cemetery would entail, and it seems still more improbable that after the warning contained in the papers they would allow the body, if in their possession, to remain in the open dissecting room. We were considerably surprised at the action of Mr. Carey in removing the body under dispute, for it was proved conclusively that it was not the body of his late wife. Mrs. Carey died, we are assured by three honest and well known physicians, of cancer of the uterus, of such an extensive character that the recto-vaginal septum was wholly destroyed, and fæces passed through the vagina as well as through the anus. In the case of the body under dispute, no evidence of cancer could be found, but the post mortem plainly evinced that the cause of death was Gastroenteritis, of which there was not the slightest symptom in Mrs. Carey's case; moreover the body found in the dissecting room had undergone such post mortem changes that it was perfectly evident that death had taken place at a much earlier period than October 4th.

We did not take up our pen, however, to defend the College or the profession, but after a careful consideration of the facts, we hope that no sensible person will allow himself to make the absurd statement that "the profession will stand by each other, and of course they would swear that this was not the body stolen from Mrs. Carey's grave." We are glad the public have so high an opinion of the profession, but we are surprised that after making such a statement regarding professional honor they should immediately doubt professional honesty, and even declare that they would swear to a lie.

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Correspondence.

We have received the following letter to which we would reply that we know of no means by which our correspondent could become a member of the Buffalo Medical Association, or send communications to it, unless he was elected a corresponding member. As to the publication of his cases in the daily papers, we can give him no information, except to say that as a matter of courtesy and by request in some cases, we furnish copies of the JOURNAL to the press of the city. We have never seen a report of a case copied from the JOURNAL, but occasionally have seen notices of the contents of a number. If any cases have been copied into the daily papers they have escaped our notice, and we can give no information as to how they came to be copied whether by solicitation of the persons reporting the case or not.

Editor Medical Journal:

UNIONTOWN, N. Y., Oct. 15, 1874.

I notice that by reporting cases in the Buffalo Medical Association, and publishing in the MEDICAL JOURNAL, they sometimes reach reprint in the Courier and, perhaps, other daily papers. I want to inquire if this Society would

receive papers from outside physicians, or can physicians from other towns join? I have some cases not in themselves remarkable, but which if published in a newspaper would make at least a good advertisement, and as I am just begining might help start. These cases are common, such as fevers, bowel complaints, some amputations, exsections of joints, one operation for hernia, &c., &c. Please tell the expense of joining the Society, and also if there is any expense in getting the newspapers to copy. Does the Society pay this expense, or does it come out of the author's of reports?

Yours most sincerely,

NEWMAN W. SMITH, M. D.

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Netice to Subscribers.

With this number, and the next, we shall send out our bills for subscription. The recent change which has been made in the management of this JOURNAL, make it desirable that our subscribers should be prompt in their payments. By the new postal law, after the first of January, we shall pay the postage on all our Journals sent to subscribers; we shall not however increase the price of subscription, but shall depend rather upon the prompt payment of the present rate. All remittances should be made to the Assistant Editor, Dr. E. N. BRUSH, No. 8 South Division street, to whom all communications concerning the Journal should be addressed.

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Books Reviewed.

A Complete Ind-Book of Obstetric Surgery; Or short Rules of Practice in every Emergency from the Simplest to the most Formidable Operations connected with the Science of Obstetricy. By CHARLES CLAY, M. D., etc. Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1874.

Dr. Clay's Hand-book has met, in England with merited favor, and has there reached its third edition. The author has endeavored to make this a hand-book or remembrancer of these points in the Obstetric Art upon which practitioners should be informed, but upon which slight additional intelligence may be required at a moments notice, when the time could not be spared to search through the more comprehensive treatises. It will be found that Dr. Clay has collected within the narrow limits of this work all the points liable to tax the art of the obstetrician in an emergency; and to those who desire to satisfy their minds at a moments notice this little work will prove

invaluable. The directions are clear, but the operative procedures are not so minutely described that pages of the book will not have to be perused to get a desired point. The author has written with the idea that his reader has a general knowledge of the whole subject, and that his pages will only be sought as a ready means of gaining information upon some doubtful or forgotten point.

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Books and Pamphlets Received.

A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Women By T. Gaillard Thomas, M. D., etc. Fourth Edition, thoroughly revised with illustrations. Philadel phia: Henry C. Lea, 1874. Buffalo: T. Butler & Son.

Therapeutics and Materia Medica. A Systematic Treatise on the Action and Uses of Medicinal Agents, including their Description and History. By Alfred Stille, M. D., etc. Fourth Edition, thoroughly revised and enlarged. In Two Volumes. Philadelphia: Henry C. Lea, 1874. Buffalo: T. Butler & Son. Essentials of the Principles and Practice of Medicine. A Handbook for Students and Practitioners. By Henry Hartshorne, A. M., M. D, etc. Fourth Edition, thoroughly revised. Philadelphia: Henry C. Lea, 1874. Buffalo: T. Butler & Son.

Clinical Lectures on Various Important Diseases; being a collection of the Clinical Lectures delivered in the Medical Wards of Mercy Hospital, Chicago. By N. S. Davis, A. M, M. D., etc. Edited by Frank H. Davis, M. D. Second Edition. Philadelphia: Henry C. Lea, 1874. Buffalo: Theo. Butler & Son.

Clinical Lectures on Discases of the Nervous System. By Wm. A. Hammond, M. D., etc. Reported and Edited by T. M. B. Cross, M. D., etc. New York: D. Appleton & Co. Buffalo: Martin Taylor.

Infant Diet. By A. Jacobi, M D., etc. Revised, enlarged and adapted for popular use. By Mary Putnam Jacobi, M. D. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1874.

The Building of A Brain. By Edward H. Clarke, M D. Boston: Jas. R. Osgood & Co., 1874. Buffalo: Herger & Ulbrich.

Croup in its Relations to Tracheotomy. By J. Solis Cohen, M. D. Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1874.

The Physicians Visiting List for 1875. Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston. The Breath and Diseases which give it a Fetid Odor. With directions for treatment. By Joseph W. Howe, M. D., etc. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1874. Buffalo: Martin Taylor.

Transactions of the Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania for 1874.

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ART. I.-Abstract of the Proceedings of the Buffalo Medical Association. Buffalo, Oct. 6, 1874. Reported by E. R. BARNES, D., Secretary.

Members present, the Vice-President, Dr. Gould in the chair, and Drs. Miner, Johnson, Briggs, Hauenstein, Brecht, Harding, Brush, Boardman, Bartlett, Wyckoff, et. al.

The application for membership of Dr. Boysen was received, and he was invited to participate in the proceedings until his application could be acted upon.

After routine business Dr. MINER said that he had noticed, in the published transactions of a recent meeting of the Society, that there had been a discussion on a subject always interesting to a large number of the profession-that is, on venereal disease. All have opinions on this subject, some holding opinions peculiar to themselves, others according with the views of authors. While he would not renew an old discussion, he wished to refer to a case he had lately seen, which he thought remarkable. It was the communication by a man to his wife, of a gonorrhoea; the man himself not having the disease. The case did not admit of a suspicion of error. A gentleman of high respectability was led astray in a neighboring city, and had sexual connection. After the act he washed, and returning home the same day, he held intercourse with

his wife. A few days after she had specific gonorrhoea. There is no doubt that the husband communicated the disease, yet he had himself not the slightest evidence of disease. The virus might have been conveyed on the outer folds of the foreskin. Such an occurrence is exceedingly rare, but it is possible, as we see the virus conveyed to the eye th:ough the medium of a towel.

With reference to the specific virus of different venereal diseases, a question which was discussed at the meeting referred to, when the belief was expressed by some, that secondary symptoms might ensue after either a soft or a hard chancre, he wished to state his adherence to the theory of the duality of the syphilitic virus. The specific virus of different venereal diseases may be mixed in a single lesion, and thus disguise the peculiarities distinguishing one from the other of the forms of initial lesion. Great caution and repeated observations are necessary to avoid an error in diagnosis. There is no connection between gonorrhea, and chancroid, or chancre; only that there is a similarity in the mode of conveyance from one person to another. Authors speak of chancroid and-chancre being conveyed from one to another, without the person conveying having any evidence of disease.

Dr. JOHNSON said that Dr. Miner's case was interesting because unusual. He saw, three weeks ago, a case where there existed a triple lesion, viz: gonorrhoea, chancroid, and chancre. The patient had also a bubo. Secondary symptoms may supervene, but not as the result of this infection, as the patient had, two years before, contracted true syphilis. There is a good deal of difference between chancre and chancroid. He had never known secondary symptoms to follow a chancroid.

Dr. GOULD. It would be safer to treat the case as syphilis.

Dr. JOHNSON. Yes. in this case, but not where there exists simply a chancroid. There is generally too much treatment for chancre-too much use of caustic. He used chemically pure nitric acid, but had not much belief in local treatment at all, unless resorted to very early.

Dr. BARNES said that all had noticed the great difference which exists between cases of gonorrhoea; often between successive attacks of gonorrhoea occurring in the same person. This difference was