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ensuing year; Dr. J. R. Trees, of McCordsville, vice president; Dr. J. L. Marsh, of Greenfield, secretary; and Dr. S. S. Boots, of Greenfield, treasurer.

Drs. C. W. Witt, L. A. Vawter and R. D. Norveil were elected board of censors.

Drs. Boyd and Stanley, visiting physicians present, were invited to take part in the discussions of the meeting, which was accepted. Dr. Lesh's medical bill was read and discussed by Drs. Henning, Boyd, Witt and Hubbard.

Drs. Boots, Marsh and Hubbard were appointed as a committee on publication.

On motion, all papers were read by title and referred to this

committee.

A case of fibroid tumor of the uterus was presented by Dr. Boots.

Dr. Marsh presented a drawing of an infant's head, with a double brain, which he recently had the opportunity of examining.

The board of censors reported the name of Dr. Sage for membership, which was accepted.

The committee on publication was instructed to make the necessary arrangements to have the proceedings of the association, with all papers and cases presented, published for free distribution.

The association then adjourned to meet at Greenfield, Ind., on the third Tuesday in November, 1880.

ELIAS HUBBARD, M. D.,

JOHN L. MARSH, M. D., Secretary.

BOOK NOTICES.

President.

THE SEVENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE STATE BOARD OF HEALTH OF THE STATE OF MICHIGAN, for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1879. By authority. Lansing: W. S. George & Co., State Printers and Binders. 1880. 612 pp. 8vo.

This report, just received from the Secretary of the Board, is fit successor to the six preceding volumes. The State Board of Health of Michigan has had at no time in its State an epidemic of a disease attracting such wide spread notice as did that of yellow fever last year in the Southern States, but it works hard to determine the causes and favorable conditions of all diseases which are prevalent within the State, and, as far as is possible, aid in promoting knowledge for their restriction and pre

vention. The report contains a report of work of the Board by the Secretary, and twenty articles and reports on various subjects of interest to sanitarians. A history of the legislation in Michigan, relative to illuminating oils, forms the subject of an exhaustive paper by the President of the Board, Dr. R. C. Kedzie. The legislature of 1879, contrary to the ideas of the Board, reduced the flash-test from 140° to 120° F, and abolished the chill-test. The law of 1879 is printed as an appendix to Dr. Kedzie's paper, and by its passage all previous oil laws are repealed, many features of which were valuable; still the present law is in advance of those of many other States.

A great part of the work of the Board has been directed against the contagious diseases which are less recognized as such, and it loses no opportunity to inform the people of the danger of scarlet fever and diphtheria. Several interesting accounts of outbreaks of diphtheria are given, in which the relation of subsequent cases to the first case is clearly traced. Cases of outbreaks of diphtheria are given which had their source in the opening of boxed-up clothing and bedding, which after doing service for previous cases of the disease, were packed up for a length of time, without first being thoroughly disinfected.

A paper by Dr. H. O. Hitchcock upon "Privies and Water Closets at Railway Stations," gives an illustration of an exceedingly cheap and serviceable dry earth closet, which is as useful for a family as a small railroad station. A paper by the same author on slaughter-houses, rendering establishments, etc., recommends the system of doing all the slaughtering of a city in one common abattoir, which could be thoroughly taken care of much cheaper than ten or twelve separate slaughterhouses.

Rev. D. C. Jacokes has a paper on ventilation of houses already constructed, which is made exceedingly practical by the number of illustrations given for ventilating appliances.

Dr. H. F. Lyster has a paper on the reclaiming of drowned lands, which contains a translation of a part of a report by M. Chambrelent, on the reclaiming of the "Landes" in Gascony, France.

Dr. Kedzie reports a very interesting discussion on inland and maritime quarantine, which occurred at the meetings of the Sanitary Council of the Mississippi Valley at Memphis, and of the National Board of Health at Atlanta in 1879, to which meetings he was a delegate of the Board.

Hon. Le Roy Parker gives an invaluable paper to local boards of health on their powers and duties. The whole report contains more or less of the public health laws of the State; as a reference book for that purpose it is a valuable possession.

Dr. John H. Kellogg presents a history of the formation of Sanitary associations for self protection, in this country and abroad, and gives a model constitution for such an organization, together with suggestions for the work which such associations could do.

One of the most important branches of work pursued by the Board is the study of climatic conditions and prevalent diseases. A corps of meteorological observers furnish the material from which an elaborate report is made of the principal meteo. rological conditions in 1878; and a corps of disease reporters, if you please, who are physicians of good standing, furnish the weekly reports from which the companion paper, concerning weekly reports of diseases in 1878, is prepared. One of the results of this study is the close relation mapped out by means of numerous diagrams between bronchitis, pneumonia, aud influenza, and a cold temperature, dry air, and a great prevalence of ozone and of wind. The diseases which caused the most sickness in 1878, greatest first, were intermittent fever, bronchitis, rheumatism, consumption, remittent fever, influenza, diarrhoea, and pneumonia.

Dr. Henry B. Baker, Secretary of the Board, presents a paper on "Glanders in Man and in Domestic Animals," in which he has collected and arranged a large amount of literature upon the subject in a desirable form. It treats of two fatal cases of glanders in man, in Michigan in 1879, and of the fatality, communicability, symptomotology, and treatment of glanders in horses, and gives a set of proposed regulations for adoption by local boards of health for the restriction and prevention of the disease.

There is also given in the report the regulations and requirements for the examinations in sanitary science, which have been inaugurated by the Board this year. The excellent typographical appearance of the book deserves notice. thoritative work, this report is a valuable addition to sanitary literature.

As an au

J. K. A.

A SYSTEM OF MEDICINE.-Edited by J. Russell Reynolds, M. D., F. R. S., Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine in University College, London. With numerous additions and illustrations by Henry Hartshorne, A. M., M. D. Vol. IL, Diseases of the Respiratory and Circulatory Systems. Philadelphia: Henry C. Lea. 1880.

The series of essays contained in the second volume of this well-known work on practice, now being republished in a revised and more convenient form, relate to the diseases of the respiratory and circulatory systems, and consist of essays by Morell Mackenzie on Diseases of the Larynx, William Squire on Croup, Sir William Jenner on Emphysema, Hyde Salter on Asthma, Hughes Bennet on Phthisis, Herman Beigel on Cancer of the Lungs, Wilson Fox on Pneumonia, Brown Induration, and Syphilitic Affections of the Lungs, Bastion on Cirrhosis, Hewitt on Apneumatosis, F. T. Roberts on Bronchitis, Austie on Pleurodynia, Pleurisy, Hydrothorax, and Pneumothorax, Peacock on the Weight and Size of the Heart, Aneurism, and Adventitious Products in the Heart, Sibson on Position and Form of the Heart and Great Vessels, Pericarditis, Adherent Pericardium, and Eudocarditis, Begbie on Pneumo-Pericardium and Hydropericardium, Gowers on Carditis, Atrophy, Hypertrophy, Dilatation, Fatty and Fibroid Diseases of the Heart, Gairdner on Angina Pectoris and Sudden Death, Hilton Fagge on Diseases of the Valves, Douglas Powell on Mediastinal Tumors. Diseases of the Aorta, Aneurism, and Diseases of the Pulmonary and Coronary Arteries, Murray on Aneurism of the Abdominal Aorta, Bristowe on Cardiac Concretions, Thrombosis and Embolia, Diseases of the Arteries and Veins, Hartshorne on Hæmophilia, and Reynolds on Inflammation of the Lymphatics.

A mere list of the illustrious names which appear as contributors is a sufficient commendation of the work itself. Representing the best medical thought of Great Britain, and the experience and practice of all its great hospitals and medical schools, it has a value to every student of medicine which it would be difficult to overestimate. There are other great works on the same general plan, notable the immense cyclopædia of Ziemssen, but of them all I know of none that I would place in the hand of my student with the certainty of his deriving profit as I would this classic course in practical medicine.

Dr. Sibson contributes a superb article on the position and form of the heart, treated so broadly and perspicuously that it has the value and dignity of a monograph, and one, too, that lapse of time will never make antiquated. Within the limit of eighty pages are stated all the facts in regard to the healthy and abnormal heart that a practitioner desires to know, and with a succinctness of statement that gives it almost the vividness of actual dissection, and dissection, too, under the direction of one of the greatest demonstrators of the century.

The articles on bronchitis, pleurisy and pneumonia, by Drs. Roberts, Anstie, and Wilson Fox, respectively, also form a group which so clearly detail the etiology and prognosis of these three most common disorders of the respiratory organs, that their careful study is an education to any junior practitioner.

I mention these simply because they have appealed stronger to me than some of the others, as my mind has been engaged on these topics; but what could be more masterly than Squire on Croup, Mackenzie on Laryngitis, or Gowers on Atrophy and Dilatation of the Heart.

As a whole the work is affluent in knowledge, exhaustive in analysis, temperate yet earnestness in statement, and deserves to rank the equal of Gray on Anatomy, Erichsen on Surgery, Taylor on Poisons, or Dalton on Physiology.

G. W. W.

THE MEDICAL ECLECTIC,

DEVOTED TO

Reformed Medicine,

GENERAL SCIENCE AND LITERATURE.

Editors:

ROBERT S. NEWTON, M. D., LL. D.,

Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine in the Eclectic Medical College, of New York.

ROBERT S. NEWTON, JR., M. D., L. R. C. S.,

Professor of Surgery and Ophthalmology in the Eclectic Medical College, of New York. Published every month, by THE ECLECTIC MEDICAL COLLEGE, of the City of New York.

VOL. VII.

AUGUST, 1880.

ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

HYSTERICAL COUGH.

BY J. CHARLES MULHALL, A. M., M. D., L. R. C. S.,

No. 8.

Late Chef de Clinique, Hospital for Diseases of the Throat and Chest, London; Medical Assistant, London Hospital; Assistant to the London Skin Hospital, etc, etc.

Miss A. D., aged 17, the daughter of an old friend of mine, came to me on June 18, 1879, complaining of a constant cough that had been harassing her for about one month. She stated that she could assign no cause for the cough, but that about the middle of April she had a cold in her head, which had, however, confined itself to the forehead and nose, and had passed away after three days' duration; that on the morning after recovery from this cold, she suddenly began coughing on getting out of bed, and that she, from that day, had not ceased to cough. The cough had not changed its character in the least, had given rise to no great inconvenience, except that it was very annoying to the mem

bers of her family, and it was only at the earnest solicitations of her mother, who feared that this was, perhaps, the herald of some serious malady, that she consented to pass under medical super

vision.

Her family history was unimportant. Her personal history was as follows: In early childhood she had suffered from convulsions, and later on from a skin disease. At the age of six she had measles, without any sequelae. She was always a nervous and somewhat wilful child, but the closest questioning elicited no history of chorea. She menstruated at the age of fourteen, and has never suffered, in any manner whatsoever, from disturbances of the genito-urinary tract. She has been subject, for the last four or five years to occasional violent headaches, to curious sensations on her skin, to "risings in her throat." She is of emotional temperament, easily excited to tears or laughter, moody and even morose at times, violently gay at others.

Concerning her present history, the following facts were furnished me by her mother: Her cough did not, at first, excite much attention, but the fact soon enforced itself on the minds of the family that Alice (the young lady's Christian name) had "a very queer kind of cough," one of them saying that if she were lost, it would only be necessary to describe her cough as a means of identification. She did not labor after sympathy; indeed, she always escaped to her bedroom on the advent of visitors, to avoid their wonder. No kind of occupation seemed to arrest it; she was very fond of music, and though she forgot her cough when engaged at her piano, others noticed no difference; one visit to the theatre was sufficient for her, for she was compelled to leave after the first act, since her incessant and strange cough not only attracted many of the audience, but disturbed those engaged on the stage. She tried every expedient as to posture, compression and preoccupation without avail, except decubitus after thoroughly tiring herself with a long walk; but the recumbent posture without the physical exhaustion was of no avail. The only time it did cease was during sleep, but with her first conscious breath came the cough. From first to last it seemed to herself and mother that it was in every respect exactly alike; it certainly maintained its identity whilst under my treatment.

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