SUBJECTS FOR DISCUSSION AND FOR THE PREPA-
RATION OF MONOGRAPHS.

I. Quarantine.

together again next June, they will lay aside that | William R. Mandeville, New Orleans, La.; N. modesty so natural to men of true science, and R. Milner, New Orleans, La.; H. L. Orme, Los not only correct the present error, but, if they Angeles, Cal.; R. H. Reed, Mansfield, Ohio; meet there in the capital of the nation all the other W. L. Schenck, Osage City, Kan.; C. M. Smith, specialist organizations to form a confederated Franklin, Ohio; R. M. Swearingen, Austin, Congress, do not permit the repetition of a simi- Texas; M. K. Taylor, United States Army; G. lar mistake by calling it "The Congress of Ameri- B. Thornton, Memphis, Tenn.; William M. can Physicians and Surgeons," as has been pro- Welch, Philadelphia, Pa. posed, and which would suggest to all the outside world only a gathering of ordinary members of the profession, but insist boldly on its being called honestly and plainly "The Congress of American Specialists." For it would be a sad reflection if, after assembling annually on the banks of the Potomac and enduring a June sweat for a decade, they found themselves well-nigh forgotten, and all for the want of a title sufficiently distinctive to secure the attention of the learned in all parts of the world. Let no one suppose that the foregoing comments are prompted by any feeling of opposition to the new association. We are perfectly willing that both specialism and exclusiveism shall have fair play in an open field, but it is no more than right to claim that every ship should sail under its own flag.- Journal of Amer. Med. Association.

a. History of quarantine.
b. Conduct of quarantine stations.
c. Sanitation of ships.

d. Sanitation of maritime ports.

e. Regulation and control by sea and land of such diseases as yellow fever, Asiatic cholera, Oriental plague, Oriental leprosy, typhus, and typhoid fevers, smallpox, scarlatina, and measles. f. The relations of the duration of quarantine as determined by the natural history of various diseases, and more especially by the period of incubation of their specific poisons.

g. Value of heat (dry heat and heated steam) and steam in the disinfection and cleansing of infected vessels.

NINTH INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CONGRESS. h. Relative value of sulphuric acid and other -The Ninth International Medical Congress, to agents, as carbolic acid, sulphate of iron, and bibe held in Washington, D. C., commencing Sep-chloride of mercury in disinfection. tember 5, 1887:

PRELIMINARY ORGANIZATION.

SECTION XIV. PUBLIC AND INTERNATIONAL

HYGIENE.

i. Describe the apparatus for the application of disinfectants.

7. Land quarantine, its value and mode of conduction.

m. The proper structure, ventilation, and conduct of railroads so as to prevent the dissemina

n. Shall the General Governments of the civilized world assume control of all the quarantine systems, and by mutual consent reduce the entire subject of quarantine to order and apply the most improved methods of sanitation and disinfection?

j. Quarantine should embrace not merely de-. tention, but also thorough cleansing and disinfecPresident, Joseph Jones, M.D., of New Or- tion. Whenever necessary, the cargo should he leans, La. Vice-Presidents, John Simon, 40 Ken-discharged and thoroughly aired and fumigated. sington Square, W. London; B. W. Richardson, k. Structure and conduct of quarantine hospi25 Manchester Square, W. London; J. W. tals. Thudicum, 11 Pembroke Garden, W. London; A. N. Bell, Brooklyn, N. Y.; J. N. McCormick, Bowling Green, Ky.; J. Berrien Lindsey, Nashville, Tenn.; J. F. Y. Paine, Galveston, Texas. Secretaries, George H. Rohé, Baltimore, Md.;tion of contagious and infectious diseases. Walter Wyman, United States Marine Hospital Service. Council, Thomas Antisell, Washington, D. C.; Le Baron Bottsford, St. Johns, New Brunswick; Henry Carpenter, Lancaster, Pa.; Richard H. Day, Baton Rouge, La.; J. W. Dupui, Baton Rouge, La.; Oscar DeWolf, Chicago, Illinois; Landon B. Edwards, Richmond, Va.; James Finney, New Orleans, La.; Wiley K. Foot, New Orleans, La.; Albert L. Gihon, Washington, D. C.; E. L. B. Godfrey, Camden, N. J.; D. W. Hand, St. Paul, Minn.; Thomas Hebert, New Iberia, La.; Charles H. Hewitt, Red Wing, Minn.; Joseph Holt, New Orleans, La.; Stanhope Jones, New Orleans, La.; Benjamin Lee, Philadelphia, Pa.; Henry Leffman, Philadelphia, Pa.; J. R. Le Monnier, New Orleans, La.; Henry F. Lyster, Detroit, Mich.; A. W. Leighton, New Haven, Conn.;

o. Shall the government of the United States assume charge of the entire subject of quarantine and relieve the individual States of the Union of all further responsibility of regulating quarantine either with foreign countries or with each other?

II. Military Hygiene.

a. Food of the soldier.
b. Clothing of the soldier.

c. Exercise of rest; effects of infantry, cavalry,
artillery, and bicycle exercise upon the soldier.
d. Shelter. Structure of tents.

e. Water supply of armies; method of testing | IX. Influence of Alcohol upon the Public Health. and improving.

f. Military prisoners and military prisons.

g. The establishment of uniform rules to be recognized by all civilized nations for the treatment, food, and clothing of military prisoners, and for the regular and continuous exchange of all military prisoners.

h. Hygienic arrangements of field and general hospitals.

III. Naval Hygiene.

IV. Structure and Arrangement of Prisons and
Treatment of Prisoners.

a. Treatment of prisoners: food, clothing, and occupation.

a. Wine.

b. Malt liquors.

c. Distilled liquors.

X. Influence of Narcotics upon the Public
Health.

a. Tobacco.

b. Cannabis indicus.

c. Opium and its preparations.

d. Chloral hydrate, chloroform, and ether. XI. Influence of the Electric Light upon the Public Health.

XII. Influence of the Modern Modes of Travel upon Public Health.

a. Effects of railroad travel in inducing paralysis.

b. Has the State the right to work prisoners in swamps and marshes, and cause the destruction b. Hygienic structure and conduct of railroad of human life by the neglect of all the laws of hy-trains so as to avoid the introduction and dissemigiene? nation of infectious and contagious diseases. c. Structure and arrangement of sailing and steamships.

c. Are not deaths occasioned amongst prisoners by cruelty, overwork, scant clothing, poor food, directly chargeable against the officials composing the government, whether acting in behalf of a city, county, state, or government? V. Structure, Hygienic Arrangements, and Ventilation of Buildings.

d. Hygienic regulations of officers, crews, and passengers.

XIII. Relations of Filth to Public Health. a. Relative merits of the various plans of sewerage and of the disposal of garbage and

a. Proper condition of the soil for the location fecal matter. of buildings.

b. Relations of building material to moisture and to fire.

b. Organization of the scavenger force.

c. Best method of disposing of the dead.

d. Effects of putrefaction in the dissemination

c. Public buildings: legislative halls, depots, of the disease germs of contagious and infectious churches, etc.

d. School-houses and colleges.

e. Factories.

f. Dwellings.

VI. Influence of Agriculture on Public Health. a. Influence of overflows on the public health. b. Importance of drainage; clearage of swamps, marshes, and land generally.

c. Influence of the cultivation of rice on the public health.

diseases, such as cholera, yellow fever, smallpox, measles, scarlet fever, etc.

e. Cremation.

XIV. Relations of Disease Germs to the Origin and Spread of Contagious and Infectious Diseases, and to Endemic and Epidemic Diseases.

a. Relations of malaria to the public health. b. Nature of the malarial poison.

c. Physical, chemical, and microscopical char

d. Influence of cotton, tobacco, sugar, and in-acters of the poison or cause of the following disdigo culture on the public health.

VII. Food and its Adulterations.

a. Influence of different methods of preserving

food on the public health.

b. Influence of canned food upon the public health.

c. The injurious effects of lead, copper, tin, zinc, antimony, etc., upon food; said metals being used for culinary vessels, dishes, and receptacles.

VIII. Relations of Water to the Public Health.
a. Properties of wholesome potable water.
b. Water supplies of cities.

c. Proper supply to each inhabitant, etc. Transmission of disease germs through the medium of

water.

eases: Yellow fever, typhoid fever, typhus fever, relapsing fever, measles, scarlatina, syphilis, phthisis, Oriental leprosy, elephantiasis, small

pox.

that the book is complete and, at the same time, handy for reference, thoroughly modern in its teachings, and, with a few exceptions, safely to be confided in and followed.

illustrated by four engravings. The third chap- | the above than most writers, but we think more ter is devoted to caseous degeneration and tuber- care to this feature would add greatly to the culosis of the mesenteric glands, or tabes mesen-merit of a work. In conclusion we would add terica. The fourth chapter embraces diseases of the liver, jaundice, congestion, fatty liver, amyloid, syphilitic inflammation of the liver, and cirrhosis, are all treated of. Chapter five embraces diseases of the peritoneum. This book, we think, is a valuable one, and well worthy of a place in the library of the physician.

A Manual of Midwifery. By ALFRED LEWIS GALABIN, M.A., M.D., Obstetric Physician and Lecturer on Midwifery and the Diseases of Women, to Guy's Hospital, London. P. Blakiston, Son & Co., 1012 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 1886.

Quiz-Compend of Pharmacy. By F. E. STEWART, M.D., Ph.G. P. Blakiston, Son & Co., 1012 Walnut Street, Philadelphia.

This compend, the eleventh of a new series of compends for students, is based upon Professor Joseph P. Remington's Text Book of Pharmacy." It shows much care in the preparation, and, if well studied by the candidate for gradution, would certainly go far towards supplying him with a condensed, and, at the same time, extensive, review of the subject in hand.

The Principles and Practice of Surgery. By
FRANK HASTINGS HAMILTON, A.M., M.D.,
LL.D., late Professor of the Practice of Surgery,
with Operations, and of Clinical Surgery, in
Bellevue Hospital Medical College; Consult-
ing Surgeon of the Bellevue Hospital, etc., etc.
Illustrated with 472 engravings on wood.
Third edition, revised and corrected. New
York: William Wood & Co., 1886.

The first edition of this work was given to the public in 1872. The favorable reception of that and a second edition a year later, preclude the necessity of an extended notice of this, the third

edition.

The volume before us is one of the latest, if not the latest, treatise published on the subject of midwifery. It is fully up to the times. To attempt abstracting the work to any extent would be a task far exceeding the time and space allotted; so we shall be compelled merely to note a point here and there. When speaking of anæsthetics in labor, the doctor says that in the great majority of cases chloroform is the one to be chosen. "Even when it is necessary to give it to the full surgical extent, as in obstetric operations, it does not appear to involve the same increased risk, as compared with other anæsthetics, such as ether, which it does in ordinary cases." "The explanation of this is probably to be found in the physiological hypertrophy of the heart, which occurs during pregnancy, and perhaps, also, to some extent, in the high abdominal pressure due to the presence of the pregnant uterus." When discussing the subject of physometra, the author states that he has met with a case of the so-called vagitus uterinus during version, performed on account of contraction of the brim. "The child was still-born, but, on post-mortem examination, partial distension of its lungs was found, such as would generally be considered as proof of live birth. This medico-surgical operation, it is useful. legal test of live birth is, therefore, open to possible fallacy under these circumstances." The doctor, under the heading of treatment in congenital encephalocele, speaks as follows: "Forceps will generally slip off the head, and it is not usually worth while to attempt delivery by version, since the child is probably never capable of prolonged life. For the same reason there is no object in puncturing with a small trocar, in order to secure a living child, unless it should be of legal importance to secure the birth of a child, even though it lives for only a short time." We should be inclined to say that it is important to secure a living child for a short time, even if of no legal consequence, rather than kill it outright. Dr. Galabin is not, perhaps, more oblivious to moral law in his treatment of kindred subjects to

This book will continue to be a favorite one with the students who have enjoyed the privilege of listening to the lectures of its distinguished author. And to those practitioners of a conservative turn of mind, who desire a book to which they may turn and hurriedly review the surgical anatomy, and necessary steps to be taken in a

This edition of the book does not materially differ from the two former which have preceded it, except in the fact that a supplementary chapter has been added. This chapter is upon "The Art of Primary Union, or Union by Adhesion in Large Incised Wounds; With a Consideration of the Value of Antiseptics in These and Other Wounds."

In this chapter the author demolishes the specious claims of the Listerian school, and shows that the favorable results which have been obtained by the antiseptic method of treating wounds, has not been because of the exclusion of a multitude of supposititious germs, but because in the exercise of it, it was necessary to comply with conditions known and taught by surgeons more than a hundred years ago.

But let the author speak for himself. He says, | since the second edition of this work was issued, page 949: "The several conditions necessary for the union of large wounds by adhesion are not now for the first time declared. Their first enunciation was made substantially in the latter part of the last century, and were repeated often by systematic writers. They were part of my earliest lessons in surgery, and have been taught and practised by me during all my professional life up to the present time. I believe, also, that a strict compliance with these rules constitutes the only grounds for the superior success of some surgeons, as compared with the success of others, at the present day."