An Illuminated Spud.

E.S.. Co. ROCH. N.Y.

The advantages of this instrument to the surgeon over the old method are: 1. The light is always exactly where the operator wishes it.

2. Nothing can get in front of the light to obstruct it.

3. The operator may choose any position.

4. Patient may rest his head in any comfortable position.

5. An assistant is unnecessary.

6. A speculum is not necessary.

7. Spuds can be removed from the handle for sterilization, or, in fact, the entire instrument may be boiled.

The mechanical advantages of this instrument are:

a. It is light in weight and well balanced.

b. Being hexagonal, the operator can get a firm grip.

c. By a chuck mechanism the spuds are securely held and can be easily removed from the handle of the instrument so that different forms of spuds or knives may be used.

d. The more expensive parts of the instrument are practically indestructible and the spuds or knives can be replaced when they become unfit for further use. Designed by Dr. Albert C. Snell, Rochester, N. Y.

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The Grand Rapids Academy of Medicine held a memorial service for the late Dr. Geo. K. Johnson. The chief address was made by Dr. Eugene Boise, who had shared Dr. Johnson's office for 36 years. Other addresses were made by Dr. J. B. Whinery, Dr. J. B. Griswold, Bishop MacCormick, Dr. Hollister, of Chicago, and Mr. Harvey Hollister.

The Committee on Resolutions presented the following report, which was unanimously adopted:

Dr. George K. Johnson died at his home in this city on September third, at the advanced age of 86 years. Dr. Johnson was the oldest, the most widely known and the best loved physician in this part of Michigan. He was the nestor of our adamedy; he was a typical christian gentleman; he was a wise counselor and the friend of every honest colleague; he was ever ready to assist the young and strugging practitioner, and his voice was never heard in condemnation nor in criticism; he was a rare man; he was an exemplar; he maintained to the last his interest in the advancement of medical science and kept abreast with it. His loyalty to this academy never abated. and his affection for its members was perpetual. In his death we have cach lost a personal friend.

BE IT THEREFORE RESOLVED,

That this testimonial be placed in the record of the proceedings of this academy, in appreciation of his exalted character as a physician and as a mar, and of the great loss we have experienced in his death.

A brief biography of Dr. H. O. Walker with portrait was published in the Cincinnati Lancet-Clinic of Oct. 3rd.

At the last meeting of the Missippi Valley Medical Association the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: Drs. J. A. Witherspoon, Nashville, Tenn., President; Louis Frank, Louisville, Ky., First Vice-President; Albert E. Sterne, Indianapolis, Ind., Second Vice-President; S. C. Stanton, Chicago, Ill.,

Treasurer, and Henry Enos Tuley, Louisville, Ky., Secretary. The next annual meeting will be held in St. Louis, Mo., October, 1909.

Dr. J. Harrison, of Maple Rapids, has moved to Texas.

Dr. Dodge, of Hudson, recently underwent an operation in the Betts Hospital, Toledo.

The village of Augusta, Mich., has been visited with diphtheria in epidemic form.

Dr. Doty, of Hillsdale, has moved to Indianapolis where he will conduct a private hospital.

Dr. J. H. Nicholson, Detroit College of Medicine, 1897, was in Detroit recently on his wedding trip.

Typhoid fever has broken out among the inmates of the Michigan Home for Feeble Minded at Lapeer.

Dr. W. D. Lyman, of Grand Rapids, attended the meeting of the association of military surgeons recently held at Atlanta, Ga.

Dr. A. W. Nichols, of Greenville, was accorded the nomination for governor at the Independent state convention held at Grand Rapids.

Dr. G. D. Green, of Holt, has bought the practice of Dr. Lown, of Grand Ledge. Dr. Lown retires from active business life in the practice of his profession.

The Anti-Tuberculosis Society of New York has requested the loan of the Michigan exhibit at the Congress of Tuberculosis recently held at Washington.

Dr. L. Fleckenstein, of Durand, has been appointed to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Dr. Wm. I. Whitaker, health officer of the township. Dr. H. E. McLennon, of Battle Creek, has given up the practice of medicine to assume the management of the McLennon Lumber Company branch office in Detroit.

Dr. G. L. Kiefer, health officer of Detroit, has established a free dental clinic for school children, fifty dentists have volunteered to devote one hour per week to this work.

Miss Almey C. Murray, late assistant lady superintendent of the Riverdale Isolation hospital, Toronto, has been appointed chief of the Tuberculosis Sanitarium of Grand Rapids.

On October 17th the citizens of Lansing held a "Log Day" for the visiting nurse who is doing a great work among the poor and the afflicted of the capital city.

The Detroit Association of Retail Druggists have recently issued a letter to all the members of the medical profession in Detroit urging them to use U. S. P. and National Formulary prparations instead of proprietaries.

At the meeting of the Mississippi Valley Medical Association in Louisville, October 13, 14, 15, Dr. C. W. Hitchcock read a paper on "Mental Responsibility," and Dr. H. O. Walker on "Tumors of the Mediastinum," with report of a successful operation.

Dr. W. N. Donald addressed the Livingston Medical Society at Howell, September 26th, upon Arteriosclerosis, and the Tri-County Medical Society at West Branch, October 21st, upon Vascular Degenerations.

The Anti-Tuberculosis Society of Grand Rapids is proving itself in a healthy condition. Since the opening of the clinic, Aug. 21st, over forty suspected patients had been examined of whom eleven cases of the disease were found and placed under proper instruction and treatment.

Dr. Randall Schuyler, of Ann Arbor, had a very narrow escape from drowning when the steamer Neshoto, on which he was acting as pilot went to pieces near Crisp Point, Lake Superior. He saved himself by catching a floating hatch cover and drifting with it to shore.

MARRIAGES.

Dr. Russell Sturgis Rowland, of Detroit, to Miss Margaret Lillie Chace, of Providence, Rhode Island, October 14th.

Dr. Howard J. Bush, of Linden, to Miss Edith Philips, of Armada, Mich., October 21.

Dr. Stephen James O'Brien, to Miss Clara Eletha Crawford, both of Grand Rapids, Mich., October 15.

Dr. Joseph L. McNeece, Morley, Mich., to Miss Emma Belle Lehn, of Newark, N. J., October 8.

Dr. Lon West Haynes, to Miss Josephine Daines, both of Detroit, Mich., October 27.

DEATHS.

Dr. David D. Guggan, succumbed to paralysis at his home in Battle Creek, October 31, age 59.

Dr. James Anderson, University of Michigan, 1876, died suddenly at his home in Salem, Ohio, October 1, from angina pectoris, aged 57.

Dr. James B. McGaughey, University of Michigan, 1867, died suddenly from cerebral hemorrhage, at his home in Winona, Minn., September 27, aged 65. Dr. Alexander Thayer, University of Michigan, 1871, died at his home in Essex Junction, May 22, from nephritis, aged 57.

Dr. Robert Gibbs died at his home in Kalamazoo, Mich., September 18, aged 52, from paralysis after an invalidism of twenty-one years.

Dr. Lorenzo S. Putney, University of Michigan, 1874, died at his home in Norfolk, N. Y., May 18, from pneumonia, aged 65.

Dr. Abel M. Crawford, of Leoni, Mich., died at the home of his daughter, Jackson, Mich., June 7th, from cerebral hemorrhage, aged 60.

William H. Andrews, (license, Mich.; years of practice, 1900), died at his home in Fennville, Mich., September 22, aged 68.

Dr. Miranda P. Wiswell, University of Michigan, Homeopathic Medical College, Ann Arbor, 1889, died at her home in Philadelphia, September 28, aged 52. Dr. Chas. Franklin Marsh, University of Michigan, 1869, died at his home in Gainesville, Fla., September 18, from heart failure, aged 67.

Dr. John D. Cameron died very suddenly on October 3 at the family home Iron Mountain. Decaesed was born on August 7th, 1851, at Williamstown, Glengarry county, Ontario. He was graduated from McGill University, Montreal, in 1878. He had been a resident of Iron Mountain since 1881.

THE PUBLIC HEALTH OF DETROIT.

At the end of October the status of contagious (notifiable) diseases was as follows:

A Manual of Obstetrical Technique as Applied to Private Practice. With a Chapter on Abortion, Premature Labor, and Curettage. By Joseph Brown Cooke, M. D., Adjunct Professor of Obstetrics in the New York Polyclinic Medical School and Hospital, etc. 258 pages. Illustrated. Sixth Edition, Enlarged and revised. Philadelphia and London. J. B. Lippincott Co., 1908. The new edition of this highly useful book has been carefully revised and several illustrations have been added. In its new form, it seems extremely difficult to criticize. It does just exactly what it was meant to do, and does it completely and well. It is not too much to say that this manual has been a great apostle of light and has had great influence in spreading the practice of consistent aseptic modern midwifery. There are but few who can fail to get stimulating and useful points from this very practical book. It is an encouraging sign of the times that several editions have been sold.

A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis. By James Campbell Todd, M. D., Associate Professor of Pathology, Denver and Gross College of Medicine, Denver. 12 mo. of 319 pages with 131 text-illustrations and 10 colored plates. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders Company, 1908. Flexible leather, $2.00 net. This little volume has been designed to meet the needs of both the practitioner and student. It is a clear and concise statement of the more important laboratory methods which have a clinical value and a somewhat brief guide to the interpretation of results. The text illustrations, especially the colored plates, denote workmanship of a high order and greatly add to the value of the book.

A Text-Book of Diseases of Women. By Chas. B. Penrose, M. D., Ph. D., formerly Professor of Gynecology in the University of Pennsylvania. Sixth Revised Edition. Octavo of 550 pages, with 225 original illustrations. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders Company, 1908. Cloth, $3.75 net. Half Morocco, $5.25 net.

This is essentially a book for the medical student. In it the author has attempted to present the best teaching of modern gynecology. In most cases but one plan of treatment has been recommended for each disease, the expressed purpose being to avoid confusing the student or physician who consults the book for practical guidance. The text-book has been reduced to moderate size by the omission of all facts of anatomy physiology and pathology which are to be found in general text-books on those subjects. The illustrations and text are good, and on the whole, the sixth edition will fully maintain the popularity of its prede

cessors.

International Clinics. A Quarterly of Illustrated Clinical Lectures and Original Lectures. Edited by W. T. Longcope, M. D., Philadelphia. Vol. III. Eighteenth Series, 1908. 300 pages, illustrated. Philadelphia and London. J. B. Lippincott Co. Price, $6.00 per year.

The current number of this valuable quarterly seems rather more rich than usual in interesting articles. Many in Detroit now will be interested in two cases of tetanus treated with cholestrin with recovery from Rome. Sir Dyce Duckworth writes on Sciatica; Scott on Perforation of the Intestine in Typhoid; Jastrow's Harvey Lecture, "On the Trail of the Subconscious" is printed complete. Other interesting topics selected from the complete contents are: Value of

Esophagoscopy; Melanotic Neoplasms; Treatment of Fractures by Direct Internal Splint; Adenoma of the Thyroid; Pericolic Inflammation; Diarrheal Disorders of Infants; Cleft Palate and Hair Lip; Etiology of Appendicitis.

Diet in Tuberculosis: Principles and Economics. By Noal Dean Bardswell (Med ical Superintendent, King Edward VII Sanatarium), M. D., and John Ellis Chapman, M. R. C. S., (Medical Superintendent, Coppin's Green Sanatorium). London, Oxford University Press, 1908.

This work is the result of some seven years' research conducted under the auspices of the Royal Society. Much of the material has appeared from time to time in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, but the completed work has not previously been collected into accessable form and properly revised.

The book is very valuable for those connected with the care of consumptives whether in active medical practice or in institutions. The following chapter titles furnish significant indications of the work: General Principles of Construction of Diets for Consumptives; The Comparative Economy of Various Food Stuffs; Economics of Diets; Observations on the Treatment of Consumptives with Meat Free Diets; Observations on a Cheap Diet Containing a Considerable Amount of Vegetable Proteid and an Average Amount of Meat: Practical Conclusions, including directions to give out-patients, etc., in buying and cooking diets; Summary of Sanitorium Diets, etc.

The investigations with respect to meat-free or meat-reduced diets are very interesting and eminently practical. To all who have been associated with tuber. culous patients, and particularly those whose means are limited, the burden of purchasing fresh meats, together with eggs, has been frequently a source of anxiety. When we are told that under ordinary hygienic care, upon a diet of carbohydrates and fats in excess, patients put on a pound weekly and otherwise improve, the facts warrant consideration and the routine deserves trial. The authors estimate that such a diet can be furnished in England at about seven shillings weekly ($1.68.) While in the United States such diets could not be furnished much less than twice this figure, yet even then, the margin remains in favor of the modified meat-diet at least.

The tables furnished for the use of Sanatoria are flexible enough to be of practical value. One is surprised, perhaps, at the variety of food stuffs suggested for institutions of a charitable or semi-charitable character. Liberal diet is, however, one of the pet traditions of English hospitals. Whether the free feeding conduces to rapid recoveries in all instances is a moot point, but it certainly contributes to the peace of mind of a certain class of unfortunates.

Hygiene for Nurses. By Isabel McIsaac. Author of "Primary Nursing Technique," etc. The Macmillan Company, N. Y. Price, $1.25 net.

This little book furnishes a readable summary of various standard works upon hygiene and physiological chemistry. It is attractively printed and bound and should prove of value for the class of readers that the author serves.

The work is poorly titled. It might be better to style it "A text-book of Hygiene for the use of Nurses."

By Arthur Surgeon to

Glandular Enlargement and Other Diseases of the Lymphatic System.
Edmunds, M. B., M. S., B. Sc., Lond., F. R. C. S., Eng., London.
the Great Northern Central Hospital and Asst. Surgeon to the Paddington
Green Children's Hospital. Oxford University Publications. London and
New York, 1908.

This volume is a very practical one, taking up a number of subjects often neglected in text-books. Perhaps no better idea of it can be given than by enumerating a number of chapter heads: Anatomy-Cellulitis-Acute Lymphangitis, Glandular Fever, Tuberculous Glands (five chapters)-Diseases of the Thymus-Surgery of the Thoracic Duct-Lymphosarcoma, etc. The point of view is distinctly surgical but a thoroughly modern treatment of inoperative cases is described. The book will prove a very convenient guide in many obscure cases.

High Frequency Currents. By Frederick Finch Strong, M. D., Instructor in Electro-Therapeutics, at Tuft's College Medical School, Boston, 290 pages with 183 illustrations. New York: Rebman & Co. 1908. Price, cloth, $3.00.