Ulcer of Stomach:

At a recent meeting of the Practitioners' Society of New York, Dr. Edward G. Janeway, in discussing problems relating to simple ulcer of the stomach said, that a hemorrhage from the stomach, just as one from the lungs in early phthisis, had the effect of a life-saver, in that it usually awakened the patient to a proper sense of his condition.

Spinal Cocainization:

Dr. Robert Jones thinks that English surgeons are too timid in regard to the use of spinal cocainization. At a recent meeting of the Liverpool Institution, Dr. Jones stated his belief that with strict asepsis, there was very slight risk. He says it is of particular advantage where operations are necessary in cases of advanced phthisis, bronchitis, or asthma, in persons fearing general anesthesia, and in shock following severe injuries of the lower limbs.

Errors in Diagnosis:

Byrom Bramwell, M.D., before the Manchester Society (Medical Chronicle), thus describes diagnosis: It is or ought to be a logical conclusion based on the facts of the case.

The object should not be to give a name to the disease, but to determine the exact character and extent of the lesion or lesions.

Grave errors in prognosis may result from a mistaken diagnosis, as for example: Myxedema diagnosed as obesity, or Bright's; acute tuberculosis diagnosed as typhoid fever; acute tuberculous pneumonia diagnosed as acute bronchitis or acute croupous pneumonia; hemoptysis due to mitral stenosis diagnosed as due to phthisis; acute nephritis occurring in the course of cirrhosis of the kidney diagnosed as a primary acute inflammation of the kidney; functional (cyclic) albuminuria diagnosed as Bright's disease; temporary (dietetic, functional and gouty) glycosuria diagnosed as diabetes mellitus; disseminated sclerosis diagnosed as hysteria; alcoholic insanity diagnosed as G. P. I. ; tabes with gastric crisis diagnosed as ulceration of the stomach; myasthenia gravis diagnosed as hysteria; Friedreich's ataxia diagnosed as chorea.

Physician's Library.

Blakiston's Quiz-Compends. A Compend of the Diseases of the Eye and Refraction, including Treatment and Surgery. By George M. GOULD, A.M., M.D., and WALTER L. PYLE, A.M., M.D.

This is the third edition, revised and enlarged, a practical, handy, compend, containing one hundred and nine illustrations, several of which are in colors. It is just the thing for students, and will prove of good value to general practitioners.

Manual of Diseases of Women and Uterine Therapeutics. For Students and Practitioners. By H. MACNAUGHTON-JONES, M.D., M.Ch., Master of Obstetrics (honora causa) Royal University of Ireland, Fellow of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons of Ireland and Edinburgh; formerly University Professor of Midwifery and Diseases of Women and Children. in the Queen's University, and Examiner in Midwifery and Diseases of Women and Children in the Royal University of Ireland; ex-President of the British Gynecological Society; Corresponding Member of the Gynecological Society of Munich. Ninth Edition. University Series. London: Ballière, Tindall and Cox. Canadian agents: J. A. Carveth & Co., Yonge Street.

This, the ninth edition of this work, has been to a great extent rewritten; and there have been added clinical, operative and pathological advances commensurate with the advances of the day. The book is a superior one in many respects. Those chapters dealing with uterine displacements and pessaries, are aptly and superbly illustrated, and, indeed, all the illustrations throughout the book are admirable. There are also chapters worthy of exceptional note, such as those on the female bladder, ureters and rectum, as well as one on gynecological electrotherapeutics. The book will eminently satisfy the wants of students, and prove also of decided value to practitioners.

The Doctor's Recreation Series.-The Doctor's Red Lamp. A Book of Short Stories Concerning the Doctor's Daily Life. Selected by CHarles Wells, Moncton. The Saalfield Publishing Co., Akron, Ohio.

The volume of the "Doctor's Recreation Series," Number II., is entitled "The Doctor's Red Lamp." Some of these stories we have found familiar, others new. We are satisfied it will be a work when completed which will appeal to a great many of the profession. We are far too prone as a class to stick too much to the reading of medical literature when we could be broadening and strengthening our views of life with other literature. These volumes are designed for relaxation after work, and we will undoubtedly pass many an hour in happy perusal of them. Heavy reading is not always desirable; light must sometimes be indulged in. No one can afford to miss or remain unfamiliar with the short stories, squibs, etc., which have been written about the profession, and the Saalfield Publishing Co. are to be congratulated upon putting out this collection.

A Text-Book of Legal Medicine. By FRANK WINTHROP DRAPER, A.M., M.D., Professor of Legal Medicine in Harvard University; Medical Examiner for the County of Suffolk, Massachusetts. Octavo volume of 573 pages, fully illustrated. Philadelphia, New York, London: W. B. Saunders & Company. 1905. Canadian agents, J. A. Carveth & Co., Limited, 434 Yonge Street, Toronto. Cloth, $4.00 net.

The subject of Legal Medicine is one of great importance, especially to the general practitioner, for it is to him that calls to attend cases which may prove to be medico-legal in character most. frequently come. Dr. Draper has written his work both for the general practitioner and for the medical student. He has not only cited illustrative cases from standard treatises on forensic medicine, but these he has supplemented with details from his own exceptionally full experience-an experience gained during his service as Medical Examiner for the City of Boston for the past twenty-six years. During this time his investigations have comprised nearly eight thousand deaths under a suspicion of violence. The author's long teaching career has enabled him to

state facts and detail procedures with a clearness rarely met in a work on Legal Medicine. Withal, we think Dr. Draper's book is unusually satisfactory; it is more-it surpasses our expectations.

Progressive Medicine, September and December. 1904.

This quarterly digest of advances, discoveries and improvements in the medical and surgical sciences presents two strong replete volumes for September and December, 1904. The September issue, Vol. III., has for contributors, William Ewart, Wm. S. Gottheil, Richard Norris and Wm. G. Spiller, and the subjects treated of are diseases of the thorax and its viscera, including the heart, lungs and blood vessels; dermatology and syphilis; diseases of the nervous system and obstetrics. Wm. T. Beldfield, Joseph C. Bloodgood, John Rose Bradford, H. R. M. Landis and Steel J. Dutton keep the December, Vol. IV., up to date on diseases of the digestive tract and allied organs; liver, pancreas and peritoneum; anesthetics, fractures, dislocations, amputations, surgery of the extremities, and orthopedics; genito-urinary diseases; diseases of the kidneys; and a practical therapeutical referendum. No one can afford to be without this work, which may be ordered from Lea Brothers & Co., publishers, Phila delphia.

Published on the 15th of each month. Address all Communications and make all Cheques, Post Office Orders and Postal Notes payable to the Publisher, GEORGE ELLIOTT, 203 Beverley St., Toronto, Canada.

VOL. XXIV.

TORONTO, FEBRUARY, 1904.

COMMENT FROM MONTH TO MONTH.

No. 2.

Lieutenant-General Laurie, whom Canadians will remember was at one time a member of the Canadian House of Commons, is now a member of the British House of Commons, and has been prosecuting before that august body, and still desires to do so, an amendment to the Medical Act of 1858, providing the Canadian profession supports him in his endeavors. The object of this amendment is set forth in the following paragraph, taken from the memorandum of the bill: "Surgeons of the highest standing in Canada, and holding commissions from His Majesty in the militia, volunteered for service in South Africa, and a complete field hospital was offered for Canada, and in both cases the War Office refused to accept such service on the ground that it was contrary to the Medical Act of 1858 to permit a surgeon of the Colonial Register and colonially trained to attend professionally to British troops. The object of the amending bill is to