Ethics—Drs. X. C. Scott, A. M. Sherman, E. Conn.
Obituaries—Drs. W. C. Jacobs, N. S. Everhard, E. K. Nash.
The appointments for the next meeting are as follows: Essayist, Dr. A. C. Brant; alternate, Dr. W. T. Corlett. Lecturer, Dr. E. W. Howard; alternate, Dr. B. B. Loughead. Reports of cases, Drs. McEbright, Phillips, Peck, Vance and Starr. Topic for discussion: “Functions of the Cerebellum,” to be opened by Dr. Brashear.
After tendering a vote of thanks to the city council for the use of the council chamber, and voting two dollars to the janitor of the building, the society adjourned to meet in Cleveland on the sixth of April.
A. K. Fouser, Recording Secretary.
NEW BOOKS.
‘An Essay on the Pathology of the Œsophagus.’ By John F. Knott. Dublin: Fannin & Co.
‘The Operative Treatment of Intra-Thoracic Effusion.’ By Norman Porritt, L. R. C. P., Lond., M. R. C. S., Eng. London: J. & A. Churchill.
‘On the Pathology of Bronchitis, Catarrhal Pneumonia, Tubercle, and Allied Lesions of the Human Lung.’ By D. J. Hamilton. London: Macmillan & Co.
We can well imagine the interest with which some practitioner in a comparatively isolated locality—in the sense of being far from some one of the great Atlantic cities where all new medical and surgical works are kept in stock—reads over the titles of forthcoming works in the particular department in which he is most concerned, and the eagerness with which he anticipates their arrival after he has gone so far as to order them. It may be, in this catarrhal land of ours, that it is throat and chest diseases he is studying, and that the above works excited his interest and drew from his pocket his hard earned dollars. If so, who can doubt that emotions of pleasure warmed his heart as he contemplated the instruction to be gained and the information to be acquired from their perusal? For who would dare write on the pathology of the œsophagus, if he had nothing to say? or descant on the operative treatment of intra-thoracic effusion, if he was not qualified by learning and experience to speak on the subject? But, lest the doubter be abroad in the land, look further to the vouchers of the title page or the preface. The first work on our list is “the Essay to which was awarded the Gold Medal of the Pathological Society at the close of the Session, 1876-77.” The second, “the Essay to which the Medical Society of London awarded the Fothergillian Gold Medal, 1883.” Can anything be more satisfactory? It is true that our last work boasts no such authoritative endorsement, but then as the author is a professor of pathological anatomy at Aberdeen, its other imperfections—from this standpoint—we can imagine passed by, and the book, not without misgivings, may be ultimately ordered with the rest.