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Three Clinical Lecttl1’eS on the Diagnosis and Treatment o fReetal Diseases. By F. C. WALLIS, F.R.C.S. Eng., AssistantSurgeon to Charing Cross Hospital and to St. Mark’s Hospital.London : The Medical Publishing Company, Limited. 1902.

Pp. 87.-These three lectures were delivered last year at

the Medical Graduates’ College and Polyclinic and were pub-lished in the Clinical Jou’l’nal. They contain a very readableaccount of the more common lesions met with in the rectumand the treatment is described with especial fulness. i

While the book on the whole is representative of the

general teaching of the surgery of this region Mr. Wallisis not afraid to think for himself and several original ideasare given and well supported by pathological and clinicalevidence. Mr. Wallis holds that pruritus ani is nearly alwaysdue to a small shallow ulcer of the mucous membranesituated between the two sphincters, frequently in the

posterior part of the circumference. He finds that the

healing of this ulcer is followed by a cessation of theirritation. We are in accord with his contention that thecommon non-malignant ulceration of the rectum is generallynot syphilitic in origin, as is often taught, but probablyseptic. The lectures were well worth reprinting.

Hazell’s Annual, 1903: a Cyclopaedic Record of Men andYvpies of the day. Revised to Dec. 31st, 1902. Edited by W.PALMER, B.A. Lond. London : Hazell, Watson, and Viney,Limited. Pp. 750. Price 3s. 6d. net.-This valuable workof reference has been published this year about a monthlater than usual in order to include a complete recordof events for 1902, including the Education Act, the

Metropolis Water Act, and the new scheme for the entryand training of naval officers issued on Christmas Day. Allthe permanent features of the book have been revised andrewritten and the policy of classifying and grouping cognatearticles has been carried still further. Reference is madeto the bequests of Mr. Cecil Rhodes and the public-housetrust movement, and among other new articles are those onChristian Science, Consumption Sanatoriums, British and

Foreign Copyright, London Medical Schools, Motor

Vehicles, and the Nobel Foundation. There is also a

valuable summary of the debates and legislation of the

session of 1902, including a detailed analysis of all the

principal Acts passed, all the principal Bills introduced,and the reports of Parliamentary committees and RoyalCommissions. In "Hazell’s Annual," indeed, is to be foundthe true meaning of multum in parvo and conciseness hasbeen obtained without obscurity.

JOURNALS AND MAGAZINES.

The Review of Neurology and Psychiatry opens its firstnumber with original articles on Local Panatrophy, by SirWilliam Gowers ; on Psychiatry in General Hospitals, by SirJohn Sibbald; and on the Relative Frequency of Dis-seminated Sclerosis in this country and in America. Theseare followed by abundant abstracts from foreign reviews andjournals, giving an excellent résurné of current practicalwork bearing on neurology and medical psychology. The

articles and abstracts are both interesting and attractiveand cannot fail to give the review a healthy send off " onwhat we hope may prove to be a successful career. The

editor, Dr. Alexander Bruce, is himself a well-known workerand his name is a guarantee that readers of the new

periodical will find their time profitably spent in its perusal.The review will be issued monthly, and the bibliographywhich is a feature of the contents must prove useful for

purposes of reference.

Cambridge Revie,7v.-The number of date Jan. 29th isenlivened by the productions of two poets, one of whom,modestly veiling his identity under the initials °° F. M. C.,"h3.S felt his soul stirred within him by the numerical

disproportion between the students of anatomy and the, , subjects. " He has accordingly unburdened himself in a

"Ballad of Cadavers" in six stanzas, humorous enoughexcept for one dismal prophecy which we trust may not befulfilled :—

" When two must share an arm or legAnd four take head and neck,

Some forty-three per cent. may pass-The rest will be a’ ‘ wreak."’ "

Mercy and Truth.-The January number contains an

article on Medical Work among Women in Multan, in the

Punjab, by Dr. Wilhelmina Eger, and an illustrated Descrip-, tion of Progress in Hakodate, Japan, at which place the

: missionary is Dr. W. W. Colborne.HOSPITAL MAGAZINES.

St. Bartholomew’s Hospital Journal for December, 1902contains, among other interesting matter, the report ofpaper read before the Abernethian Society by Dr. W. d’EstEmery on the Specific Antibodies. The paper is accom

panied by eight illustrations. The following story is givenSCENE-Out-patient room. Physician (unravelling the finepoints of the case): "Are you depressed in spirits 7Patient : "Yes, sir. " Physician : "Why is that ? " Patientwell, sir, since I’ve been out o’ work I haven’t been able tbuy ’em."

St. Geor,ge’s Hospital Gazette for January contains a papfdescribing a Russian hospital on the banks of the Dwinl"In the matter of medicine," says the writer, "they a]

prehistoric." " Consequently "it is difficult to decicwhether to treat it (the hospital) from a medical point <

view or as a subject of antiquarian research." The writ<

does his best to deal with it from the medical point of vievIt is difficult to believe that even in this remote corner c

the world notes of cases are kept in chalk. The problem c

ventilation has been solved in this hospital by having nventilation at all. The paper is thoroughly interesting.London Hospital Gazette for December, under the headin

of Random Notes concerning Stimulants, prints a ve]

readable and instructive article from the pen of Dr. A. 1

6 Sansom. The author concludes by saying: " If you war

as you should, to know much about brandy the writ

strongly advises you to peruse carefully a report in a recenumber of THE LANCET." This is the sort of commendatil

L that is particularly flattering to us, as our investigationsL food-stuffs and allied subjects are undertaken exactly wi, the idea of giving medical men information of a practie

nature which cannot be found in text-books.Westminster Hospital Gazette.-There is nothing better

the January number of this journal than the following, whi,has a familiar ring to us :-

b "OUR DOCTORS.

r " He must not walk his rounds, for fear his patients think him poor,For dearly do they love to see a carriage at their door;

r And if his horse is fat he must have little work to do,And if ’tis lean the reason is he starves that poor old screw.

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If he calls upon his patients every day when they are ill, The reason is he wants to make a great big doctor’s bill ;] If he calls on them less frequently, thus lessening their expense, The chances are he’ll be accused of wilful negligence.1 About his own afflictions he must never say a word-

The notion of a doctor being ill is too absurd! And when perhaps from overwork he’s laid upon the shelf,f* His svmoathisins patients sav. ’ Phvaician. heal thvself ! "’

BRADFORD AND WEST RIDING MEDICO-ETHICALUNION.-The annual dinner of this society took place at theVictoria Hotel, Bradford, on Feb. 5th. Nearly 60 members andguests were present. Dr. J. Dunlop, the retiring President,was in the chair. After the chairman had given the toasts of" The King, the Queen, and the Royal Family," Dr. W. H.Horrocks proposed the toast of " The Bradford and WestRiding Medico-Ethical Union." This was responded to bythe President (Mr. H. Shackleton) and the secretaries, Dr. J.Metcalfe and Dr. W. Mitchell. The toast of "The Ladies"was proposed in a humorous speech by Dr. A. Bronner andresponded to by Mr. W. Handcock. An excellent musical pro-gramme was then given by the ladies and members present.