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the Board of Trustees, responded to the toast of "Our Guests." Mr. Larkin announced that he would give a prize to the ex-house officer who made the best contribution to medical literature between now and the time of the next meeting.

Among those present were : Dr. J. F. W. Ross, Dr. J. N E. Brown, Superintendent of the General Hospital; Dr. H. A. Bruce, Dr. C. Trow, Dr. H. Parsons, Dr. Hillary, Aurora; Dr. Chas. Temple, Dr. Edw. Gallie, Dr. T. D. Meikle, Mount Forest; Dr. C. Campbell, Dr. H. Hutchinson, Dr. G. Boyd, Dr. W. B. Hendry, Dr. Taylor, Goderich; Dr. Winnett, Dr. Burrows, Seaforth; Dr. Donald McGillivray, Dr. Fred Rolph, Dr. A. Caulfield, Dr. W. Charlton, Weston; Dr. W. Carswell, Dr. Harris, Dr. Canfield, Dr. J. A. Kinnear, Dr. John Malloch, Dr. A. Davies.

The annual election of officers resulted as follows: President, Dr. A. Taylor, Goderich; Vice-President, Dr. Fred Fenton; Secretary, Dr. J. N. E. Brown; Treasurer, Dr. W. B. Hendry; General Council, Dr. W. J. Charlton, Dr. H. A. Bruce, and Dr. Stanley Ryerson.

Dr. Futcher conducted a clinic open to the medical profession at the General Hospital.

Dr. J. F. W. Ross presented to the Association a framed picture, showing the Toronto General Hospital as it was 50 years ago and as it is at present.

AMERICAN MEDICAL EDITORS' ASSOCIATION.

The annual meeting of this Society will be held at the Auditorium Hotel, Chicago, on May 30th and June 1st. An extensive and interesting programme has been prepared and every member of the Association is urged to be present, and editors of medical magazines, not now affiliated with this Society, are also invited to meet with them.

Do not forget the date, Saturday, May 30th and Monday, June 1st.

BRITISH COLUMBIA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.

The Ninth Annual Meeting of the British Columbia Medical Association will be held in Vancouver on the 20th and 21st of August next, and we should be very pleased to have any members of the profession present from the Eastern Provinces.

A number of papers have been promised, and some interesting discussions are expected, especially on the question of School Hygiene.

The officers of the Association are:- President, Dr. J. M. Pearson, Vancouver, B.C.; Vice-President, Dr. D. Corsan, Fernie; Treasurer, Dr. J. D. Helmcken, Victoria; Secretary, Dr. R. Eden Walker, New Westminster, B. C.

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Persistent suppuration in a mastoid wound in most cases, means dead bone at the bottom of the cavity.

An opaque growth on the eyeball in a child is likely to be a dermoid growth-that is a growth of skin epithelium on the conjunctiva.

A stye is often most easily treated by the removal of the hair in the infected follicle and the subsequent application of iced boracic acid compresses.

Syphilitic interstitial orchitis resembles closely in appearance new growth of the testicle. Unless the diagnosis of neoplasm is beyond all doubt, an active course of specific treatment should be tried before removing the organ.

AN abscess of the right ovary may give the same signs and symptoms as acute fulminating appendicitis. If an incision for appendicetomy is made, it should be of sufficient length and low enough down to allow of careful examination of the right adnexa.American Journal of Surgery.

Physician's Library.

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Cosmetic Surgery: The Correction of Featural Imperfections. BY CHARLES C. MILLER, M.D. Second Edition Enlarged. cluding the description of numerous operations for improving the appearance of the face. 160 pages. 96 illustrations. Prepaid $1.50. Published by the author, 70 State St., Chicago.

That a second edition of this little book has been called for in so short a space of time, shows that it has been received with encouragement. The little book is profusely illustrated for an effort of its size and scope. No doubt it fills a niche of its own in the minor realms of surgery, which has to do with the corrections of featural defects.

International Clinics. Volume I, Eighteenth Series, 1908.

This admirable and well-received quarterly by the profession, starts 1908 exceedingly well. There is a splendid article on the Sanatorium, by Dr. L. Brown, of Saranac Lake, quite appropriate. at this time when the sanatorial treatment of tuberculosis is so much to the fore; another of equally good production on the opsonic test for diagnosis and of the employment of vaccines in certain infective conditions in children. Two in the department of medicine, the para-typhoid fevers and mucous colitis, are educating, and one by Dr. Rudolf, of Toronto, decidedly interesting-the normal temperature of the body. Several articles on surgery, gynecology, neurology and pathology, with a concise, up-to-date review of medicine in 1907, completes a good volume.

Diseases of the Nose and Throat. BY HERBERT TILLEY, B.S. (Lond), F.R.C.S. (Eng.), surgeon to the Ear and Throat Department, University College Hospital; teacher of Laryngology and Otology, University of London; formerly surgeon to the Golden Square Throat Hospital, London. Third Edition; with one hundred and twenty-six illustrations. Price, 14 shillings. London: II. K. Lewis, 136 Gower St., W.C., 1908.

This third edition of what was formerly known as Hall and Tilley's Diseases of Nose and Throat, has been prepared by Mr.

Tilley alone, along the lines of the two former editions. The author has, we think, wisely refrained from entering upon a lengthy description of the anatomy of the parts under discussion, contenting himself with a very brief and very-much-to-the-point resume of these details. For the rest we can only say the work is thoroughly complete and up-to-date as far as it goes, but we are inclined to think that the time honored rule of associating only disease of nose and throat together, should give way to the association of diseases of nose, throat and ear, since in every day practice they are so often associated. The text and illustrations are very clear and probably above the average of those met with in similar works.

Wellcome's Photographic Exposure Record and Diary, 1908.

Wellcome's Photographic Exposure Record and Diary banishes the greatest obstacle to success in photography-that of correctly estimating exposure. The actual determination of correct exposure is made by means of an ingenious little mechanical calculator attached to the cover of the book. A single turn of a single scale is all that is necessary. This little instrument with its accompanying tables giving the value of the light at all times of the day and year, and its list of the relative speeds of more than 180 plates and films, is alone worth more than the cost of the whole book. It certainly saves doxens of plates which would otherwise be wasted owing to errors in exposure.

This calculator is, however, but part of the book, which contains a full article explaining all the conditions governing exposure, with special illustrations and tables for interior work, for telephotography, for copying, enlarging and reducing, for moving objects, for night photography, and for printing by artificial light. In addition, there are tables of weights and measures-imperial and metric-notes on focussing by scale, customs regulations, a temperature chart, a full article on development, and directions for toning, intensification, reduction and similar photographic operations, by the simplest and most satisfactory methods available.

Bound up with these printed pages of condensed photographic information is a complete diary for 1908, together with ruled pages for systematically recording the details of over 300 exposures; also pages for memoranda, and for recording the exposures when printing on bromide, platinotype, carbon and other printing

papers.

The book is enclosed in a neat wallet cover, lettered in gold, and fitted with a pencil and a pocket for storing proofs, etc. A new and important feature of the 1908 edition is, that it entitles purchasers to a hanging card for the dark room, giving the relative exposures required when using any one of 84 varieties of bromide paper or lantern slides.

The addition of a handy table for calculating exposures in photography at night is another new and useful feature. Price in Montreal, 30 cents.

Bier's Hyperemic Treatment in Surgery, Medicine, and all the Specialties: A Manual of Its Practical Application. BY WILLY MEYER, M.D., Professor of Surgery at the New York PostGraduate Medical School and Hospital; and Professor Dr. VICTOR SCHMIEDEN, Assistant to Professor Bier at Berlin University, Germany. Octavo of 209 pages, illustrated. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders Company, 1908.

Cloth, $3.00

net. Canadian Agents: J. A. Carveth & Co., Ltd., Toronto. The medical profession will be glad to hear this book has been issued, as they are daily more and more interesting themselves in the Bier treatment, in medicine, surgery, and specialties. As the American author, one of the country's well-known surgeons, has been interested in, and has employed, this treatment ever since its introduction into America, fifteen years ago, his practical results will carry with them a good measure of weight. It apparently seems there is a wide field for the employment of the treatment; so the book, as a pioneer, will be heartily received. From the standpoint of the bookmaker's art, it is a high-class production.

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