BOOK REVIEWS. Medical, literary and scientific publications will be reviewed in this department. Books and journals should be marked NEW ENGLAND MEDICAL GAZETTE, and sent to 80 E. Concord St., Boston. The World's Anatomists. Concise Biographies of Anatomic Masters, from 300 B.C. to the Present Time. By G. W. H. Kemper, M.D., Professor of the History of Medicine in the Medical College of Indiana, Indianapolis, Ind. Revised and enlarged. Eleven illustrations. Price, fifty cents. P. Blakiston's Son & Co., Philadelphia, 1905. This little book is a revised edition of a series of articles originally appearing in the Medical Book News. Over two hundred anatomists receive short paragraphs in which the most important studies and discoveries of each are noted. As the arrangement is alphabetical, the compilation is in such a form as to be readily available, and the record of each individual easily found. The Examination of the Function of the Intestines by means of the TestDiet. Its Application in Medical Practice and its Diagnostic and Therapeutic Value. By Professor Dr. Adolf Schmidt, Physician-in-chief of the City Hospital Friedrichstadt in Dresden. Authorized Translation from the latest German edition. By Charles D. Aaron, M.D. With a frontispiece plate in colors. Crown octavo, 91 pages, extra cloth. Price, $1.00 net. F. A. Davis Company, publishers, Philadelphia, 1906. The author in a very orderly manner gives, first, the reasons why a testdiet should be used, and then gives detailed description of such a diet. This is followed by chapters on the technique of the test, its normal and pathological significance and the proper interpretation of the results obtained. A very notable point in its favor is the fact that it gives merely the simplest chemical tests, such as any practitioner could readily perform. Three days' consecutive use of a somewhat tiresome diet may be a deterrent to many to try the efficiency of the results herein described. An extensive bibliography, almost entirely from German writers, will add to the value of the book to those who wish further information. BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS RECEIVED The Action of Belladonna upon the Ear, as developed in the test Drugproving of the O. O. & I.. Society. By Howard P. Bellows, M.D., Boston, Mass. A New and Physiologic Explanation of a Common Psychologic Phenomenon. By F. Park Lewis, M.D., Buffalo, N. Y. Bulletin of the Illinois State Board of Health. The Practice of Gynecology. Edited by J. Wesley Bovee, M.D. The Disease and the Remedy. By Alfred E. P. Rockwell, M.D. WE notice that with the April number of American Medicine, it has been transformed from a weekly to a monthly periodical. This journal has been one of the strongest among those to appear weekly, and it is with regret that we see the change taking place. In this change, however, it is stated that no lowering of the scientific, professional or literary standards will be made, and for its success in its new departure, we have only the best wishes. HASTINGS, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Nov. 1905, says: "I believe that the tendency to terminate the mastoid operation in a case of long standing, or much mastoid destruction without uncovering the sinus sufficiently to relieve one's mind of doubt as to its condition, is not in accord with good surgical judgment." OBITUARY. JAMES GRANT GILCHRIST. James Grant Gilchrist, Iowa City, Iowa, was born in N.Y. City, Apr. 28, 1842, He studied under private tutors in New York City, in Mitchell's Academy, Philadelphia, in the University of Pennsylvania and the State University of Iowa conferred on him the A.M. degree in 1886. He attended, 1860–’62, the Homœopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, where he received his professional degree. He practiced in Philadelphia, 1863-66; Winona, Minnesota, 1866-67; Owatonna, Minnesota, 1874-76; Detroit, Michigan, 1875-77; Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1877-79; Detroit, Michigan, 1879-83, and in Iowa City since 1883, having limited his practice to surgery for the past eighteen years. He was surgeon to the out-patient department of the Homœopathic Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1865-66; demonstrator of anatomy in the Homoeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania, 1866; professor of surgery in the homoeopathic department of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor; chief of staff of the Detroit Homœopathic Hospital (now Grace Hospital), 1879-83; professor of surgery in the College of Homœopathic Medicine of the State University of Iowa since 1882; organizer of and surgeon to the Homoeopathic Hospital (State University of Iowa), Iowa City, Iowa, since 1887, and conducted the general surgical clinics of the College of Homœopathic Medicine in the State University of Iowa. He also was its registrar from 1883 until 1903, and director of the Homœopathic Hospital, Iowa City, at the same time. A frequent contributor to the medical press, he edited the department of medical jurisprudence, and, later, that of surgery for the "Medical Investigator," and was a regular contributor to the "American Observer." He is author of the following works, with dates of publication: "Rules for Tying Arteries," 1867; "Surgical Diseases," 1873; "Etiology and Curability of Tumors," 1876; "Tactics and Drill for I. O. O. F.," 1877; "Surgical Therapeutics," 1880; "Surgical Principles and Minor Surgery," 1881; "Surgical Emergencies," 1882; chapters for Arndt's "System of Practice," 1884-85; chapters for Dickinson's "Practice,” 1885; "Charles the I, a Martyr," 1885; “Manual for Infantry Officers," 1887; "Syllabus of Surgery," 1882; "Elements of Surgical Pathology," 1895; "Itinerary of English Cathedrals," 1901. His "Surgical Therapeutics" was translated and published in Madrid, Naples, Berlin, Leipsic, and Paris. Dr. Gilchrist is a member of the American Institute of Homoeopathy, Hahnemann Medical Association of Iowa, Central Iowa Homœopathic Medical Society, and of the last two has been president; is a member and ex-president of the Johnson County (Iowa) Homoeopathic Medical Society ex-member, ex-president and ex-secretary of the Homœopathic Medical Society of the State of Michigan; ex-member of the Missouri Valley, the Pennsylvania and Minnesota Homoeopathic Medical Societies; ex-member and ex-president of the Detroit College of Homoeopathic Physicians and Surgeons, and honorary member of the New York Homoeopathic Medical Society, the Missouri Institute of Homœopathy, the Illinois Homœopathic Medical Society and the Homœopathic Medical Society of Kansas. He is ex-president of the Baconian Club (scientific), Iowa City, and ex-colonel of the 3d Iowa National Guard (1890-1896), after serving as first lieutenant and captain of Company C of that regiment, while his first military service followed his enlistment in 1863, 40th Pennsylvania Infantry, in the Civil War. He married, June 15, 1863, Elizabeth Thomas, and their children are: Bertha, widow of William H. Ridgway; Rollin; Redelia, wife of Herbert L. Stone; Helen: and Janet Marjory, wife of J. V. Westfall. His death occurred March 22d, after an illness of about a month, although he had been in failing health for the past year. PERSONAL AND GENERAL ITEMS. Some doctors don't attend medical meetings or take a medical journal. They are back numbers, passe, out-of-date. They crawl along in the same old rut getting more rusty, musty, mouldy, mildewed and stagnant every year till they finally evaporate out of the landscape. Every Homoeopathic physician in New England ought to take the GAZETTE, the only Homœopathic journal in this section, and as many more as he can afford. We are sending out some sample copies this month to non-subscribers, and we trust that no one receiving a copy will fail to give it careful reading, thereby becoming convinced it would be profitable to keep it coming. A doctor said a few days ago "I believe the GAZETTE grows better every month." Try it and see if you don't agree with him. Fill out the blank you will find enclosed, Doctor, and send it in before you forget it. ANYONE who is desirous of procuring a lucrative practice in a country village in which homeopathy has been represented for a considerable length of time, may obtain further information by writing to the Rev. J. C. Carnahan, Sherbourne, Vt. A request has reached the editors of the GAZETTE to procure, if possible, a homeopathic physician of some experience for a thriving town in the western part of Massachusetts. Anyone who may be desirous of obtaining more information concerning this opening can do so by addressing Dr. W. H. Watters, 80 East Concord Street, Boston. REPORT OF JOINT RELIEF COMMITTEE OF CALIFORNIA MEDICAL FUND Editor Gazette:- In accordance with instructions received from the Joint Relief Committee appointed by our state and city societies to solicit funds for our California colleagues, at its last meeting, held May 10, the Secretary has prepared for the GAZETTE the following account of its transactions, with extracts from letters received from California physicians. At a meeting of the Boston Homoeopathic Medical Society held at the College Building on April 21, at the call of the President, Dr. David W. Wells, it was voted that the President appoint three members to serve with the President, Secretary and Treasurer of the Society as a relief committee of six, to solicit funds for our suffering colleagues in California. At the request of the President of the Massachusetts Homœopathic Medical Society, and by vote of the Boston Society, this committee met with the executive committee of the State Society on the evening of April 21, and together with three members of the State Society appointed by the executive committee to act with the President, Secretary and Treasurer formed a Joint Relief Committee for the purpose outlined above. This committee was made up of the following physicians: Drs. J. H. Sherman, T. M. Strong, T. E. Chandler, Walter Wesselhoeft, J. P. Rand, and G. Forrest Martin, representing the State Society, and Drs. David W. Wells, B. T. Loring, Alonzo G. Howard, Horace Packard, N. M. Wood, and J. Herbert Moore representing the city society. The committee organized by electing the following officers: Chairman, J. H. Sherman; Secretary, J. Herbert Moore; Treasurer, Horace Packard. Dr. Packard reported that 1300 copies of an appeal, which the Boston society at its noon meeting had instructed him to have printed, were delivered at the medical school at four o'clock the same afternoon, and with the kind assistance of certain students and hospital internes all the circu |