ably also impart syphilis to healthy individuals, leading to the belief in former times that gonorrhoea and syphilis were the same disease." Yet he is at times sufficiently positive in his statements. For example, with reference to the diagnosis of gonorrhoea he says: "Constitutional syphilis has been in very rare and exceptional cases known to succeed discharge without induration. This apparent anomaly is caused by both affections having been contracted at the same time, for we know persons can suffer from the two disease at once, and the mucous membrane when swollen and inflamed by gonorrhoea, is an excellent hot-bed for the absorbtion of syphilitic poison. Bating this exception, syphilis has no connection with gonorrhoea."

It is interesting, with reference to this connection, to remember certain cases reported by Hammond and his conclusions drawn from their observation, that, First-"The virus of an infecting chancre, when deposited on a secreting mucous surface upon which there is no solution of continuity, may give rise to gonorrhoea unattended by chancre, but which is syphilitic in its character and capable of producing constitutional disease;" and Second-"That the matter of such a gonorrhoea is capable of causing an infecting chancre, either by natural or artificial inoculation, which chancre is followed by constitutional syphilis."

As a plain, well written statement of the symptomatology and treatment of syphilitic affections, Mr. Hill's work will be a useful addition to the library of the general practitioner, and the author may rest assured that he has well succeeded in his expressed endeavor "to render the work complete, while keeping it concise and suitable for the student as well as the practitioner."

THE LIFE OF THE TRICHINA.

BY RUDOLPH VIRCHOW, M. D., P. H. D.,

Professor University of Berlin.

Translated by Rufus Browne, M. D.

The above is a title of a neat pamphlet of forty-seven pages that comes to us without containing either date or place of publication. We suppose that Rufus King Browne, M. D., who presents, in an English dress, this valuable brochure of the celebrated Berlin Professor, is an American, yet no information on the subject can be obtained

from his work as here quoted. Professor Virchow presents, in a succinct manner, the principal facts now known in relation to the history of trichina, gives directions how to recognize them in meat, describes the dangers to the human body the trichniæ cause, what remedies there are for the disease they produce, and what preventive measures against the spread of the trichinæ are necessary. Under the latter head is included the "infection of pigs," the "investigation of the preparation of meat."

It is desirable that more knowledge, in relation to the subjects considered by Professor Virchow in this paper, be diffused among the profession; therefore it is unfortunate that this translation is not likely to become widely known, owing to the failure to give place of publication or sale. J. R. W.

EDITORIAL AND MEDICAL NEWS.

WE HAVE been required to devote so much space to the proceedings of the American Medical Association, that comments upon the action of the meeting must be postponed, as well as all notice of the last meeting of the Indiana State Medical Society.

There is one subject upon which we wish to say a few words, viz: the organization of an Association of Editors of Medical Journals. It will be remembered that, in our April number, we proposed such organization; upon arriving at New Orleans we found our brother editors, who were present at the Association, had considered the proposition, and were quite prepared for its execution. We give below the articles of agreement, etc., as reported in the New Orleans Times, pertaining to this new medical body.

Quite appropriately, Dr. N. S. Davis, a veteran in the ranks, a man of indomitable energy, and of national reputation, one who has been contributing to the press probably thirty years, was elected President. When the Association meets in Washington next May, we anticipate, from Dr. Davis, a most interesting address upon the History of American Medical Journalism.

One of the purposes of this organization, as our readers observe, is to secure the names of all of the regular physicians in the United States-to make a complete register of all American practitioners. Difficult as this task is, yet its accomplishment can be effected by none

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so readily as by editors of medical journals. Now we propose to com-
Dr. William Lomax has promised us the
mence this work at once.
names of all the regular practitioners in Grant county, Indiana: as
soon as this list is received, we shall publish it-possibly giving the
lists of two, three or even more counties in one number of the Journal,
and thus on until our share of the labor is completed. Will our friends
assist us? The following will be the form in which we would like the
lists made out:

Name; Nativity; Age. If a graduate of a literary institution, what institution and when. Same as to medical graduation. P. O.

One or two good men, in each county in each state, can, within the next two or three years, through medical journals, give a complete register of all American physicians. Again, we ask our friends if we shall not go to work at once, and let this most desirable end be effected.

On Wednesday evening at eight o'clock, a meeting of the society of Medical Journalists was held in the office No. 1, Carondelet street. The result of the assembly of prominent physicians was the formation of a permanent society, the election of N. S. Davis, M. D., President, and W. S. Mitchell, M. D., Permanent Secretary. The address of the Secretary is lock box 890, New Orleans. We append a report of the proceedings:

Pursuant to adjournment from the preliminary meeting on Tuesday, the meeting of Medical Journalists was called to order at eight o'clock P. M., by Dr. N. S. Davis, of the Chicago Medical Examiner.

The Committee on Organization, through their chairman, Dr. Theophilus Parvin, of the Western Journal of Medicine, then presented the following preamble and plan of organization, which were unanimously adopted:

"The editors of medical journals in the United States, desiring to cultivate professional courtesies, to facilitate the conduct and general management of our journals, to promote their interests, their usefulness, and make them a still greater power for professional and popular good, and especially to advance the interests of medicine, hereby unite together under the following

ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION.

Name The Association of American Medical Editors.

Purposes-The cultivation of friendly relations, mutual assistance, community of effort and means, when practicable, in a system of receiving foreign exchanges, and of sending our own journals abroad; in urging, with hearty concert, improvements in the present system of medical education, and a higher standard of preliminary education of those who desire to enter upon the study of medicine; the collection of vital statistics; obtaining the names of all the regular physicians in the United States, age, place and date of graduation, if a graduate; also, the

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same in reference to graduation at literary institutions, if such graduation has taken place.

Meetings-These shall be held commencing at ten A. M., on the day preceding, and at the place of the annual meeting of the American Medical Association.

Officers--President, Vice-President, Permanent Secretary and Secretary.

The President, Vice-President and Secretary shall be elected annually, and shall serve at the meeting of the succeeding year.

Committees shall be appointed where necessary for the carrying out of any of the special purposes of the Association.

These resolutions having been signed by the following delegates: Dr. N. S. Davis, Chicago Medical Examiner; Dr. James M. Holloway, Richmond and Louisville Medical Journal; Dr. William McPheeters, St. Louis Medical and Surgical Reporter; Dr. W. R. Bowling, Nashville Journal of Medicine; J. Berien Lindsley, Nashville Journal of Medicine; Dr. Greensville Dowell, Galveston Medical Journal; Dr. Samuel Logan, New Orleans Journal of Medicine; Dr. E. W. Jenks and Dr. George D. Andrews, Detroit Review of Medicine and Pharmacy; Dr. W. S. Mitchell, New Orleans Journal of Medicine, and Dr. S. M. Bemiss, New Orleans Journal of Medicine; Dr. Theophilus Parvin, Western Journal of Medicine-the officers, as follows, were unanimously elected:

Dr. N. S. Davis, President; Dr. W. M. McPheeters, Vice-President Dr. W. S. Mitchell, Permanent Secretary, and Dr. J. Berrien Lindsley, Secretary.

The following resolutions were unanimously adopted:

That a Committee on Foreign Exchanges be appointed, to consist of Dr. Parvin, as chairman, and the Permanent Secretary.

That the Permanent Secretary be instructed to correspond with such regular medical journals of the United States as are not now represented, informing them of the objects of the organization, and inviting their co-operation.

That a committee, consisting of Drs. Bowling, Dowell and Andrews, be appointed on the Registry of Physicians.

That Dr. Holloway be appointed a Committee on Revision.

That the President deliver, at the next meeting, an address on the history, progress, etc., of Medical Journalism in this country, and that the members of the Association furnish to him such material and information as they may be able to obtain.

That beside the members alreading signing the constitution, all physicians connected with regular medical journals, be considered members upon signing, in writing to the Permanent Secretary, their willingness to subscribe to the foregoing articles of agreement, until opportunity be afforded them of signing said articles.

That the President be requested to announce to the American Medical Association the formation and objects of this Association.

That these minutes be furnished to the secular papers, with a request that they be copied.

That Dr. Holloway be appointed a committee to arrange a general plan for the establishment of agencies in all the principal cities.

There being no further business, the meeting adjourned.

RANKING'S ABSTRACT, republished by Henry C. Lea, Philadelphia, BRAITHWAITE'S RETROSPECT, from Townsend & Adams, New York, and the HALF-YEARLY COMPENDIUM OF MEDICAL SCIENCE, published by Dr. Butler, Philadelphia, have appeared as usual. Each one is of great value to the busy practitioner, and each has merits peculiar to itself. "Braithwaite" tells very little of what American physicians and surgeons are doing; "Ranking" tells more, but the best of all, in this regard, is the "Compendium," and, therefore, it presents a strong claim upon the patronage of our profession.

TO DELINQUENTS.-Gentlemen, we would be glad never to think about money; but publishing a medical journal is an expensive work, and printers are inexorable. Many of our subscribers have not paid for 1868, some not even for 1867, not one-third for 1869. Now this is not right, and we do hope that every one who is indebted to us will at once remit.

PROFESSOR Paul F. Eve will remove to St. Louis in June next.

THERE is at present, in Dayton, Ohio, a child affected with chronic hydrocephalus. It is seventeen months old, and its head measurers, in the occipito-frontal circumfrence twenty-seven inches, and from one meatus of the ear to the other, over the top of the head, nineteen inches.

A NEW VERMIFUGE.-A young child of ME—, of this city, swallowed a small dress botton with an eyelet. Some hours after the button made its appearance, having traversed the alimentary canal, bringing away with it a large lumbricoid worm threaded through the eyelet.

Physicians would do well to "make a note on't," and where prejudice exists against "strong medicines," give a dose of buttons. They can recommend them as acting "cito and tuto," if not so very "jucunde" as some other therapeutic agents. H. S. F.

SPRINGFIELD, OHIO, MAY 20, 1869.

LOUISVILLE will probably soon have a second medical journal, and a third medical college.

A MEDICAL JOURNAL is to be published at Washington, D. C. The names of the editors we have not heard.