would organize in every legislative district, they could soon have such enactments upon our statutes as would legalize dissections and regulate the practice of medicine. He said that in the last session, when an "Anatomy Bill" was introduced, a member made a motion to expell it from the House, that when a bill regulating the practice of medicine and surgery, and was afterwards submitted to the Indianapolis Academy of Medicine, the Academy could not agree upon any mode of procedure in the matter. He said that if the fifty physicians in each representative district in the State, could not control their respective members, they ought not to enjoy the benefits of a law. On motion, adjourned to meet in Winamac, Indiana, October 3d, 1872. I. B. WASHBURN, Sec'y.

REPORT OF AUTOPSIES MADE AT CITY HOS

PITAL.

BY THAD. M. STEVENS, M. D., PATHOLOGIST.

N. Smith, entered Hospital June 3, 1872; died, July 27. Sections by Drs. Marsee and Tomlinson. External appearance, left leg and abdomen much swollen; bedsore upon both gluteal spaces; abdomen examined; large tumor, extending from pubes to point of enciform cartilage, and from one inch to right of spinal column to left spinous process of illium, uterus and right ovary natural; left ovary enlarged and congested; position of uterus to the right; psoas major and minor involved; tumor attached to promitory of sacrum, and upward for space of three inches; weight 12 pounds.

Symptoms before death.-Complained of pain in left leg; could not lie on left side; respiration being impaired; in November, 1871, had intermittent fever; was in hospital before with rheumatism. Microscopic examination of tumor by Henry Jameson, M. D.; nothing found but vessels, fat globules and connective cellular tissue, tumor therefore adipose.

Reviews.

TRANSACTIONS OF THE INDIANA STATE MEDICAL SOCIETY, 1872. Twenty-second Annual Session.

Be it said in the beginning that the Secretary and Publishing Committee have, from year to year, improved the general appearance of the annual report, and it now comes to us in good form-clear type and tinted paperthe whole work has been well done. We hope the next report will have the additional attraction of good binding, which will cause the report to be read and placed in the library of the physician, instead of being negligently cast aside (owing to paper cover) and be forgotten,

The address of the President, H. P. Ayres, of Fort Wayne, had more in it which we could commend than most addresses of the kind-it was short, kindly and suggestive. In alluding to the work of various committees, which have from time to time been printed and lost amid the sea of waste paper, he suggest that matter of such importance as epidemics, contagious, peculiar types of disease, etc., be recorded in a separate book. and thus preserve much valuable matter that is now lost and the laborer forgotten.

A case of Hydroceli with Cartilaginous thickening of the Tunica Vaginalis, by S. E. Munferd, Princeton, Ind. The only point in this paper that is peculiar, or that would attract attention, is the statement of cartilaginous thickening, which is overlooked however in this paper, as no cartilage is mentioned as having been found; otherwise we see a case of hydrocele, caused by injury many years ago, and being large caused much thickening. The case was well treated however, and recovered.

The next paper, by R. E. Haughton, M. D., of Richmond, Ind., on the Pathology of Malignant and SemiMalignant growths, shows extensive reading, but lacks the simplicity of expression which should mark papers

drawn from the writings of special authors-who cover clouded impressions with a tissue of high sounding names, built up with words whose roots are both Latin and Greek, intertwines and run clear back to the ultimate primordeal cell nuncleolus of germinal linquistic expressions. Now a large number of practioners would be benefitted by Dr. Haughton's paper if they had read all the works referred to in it.

Whilst speaking of professional ambiguity-or papers writen as men never talk-we might mention a paper on "Anomalices of Refraction and Accomodation." A paper that shows the work of the specialists, written in just the right style for a meeting of Occulists, and in a manner calculated to advise all the general practitioners that they know but little about such matters, and had best send them to the specialist.

"Out of old fields cometh all this new corn,

Out of old books cometh all these new things
That men must learn."

In the "History of an Epidemic of Parotitis" in Switzerland county, by Lucien J. Woollen, M. D., of Moorefield, Ind., we have a plain straightforward statement of the author's observation, and is valuable as a specimen of truthful narrative, intended to contribute to medical knowledge and benefit mankind, and is a good example of a sensible and useful contributor.

Another paper of the right stamp, with the true ring of the genuine metal of which a physician should be made, is "Researches in Arsenical Poisoning," by T. C. Van Nuys, M. D., Evansville, Ind. We can not give this paper as extensive notice as it property deserves, but must give a resume of the experiments and conclusions drawn therefrom:

From these researches the following conclusions are drawn:

1st. When arsenious acid is introduced into the stomach and death results therefrom, ulceration of organs is a common result; particularly is this true if the poisoning lasted over four days.

2d. Arsenic when introduced into the blood in poisonous quantity, otherwise than by the alimentary canal, does not produce inflammation of the stomach and intestines.

3. Arsenic however introduced into the blood in poisonous doses acts as a mild narcotic.

4th. Arsenic when introduced into the blood in large quantity will produce death within two hours without giving rise to inflammation, but in smaller doses it causes death by producing inflammation.

In addition, we would say that few papers, alas too few, of these kind have ever reached the reports of the State Society.

Some of the vexed questions of "Medico-Legal Science," were presented by Thad. M. Stevens, M. D., Indianapolis. The paper was an expression which

almost every physician could and would say amen to, but unfortunately the legal is not in unison with the medical, and the paper suggesting, well-yet can not give a solution of the difficulties. So we must go on and laugh at the stupidity of lived and self constituted experts, be amused over hypothetical cases, and let malpractice correct itself. But medical coroners could be generally elected, instead of the ignorant boobies who usually fill the office, if the doctors of each county united to that end.

The next is a report on "Disease of the Eye and Ear," by C. E. Wright, M. D., Indianapolis. Although this paper is by a specialist, the author makes it a point to show "why the general practitioner should not abandon the study of the different specialties, etc." We can heartily commend the style and matter of this report— being plain, concise, and useful.

W. B. F.

Book Notices.

A year's book of Therapeutis, Pharmancy and Allina Sciences, by H. C. Wood, M. D., Professor Medical Botony, University of Pennsylvania. Wm. Wood & Co., New York. A very convenient work for the gen eral practioners.

On Food, a lecture delivered before the Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce, in the months of January and February, 1868, by H. Letherly, M. B., M. A., C. H. D., etc., second edition. Wm. Wood & Co,, 27 West Green street, New York.

New Treatment of Venerial Diseases, and of Ulcerative Syphalitic Affection, by Iodoform; translated from