Missouri Valley Homeopathic Medical Association.

The annual meeting of the Missouri Valley Homeopathic Medical Association will be held in Kansas City, Missouri, Oct. 2nd, 3rd and 4th.

This "End of the Century Meeting" promises to be of exceptional interest, and all physicians are cordially invited to attend. Many of the best men of the Missouri Valley will present papers and discussions on timely topics.

Reduced railroad rates are assured on all lines entering Kansas City, and the local arrangements will be satisfactory.

The completed program, and full announcements will be issued in due season.

If any person interested fails to received one, he should address the secretary, Dr. H. W. Westover, St. Joseph, Mo.

Notes and Personals.

W. D. Rockafeller, the multi-millionaire, is said to be starving from dyspepsia.

Dr. A. J. Anderson, of Lawrence, Kansas, son of Dr. S. B. Anderson of Denver, has been visiting his father.

The Denver Presbytery are considering the founding of a Presbyterian hospital in Denver.

Dr. H. K. Dunklee with his family was a recent visitor at Deansbury and Dow Center, for recreation and rest.

Denver's dog house, with gas tank attached for the asphyxiation of canines, has been pronounced the best in the world.

Representative Shaffroth, in advocating a Soldiers' Home for Denver showed the death rate of the city to be less than that of any other city of its size in the Union.

At the home for Consumptive Soldiers at Fort Bayard, New Mexico, there are 47 patients. The Home is in a healthful locality at considerable altitude, where the air is pure and dry, and the patients are said to be doing well.

Glass bricks are used in the building of operating rooms. The bricks are made hollow, admit considerable light and little sound, and obstruct all view. They are moreover very neat and may be easily kept aseptic.

Dr. J. Davis, of Ottawa, Kansas, has been making a tour of the west going as far as Salt Lake City. On his return he spent ten

days with his old friend, Dr. S. B. Anderson, 1105 Broadway, Denver.

Dr. J. D. Davis, of Cincinnati, Ohio, son of Dr. J. Davis, of Ottawa, Kansas, has been enjoying the cool breezes of Colorado. While in Denver he was a guest of Dr. S. B. Anderson.

In the vicinity of Sidney, Anstralia, there have recently been over thirty cases of the Bubonic Plague and more than half died. The onset of the disease was generally very sudden, and most of those who did not recover died during the first two or three days

According to the recent census, Denver has one licensed physician to every 330 of its inhabitants, to say nothing of a large number Christian Science healers, Spiritualists, Osteopaths and others who eschew the use of medicines.

At the recent meeting of Woodmen in Salt Lake City, Dr. Lillian Pollock of Denver was elected Grand Manager of Women of Woodcraft for the term of four years.

Book Reviews.

STUDIES IN THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SEX.-The Evolution of Modesty. The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity.-Auto-Erotism. By Havelock Ellis. 63% x 8% inches. Pages xii-275. Extra Cloth, $2.00, net. Sold only to physicians and lawyers. F. A. Davis Company, Publishers, 1914-16 Cherry Street, Philadelphia. We cannot better outline the character of this interesting book than to quote the following from the author's preface:

"The present volume contains three studies which seem to me to be necessary prolegomena to that analysis of the sexual instinct which must form the chief part of an investigation into the psychology of sex. The first sketches the main outlines of a complex emotional state which is of fundamental importance in sexual psychology; the second, by bringing together evidence from widely different regions, suggests a tentative explanation of facts that are still imperfectly known; the third attempts to show that even in fields where we assume our knowledge to be adequate a broader view of the phenomena teaches us to suspend judgment and to adopt a more cautious attitude."

PRACTICAL URANALYSIS AND URINARY DIAGNOSIS.-A Manual for the use of physicians, surgeons, and students. By Charles W. Purdy, LL. D., M.D., Queen's University, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Kingston, Canada; Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Chicago Post-Graduate Medical School. Author of "Bright's Disease and Allied Affec

tions of the Kidneys"; also of Diabetes: Its causes, Symptoms, and Treatment." Fifth Revised and Enlarged Edition. With numerous Illustrations, including Photo-engravings, Colored Plates, and Tables for estimating total solids from Specific Gravity, Chlorides, Phosphates, Sulphates, Albumin, Reaction of Proteids, Sugar, etc., etc., in Urine. 6x9 inches. Pages xvi406. Extra Cloth, $3.00, net. F. A. Davis Company, Publishers, 1914-16 Cherry Street, Philadelphia.

The rapidity with which the editions have followed each other, is perhaps the best evidence of the merit of this valuable work. There has been no field in medicine where the need of a comprehensive text and reference book has been so much felt as in this branch; and Purdy's Practical Urinalysis and Urinary Diagnosis better meets this need with each new edition.

The chemical department has been revised and several quantitative methods added, especial attention being given to the determination of albumin. The range of centrifugal analysis has been extended by the addition of several chapters on this subject, together with table for quantitative determination of the various solids. A chapter on the microscope, its care and use in urinalysis is one of the valuable additions, and with the previous illustrations of anatomical sediments, furnishes a valuable reference work for the busy practitioner. С. Б. Т.

Mania a Sero.

The "London Practitioner" for March, 1900, says:

"This remarkable affection does not attack the patient, but the physician, and the symptoms are particularly severe in those who themselves make the serum. The victims of seromania suffer from extraordicary delusions, under the influence of which they appear bereft of the power of judgment, and mistake their own fancies for facts. It is only on this hypothesis that one can explain the amazing statements made in all good faith by men whose scientific training should have made them capable of seeing things as they really are.

"Already we have a serum for nearly every known disease. Each of these, we are assured-by its discoverer-is all but infal-lible. The announcements are painfully like some of the reports of 'great British victories,' of which we have lately had more than enough. Having in imagination vanquished the orbis veteribus notus of disease, it was natural that our bacteriological Alexanders should look for fresh worlds to conquer.

"So one fine day the public is thrilled by the intelligence that Professor Metchnikoff has abolished old age. Like all great dis

coveries it is delightfully simple: You renew the youth of the several organs of the body by injecting a special serum obtained, it would appear, from the corresponding organ of a guinea-pig, and, lo! the frost of old age is thawed to the genial spring of youth. It is true there are still one or two trifling difficulties to be overcome. Some of the serums required have not yet been found, but we read that the Professor's entire section at the Pasteur Institute is working at the problem, and the solution will doubtless be announced before long. So we may all look forward to undergoing a Faust-like transformation when cruel age has clawed us in his clutch-if the supply of guinea-pigs does not give out before all the serums are discovered. Luckily they breed fast enough to insure a sufficient supply of the new Pentacle of Rejuvenescence for all.

"Old age being disposed of, obviously the next thing was to attack vice. If people cannot be made sober by act of Parliament, it is still worth while trying whether they could not be made so by serum. It was announced some time ago that an ingenious American doctor had got out of a horse, previously subjected to systematic drugging with whiskey, a serum which, injected into the most inveterate drunkard, at once made him fit to be an ornament of the Blue Ribbon Army. Quite lately a similar method has been employed by some French experimenters with the most brilliant results. So there is a prospect of the drink problem being solved by serum. But the publicans need not think their occupation is gone, for as horses have to be made drunk that men may be kept sober, there will still be a brisk demand for whiskey.

"From drunkenness to each of the other deadly sins is but a series of steps which the enterprising bacteriologist will take in his stride; only, as some of the vices cannot be inoculated in animals, human subjects will have to be employed. It will doubtless be a comfort to old sinners to be of some use to their kind before they depart this life by furnishing serum that will serve to produce immunity from their vices in others."

The Subcutaneous Injection of Gelatin in the Treatment of Hemorrhages.

In "La Semaine Medicale," of March 14, 1900, we are told that Pensuti, one of the physicians to the Hospital of Rome, has employed these injections in the treatment of the conditions which we have named in the title given above, following of course the suggestion of the French therapeutists that these injections be employed in the treatment of aneurism for the purpose of increasing the coagulability of the blood. According to Pensuti,

he has found that these injections are advantageous in those cases in which multiple hemorrhages occur in the skin, about the joints, in the digestive tube, in the respiratory passages, and in the kidneys, and also for the purpose of controlling the bleeding in chronic dysentery. It will be remembered that the quantity usually employed is 18 grains of gelatin and 18 grains of common salt, to the ounce of water, injected hypodermically. Of course, the injection must be carefully sterilized by heat before it is employed.

Aortic Aneurism Treated by Gelatin Injections.

Geraldini (Gazetra degli Ospedali, Feb. 4, 1900) records four cases of aortic aneurism treated by subcutaneous injections of a two per cent solution of gelatin. The injections caused a little temorary burning, which, however, soon passed off; no ill effects were observed. In the first case (innominate aneurism) forty-five injections were given, with the result that the neuralgia and dysphagia completely disappeared; pulsation ceased in the tumor itself, which became much smaller. The patient was on ordinary diet, and not kept strictly lying down. The second case (aortic anurism) had sixty injections between April 1 and June 7, 1899, and left the hospital on June 20 very much relieved. After the twenty-ninth injection some slight albuminuria was noted, so the injections were suspended for four days. The third case (aneurism of the arch of the aorta) had forty injections, and was so much relieved that he refused to go on with the treatment, and left the hospital. In the fourth case (abdominal aneurism) similar relief was given. The gelatin becomes absorbed and increases the coagulability of the blood. The beneficial results are seen in the gradual diminution and final disappearance of the subjective symptoms and the lessening in size and pulsation of the aneurismal sac.-Britssh Medical Journal, March 3, 1900.

Things to Remember.

THE CRITIQUE has the largest circulation of any medical journal published west of the Missouri River. Hence it is the best medium through which to advertise.

MAL-NUTRITION. “Dr. reports case of a child of four months; very much reduced; unable to retain any food. Put it on Panopepton, ten drops four times a day and twice at night. It commenced improving at once. Continued Panopepton two weeks. It came out in good shape and was then put on regular feeding."