He who reads Dr. Osler's essay, and we strongly urge every thinking man to do so, will find abundant reason for retaining it in his library even at the sacrifice of many a far more pretentious volume. GESCHICHTE DER MEDICIN UND DER KRANKHEITEN, unter Mitwirkung der Herren Priv.-Docent Dr. von Györy (Budapest), DDr. O. Albrecht, J. Bloch, H. Michel, Fr. Struntz (Berlin), Lachs (Krakau), bearbeitet von Prof. Dr. J. Pagel in Berlin. Sonder-Abdruck aus Virchow's Jahresbericht der gesammten Medicin. 1903. Bd. 1. [Berlin, A. Hirschwald, 1904.] 366426 pp. 8vo. No student of the history of medicine should be without this valuable reprint which gives so complete a bibliography of the current contributions to the literature of medical history. A short and succinct digest is given of the more important articles, and Dr. Pagel and his co-workers have done their work admirably. No valuable contribution in any language seems to have escaped their careful scrutiny. NEW JOURNALS. American Journal of Urology. Edit. by H. G. Spooner. Vol. 1, No. 1, Oct., 1904. Monthly. New York, The Grafton Press, 70 Fifth Ave. Yearly, $3.00. Archives Internationales de Physiologie. Publiées par L. Frédéricq et Paul Heger. Vol. 1, No. 1, April, 1904. Liège, H. Vaillant-Carmanne; Paris, O. Doin. Yearly, 20 fr. Jahrbuch der Radioaktivität und Elektronik. Unter Mitarbeit von S. A. Arrhenius [et al.]. Hrsg. von J. Stark. Quarterly. Leipzig, S. Hirzel, 1904. Yearly, 16 M. Journal (The) of the Malaya Branch of the British Medical Association. N. S., Vol. 1, No. 1, Jan., 1904. Singapore, Kelly & Walsh. Yearly, $1.00. on Publication. Journal of the Medical Society of New Jersey. Published every Yearly, $2.00; Ophthalmology. Essays, Abstracts and Reviews. Vol. 1, No. 1, Oct., 1904. Issued Quarterly. H. V. Würdemann, M.D., Managing Editor and Publisher, 105 Grand Ave., Milwaukee, Wis. Yearly, $5.00; Single number, $1.50. Radium (Le). La Radioactivité et les Radiations les Sciences qui s'y rattachent et leurs Applications. Vol. 1, No. 1, Jan., 1904. Paris, Masson & Cie. Published Monthly. Yearly, 15 fr. Zentralblatte f. physikalische Therapie und Unfallheilkunde. Unter Ständiger Mitarbeit der Herren: F. Bähr, W. Becker [et al.]. Redigiert von A. Hoffa und A. Bum. Vol. 1, No. 1, July, 1904. Wien & Berlin, Urban & Schwarzenberg. Yearly, 12 M. Zwanglose Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Elektrotherapie und Radiologie und verwandter Disziplinen der medizinischen Elektrotechnik. Hrsg. von H. Kurella und A. v. Luzenberger. Leipzig, J. A. Barth, 1904. Heft 1. 0.80 M. NOTES AND NEWS. Dr. Wm. Osler, of Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md., has been appointed Regius Professor of Medicine at the University of Oxford. Dr. Osler succeeds Sir John Burdon Sanderson in this position, and will leave America next year to take up his new duties in England. Dr. Kenneth W. Millican has resigned from the editorial staff of the New York Medical Journal to assume editorial charge of the St. Louis Medical Review. Prof. Puschmann's bequest of 500,000 marks to the University of Leipzig for the purpose of furthering the study of the history of medicine has been paid to the University and will soon be applied. Plans have been made for an historical museum of medicine and special instruction in medico-historical research and writing. For the positions of a salaried director and assistant the names of Sudhoff and von Oefele have been suggested. Mr. Henry S. Wellcome, Snow Hill Buildings, London, E.C., of the firm of Burroughs, Wellcome & Co., will shortly hold in London an historical exhibition of rare and curious objects relating to medicine, chemistry, pharmacy and the allied sciences. In a circular sent to the medical profession he states: "There is a considerable amount of information scattered throughout the world in folk-lore, early manuscripts, and printed books, but the difficulties of tracing out and sifting the evidence are considerable. I anticipate that the exhibition will lead to the revealing of many facts, and the elucidation of many obscure points in connection with the origins of various medicines. It should also bring to light many objects of historical interest hitherto known only to the owners and their personal friends. I should greatly value any information sent me in regard to medical traditions or references to ancient treatment in manuscripts, printed works, etc. It is my desire ultimately to place before the profession, in a collected form, all the information which I obtain. . . I need hardly say that great care will be taken of everything sent on loan, and all exhibits will be insured. Packing and carriage, both ways, will be paid by me. Hints and suggestions in connection with the exhibition will be much appreciated." The classification of the proposed exhibits is as follows: Section 1. Paintings, drawings, engravings, prints, photographs, silhouettes, medallions, sculptures and casts of historical interest of: (a) Distinguished physicians, surgeons, alchemists, apothecaries, chemists, pharmacists, nurses, etc.; (b) ancient British and Foreign medical, chemical and pharmaceutical institutions; (3) important and interesting events in the history of medicine, chemistry and pharmacy. Section 2. Rare and curious manuscripts, incunabula, books, periodicals, pamphlets and book-plates on, and connected with, medical, chemical, pharmaceutical and allied scientific subjects. Section 3. Letters, prescriptions, autographs, records of experiments, ancient diplomas, licenses, instruments, apparatus, and other personal relics of medical, pharmaceutical and chemical interest. Section 4. Curiosities of medicine: (a) Materia medica of all ages. Specimens of ancient medicines in all forms; (b) formulæ of all ages; (c) ancient and modern medicine chests-civil, military and naval; (d) votive offerings for health; ancient and modern amulets, amuletic medicines, medals, tokens, seals, emblems, charms and talismans. Medical relics of savage and primitive peoples; (e) ancient corporate insignia and early diplomas in medicine granted by British and Foreign colleges; (f) rare and curious memorials of medical practice; (g) memorials of medication by animal substances; (h) memorials of the influence of astrology on medicine. Section 5. Curiosities of surgery: (a) Relics of ancient and medieval surgery, dentistry and veterinary surgery; (b) ancient and medieval hospital equipment; (c) curiosities of anatomy, and curious anatomical models; (d) historical and ancient surgical instruments, appliances, etc.; (e) ancient corporate insignia and early diplomas in surgery granted by British and Foreign colleges; (f) instruments used in surgery by primitive peoples. Section 6. Curiosities of pharmacy: (a) Quaint pharmaceutical recipes; (b) scales, weights, and measures of all ages; (c) ancient stills, mortars and pharmaceutical implements; (d) curious bottles, carboys, retorts, alembics, ointment jars, drug jars ewers, mills, etc.; (e) curious laboratory apparatus; (f) ancient prescription books and price lists; (g) ancient counter bills, labels, business cards, curious advertisements and trade tokens; (h) ancient apothecaries' shop signs, early shop fittings and appliances; (i) early pharmaceutical specialties, and specimens of obsolete and strange medical combinations; (j) old travelers' advice-books, curious orders, etc. Section 7. Curiosities of allied sciences: (a) Ancient herbaria, abnormal plant forms; (b) curious magnetic and electrical appliances; (c) curious relics of dental surgery, early artificial dentures, ancient instruments, etc. Section 8. Historical apparatus associated with important discoveries in medicine, chemistry and pharmacy. Section 9. Preventive medicine, public health, tropical medicine, objects of interest, ancient and modern, connected with the treatment of plague and pestilence, exhibits illustrative of physiology, anthropology, microscopy, bacteriology, biology and geography, toxicology, (curious poisons and historical objects connected with famous poisoning cases). Section 10. Nursing and ambulance: Early hospital and general nursing, infant nursing, ambulance appliances, ancient feeding cups and bottles, naval and military nursing and ambulance appliances and equipments, portraits of famous nurses, relics and objects of interest associated with nurses. Section 11. Curiosities of photography: Objects illustrating the invention and history of photography, early cameras and apparatus, daguerreotypes, portraits of the pioneers of photography, original papers and early MSS. on photography, application of photography to medicine, early X-ray apparatus. Section 12. Adulteration and falsification of drugs, medicines, foodstuffs, fabrics, and of any articles affecting health, or associated with medicine, chemistry, pharmacy and allied sciences. A committee has recently been formed of representatives of the Alumni Societies of the University of Pennsylvania and of the Historical Club of the Medical Department (which originated the movement) to prepare and publish a full catalogue of the alumni from the origin of the University to the present day. This work will require much time and labor for its completion, but when prepared it will meet a want that has become more and more urgent as the University has grown older and larger. The Boston Medical Library plans to extend its functions and become virtually an Academy of Medicine. A series of general and special medical meetings has been planned for the ensuing year and a partial program of these, together with a circular of information and invitation has been widely distributed. "The object is to unite in one body the best members of the profession of Greater Boston; and, as far as possible, of the whole State." The Boston Medical Library has received a bequest of $150,ooo in the will of the late Mrs. Sarah Potter, of Boston, Mass. Mrs. Pauline C. Lane, who was the wife of the late Dr. L. C. Lane, has made a bequest to the Cooper Medical College, San Francisco, Cal., for the erection of a medical library building to be known as the "Levi Cooper Lane Library of Medicine and Surgery," in memory of her husband. Plans for the building of the library have not yet definitely been settled upon, but every effort will be made to make the library one of the best on the Pacific Coast. Mr. Frank T. Fisher, of New York City, has donated the medical library of his father, the late Dr. H. M. Fisher, of Akron, O., to the Summit County Medical Society. The collection is to be known as the "H. M. Fisher Medical Library," and will become a part of the Akron Public Library. Mr. Fisher has promised to give $100 annually for the purchase of new books. The Ontario Medical Library Association has acquired the Thorne residence, 9 Queen's Park, Toronto, Canada, for its library building. The site is worth about $12,000, and its purchase was made possible by the Massey estate's subscription of $5,000; Dr. Wm. Osler's, of $1,000; Mr. Timothy Eaton's, Mr. George Gooderham's and Mr. E. B. Osler's, of $500 each, and by the contributions of the balance by the medical profession and others. The Association's library of about 8,000 volumes will be moved into its |