lative hall, and we hope that all of our readers who have the privilege will vote for him in September and November.

The sixtieth annual convention of the American Pharmaceutical Association, held in Denver during the fourth week of August, was fairly successful, there being 480 delegates in attendance. The weather man was at his best and the visitors were entertained liberally. Mr. W. B. Day of Chicago is the new president of the society.

The old saying, "Death loves a shining mark," was exemplified when Dr. Henry S. Denison passed away suddenly from heart failure, at his home in Denver, on the evening of August 24th. Dr. Denison was only 28 years old and showed great promise

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of a brilliant and useful professional career. He was of a most happy and lovable disposition. A wife, a mother and a little daughter are left to mourn an irreparable loss.

The next meeting of the Colorado State Medical Society will be held in Pueblo, September 24-26, Dr. W. A. Jayne in the chair. Those of us who enjoyed the good times provided for us by Drs. Work and Corwin at the meeting in Pueblo ten years ago, and who are cognizant of the vigor and vim of the younger men (Adams, Baker, Epler, Pattee, Senger, Singer, et al.) expect the coming meeting to be up to the limit, and maybe a little beyond.

Sexualis. A Treatise on Sexual Impotence in Men and in Women, for Physicians and Students of Medicine. By Bernard S. Talmey, M. D., former pathologist to the Mothers' and Babies' Hospital and Gynecologist to the Yorkville Hospitai. With 19 drawings in the text. Price, $2.00. The Practitioners' Publishing Co., 12 W. 123d Street, New York.

This is a well conceived and admirably written little book upon a subject of vital importance. The text is divided into seven parts, upon sexual anatomy and physiology, psychology of sex, and the etiology, pathology, treatment and hygiene of impotence in the human male and female. The last two parts especially will aid the family physician as a peacemaker in the homes and in getting good results with a class of patients who are commonly neglected and thereby relegated to the quacks. The author says that "those who claim that abstinence is injurious to health have absolutely no ground to stand upon. If the young man kept his thoughts pure and avoided exciting amusements which create emotional disturbances, impotence would be an unusual occurrence. If the young woman would avoid puttering over her genitalia, pelvic obsession with its accompanied hysterical conditions of hyperesthetic or paresthetic erethism would be rarely met with."

M. D., New York. In two octavo volumes, with 653 illustrations. Price, $14.00. P. Blakiston's Son & Co., Philadelphia, 1912.

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The present editor of this beautiful and valuable work says in his preface: word, the purpose of the present edition of this Cyclopedia is to provide the general medical reader with a source of information on every medical subject except his own specialty." We are convinced that this purpose has been well fulfilled, and that the busy general practitioner will find the Cyclopedia an ever ready help in time of doubt or trouble. The first features which strike the reader are the clearness of type, pithiness of style and the ease with which any desired information is found, the alphabetic arrangement being largely anatomic, and bold-face headings and top catch-words facilitating the search. The numerous anatomic and differential tables are remarkably full and instructive. The 93 eminent American authors of the work have given special attention to technic and treatment, and many well-tried formulas are distributed throughout the text. Every part of the work has been thoroughly revised for the present edition,more than 200 illustrations have been added, many articles have been largely rewritten and extended, and comprehensive new articles introduced upon the following subjects, increasing the size of the books by 400 pages-Anatomic Age; Appendicitis; Autointoxication; Bier's Hyperemic TreatBlood-pressure; Breast Tumors; Brill's Disease; Treatment of Celebrospinal

Meningitis; Colon Bacillus Infection; Craniectomy; Cryoscopy; Cytology; Eclampsia; Feces; Food Adulteration; Fourth of July Accidents; Glandular Fever; Palmar Abscess; Heart-block; Hookworm Disease; Immunity; Inoscopy; Lambert's Treatment for Narcotic Addiction; Paralysis of Laryngeal Muscles; Modified Milk in Infant Feeding; Mosquitoes; Diseases of the Nasal Accessory Sinuses, Opsonin Therapy; Parasites; Paratyphoid Fever; Pellagra; Pyorrhea Alveolaris; Radium; Roentgen Rays; Sepsis; Serum Therapy; Sleeping Sickness; Extraction of Teeth; Tuberculin; Treatment of Tuberculosis; Retrodisplacements Uterus; Vaccine Therapy, and Vaginal Douche. From the standpoint of practical utility, Gould and Pyle's Cyclopedia merits a prominent place in the working library of every family physician. The more one uses it, the more it is appreciated.

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Pellagra. History, Distribution, Diagnosis, Prognosis, Treatment, Etiology. By Stewart R. Roberts, S. M., M. D., Associate Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine, Atlanta College of Physicians and Surgeons. Octavo; 272

pages; with 89 special engravings and colored frontispiece. Price, $2.50. St. Louis, C. V. Mosby Company, 1912.

It is estimated that there are about 10,000 pellagrins in the United States, chiefly in the southern states, and it is known that the malady is rapidly extending. The author says that the history of pellagra in other countries for the past two centuries warrants the belief that the United States is facing a long period during which the disease will prevail, and in which many thousand human beings will become its victims. While in Colorado previous to July, 1911, no cases were reported, in this and the following month nine cases were reported, and doubtless the disease has not always been recognized here. This monograph is not only a complete exposition of the subject, but it is also very well written. Take, for instance, a few sentences from the author's full description of the nervous symptoms of the pellagra: "He is no longer himself.

Memory begins to waver, and the recent past is more like an impotent dream. The lines and letters run after each other on the page, so that he can hardly use his mind to read. Formications, burnings, creepy feelings, coldness, numbness, run over the skin. The muscles of the legs seem rather lifeless,and the feet lift like lead. His vision is that of an old man, his face is thin, and his brow wrinkled a score of years before its time. He fears men and grows silent. His thoughts are gone, and he can no more supply his tongue with many words. Neurasthenia, sadness, hypochondria, edge on melancholy, and the mind begins to lift its tent and steal away." The characteristic facies and dermatoses of pellagra are well shown in the photographic reproductions.

E. C. H.

International Clinics. A Quarterly of illustrated Clinical Lectures and Especially Prepared Original Articles by Leading Members of the Medical Profession Throughout the World. Edited by Henry W. Cattell, A. M., M. D., Philadelphia. Price, $2.00. Vol. II, Twenty-Second Series, 1912. Philadelphia and London, J. B. Lippincott Company.

The latest number of International Clinics is full of good things, and is handsomely illustrated with numerous figures and plates. Albert Abrams begins a noteworthy series of lectures on the principles and practice of spondylotherapy. J. Madison Taylor's contribution on "Psychic Hypertension: Restoration of Mind Control by. Motor Training in Relaxation," shows the trend toward the practical utilization of psychotherapy by our foremost medical thinkers. "The Role of the Streptococcus," by W. H. Watters, is an admirable presentation of this important subject. A special symposium on anesthesia in all its forms is contributed by twelve writers. Surgeons will be interested in the paper entitled "Observations on Surgery of the Kidney," by Hubert A. Royster. Meyer Solomon concludes his essay on the science and practice of eugenics.

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The annual meeting of our State Association will be held in Ogden on the 24th and 25th, September-this month. At the time of writing we have not seen the program, but we have offered and are holding space for it. We urge those who are members to put aside their work for these two days and make an effort to be present. Those who are not members should be present as visitors, and place themselves in touch with the activities of their brother practitioners. Come, let us reason together, for by so doing we will find that "good reasons must, of force, give place to better.' The new president of the A. M. A., Dr. Jacobi, in his inaugural, made many pertinent remarks, some of which are applicable to ourselves and our own State Association. In part he said: "In order to be powerful and influential, you must not only be wise, but numerous. Our colleagues in this vast country want to be invited. Then they will come in. They must learn what we are, and where their interests are. Let the people understand the meaning of the A. M. A., and its doctors through OUR doings and not through the scurrilous lies of our and the people's enemies. MULTIPLY AND BE FERTILE. STAND STILL AWHILE AND YOU INVITE DECLINE. It is by vast numbers only that our profession will ever attain its legitimate influence in politics and in Society, and such beneficent power as Socrates, Descartes, Kant and Gladstone claimed for it."

Dr. Murphy, the retiring president, referring to the large percentage of those outside of the A. M. A.-102,000 medical men to 34,000 members, said: "Are we doing a sufficient amount of work for the every-day practitioner to keep him interested? Are we giving him sufficient for the $5.00 which he pays for his membership and the Journal or what in addition must we do to

and to obtain his support and membership? All these questions should be worked out by a body of men who have special ability and facilities to determine the cause and remedy the evil effects of this diminution in membership. The fact as it appears to me is that we have a colossal number of desirable members of the profession outside of the organization, who are not reaping the benefits in the way of education and stimulation to higher work which they should receive from this association."

These words, mutatis mutandis, apply to the Association of our own state. Out of something like five hundred qualified members of the profession in Utah, less than two hundred are members of our County Societies, and thereby members of the State Association. This means that numbers of our cities, towns and villages are wholly unrepresented in our State Medical meetings. The doctors as well as the people in these unrepresented places, have no means of knowing what we are doing. The press, subsidized as it is by the patent medicine men and those who run the so-called League of Medical Freedom, even in the cities where our annual meetings take place, display but little interest in the doctors and their doings. As a result, OUR doings are only heralded by "the scurrilous lies of our and the people's enemies." For example, the "Owen" or National Public Health bill. The doctor who is not in touch with the County Society, his State Association and the Journal of the A. M. A., is at a great disadvantage. He gets his knowledge of the subject, probably, from the subsidized press or trade journals, and being without proper facilities for mingling with and discussing the matter with his colleagues, he is often misled. He knows but little more of the reasons and details of the fight than his patients. He is unable to instruct them as to the facts, or to explain the inside

history or indicate the personages who make up and control this league of blatant obstructionists. He is handi

capped through lack of association with his professional brethren, and both he and his patients are at the mercy of "OUR and the people's enemies." Scurrilous lies are told and some of the busy-bodies in their ignorance, telegraph to their senators in Washington that they are against the public health bill, or as a matter of fact, any other health measure for the benefit of "humans" that in any way touches their "craft," or the "setting of it at naught." To understand what is being done by these uneducated maligners in the name of FREEDOM, read the extract from the Congressional Record printed in the June issue of this Journal, pages 535-538. Senator Jones unblushingly read to his colleagues in the United States Senate the following, amongst other concoctions of lies and ignorance. Senator Jones hails from Oregon, and his correspondent telegraphing from Seattle, we wonder at whose expense, says: "The world is Sound and moving on. Modern physiologic pathologists by sheer merit are rapidly supplanting allopathic pretensions. In desperation allopaths are seeking to recover prestige through gag legislation and state medicine, crushing with ignorant force an enlightened and aspiring people. For sake of truth and humanity, kill Owen bill. (Signed) Dr. P. Rudolph." (Note the use of the title. No such name is to be found in the list of physicians as published in the Standard Directory of Physicians.) Senator Owen, in referring to this and the other mendacious effusions, said: "Those artificial telegrams which are sent here-artificial in the sense that they are instigated by a private interest-serve no useful purpose except perhaps to confuse the minds of those. who do not understand what it really means.'

In the words of Dr. Jacobi, the pro

fession, "in order to be powerful and influential, must not only be wise but numerous. Our colleagues want to be invited then they will come in. They must learn what we are and where their interests are. What is the Utah State Association doing to make itself powerful, influential, wise and numerous? Is the Association making any special effort to bring those who are qualified of these three hundred who are now on the outside, into the fold? If so, how? Are these brethren being taught what we are, and where their interests are? The Association as a body is dormant from one October to the next. Whose duty then, is it to bring them in? The County Society's? Yes. But, who is seeing to it that the County does its duty? The Association should do so through the body specially designated for that purpose. The State Medical Council, consisting of the three District Councilors with the President and State Secretary as ex-officio members. This body of men surely meets Dr. Murphy's requirements-they have the "special ability and facilities to determine the cause and remedy the evil effects of this diminution in membership." Has the Secretary, President, Chairman or any member of the State Medical Council called the Council together during the past or preceding years to consider this and other matters affecting the interests and well being of the profession in this State? Echo answers, no. It is not suggested that the present Council is less interested. than their predecessors, but they should be wiser than those who started out without any precedents to guide them, and with by-laws that in their working. have proved inefficient for the practical carrying out of some parts of the outlined work. Collective experience in 1910 suggested that the Council should meet at least once in THREE MONTHS, but although so instructed by the House of Delegates, no apparent effort was made to do so, and in 1911 the Junior