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Committee on good of the Society: Dr. T. L. Harris advised each of the following members to prepare a paper on some subject in the interest of medicine, to be read at the next annual meeting:

Drs. H. A. Bowles, J. N. Betts, G. E. Lawrence, C. F. Lownsbury, Josiah Arnold, A. J. Butterfield, E. C. Barker, R. P. Crandall, F. D. Gridley, H. L. Leonard and Theodore Kemter.

Committee on Nominations: Drs. R. P. Crandall, W. W. Nims, A. J. Butterfield, C. T. Greenleaf and C. S. Huntington.

Committee on Credentials: Drs. T. L. Harris, H. A. Bowles and R. P. Crandall.

After some discussion with regard to the second day's session, the meeting adjourned until 7 p. m.

Evening session. The meeting was called to order by the vicepresident, Dr. E. L. Baker.

The annual address was then delivered by the retiring president, Dr. H. A. Bowles. The subject of the address was "Practical Physicians." It contained many valuable thoughts and suggestions.

At the close of the address a unanimous vote of thanks was tendered Dr. Bolles; after which the society adjourned until June, 1881, unless sooner convened by call of the secretary.

T. L. HARRIS,
Secretary.

THE ECLECTIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION OF TENNESSEE

Held a meeting at Nashville, May 15, 1880, and elected officers for the ensuing year. Drs. J. W. Allen Fulton, president; J. E. Fowell, of Cynthiana, vice-president; H. H. Halbert, of Renfrew Station, secretary and treasurer; R. A. Clayton, of Maclemore, corresponding secretary.

A constitution, by-laws and code of ethics were adopted.

The next meeting is to be held at Memphis, the first Tuesday in May, 1881.

THE NEW ECLECTIC MEDICAL COLLEGE AT INDIANAPOLIS, IND., Has opened with a large class, being its first class. We are informed that they have a full working faculty of men, who are

thorough Eclectics-men who do not proclaim themselves to be Eclectics for the purpose of teaching another system of medicine. Success attend this enterprise.

PAMPHLETS RECEIVED.

Buffalo Lithia Springs, of Mecklenburg County, Va.-Health Primer-Fiction in Public Libraries, by William Kile, Germantown, Pa,-Announcement of the Medical University of the State of Iowa-Annual Address before the Massachusetts Eclectic Society, by Milbury Green, M. D., Boston; being a sketch of Obstetrics and Gynecology in America-H. C. Lee's Son & Co.'s Classified Catalogue of Medical and Surgical Operations, Philadelphia, 1880—Announcement of the Cincinnati College of Medicine and Surgery-Diseases of the Respiratory Organs, including Catarrh, Throat Diseases, Asthma, Bronchitis and Consumption, with Pathology and Treatment; by O. E. Newton, M. D., Cincinnati, Ohio-The California Medical Journal, Oakland, Cal. Catalogue of Choice Collection of Books; R. Worthington, 72 Broadway, New York-Barnard Quaritch's Miscellaneous Catalogue of Rare Old Books and Valuable Modern Works, at reduced prices-Rough List of Important Books, London, 15 Piccadilly, W.-Circulars of Information of the Bureau of Education, Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4, 1880, Washington-Quarterly Epitome of Practical Medicine and Surgery, being our American Supplement to Braithwaite's Retrospect, Part 1, March, 1880-The Peoria Medical Monthly, a journal devoted to Medicine and Surgery, Peoria, Ill.-Valuable School Books, published by Houghton, Osgood & Co., Boston, Mass.-Tourist's Guide: Cincinnati and its Suburbs; by O. E. Newton, M. D.-Bernard Quaritch, 15 Piccadilly, London W., Eng., supplies Catalogues for Medical and Miscellaneous Books of the World-The Vinum Nutrio Phosphaticum, the Chemical Association, 1200 Broadway, New York-Monthly Index to Current Periodical Literature-Proceedings of Learned Societies and Government Publications-West Philadelphia Public Telephone, H. D. and Hiram Terry, editors; published weekly; one dollar. Address Telephone Building, Market St., Philadelphia, Pa.

THE TWENTIETH ANNUAL PUBLICATION OF THE MASSACHUSETTS ECLECTIC MEDICAL SOCIETY FOR THE YEAR 1880.

This is an unusually interesting issue. Dr. Green's sketch of gynecology in America is valuable and interesting, and should be published in book form for the profession.

DR. DANELSON'S COUNSELOR, WITH RECIPES.

There are many books called "Family Practice," which are only advertisements of some doctor, contain only general instruction, if any, and no recipes. "They contain a great deal but nothing after all." This book has no horrifying cuts of anatomy which shock the more sensitive; numbers 720 pages; is handsomely bound, and the index has 1,500 items. Every disease is accurately defined and a successful treatment given to each. There are no secrets, no mysteries, and the language is plain and eaily understood. A great effort has been made to mark out with equal

clearness the ways of preventing sickness and disease.

A complete dictionary fronts the work, and technical terms are often again defined where used. The volume inculcates and encourages temperance in all things, morality, cheerfulness and health. The work is readable, and has not the dryness that would be supposed to attach to such a subject. The author has frequently stepped aside to give his valuable ideas upon collateral subjects. His essay upon marriage should be read by everybody. The compilation upon Hygiene "sets us thinking." The laws of our physical nature are concisely stated; their observance resulting in health and happiness through a long life. The encouraging and consoling words of the "Counselor" mark every page, even to the final chapters upon sudden and painless death. A few pages are added upon domestic remedies, giving a description of the most necessary, and directions for their use. Price, $2.00; to physicians, $1.25.

We have several new books and journals on hand to be noticed in our next.

OBITUARY NOTICES.

BENEDICT.-On Friday, October 22, at his residence, No. 10 West 10th Street, ERASTUS C. BENEDICT, LL. D., Chancellor of the University of the State of New York, in the 81st year of his age.

PANSER.-On September 14, 1880, at Wadley, Ga., REV. DR. WILLIAM PANSER, a prominent physician and musical author, at the age of 68 years.

GORDON.-On September 12, 1880, at Fayetteville, Ark., JOHN B. GORDON, Professor of Mathematics and Engineering in the Arkansas Industrial University.

BLANKMAN.-On September 20, 1880, at his sister's residence, at Newark, N. J., DR. M. A. BLANKMAN.

CUBBAGE.-REV. WILLIAM N. CUBBAGE was born at Point Harmon, O., November 13, 1805. November 9, 1826, he was united in marriage with Nancy, the daughter of Col. Robert Safford, of Gallia County. He united with the church July 28, 1832, and began an active religious life as class leader and Sunday school superintendent in the bounds of Putnam circuit, Ohio conference. In 1833 he removed to Gallia County, and was licensed to preach by the Gallipolis Court, by Samuel Hamilton, presiding elder, in 1838. He was ordained a deacon at Chillicothe in 1843, by Bishop Soule. In 1859 he removed to Ironton, O., from thence, in 1866, to Salem, Ill., where he continued to live and labor until his final removal from earth, which occurred May 20, 1880. In the new home in Illinois, as in the old Ohio neighborhoods, he was always deeply interested in the social and moral welfare of the community, and was always active in the promotion of the welfare of the church. After his removal to Illinois he was especially devoted in his efforts to establish a church, and had finally succeeded so far that his last sermon was the first one preached in a new church edifice which he had been instrumental in building. The next service in the new church were memorial services, held in connection with the dedication of the house of God. He was a good man, a useful minister, a devoted husband and father,

an accommodating neighbor, and was, in the true Gospel sense, literally "given to hospitality." The house of this good brother was the first one the writer entered as a Methodist preacher. From this home, mounted on a horse furnished by my host, and with his saddle bags, the first round on the old Gallipolis circuit was made. Added to this equipment was the word of cheer and wise counsel that encouraged the first steps of an itinerant life, and the recollections of this good brother, and of his family, have brightened all the intervening years. During his last illness he suffered intensely, but his faith never faltered. Quoting often the Twenty-third Psalm-his favorite Scripture-he taught its full assurance at the last, and died testifying, "It is all light in the valley."

A. G. BYERS.

SEGUIN. In this city, on October 28, in the sixty-ninth year of his age, Edouard Seguin, M. D.

MAX.-Mrs. J. B. Max, M. D., died in July last, from a compound fracture.

MCMURTRY.-The sad news comes from Danville, Ky., of the death of Mrs. Dr. McMurtry, formerly Miss Maddie Ball, of Covington, who died yesterday morning of puerperal fever. The deceased was a daughter of the late Florence Ball, and was widely esteemed for her loveliness of character. She was a sister of Mrs. W. S. Ridgway, and it seems not much over a year ago since she left Cincinnati a happy and beautiful bride.

MANSFIELD.-E. D. Mansfield, LL. D., died at his residence near Morrow, Ohio, October 27. Edward Deering Mansfield was born at New Haven, Conn., on the 17th of August, 1801. He was graduated at West Point in 1819, but did not enter the army. He then studied in the College of New Jersey, from which he was graduated in 1822. He studied law at the Litchfield (Conn.) Law School, and was admitted to the bar in Connecticut. He removed, however, at once to Ohio, and in 1836 he became Professor of Constitutional Law in Cincinnati College. From 1836 to 1849 he was editor of the Cincinnati Chronicle, and of The Atlas from 1849 to 1852. In 1857 he became editor of the Cincinnati Gazette, and from 1854 to 1872 he conducted the Railroad Record. His special contributions to the Cincinnati Gazette are well known, and signed "E. D. M." He wrote elsewhere over the signature of "A Veteran Observer." From 1857 to 1867 he was Commissioner of Statistics for the State of Ohio. He was a member of the French Society of Universal Statistics. Mr. Mansfield published, "The Utility of Mathematics," "Political Grammar," "Treatise on Constitutional Law," "Legal Rights of Women," "Life of General Scott," "History of the Mexican War," "American Education," and other works. He received the degree of LL. D. from Marietta College, Ohio.

NOTE. We have on hand sixteen pages of new advertisements, which will appear in the November number next.-EDS.

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.

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Professor of Medical Literature and Forensic Medicine in the Eclectic Medical College of the City of New York.

(Continued from page 393, September, 1880.)

MEDICAL PSYCHOLOGY.

As medical jurisprudence is the relation of law to medicine, so medical psychology is the relation of mind to medicine. At a science association, held in Saratoga, one of its members read a paper on medical psychology, in which he urged the importance of the more general study of that subject. He began by stating that medical psychology treats the mind as a function of the brain, and, therefore, proceeds upon the facts of observation and not. upon pure reasoning. It proposes to build up its philosophy after the scientific method of induction, and to make it a thing of sub

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