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as little changed as possible at homeno change should be made that would excite suspicion in the mind of the patient as to the fears of family friends. Fears must be suppressed if felt. Over-careful friends may do what they are trying not to do. Patients should be employed to promote health, occupy the mind, and inspire hope and confidence.

They should have recreation that they may unbend at times as other people. Their habits should be regular; but this should be impressed upon them once for all that frequent caution, which will excite their fears, may not be necessary. The past must be forgotten; and if mentioned by the patient should be discussed and dismissed as quietly and naturally as any other ailment. As much as possible shield them from acquaintances who can neither cease to remember their insanity or momentarily apprehend its reappearance. A great point is gained if we can banish fear from these minds. To do this fears should not be tolerated in those with whom they are associated. Separate them as much as Possible from disturbing and depress ing people and surroundings. Give them useful, remunerative work that will lay hold of the future and occupy them to the exclusion of the past, and don't permit a constant watch upon their every word and act. Do all you can for them at the start and give them a living chance.-Exchange.

CHRISTIAN SCIENCE AND ITS VERDICT.

Those of our readers who have not been fortunate enough to read the fourteen valuable articles on "Christian Science," published from month to month in McClure's Magazine, has certainly missed a great opportunity to become enlightened on the subject of mental healing by the power of suggestion. Moreover they have also failed to learn the fallacies of so-called Christian Science and its false teachings.

Any impartial observer cannot fail in this series of papers to recognize the

commercialism which underlies the practice of this form of healing and the shrewd methods employed by its founder and followers to enforce its doctrines.

The editor of McClure's well known publication deserves the thanks of the American people for the information thus imparted at great expense through its columns, while the reputable medical profession in particular are under lasting obligations to "Georgine Milmine" for this unbiased story of the life of Mary Baker G. Eddy and the true inward history of her so-called Christian Science.

SOCIETIES

Medical Association of the Southwest.

Please keep in mind that the Medical Association of the Southwest will hold its next annual meeting in Kansas City, Mo., Oct. 19-20-21, 1908. Do not fail to come and bring your wife with you entertaining the ladies. since ample provision will be made for The commit

tee on arrangements have made public some of the things they have arranged to entertain you:

Monday, October 19, a. m., clinics at the various hospitals and colleges.

Monday afternoon will be given up to the preliminary work of the society.

Monday evening a dinner and banquet at the Coates House will be tendered the ladies, to which the gentlemen are invited.

Tuesday, scientific sessions both morning and afternoon.

In the afternoon, the ladies, under the direction of Dr. F. B. Tiffany, will be given an automobile ride through the beautiful parks and boulevards and over the famous cliff drive, stopping for "tea" at the country club and returning to the Coates House about 6 p. m.

Tuesday evening a smoker will be tendered the physicians by the profession of Kansas City. This will be held at the Coates House.

Wednesday will be given up entirely to the scientific session and the election of officers.

Thursday, Friday and Saturday preparations are being made to have some very interesting clinics held at the various hospitals and colleges.

Do not forget the Coates House has been chosen as headquarters.

Medical Society of the Missouri Valley

The twenty-first annual meeting of this association will be held in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Sept. 3 and 4, 1908, under the presidency of Dr. W. F. Milroy of Omaha. In view of the fact that Council Bluffs was the birthplace of this society, it is peculiarly fitting that we should celebrate in this city the day our society attains its majority. It is interesting to look back over the records of the society, and read the names of those who have been members and ardent workers in the good cause for twenty years. The "call" for the first meeting was held in the Ogden House, Council Bluffs, on Sept. 27, 1888. Dr. Emmett is the only one of the signers living. The first officers of the society were: President, Dr. Donald Macrae; first vice-president, Dr. J. M. Emmert; second vice-president, Dr. J. C. Denise; secretary, Dr. Jas. Carter; treasurer. Dr. T. B. Lacey; chairman credential committee, Dr. F. S. Thomas. Meetings were held three times each year, in September, December and March, but later the December session was omitted. Among the charter members who are yet living and are active in the work of the society, may be mentioned: Drs. J. M. Emmert, J. M. Barstow, H. B. Jennings, A. S. von Mansfelde, J. E. Summers, A. F. Jonas, D. C. Bryant, W. O. Bridges, W. S. Ross, W. F. Milroy, Harold Gifford, A. B. Somers. A. D. Wilkinson, Rebecca Hanna, II. S. Rogers, F. T. Seybert, M. L. Hildreth, J. M. Knott, J. H. Clever. R. C. Moore, W. Berry, F. W. Porterfield.

At first the society embraced but two states-Iowa and Nebraska, but the membership has steadily grown,

until at the present time thirteen states are represented at its meetings.

The list of papers promised for the next meeting embraces a wide range and will be found interesting, especially to the general practitioner.

MISCELLANEOUS NOTES.

Dr. and Mrs. J. E. Logan are on a trip through the West.

Dr. W. W. Ritchey will spend a month at Macinac Island.

Dr. J. D. Griffith will leave this week for Magnolia, Mass.

Dr. and Mrs. St. Clair Street spent last month in Colorado Springs. Dr. C. C. Uhls of White City, Kas., spent a few days in the city lately. Dr. and Mrs. A. H. Cordier have returned from a trip through Alaska.

Dr. and Mrs. Ernest G. Rush announce the birth of a son August 9.

Dr. and Mrs. H. E. Sinden of Hamilton, Can., are visiting in the city.

Dr. Orr Sanders of Grand Fork, N. D., is visiting relatives at this place.

Dr. and Mrs. A. J. Welch left August 14 for a trip along the Pacific

Dr. J. N. Scott spent the month of August fishing in the northern lakes of Wisconsin.

Dr. and Mrs. S. W. Longan of Paris, Ky., are visiting Prof. Longan, 1517 Michigan avenue.

Dr. F. C. Neff and Dr. J. W, Kimberlin spent a week fishing at Noel, Mo., during August.

Heat prostrations were reported in all the larger cities during the hot wave the first of August.

Dr. and Mrs. T. O. Wheeler left August 11 for Excelsior Springs where they will spend a few weeks.

Dr. E. L. Chambliss left August 15 for Duluth, where he will join his family and make a northern trip.

The marriage is announced of Dr. E. P. Hall of Kansas City and Miss Ada Kuech of St. Joseph, August 19.

New York state legitimate opticians are promising to make serious trouble for the fake eye doctors operating in that territory.

Dr. and Mrs. John Punton, who have been touring England and the Continent during the summer months,

have returned home.

Dr. C. B. Kennedy of Parsons, Kas., died August 15 at Erie, Kas., where he was visiting. He had been a resident of Parsons for thirty years.

Dr. L. E. Whitney, city physician of Carthage, Mo., was killed on a country road July 28 near his home. The mystery of his death has not been solved.

Dr. J. C. Mahr, pure food commissioner for Oklahoma, called three conventions to discuss pure food for Oklahoma. The conventions met at Shawnee, Okla., August 5, 6 and 7.

Dr. Lester W. Gates of Nevada, Mo., was killed August 3 in a runaway accident near his home. He had been a practicing physician at that place for

seventeen years.

Dr. William A. Shelton, police surgeon, has been granted a five weeks' leave of absence in which to take a

special post-graduate course in surgery at New York City. Dr. John Fowlston will fill the duties of the office during Dr. Shelton's absence.

Dr. and Mrs. Charles Magee, 5622 Indiana avenue, announce the birth of a daughter August 4. After September I Dr. and Mrs. Magee will make their home at Godard, Kas.

Dr. J. A. Fulton, secretary of the Kansas City, Kas., board of health, and L. G. Smith, pure food inspector. made an official inspection of the Wyandotte county dairies August 12.

In Italy quinine is sold by the government to peasants in malarial districts and the proceeds are used to fight malaria. Last year the government handled about $300,000 worth of the drug.

Dr. L. L. Uhls, superintendent of the Osawatomie Insane Hospital, is recommending a hospital and workshop for habitual drunkards and dope fiends, also the establishment of a tubercular hospital at Osawatomie. Kas.

Alderman Dr. James E. Logan introduced a bill into the city council about a month ago providing for a cessation of needless noises over the city. The bill has now passed the council and if it is properly enforced should become a most humanitarian measure.

Alderman J. C. Wirthman, who is a druggist, had the satisfaction of seeing his ordinance passed by both houses, which restricts the sale of carbolic acid. The ordinance or one of like character, has been made necessary by the large number of suicides during the last hot wave.

Dr. M. L. Perry, superintendent of the Kansas hospital for epileptics at Parsons, Kas., is advocating a stricter marriage law, prohibiting the marriage. of epileptics. According to Dr. Perry. such marriages have materially caused the increase of disease in Kansas. where he has studied the question and without any doubt the same conditions have prevailed elsewhere.

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BOOK REVIEWS.

AUSCULATION AND PERCUSSION, Together With Other Methods of Physical Examinations of the Chest. By Samuel Gee, M. D. Fifth Edition. Price, $1.50. Oxford University Press, New York and London.

As stated by the author in his introductory note, the first part of this excellent volume "treats of physical signs in the abstract-the pure science of physical signs." Without a thorough knowledge of the theory of auscultation and percussion, their application is not of much value. Dr. Gee presents the theory in a clear manner. The second part of the book deals with physical signs as altered in disease. This part of the field of physical diagnosis has of course been covered before, but the author has a very pleasing way of stating it. This little volume can well be recommended to student as well as general practitioner.

MEDICAL LECTURES AND APHORISMS. By Samuel Gee, M. D., F. R. P., etc., etc. New London: Hodder & Stoughton.

York: Oxford University Press. Flexible

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This is a unique book, containing as it does the author's clinical aphorisms on the more important diseases. The diction of these aphorisms is not only is fine, but the knowledge they convey excellent. The book is a most valuable addition to a medical library.

Professor of Pathology in McGill University, Montreal. Octavo, 948 pages, with 322 engravings and 16 plates. Cloth, $6, net. Lea & Febiger, Publishers, Philadelphia and New York, 1908. Professor Adami's new work is one of which the whole English-speaking world of medicine may well be proud. At a bound, it reclaims for the AngloSaxon a territory hitherto largely conceded to the activity of the Teuton. Translations or compilations may be excellent, but the result is not to be compared with a first-hand native product in fitness for our needs.

Dr.

Adami stands fully on the level of his most eminent foreign confreres. He is broad and deep, but he possesses the saving quality of appreciating the fact

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that the easiest entrance for knowledge is by addressing the reader's faculty of reason. Having found this the best way to acquire knowledge himself, he so imparts it to others. book is, accordingly, one that explains, connects facts in their natural relationship, rivets the attention and impresses the memory. In a clear and delightful style he displays the whole subject of general pathology in this volume, to be followed by one on Systemic (including special) Pathology. The Phenomena of disease, or Pathology, are as definite and rationally connected as the phenomena of health. or physiology. Obviously, the student and physician must have a thorough grasp of the underlying facts of discase, and must understand what it is in itself, before rational treatment is possible. Precisely this knowledge is available in its latest developments in Prof. Adami's pages, excellently set forth and amply embellished with illustrations.

PROGRESSIVE MEDICINE. A Quarterly Digest of Advances. Discoveries and Improvements in the Medical and Surgical Sciences. Edited by H. A. Hare, M.D., Assisted by H. R. M. Landis, M.D. Vol. II, June, 1908. Lea & Febiger, 1908. This volume of Progressive Medicine contains articles upon hernia by Dr. William B. Coley, who is such a well-known authority upon this sub