BOOK REVIEWS.

Eddyism Exposed.

"Christian Science-The Faith and Its Founder," is a book recently issued by Rev. Lyman P. Powell, rector of St. John's church, Northampton, Mass. After a thorough review and unprejudiced investigation of Christian Science. Mr. Powell comes to the following conclusions:

(1) That when members of any Christian church turn to Christian Science healing they usually turn away from historic Christianity; (2) That (2) That there are in the theory of Christian Science certain structual weaknesses which may easily be overlooked by people unschooled in philosophy, theology of science; (3) That the answers of the accredited exponents of the movement to the criticisms which are steadily gaining headway satisfy none save Christian Scientists and such others as read carelessly and think loosely.

The volume is careflly indexed and has many pages of notes and a bibliography of volumes and magazine articles covering both sides of the subjjet. Price $1.25. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York.

PROGRESSIVE MEDICINE, Vol. X, March, 1908. A Quarterly Digest of Advances, Discoveries and Improvements in the Medical and Surgical Sciences. Edited by Hobart Amory Hare, M. D., Professor of Therapeutics and Materia Medica in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. Octavo, 284 pages. Lea Brothers & Co., Publishers, Philadelphia and New York. (Per annum in four clothbound volumes, $9.00; in paper binding, $6.00, carriage paid to any address.) Progressive Medicine is one of the best known publications on medical subjects we have. It has always maintained a high standard of excellence, its contributors being men of established reputation. The March number of the 1908 issue contains the following: Surgery of the Head, Neck and Thorax, by Chas. M. Frazier, M.D.: Infectious Diseases, Including Acute Rheumatism and Croupous Pneumonia, by Robert B. Preble, M.

D.; The Disease of Children, by Floyd M. Crandell, M.D.; Rhinology and Laryngology, by D. Braden Kyle, M.D., and Otology, by Arthur B. Duel, M.D.

THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF MODERN SURGERY. By Roswell Park, A.M., M.D., LL.D., Professor of the Principles and Practices of Surgery and Clinical Surgery in the Medical Department of the University of Buffalo, N. Y. 722 Engravings and 60 full page plates in colors and monochrome. 1907. Lea Brothers & Co., Philadelphia.

Park's Surgery is a work that will stand as one of the standard works on the subject. His classifications are simple, the topics are discussed freely, yet concisely and in language that is easily understood. In an introduction is described the position the author takes in nomenclature. The work is divided into six parts. Part I deals with surgical pathology; part 2, surgical diseases; part 3, surgical principles, methods and minor operations; part 4, injury and repair; part 5, surgical affection of the tissues and tissue systems; special or regional surgery.

The author does not pretend to include all that is known about surgery, but he has prepared a book that is a good working volume, making it possible to become acquainted with the salient points in the etiology, pathology, symptoms and surgical treatment of surgical diseases.

The illustrations are plentiful and excellent. The book is of convenient size and should be in the library of every general practitioner and surgeon.

DIAGNOSIS OF DISEASES OF CHILDREN. By LeGrand Kerr, M.D., Professor of Diseases of Cheren at the Brooklyn Postgraduate Medical School. Octavo of 542 pages, illustrated. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders Company, 1907. (Cloth, $5.00 net; half While the literature teems with works on the diagnosis of diseases in general, few works are devoted to the diagnosis of diseases in children. Physicians generally recognize the vast difference in the findings from physical examination and the clinical picture of disease in children and adults, and Dr. Kerr has given us a work that is most important in that it deals with the diseases of children ex

clusively. It is noted that the author has given us his own methods of interpreting symptoms of disease in children. He makes use of photography and all means available. His work is useful for student as well as practitioner.

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

Dr. T. Beals, Jr., of St. Joseph was in the city June 7.

Dr. A. H. Nossaman has moved from Isabelle to Attica, Kas.

Dr. and Mrs. F. C. Smith of Camden, N. J., are guests of relatives here.

The Oklahoma Dental Association met June 9, at Muskogee, Okla.

Dr. and Mrs. Melvin Black of Denver, Col., are guests of friends here.

Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Harrison of St. Paul have been guests of relatives here this month.

The Missouri state board of pharmacy met four days at Pertle Springs, June 9 to 13.

Dr. and Mrs. George J. Conley, 2640 Cleveland avenue, will spend the summer in Northern Arkansas.

Dr. D. C. Cather is the new examining surgeon of our navy recruiting station. He reported May 24.

Dr. Frank Stirn of Cudahy, Wis., was shot, probably fatally, by a patient who was supposed to be demented.

Wanted-A physician to divide office hours in the city. Office well furnished and located in a good office building.

The United States navy needs 200 hospital apprentices. The pay in the hospital service is from $22 to $77 a month for enlisted men.

Dr. Ellsworth G. Beers of Springfield, Mo., and Miss Ethel Alice Lynn, were married at the Third Presbyterian church, June 18.

Dr. E. R. Tenney of Kansas City, Kas., has offered to serve his home town as police surgeon without salary. His offer has been accepted.

Dr. John W. Scott, teacher of biol

ogy at the Westport high school, has been appointed instructor of biology for this summer at Wood's Hole, Mass.

The tenement commission, recently in session, is asking the city board of health to disinfect houses for the prevention of tuberculosis.

There was a small blaze at St. Joseph's hospital June 2, but it was put out by the sisters of the institution before any serious damage occurred.

Dr. Leeland P. Viley, Jr., who recently graduated from the medical department of Washington university, St. Louis, is visiting his parents here.

Dr. P. T. Dessez, examining surgeon at the navy recruiting station here, has been ordered to report for duty on the U. S. steamship Chicago, at Norfolk, Va.

Dr. Bernard H. Zwart has filed a declaration in the county clerk's office

saying he would be a candidate for the

nomination for coroner in the Democratic primaries.

The authorities at Leavenworth, Kas., received permission June 2 to build an emergency hospital for soldiers having contageous diseases. It is to cost $20,000.

Dr. J. N. Jackson attended the Des Moines Valley Medical Association at Ottumwa, Ia., June 18. He also attended the North Missouri Association, which met at Moberly, Mo.

The commencement exercises of the German Hospital Training School for Nurses were held June 10 in the auditorium of the Elks Club. Diplomas were granted to ten nurses.

Dr. and Mrs. John Punton left Kansas City for New York, and on June 24 sailed on the Carmania. They will spend two months touring Europe, returning about September I.

Dr. J. A. Davis, coroner of Wyandotte county, was called to Quincy, Ill., this month on account of the illness of his mother. During his absence Dr. J. F. Hassig was acting coroner.

Dr. Louis Martin Edens of Cabool. Mo., and Miss Clara Belle Smith were

married June 10 at the home of the bride's parents. Dr. and Mrs. Edens will make their home at Cabool, Mo.

Dr. Horace Hill Van Tuyl of Detroit, Mich., and Miss Ruth Bushnell were married June 10 at the residence of the bride's parents. Dr. and Mrs. Van Tuyl will make their home at Detroit.

The annual election of the Kansas state board of pharmacy was held at Wichita, Kas., May 27. The following officers were elected: President, A. Von Reisen, Marysville; secretary, J. E. Topping, Overbrook.

Dr. N, R. Holcomb, Oak Grove, has announced himself as a candidate for re-election as representative in the state legislature from the first district. He is a Democrat and has held that position for two years.

In emulation of the noted King Canute, probably President Castro of Venezuela has issued a decree for the plague to cease within his territories. So far the press reports the plague to be having the best of the game.

Dr. Gustav Nautze, ex-army surgeon, was found dead in his office in St. Louis June 6. He had been practising medicine in St. Louis for two years and was 38 years old. He was a graduate from Heidelburgh University.

Governor Hoch made the following appointments June 4: For members of the Kansas board of medical examination and registration, Drs. T. L. Millington, Wellington; E. B. Packer, Osage;.

The Missouri State Association of Dentists met at St. Louis June 1, and selected Kansas City as their next meeting place. Dr. J. B. McBride of Springfield was elected president and Dr. H. H. Sullivan of Kansas City, secretary, for the ensuing year.

FOR SALE-Well equipped physician's office; static machine, X-ray, nebulizer, surgical table, lavatory, furniture, etc; cash receipts $150 per week. Come and see; $700 cash buys. Address Mr. David Music, 12281⁄2 McGee st., Kansas City, Mo.

The state board of health held an examination in Kansas City May 4 and 5, at which sixty-eight applicants for medical licenses appeared. Fifty-three were successful, and the license of Dr. E. C. Duncan of Salem was revoked for illegally prescribing liquor.

The senate passed a bill this month pensioning the widows of two army surgeons as a recognition of the services done to the country by their husbands by their discoveries concerning yellow fever. The surgeons were Dr. James Carroll and Jesse W. Lazear.

The main building of state hospital for the insane at St. Joseph, was struck by lightning June 9, causing a fire which imperiled the lives of 1,440 inmates. Several wards were made useless and the patients are being crowded as closely as possible until the damage can be restored.

For Sale-Anaesthetic apparatus as illustrated and explained in J. A. M. A. issue of April 28, 1908, by Dr. O. J. Cunningham of Kansas City. Never been used. Price $80, including carrying case and 100 cards for keeping anaesthetic records. F. E. Wallace, M.D., Pope block, Poeblo, Colo.

The state board of health for Missouri met at Springfield May 22 and elected the following officers: President, A. H. Hamel, De Soto; secretary, J. A. B. Adcock, Warrensburg. The other members of the board are U. S. Thompson, Armstrong; R. H. Goodier, Hannibal; J. T. Thatcher, Oregon.

Eighty students assembled in Kansas City, Kas., June II to take the medical examination before the state board only to find that the board failed to keep its appointment. The students appealed to Governor Hoch, who directed the board to assemble at once, which it did, and the examination duly took place June 12.

A test suit over the Billips dispensary law of Oklahoma reveals its weakDr. J. P. McRae was tried and acquitted of promiscuously issuing prescriptions calling for whiskey. He

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issued ninety-five out of one hundred. and four presented to the dispensary in four days. There is much opposition locally to the law.

The case of Dr. Grace Atkinson against C. E. Still and the American School of Osteopathy at Kirksville, Mo., was tried at Unionville, Mo., in the circuit court. He was sued for $25,000. It was alleged that while Still was treating the patient he broke her breast bone and fractured several ribs. The jury returned a verdict for $10,000 in favor of the plaintiff.

Dr. Halsey M. Lyle and Miss Florence Irene Mantz were married June 27, 1908. They are taking their wedding trip through Yellowstone park and other Western points of interest. Dr. Lyle is one of Kansas City's well known young physicians who has already forged to the front in his specialty of diseases of the skin. The Medical Index-Lancet extends congratulations. May the happiness of their future o'ershadow all the happiness of their past.

A professional writer for papers and Magazines says that he can't think at a temperature less than 56 degrees, At 60 his ideas begin to flow; at 66 he can put his ideas on paper; at 70 he does well, but the best temperature for his work is 72 degrees. Many find about. this temperature necessary. The reason is that physical exercise is lacking, the blood flows in larger amount to the brain, subtracting the extra portion from the other parts of the body. Hence a chilliness which distracts attention. But some authors have to put wet compresses, and even ice, upon their heads while writing. Many more have need for shawls over the lower limbs, when others in the room are comfortable. The wife who at intervals rushes into the study from her domestic work, with a merry cry, "How hot this room is! I don't see how you can write," and raises the windows, means well but "does not understand."

Statistics relative to suicides in Prussia in 1906 have just been issued and present striking figures. In the twelve months no fewer than 7,298 persons5,584 men and 1,714 women-ended their own lives.

The reasons leading to self-destruction are difficult to establish in many cases, but it was proved that of each 100 persons who had tired of life 6.6 men killed themselves from disappointment over their condition, and 3.6 per cent women from the same cause; owing to physical sufferings, 10.3 men, 8.8 women; nervous disorders, 3.3 men, 6.5 women; insanity, 21.1 men, 33.9 women; weakness of intellect, I man, 2.2 women; alcoholism, 11.6 men, 1.3 women; attacks of passion, 2.8 men, 6.3 women; consequences of immorality, 0.5 men, 0.2 women; sorrow and despair, 9.4 men, 7.4 women; shame at own actions or guilty consciences, 7.8 men, 6.9 women; anger and quarrels, 1.6 men, 1.8 women, while 24.5 per cent of the men and 21.1 per cent of the women took their lives for unknown

reasons.

Army Medical Department Examinations, 1908.

The act of April 23, 1908, reorganizing the medical corps of the army, gives an increase in that corps of six colonels, twelve lieutenant colonels, forty-five majors, and sixty captains or first lieutenants, and establishes a medical reserve corps as an adjunct to the medical corps. Under this recent act, the lieutenants of the medical corps are promoted to captain after three years' service instead of five, and the increase in the higher grades insures promotion at a reasonable rate all through an officer's military career. Furthermore, applicants who are found qualified in the preliminary examination are appointed first lieutenants of the medical reserve corps and ordered to the Army Medical school in Washington, D. C., for eight months' instruction.

Preliminary examination for appointment in the medical corps will be held on Aug. 3, 1908, and formal applications should be in possession of the

war department prior to July 1. The applicant must be a citizen of the United States, between 22 and 30 years of age, a graduate of a medical school legally authorized to confer the degree of doctor of medicine, of good moral character and habits, and must have had at least one year's hospital training or its equivalent in practice. The examination will be held concurrently throughout the country at points where boards can conveniently be assembled, and due consideration will be given to the localities from which applications are received, in order to lessen the traveling expenses of applicants as much as possible.

The examination in subjects of general preliminary education may be omitted in the case of applicants holding diplomas from reputable literary or scientific colleges, normal schools or high schools, or graduates of medical schools which require an entrance examination satisfactory to the faculty of the army medical school.

The 1908 graduating class of the Pharmacy school of the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kas., paid its annual visit to Kansas City, May 22. This visit has become a fixed feature of the pharmacy course there in the way of giving the students a practical insight into the wholesale features of the drug business and allied interests. The class was entertained in the afternoon at the branch house of Eli Lilly & Co., where the products of the Eli Lilly & Co. laboratories were thoroughly explained together with their methods of doing business.

The Medical Era, St. Louis, Mo., will issue its annual series of gastrointestinal editions during July and August. In these two issues will be published between 40 and 50 original papers of the largest practical worth, covering every phase of diseases of the gastro-intestinal canal. Sample copies will be supplied readers of this journal.

The following physicians from Kansas City attended the meeting of the American Medical Association in Chi

cago, June 2-5: Drs. Noah Adams, J. F. Binnie, T. S. Blakesley, J. BlockC. L. Burke, S. P. Child, W. H. Coffey, O. J. Cunningham, R. J. Curdy, Hal Foster, W. J. Frick, Max Goldman, Walton Hall, C. B. Hardin, J. G. Hayden, A. E. Hertzler, S. C. James, C. H. Lester, J. K. Lewis, E. Manko, E. G. Mark, M. J. Owens, M. W. Reed, J. G. Sheldon, J. W. Sherer, E. H. Thrailkill, F. B. Tiffany, B. H. %wart, J. W. Beil, Wm. Frick, J. D. Griffith, C. L. Hall, F. J. Hall, G. H. Hoxie, J. N. Jackson, J. W. Kimberlin, O. L. McKillip, J. E. Logan, A. W. McAlester, F. E. Murphy, D. R. Porter, J. S. Wever, Dora G. Wilson, G. E. Bellows, H. P. Kuhn, J. S. Lichtenberg and I. J. Wolf.

The following physicians were guests at the American Medical Association at Chicago: A. B. Atherton, Fredericton, New Brunswick; Raymond Samuel Brown, Winnipeg, Manitoba; W. G. M. Byers, Montreal, Que.; G. W. Clendenan, Toronto, Can.; E. Treacher Collins, London, Eng.; Philip E. Corlis, Cosino, N. S. Wales, Australia; Samuel T. Darling, Ancon, Panama; J. Halpenny, Winnipeg, Can.; M. Lauterman, Montreal, Can.; Edwin Layton, Nanking, China; P. W. McConnell, Ebano, S. L. P. Mexico; W. J. McCormick, West Toronto, Ont.; Florence McCormick, West Toronto, Ont.; John Mawer Pearson, Vancouver, B. C.; Charles F. Phillips, Ancon, Canal Zone; Prof. R. F. Ruttan, Montreal, Can. J. A. Todd, Toronto, Can.; William Turner, Montreal, Can.; Alexander Vertes, Budapest, Hungary; Carl H. Von Klein, Chicago; W. J. Wilson, Toronto, Ont.; W. A. Young, Toronto, Ont.

KANSAS UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL SENIORS VISIT ELI LILLY & CO.'S KANSAS CITY BRANCH.

The members of the graduating class of the medical department of the Kansas State University spent an afternoon in the Kansas City branch of Eli Lilly & Co. early in June. The Lilly line of