Capt. G. Wilse Robinson of the Kansas City base hospital in France, has been promoted to be a major. Major Robinson is in charge of the neurological section of the hospital.

Tetanus antitoxin has, for some time, been used by the Germans in the form of a powder, applied on cotton to the wound. The liquid preparations have also been reduced in volume.

Mr. Adams, the pro-regular medicine writer for Collier's Weekly, says that the vast and complex job of making over our peace doctors into war doctors is the nearest thing to 100 per cent achievement that the government has yet performed in this war.

Anticigarette reformers would get scant consideration from the medical corps of the United States army, according to major surgeons stationed in hospitals along the front, some of whom say that the cigarette produces a relaxation for the wounded and the men just out of the trenches that no medicine could possibly produce.

The ranks given to medical officers and the annual pay received are as follows: lieutenant, $2,000; captain, $2,400; major, $3,000; lieutenantcolonel, $3,500; colonel, $4,000; brigadier general, $6,000 and major general $8,000. Commutation for quarters: lieutenant, $432; captain, $576; major, $720; heat and light: approximately $80, $120 and $160, respectively.

Wild statements with reference to the venereal diseases in the French Army have appeared from time to time, apparently at complete variance with the official figures. Before the war, the Army of France had a venereal admission of 21 per thousand, which since the war has fallen to 14 per thousand. This attests the successful use of venereal prophylaxis, which has not found. a place in the medical service afforded British troops, in consequence of which the venereal disease rate among English soldiers is tremendously high compared with that of the French army.

The oto-rhino-laryngological specialty is enormously important in this war, because of the great number of defective ears. The importance is observed chiefly from the medico-legal point of view because there are so many cases of defective ears antedating military service, so many are caused or aggravated in the service, and so many are caused by the autolesionists. In fact, the otological specialtiy may be said to be of as much importance as all the other specialties put together because of the great medicolegal importance of the ear. Bryant found oto-rhino-laryngology no less important in Italy than in France. In Italy there are more autolesionists. After eliminating the cases of trachoma from the ophthalmological total, the number of ophthalmological patients in Italy is not greater than the oto-rhinolaryngological cases. In Italy, trachoma forms half the ophthalmological service. There are many more wounds of eye than of ear.

The Doctors' Library

"Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books."-C. C. Colton.

MODERN UROLOGY-By eminent American authors. Edited by Hugh Cabot, M. D., F. A. C. S., Chief of the Genito-Urinary Department of the Massachusetts General Hospital; Assistant Professor of GenitoUrinary Surgery in the Harvard Medical School. Two octavo volumes of over 700 pages each. illustrated with 632 engravings and 17 plates. Published by Lea & Febiger, Philadelphia and New York. (Per volume. cloth, $7.00, net).

The first chapter of Vol. 1 is devoted to a brief but succinct account of the history of urology. Here one becomes acquainted with the fact, that as a distinct specialty, urology is only ten years old. It becomes at once apparent to the reader that the long rapid strides made in this branch of medicine justify the production of so extensive a work. The second chapter is on the cystoscope and the urethroscope and their uses. The subject is exhaustively and accurately presented. This is highly essential, since it is accurate diagnosis, made possible by the skillful use of these instruments, more than by any other means, which has separated modern urology from the chaos of general surgery. The diagrams accompanying this chapter make the manipulations of these instruments, and the interpretation of the fields presented to the observer's eye, so plain as to be understood by even the casual reader. It is written by Leo Buerger, than whom no better author, at the present day, could be chosen. In chapter three, methods of diagnosis are skillfully and impressively presented by Bransford Lewis. This is succeeded by a chapter on the xray, in genito-urinary diagnosis, very appropriately illustrated, and written by Walter Dodd. Syphilis of the genito-urinary organs, is considered in chapter five by B. C. Corbus. Chapter eight is written by this same author. Aside from this, syphilis is ignored in this work, its consideration being left to writers of works limited to that subject. Chapter nine thoroughly covers. the subject of gonorrhea. Diseases of the female urethra, a subject usually ignored in text-books, is fully considered in chapter ten. This is succeeded by a masterful dissertation on stricture of the urethra, in chapter eleven, by Edw. L. Keyes, Jr. Section III (chapters twelve to seventeen, inclusive) thoroughly covers the anatomy, physiology, diseases and injuries of the testicle and scrotum; chapter sixteen, on genital tuberculosis, by J. Dellinger Barney, and chapter seventeen, on tumors of the testicle, by Edwin Beer, being particularly illuminating on their respective sub

NOTE-The Medical Herald's Kansas City office will supply any book reviewed in this department at publisher's price, prepaid. If an order for two books be sent at any one time, the purchaser will be entitled to a six months' subscription to the Herald. This plan is arranged for the convenience of our readers, and we trust it will stimulate trade in the direction of good books.-Editor.

jects. Section IV is devoted to the prostate and seminal vesicles. Chapter nineteen, of this section, on enlargement of the prostate, by Paul Monroe Pilcher, and chapter twenty, on cancer of the prostate, by Hugh Hampton Young, deal with their respective subjects in a manner which does credit to even these prominent and capable writers. The latter part of chapter twenty, on the use of radium in the treatment of prostatic cancer, deals with a new and exceedingly interesting phase of this subject. Chapters one and two of volume II are devoted to the anatomy, physiology, malformations and diverticula of the bladder. They cover the ground thoroughly, introducing much valuable, up to date information that is not found in other text-books. Chapter three deals with injuries of the bladder. Chapter four presents the subject of vesical infection, including tuberculosis, in a manner quite in keeping with the high standard of the work. Chapters five and six deal respectively with stone and foreign bodies in the bladder. They are written by Hugh Cabot, and cover their subjects most thoroughly. Chapter seven, on tumors of the bladder, begins with a careful consideration of their micro-pathology, and, after discussing the operative treatment, goes into the utmost details regarding their modern treatment with radium. It is written by John T. Geraghty. Geraghty and Hugh Young are the greatest present day authorities on the intra-vesical use of radium. Chapter ten, also written by Dr. Geraghty, is devoted to tests of renal function. A better authority than this could not be chosen, and the writer does himself full justice. Anomalies of the kidney, hydronephrosis, movable kidney and renal injuries are well handled in the succeeding chapter by J. Bentley Squier, M. D. In chapter twelve renal infections are ably disposed of by Edw. L. Keyes, Jr., M. D. Bilharziosis and echinococcus are brought to the reader's attention, in a brief, yet detailed manner, by Edw. L. Young, Jr., M. D., in chapters thirteen and fourteen. Chapter fifteen is devoted to renal tuberculosis and is written by Richard F. O'Neil, M. D., who does full justice to this important subject. The succeeding chapters, on stone in the kidney and ureter, by Hugh Cabot, M. D., present this subject in an able manner, and the last chapter, on renal tumors, by Horace Binney, M. D., puts an appropriate finishing touch to this classical work.

It is quite evident that the editor of this work realized that there was much valuable advance knowledge scattered about in medical periodicals. To make this knowledge available for the profession in book form, he determined to present it as a compilation of monographs, written by the very producers of this knowledge themselves, instead of writing the work himself and quoting these authorities.

The genito-urinary specialist, as well as the general practitioner, will find it a valuable work of reference for detailed information on any given point, as well as a means of bringing his knowledge of the entire subject thoroughly up to date. Syphilis is ignored, except insofar as it attacks the uro-genital organs. This is a distinct advantage, for syphilis is, today, better dealt with in books limited thereto, than in one, or two, chapters in a work on urology. The work is copiously and very appropriately illustrated and nearly all of the engravings and plates are original. The title, "Modern Urology," is exceedingly appropriate for this work, and it fills what would otherwise be a void in the medical literature of today. THOMAS M. PAUL.

THORNTON'S MEDICAL POCKET FORMULARY -Containing over two thousand prescriptions with indications for use. By E. Quin Thornton, M. D., Assistant Professor of Materia Medica in the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. In one pocket-size volume, limp binding. (Price, $2.00, net).

A very valuable little work, which will appeal alike to the young and mature physician. It will refresh, broaden and refresh. It is not a mere compilation of prescriptions but rather an epitome of all that pertains to prescribing and the use of remedial agents. It is therefore of value to the mature practitioner, since it considers the use of salvarsan, human blood serum, antimenin

gitis serum, curative sera of various kinds, bac

terial vaccines and a number of other remedies. It gives an alphabetical list of diseases and suggestions of most efficacious treatment. The exhaution of ten editions and the demand for this, the eleventh, gives one a key to its value and popularity. Its size is a virtue. It just fits into the pocket, so that it is available just when needed-between calls. J. M. B.

CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS-A Manual of Laboratory Methods. By James Campbell Todd, M. D., Professor of Pathology, University of Colorado. Fourth edition, revised and reset. 12mo of 687 pages with 232 text illustrations and 12 colored plates. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders Company, 1918. (Cloth, 14s. net).

A most commendable publication for two reasons-it gives so much detail available to those who have had little or imperfect training in microscopy; while on the other hand it is valuable to the fellow who knows the general field, and aspires to go beyond it. In the third place, it is very complete. It would be difficult to gather in one volume a broader scope of microscopy, both in technique and in clinical application than is given in Todd's fourth edition. Ample space is devoted to chemical analysis of gastric contents, fecal and urinalysis as well as spinal fluid. The volume is well written, beautifully illustrated and is well adapted to that large class of medical men who must be at once clinician and pathologist. J. M. B.

The Melting Pot

Lane says that intestinal autotoxemia is responsible for far more evils than Metchnikoff himself ever imagined.

With intensive methods in amplyopia, the results are gratifying and the logic of early treatment compelling. Clark, Ohio S. M. J.

I Cancer-We feel certain x-rays properly applied will cure every case where the skin alone is involved. -J. C. Attix, Medical World.

¶ Gastric lavage is the sovereign remedy in acute gastritis; Na CO2, 1 dram to water 1 pint; using 2 or 3 pints.-Jones, Med. World.

Asthenic conditions and decline of mental and physical virility are accompanied by and probably due to deficiency of the hormones.-Metabolist.

¶ Out of 1,031 operations for gall-stones Deaver reported 74 deaths, or 7.18 per cent. Also 42 recurrences. A good record.-Ill. Med. Jour.

Neither doctor nor anyone else should be compelled to have for his life's aim making money-this is deadly.-Warbasse, Med. Rev. of Rev.

Radium is proving to be of the utmost value in treatment of cancer of all kinds, operable or inoperable. Howard A. Kelly, Medical World.

¶ Eclampsia-Pilocarpine is valuable but dangerous; its dangerous effects less controllable than those produced by veratrum.-Rittenhouse, A. J. C. M.

There are only a few uncertain means of preventing conception, and if these should fail the next step must be the committal of abortion.-Bulloch, So. Clin. ¶ While the mouth is virtually a bacteriologic incubator, the tissues of the mouth itself are extra well protected apparently by a hyper-leucocytosis.-R. T. Morris.

The physician has enough to do diagnosing and treating a disease without taking upon himself the prognosis-we are physicians, not prophets.-Byron Robinson.

Recurrent hemorrhages (after operation for piles) are the result of carelessness, the use of the rectal plug, or interference with the dressings.-Barnes, Lancet-Clinic.

Scabies-Sulphur precip., balsam Peru, creta prep., saponis vir., aa gr. xl; petrolatum to 1 oz. M. S. Apply twice a day for 3 days, after good scrubbing.— Russell, Med. World.

Tonsillectomy destroys not merely a possible lymphatic function of the tonsil but disturbs or destroys an important physicomechanical function.Kenyon, Ill. Med. Jour.

The speeder, careless driver or drunkard, is the same kind of a risk in automobile insurance as the epileptic or consumptive is to the life insurance company.-Mich, Motorist.

Twilight Sleep-The principal objection is that the method requires close attention on the part of the attending physician, if this can be called an objection. -Dorrell, Texas Med. Jour.

Our brains are 70-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case and gives the key into the hands of the Angel of the Resurrection.-Oliver Wendell Holmes.

The use of quinine is of no avail whatsoever in de treatment of rabies. At present this is still allative in the acute stage.-Geiger, Cal. S. J. M.

The responsibility of caring for a case should not longer be put upon the basis of visits but upon the basis of responsibility and degree of work involved.— R. T. Morris, "Drs. vs. Folks."

¶ In pregnancy symptoms of acid intoxication vary from mere morning sickness to those alarming cases of pernicious vomiting, headache, convulsions and coma.-La Rue Colgrove, Buff. Med. Jour.

¶ Gilbert describes gall-bladder colic sine expulsiona tumor may be formed by the distended gall-bladder, with some fever, pain; less severe, less acute, lasts longer than the common form.-Le Monde Med.

There is one thing against which the utmost art of the physician fails, and that is a settled conviction on the part of one's patient and the household that the former will not get well.-Am. Jour. Clin. Med. ¶ Kraepelin found that the ability to add, to memorize and to think quickly were greatly reduced within a few minutes of taking alcohol, and the handicap lasted as long as three days-Bull, C. S. S. I.

¶ I have seen more than one case of collapse in cases of pneumonia from tepid sponging, and for that reason am decidedly opposed to its employment, as to that of other antipyretics in this disease.-Singer, I. M. J.

Medical Society Calendar 1918

NATIONAL

American Public Health Assn....Chicago, Oct. 14-17 Clinical Congress of the American College of

Surgeons, New York City.........Oct. 21-26, 1918 Med. Association Southwest. Dallas, Tex., Oct. 15-16-17 Mississippi Valley Med. Assn...... .No meeting

Southern Surgical Assn....Baltimore, Md., Dec. 17-19 Southern Medical Assn....Asheville, N. C., Nov. 11-14 Secretaries of societies are requested to send us dates of their meetings.

LOYALTY AND SERVICE

Doctor, have you offered your services to your country? Service is the supreme test of loyalty, and true patriotism should inspire every man to do his duty in time of his country's need. Surgeon General Gorgas needs more doctors, and he needs them now. The increasing activities on the western front will intensify the demand for medical men. Now is the golden opportunity for you to serve your own country. And what a glorious thing to be able to say later on that you took an active part in a grand victory! Perhaps you are disqualified for active service; if so, there is ample opportunity for you in the Volunteer Medical Service Corps.

Fraternally,

CHAS. WOOD FASSETT, President. Medical Society of the Missouri Valley. Subscribe to the Fourth Liberty Loan and help hurry the final decision.

Just a golden sunrise, just a word of cheer,
Just a summer shower, just a rainbow clear;
Just a crimson sunset, just a purple hill,

Just a shaft of moonlight when the world is still,
Just a little fragrant breeze, just an azure sky;
Just the murmur of the sea, just a baby's cry;
Just a nodding flower, just a bird's sweet lay,
Just someone to greet us at the close of day,
Just a haunting melody-a half-forgotten song,
Just the glad warm sunshine through the whole day
long;

Just the doing of our bit ever willingly,

Just the chance of helping-those across the sea,
Just a friendly handclasp, just a word of love,
Just the simple knowledge God is there above;
Just an act of kindness, just a sunny smile-
These are just the things that make our life worth
while.

-Jane Arden in the People's Home Journal.

MISSOURI'S NATIVE MODESTY

Us folks, here in Mizzoury-ruther modest, as we beWe ain't no hands fer boastin' of our boys acrost the

sea.

But we try to act respectful, when there's mention of their name,

Whiles all the time a-knowin' they will win their sheer of fame.

Of course it ain't in foolishness, that people everywhere

Is a yieldin' up their flesh-an-blood, to send it over thare

An' so we ain't contendin' fer no predigested rightsWe let the glory crown a man, accordin' as he fights.

We know when history takes her pen an' spreads the scroll of fame

An' squares herself, offishally, to add another name, There'll be no hesitation, ner no quibble of her handShe'll simply white "John Pershin'" an' the world will

understand.

So, after all, Mizzoury, when the war is fit an' won, Will jog along as heretofore, without a-boastin' none, Yet, somehow, it's inherent, as the feller says, in us To sorter play a leadin' part, wherever there's a fuss!

(Contributed by "Uncle John," the sweet singer of Excelsior Springs, to the Kansas City Star.)

They are through with suffragetting,
They have laid aside their knitting;
They are gaily farmeretting

Where the butterflies are flitting

And the wiggly, woolly caterpillar feeds.

When the little meadow sparrows

Chirp their morning obligatos,

In the vegetable marrows

And the turnips and tomatoes

They are waging deadly warfare on the weeds.

And they'll bring a finer order

To the pleasant rural places;

They will trim the garden border,

Wash the cauliflowers' faces

And improve the heifer's quarters in the shed. Oh, they'll fill the land with brightness, And the bull will cease to bellow;

And they'll teach the pig politeness,

And with ditties soft and mellow
They will put the young asparagus to bed.
-Arthur Guiterman in Life.

PEACE VS. VENGEANCE

Who counsels peace at this momentous hour,
When God has given deliverance to the oppressed
And to the injured power?

Who counsels peace, when Vengeance, like a flood,
Rolls on, no longer now to be repressed
When innocent blood

From the four corners of the world cries out
For justice upon the accursed head;
When freedom hath her holy banners spread
Over all nations, now in one just cause
United; when with one sublime accord
Europe throws off the yoke abhorred,
And loyalty and faith and ancient laws
Follow the avenging sword?

-Robert Southey, 1814.

THE DOCTOR SPEAKS UP

"Doc, you charge some people more than others, don't you?" inquired the grocer. "People with money, for instance?"

"Sometimes."

"Suppose I charged you that way?"

"That would be all right, provided you didn't charge poor people anything, a custom not unknown to doctors."

Asepticize the

Mucous Surface at the Greatest

Point of Infection

Caution

As a Mouth Wash and Gargle

IODUM-MILLER, Internally, gives an antiseptic action to Alimentary Canal and overcomes Autotoxemia. It acts the part of a useful tissue stimulant, producing active phagocytosis

Pneumonia

or

Pleurisy

Locally

For especially delicate Stomachs and for Children

Antiseptic, Lubricant,

Laxative.

Indications: Constipation, Flatus, Autotoxemia, Stomach and Intestinal Catarrh, Engorgement of Colon, Etc.

Prophylaxis and

S Antiseptic treatment should disease be fully developed.

Buchanan County Medical Society

Regular meeting of the Buchanan County Medical Society was held at the Noyes Hospital Wednesday evening, Sept. 18th. Eleven members present, Doctor Daniel Morton in the chair. Doctor John I. Byrne, assisted by Doctor G. R. Stevenson, presented the following clinics:

(1) A case of senile gangrene.

(2) A case of a gun shot wound through the liver and mesentary with pulmonary abscess.

(3) Syphilitic abscess at the crest of the ilium. (4) Traumatic injury of the skull.

The following applications for membership received their first reading, and were referred to the board of censors for their investigation and report. Doctor E. A. Burgher. Doctor W. E. Pentz. Doctor Sidney Lawson. Doctor John C. Whitsell.

The following resolution was passed:

Resolved, that the chairmen appoint a committee consisting of the secretary and two other members to keep in touch with such members of the society who are in service.

Regular meeting of the society was held at the Public Library building, Wednesday evening, Oct. 2. Twenty-two members present, Doctor Daniel Morton in the chair.

The minutes of the previous meeting were read and approved, with the exception that the resolution adopted at the meeting held Sept. 18th, which applies to members and applicants for membership who were not members of the Medical Reserve Corps of the Army or Navy, or of the Volunteer Medical Service Corps, were ordered expunged from the record.

The following applications for membership received their second reading and were duly elected as follows: A. E. Burgher, Sidney Lawson, John C. Whit sell.

Applications for membership from the following received their first reading: Henry J. Ravold, E. A. Mendall.

Following bills were allowed: Lon. Hardman, $6.25; secretary, for postage, bulletin and correspondence, $3.80; Multigraph Letter Company, $9.14.

A very interesting discussion on Spanish influ enza was lead by H. DeLameter, and participated in by Doctors Good, Byrne and Wallace.

There being no further business for the society, the meeting adjourned.

W. F. GOETZE, Secretary.

The usual symptoms of chronic sepsis are, in milder cases, fatigue and diminished energy of the individual; perhaps fever and rapid pulse, anemia, bad breath and coated tongue, pus in gums and tonsils; some claim profound mental and psychic changes depend on pus foci about the teeth.-Stealy, Med. Standard.