention has been made to all the more important contributions to our medical and surgical progress. It is an excellent digest of the contributions to the medical press, and, we think, a very serviceable work of reference for the busy physician. THE YEAR-BOOK OF TREATMENT FOR 1893. A Critical Review for Practitioners of Medicine and Surgery. Philadelphia, Lea Brothers & Co. The Year-Books of Lea Brothers are well known to the profession. The present one carries out the design of its predecessors, supplying an excellent review of medical and surgical progress during the past year. In this issue separate space is devoted to anæsthetics, and also to public health and hygiene. ninth issue of the series. LIPPINCOTT'S MAGAZINE FOR MAY, 1893. This is the The many admirers of Rosa Nouchette Carey will be gratified to learn that the complete novel in the May number of Lippincott's is from her facile and well-tried pen. Its title is "Mrs. Romney." The third in the series of Lippincott's Notable Stories, "A Pastel," by Cornelia Kane Rathbone, is a delicate and touching sketch of wasted loyalty and disappointed hope. It is illustrated throughout. James Cox furnishes a full and glowing account of "New St. Louis," illustrated with cuts of a dozen of the huge buildings which have lately risen in that thriving and progressive city. John Bunting traces the origin and history of "The Society of the Cincinnati," with the violent objections which were raised in its early days against its supposed aristocratic character and dangerous tendency. This article also is illustrated. Mrs. Gertrude Atherton supplies a short but appreciative account of the American sculptress, Kuhne Beveridge, with a cut of her most notable work, "The Sprinter." Professor L. M. Haupt has a brief article on "Colonel Pope and Good Roads." M. Crofton, in "Men of the Day," gives sketches of William Morris, the poet, Archbishop Satolli, and Secretary of War Lamont." The poetry of the number is by Louise Chandler Moulton, Dora Read Goodale, Charlotte Pendleton, and Arthur D. F. Randolph. No. 2543 of Littell's Living Age completed the 196th Quarterly Volume, and the 49th year of the continuous publication of this excellent magazine. The volume covers the months of January, February and March, and its table of contents shows it to contain 97 articles, beside miscellany and poetry. These articles cover a wide range of topics, including valuable biographical and historical papers, readable essays and reviews, choice fiction, the latest results of scientific inquiry, sketches of travel and adventure, etc., etc. Each issue brings its weekly addition to this feast of good things. The early issues of the new volume which usher in its year of jubilee are not a whit lacking in any respect from their predecessors. The Inadequacy of Natural Selection, by Herbert Spencer; Aspects of Tennyson, Part III., by Agnes Lambert; A King's Treasurer, by H. C. MacDowell; A Packet of Old Letters, by Mrs. Andrew Crosse; Venetian Melancholy, by J. Addington Symonds; The Military Courage of Royalty, by Arch. Forbes, the great war correspondent (this is a reply to E. B. Lanin's paper on the Czar Alexander III., in the January number of The Contemporary, reprinted in No. 2537 of The Living Age); Scandal about Queen Elizabeth, by A. Lang; Trained Workers for the Poor, by Miss Octavia Hill, whose name is as widely known and as highly revered by the workers among the poor of America as by those of England. These are only a few of the many articles of equal merit which go to make up the first three issues in April. It is impossible to find elsewhere so much that is valuable at so small a cost. For only $8.00 a year the readers of The Living Age have the cream of the whole British periodical press served them and that with a freshness and fullness, owing to its frequency of issue, not otherwise obtainable. Send 15 cents for a specimen copy to the publishers, Littell & Co., 31 Bedford St., Boston. While writing with all the scientific knowledge of a great astronomer, Camille Flammarion in his marvellous story "Omega; The End of the World," which begins in the April number of The Cosmopolitan magazine, keeps the reader at the highest point of excitement by his vivid description of the alarm and despair excited by the approach of a comet whose collision with the earth had been declared by astronomers inevitable. The description begins at a time when the business of the world has been suspended, and at a great mass-meeting held in the Institute of France, we hear the discussion of scientists as to the possibility of a second deluge, the drying up of all the surface water of the globe, or the total destruction of human life by cold, together with all the possible phases of death paralleled by the history of the moon. For scientific statement and sensational effect this characteristic production of French genius is unique, and the reader who reads this marvellous story-and if he begins it he will certainly finish it-will have assimilated without effort, a compact store of scientific knowledge. In this way, apart from its absorbing interest, this remarkable piece of fiction will have a distinct scientific value. PAMPHLETS RECEIVED. Skin-Grafting upon the Cranium. By F. C. Schaefer, M. D., Chicago. Vertebral Surgery, with Report of Three Cases. By F. C. Schaefer, M. D., Chicago. Contributions to the Study of Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis. By Wm. B. Pritchard, M. D., New York. Methods of Precision in the Investigation of Disorders of Digestion. By J. H. Kellog, M. D., Battle Creek, Michigan. Habitual Abortion. By E. S. McKee, M. D., Cincinnati. Reprint. Colpo-Perineorraphy. By Edward W. Jenks, M. D., Detroit. Reprint. Homeopathy and its Congeners. By G. Frank Lydston, M. D. Chicago. Abscess Around the Rectum. By Chas. B. Kelsey, M. D., New York. Cosmetic Surgery of the Nose. By John B. Roberts, M. D., Philadelphia. Wintering in Egypt. By Frederick Peterson, M. D., New York. Reprint. Hystero-Epilepsy, with Report of Cases. By Dr. A. Vander Veer, Albany, N. V. New York Letters on Orthopedic Surgery. By Dr. Stuart McCurdy, Dennison, Ohio. Excision of Tubercular Knee-Joint. By H. Augustus Wilson, M. D., Philadelphia. Reprint. Quarantine Control. State or National? A speech by Joseph Holt, M. D., New Orleans, La. Uterine Hemorrhage, Puerperal and Non-Puerperal. By Dr. A. Vander Veer, Albany, N. Y. Bloodless Amputation at the Hip-Joint by a New Method. By Nicholas Senn, M. D., Chicago. Gastrostomy in Carcinoma of the Cardiac Orifice. By Dr. Emory Lanphear, Kansas City, Mo. Arterial Saline Infusion, with Report of Cases. By Robert H. M. Dawbarn, M. D., New York. Some Contributions to the Study of the Muscular Sense. By Geo. J. Preston, M. D., Baltimore. Reprint. The Collegiate Degree as an Evidence of Fitness for the Study of Medicine. By Dr. L. Harrison Mettler. The Management of Cancer of the Uterus, Complicated by Pregnancy. By Dr. A. Vander Veer, Albany, N. Y. Typhoid Fever in the Light of Modern Research. Facts and Doubts about Cholera. By Dr. L. Bremer, St. Louis. Intercranial Neurectomy of Second and Third Divisions of Fifth Nerve. By John B. Roberts, M. D., Philadelphia. Early Symptoms of Hip Disease and Etiology. Treatment of Abscess in Hip Disease. By H. Augustus Wilson, M. D., Philadelphia. Reprint. LUTHER B. GRANDY, M. D., AND MILLER B. HUTCHINS, M. D., WITH THE CO-OPERATION OF H. V. M. MILLER, M. D., LL. D., VIRGIL O. HARDON, M. D., ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. PUERPERAL SEPTICEMIA.* By J. I. DARBY, M. D., Puerperal septicemia has in all civilized countries been the bane of parturient woman and opened a broad gateway into eternity until within very recent years. We have no very satisfactory means of ascertaining the time when this fearful disease was first recognized; but basing our opinions of it upon the present knowledge of its etiological factors, we are justified in supposing that it was necessarily a very common one in the days of man's primitive conditions, as his environments at that early time were such as to make quite common this horrible malady. While it is to some extent properly understood and intelligently treated in many portions of civilized countries, it is and will continue to be the scourge of lying-in woman in the more benighted portions of earth. Various and conflicting theories have, from its earliest recognition, existed *Read at the Georgia Medical Association, April 19, 1893. |