THE JASPER COUNTY (IOWA) MEDICAL SoCIETY at its annual meeting, elected Dr. J T. Robbins, president; Dr. C. C Smead, vice-president; and Dr. H. C. Finch of Lynnville, secretary.

THE NEW MEXICO MEDICAL SOCIETY at its annual meeting elected Dr. E. C. Henriques, of Las Vegas, President; Dr. F. Palmer, of Las Vegas, sec etary; and Dr. H. A Armstrong treasurer.

THE SCHOHARIE COUNTY N Y. MEDICAL SOCIETY at its annual meeting elect d the following officers: President, Dr. A. L. Haines; Vice-presi dent, Dr W. T. Rifenburgh; Treasurer, Dr. D. Frasier; Secretary, Dr H. T. Kingsley.

THE BINGHAMTON, (N. Y.) Academy of Medcine held its annual meeting, Aug. 22. Officers for the ensuing year were elected as follows: President, Dr Orton; Vice president, Dr. Chittenden; Secre tary, Dr. Farnham; Treasurer; Dr. Moore. A piper was read by Dr Farnham, on the "Clinic of Dr. Von Bergman;" also one by Dr. Moore, on 'Supra pubic Cystotomy;" after which the papers were discussed.

THE LEHIGH VALLEY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION held its ninth annual meeting at Glen Summit, August 16. There were two sessions, morning and afternoon. President Dr. George N Best, of Rosemont, N. J.,

called the meeting to order. He was followed by Dr. L. H. Taylor, of Wilkesbarre, who delivered the address of welcome

The annual address was delivered by Dr. F. X. Dercum, of Philadelphia, his subject being "Railroad Shock and Its Treatment." At the afternoon session there was a lively debate over a proposed amendment of the constitution, as follows: "Every member of the association shall be a member in good and regular standing of the medical society of the county in which he resides."

The opponents of the amendment claimed that it was in the interest of cliques in Philadelphia, who were continually black balling good men and keeping them out of the County Medical Society. A standing vote was taken, which resulted in the defeat of the amendment by a vote of 21 to 13 The following officers were elected for the ensuing yea President, Dr. H. L. Estes, South Bethlehem; vicepresidents, J. N. Richards, Bucks county; W. L. Longshore, Luzerne county; J. G. Zerne, Weiss port, Carbon county; L. B. Balliett, Lehigh county; Secretary, Charles McIntire, Easton; Assistant Secretary, E. M. Green, Easton; Treasurer, Ab a ham Stout, Bethlehem; Executive Board Bucks, J. B. Walter; Carbon, J. S. Hogen; Huntingdon, George N Best; Lehigh, W. B. Benderman; Luzerne, S W. Trimmer; Monroe, J. H. Stull Northampton, S S Apple; Schuylkill, J. C. Bidd'e Warren, J. D. De Witt.

VULLIET-LUTAUD'S OPERATIVE GYNECOLOGY1 is a report of the lectures delivered by Drs Lutaud and Vulliet, opening with the following very decided eulogy of Sims:

"What progress has been accomplished in less than a quarter of a century! Sims, that daring innovator, who during the war of secession had left his country, arrived in France and astonished the veterans of surgery by his practical genius Velpau and Nelaton received him with enthusiasm, and the treatment of vesico-vaginal fistula became a current operation. His Clinical Notes on Uterine Surgery,' published simultaneously in Paris and London, in 1866, was the point of departure of the great surgical movement which rapidly radiated all over Europe.

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"This brok, under its modest title, contains the germ of all the gynecological innovations which today rank among classical operations, etc.'

The lectures discuss Methods of Exp'oration, Uterine Catheterism, Uterine Dilation, Displacements Curettage, Trachelor raphy, Genito-Urinary Fistula, Uterine Fibromata Massage in Gynecology, Uterine Cancer, Uterine Orthopaedics, Sterility and Artificial Fecundation. Sterility is classified as follows: 1. Sterility by inaptitude for copulation (vulvitis, vaginismus, vaginal atresia, etc.)

2. Sterility by mechanical obstruction to sperm penetration of the uterus (uterine atresia, flections, conicity of cervix, etc.)

3. Sterility from non retention of the sperm in the uterus, or the destruction of the ovum by morbid secretions (as in dysmenorrhoea, menorrhagia, amenorrhagia, endometritis, uterine catarrh, etc.)

4. Sterility by inaptitude to ovulation and incubation (disturbances of the ovarian function, amenorrhoea, infantile uterus, absence of the ovaries, ovarian etopia, etc.)

Artificial impregnation was tried twenty-six times. Twice it succeeded perfectly. Twice abortion resulted at the third month, and twenty-two times the procedure did not succeed.

ERLENMEYER'S MORPHINE HABIT TREATMENT.1 is a valuable contribution to the literature of the subject. He advises the rapid withdrawal of the drug. Unless the patient can be placed in an institution under absolute control, treatment is vain in Dr. Erlenmeyer's judgment. In this opinion the majority of those who have experience with the peculiar deceptions of the victims of the habit will concur. The work is well translated.

SENN'S SURGICAL BACTERIOLOGY2 is an interesting contribution to bacteriology as viewed from the

1 Lecons de Gynecologie Operatoire, par Vulliet, Professeur a la Faculte de Medecine de Geneve, etc., and Lutaud, ProParis: fesseur libre de Gynecologie a l'Ecole pratique, etc. J. B. Bailliere et Fils. 1889.

1PHYSICIANS' LEISURE LIBRARY.-On the Treatment of the Morphia Disease By Dr, Albrecht Erlenmeyer. Translated by E. P. Hurd, M. D. 12mo, paper, pp 113. Twenty-five cents. Detroit, Mich.; George S Davis, 188).

needs and standpoin of the surgeon. It is a careful examination of the relations of bacteria to surgical complications, and is pervaded by the enthusiasm of a devotee of the germ theory. The work is well illustrated.

SAUNDBY'S BRIGHT'S DISEASE1 is an interesting and valuable contribution to the history of renal disease. It is fairly illustrated, but the typographical work is miserable.

KEATING'S CYCLOPEDIA OF THE DISEASES OF CHILDREN.3-The introductory chapter by Dr. A. Jacobi, opens with a concise definition of the scope of pediatry in which Dr. Jacobi very appropriately says: "Pædiatry is no specialty in the common acceptation of the term. It does not deal with an organ, but with the entire organism at the only period which presents the most interesting features to the student of biology and medicine. Infancy and childhood are links between conception and death, between the foetus and the adu't. The latter has attained a certain degree of invariability. His physiological labor is reproduction, that of the young is both reproduction and growth. Pædiatry does not deal with miniature men and women, with rereduced doses and the same class of diseases in smaller bodies, but it has its own independent range and horizon, and gives much to general medicine as it has received from it."

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Dr. G. McClellan discusses the "Antatomy of Children" in well illustrated, but rather labored chapters.

Dr. Jas. Finlayson has written an excellent chapter on "Diagnosis." The chapter on "Outlines of Practical Bacteriology" is out of place in the present work. The chapter on "Maternal Impressions" is a "pot boiler," and contains nothing new nor newly put. There are too many European contributors to this work on diseases which are rare in Europe but common in the United States. This is one of its great defects. On the whole, however, the work is one likely to be of great service to the practical physician.

2 Surgical Bacteriology. By Nicholas Senn, M. D., Ph. D., Professor of Principles of Surgery and Surgical Pathology, Rush Medical College, Chicago, Ill. Cloth, pp. 270. Price $175. Lea Brothers & Co., Philadelphia. 1889. Chicago: G. P, Engelhard & Co.

1LECTURES ON BRIGHT'S DISEASE.-By Robert Saundby, M. D., Edin. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicans, London, Eneritus Senior President of the Royal Medical Society; Fellow of the Royal Medico-Chirurgical Society, ete., etc; with fifty illustrations. Octavo, cloth, pp. vì., 295. New York; E. B. Treat. 1889 Price $2.75.

CYCLOPEDIA OF THE DISEASES OF CHILDREN-MEDICAL AND SURGICAL.-The articles written especially for the work Edited by by American, British and Canadian authors. John M. Keating, M. D. Vol. I. Illustrated; 8vo, pp. XIII; 992. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company. 1889.

ARKANSAS.-Dr. H. C. Howard was recently married to Miss E. Conn -Dr. A. P. George of Wrightsville, was recently run over and killed by a railroad train.

CALIFORNIA -The Supreme Court has decided that Dr. J. R. Laine is a member of the State Board of Health and not Dr. Tyrrell.-Dr. J. B. Swigart of Barstow, was recently arrested for intoxication.Dr. Leslie Pue:t of Los Angeles, has recovered from his recent illness - Dr. W. J Pierce of Alameda, was seriously injured in a run away recently.— Sacremento has an epidemic of diphtheria.-Dr Nellis of Humboldt, has removed to GarborvilleDr. G T. Her derson died suddenly Aug 5, from cardiac disease. -The San Francisco Board of Health have been voted $2,000 for improvements on the city and county hospital-The San Francisco health officer is making a fight against diseased neat Dr L D. C Montague died from an overdose of morphine at San Francisco, Aug. 13.

CONNECTICUT -Dr Geo C. Jarvis, of Hartford, recently removed eleven stones, having an aggregate weight of 140 grains, from the bladder of a seventy-two-year-old man-Dr Henry S. Otis of Hartford, was found dead in his bed -The New Haven dispensery is making extensive additions to its buildings --Dr Wm. J. Whiting, of New Haven, was found dead in his bed recently He had resided in New Haven forty years.

COLORADO.-Charges of inefficiency have been made against Denver's health officer -Dr. L J Kimball of Crystal Falls, Mich, died recently at Boulder.

DAKOTA.-Dr. F. W. Crane, of Doland, has been elected grand medical director, grand lodge, A. O. U. W.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.-Dr. J. C. Howard, of Washington, died Aug 8, of Brights' disease.-Dr RA. Pyles, of Anacostin, was recently married to Miss E. M. Lane-Dr B B. Adams, of Washing ton, has returned from Europe ied by Dr. Batty Tuke.

He was accompan

DELAWARE.-The Wilmington Board of Pension Examiners consists of Dr Jno W DeWitt, Pres., Dr. Peter Cooper, Sec'y., Dr. Howard Ovill, Treas.

FLORIDA -Dr. J. Y. Porter, M. II. S, State Health Officer at Jacksonville, has resigned from the Marine Hospital service.

GEORGIA. Dr. Crockett, of Macon, reports a case of fatal lyssophobia in a negress who had never been bitten by a dog. -Dr T. E. Druewry, of Griffin, is sericusly ill.-Dr. Chas. Pinkney, of Atlanta died recently

ILLINOIS. Dr. H W. Cole has located at Danville.--Dr H. F. Stoddard, of Ramsey, died Aug.

11, of phthisis-Dr Leander Smith, of Morrison, died August 5, at the age of seventy.-Drs D. C. Green, of Woodstock, C. C. Watson, Nunda, and J. W. Groesbeck, of Harvard, have been appointed examining surgeons-Dr. A. Chenoweth has located at Decatur Dr. H F. Stoddard died at Ramsey recently -Dr Bower, of Cairo has been ordered to Memphis --Dr. Curtis, of Lily Lake, is confined to the house by a broken ankle -Dr. E. L. Emerson, of New Windsor, had his cheek bone broken while umpiring a game of base ball -Dr. W. C Loar, of Pennsylvania, has removed to Bloomington. Dr. Gardner, of Elgin, contemplates removing to Roselle -Dr T. H Downing, of Macomb, has invented a new dental forcep.--Dr. T C. Perry died at Coalchester recently, aged 82 years. -Dr. W. R. Farley, of Waterman, is seriously ill with pneumonia -Dr. A. W. Jamison died at Moline recently Dr, N. H Patten, of Springfield, has gone to Europe-Dr. Edward H. Robinson, of Lawrenceville, Dr. G. Walter Barr, of Bridgeport, and Dr Z D French, of Summer, have been appointed as the pension examining board at Lawrenceville Dr Jas. Dalby has removed from Jacksonville to Cedar Rapids, Iowa -Dr. Geo P. Rex, formerly a resident of Perry, died recently at Reaville, NJ-Dr. H. M. Wood, of Decatur, and Flora E. Baker, were married recently.-Dr. Hill, of Bloomington, has gone to Europe.-Dr. G. W. F. Cole has removed from Decatur to Rockford.Diphtheria is prevalent at Bloomington.-Scarlet fever has broken out at Charleston.-Dr. Marr has located at Tennessee.--Dr. L. M. Bergen, has removed to Highland Park.-Dr. Bridgman, of Decatur, was arrested for assult on a boy stealing apples. Carthage is having an epidemic of flux.— Beardstown is in need of a good regular physician. Any one looking for an opening can address B. C. Anderson, Beardstown.-Dr. Cooley, of Aurora, contemplates removing to Oak Park.-Dr. J. M. Henry of Rockport, died recently.-Dr. B. G. Millar, of Rock Island, has removed to Daven port.-Dr. Virginia Dinsmore has located at Jacksonville. She is the only lady physiclan in the city-Dr. Westfall, of Carthage died recently Dr. J. G. Hamilton, of Cornland, died recently. Dr. C. R. Bassett, died at Vandalia, August 21.Chicago.-Dr. O. Baseter Howe has been arrested for criminal assault. The case seems to be one of hysterical accusation.-Dr. J. L. Gray lost his only son, August 22.-Dr. Wickersham has been appointed health officer.-The case of assault against Dr. Marr, has been dismissed for want of prosecution Dr. Henry Geiger, formerly county physician, has been arrested for performing criminal abortion. The attempt to establish a Pasteur Institute in Chicago has failed.-Dr. J. L. Morrill, formerly of Rock Falls, has located in this city.

Dr. C. C. Clark is reported to have eloped with Miss Mary Slavins.-Dr. Waldon has gone west.-Dr Hemingway is visiting in Michigan.-Dr L. M. Bergen has removed to Highland Park Dr. DeWolf, it is said, has been offered $10,000 a year to inspect the food supplies of a Chicago restaurant The Health Department has been vigorously prosecuting the sellers of impure milk.

INDIANA.-At Goshen, a number of children played doctor and administered a fatal dose of medicine to a two-year old girl.-Dr. J M. Clark, of Colfax, died of Brights' disease, August 9, at the age of 80.-Dr. D. C. Darrow, of Peru, died August 22, at the age of 66.--Dr. Harrison, late president of the State Benevolent Board, has is-ued a pamphlet in defence of the insane hospital under his administration.-Dr. Wood, of Green Castle, has removed to Roachdale.-Dr. Fletcher, of Indianapolis, has been offered the superintendency of the new insane hospital at Fergus Falls, Minn.-St. Mary's Hospital, Indianapolis, will soon be ready for occupancy.-Dr. G W. McKaskey has been elected president of the Ft. Wayne Academy of Medicine. -Dr. Louis Pagin was recently married to Miss M. N. Miller, at Alliance, Ohio-Dr. J S. McMurray, of Frankfort, has been expelled from the Clinton County Medical Society, for alleged unpro fessional conduct.-The Northern Hospital for Insane at Logansport, is out of funds -Dr. Kilmer, of South Bend, is confined to his bed with abscess of the leg.-Dr. Blubaker, of South Bend, has gone to La Porte on a visit. Thus far all efforts to obtain information on the suicide at South Bend of a supposed Dr. Hammond, have been unavailing.Drs A B. Darby, J. B. Casebeer and F. W Fanning, constitute the new board of pension examiners for DeKalb County-Dr Leander Smith, one of the wealthiest residents of Whiteside county, died at Morrison, recently -Dr. A. D) Coe, of Mexico, died recently, aged 65 years.

IOWA -The new pension examining board of Fairfield, recently organized by the election of Dr. DH. Worthington as president; Dr J W Hayden as treasurer, and Dr. Eugene Campbell as secretary Dr A. P. McCulloch, of Brooklyn, has become insane-Dr. B F. McMillan died at Oskaloosa, August 1.-Dr S G Blythe, of Nora Springs, has been appointed pension surgeon "Drs." J C. Evans and E J. Chalfant, of Sioux City, have been arrested for criminal abortion. -Dr. A. H Bowman, of Davenport, has been appointed pension examining surgeon Dr. F. M Brady, of Osceola, died recently. Dr. Steinberger, of Keokuk, is seriously ill-Dr. J. W. Holiday, of Burlington, has been appointed surgeon for the C., B. & Q.-Small-pox is prevalent at Ayr.-Dr. A. B. Strosh, of Sioux City, was recently married to Harriet M. Hurbird; the couple eloped from Ohio about three months ago. Dr. Challand, of Monmouth, fell and broke his neck recently.-Small-pox is prevalent at Centerville.-Dr. A. Jones, of Des Moines, contemplates traveling to Alaska, using a span of mules and a

light covered wagon as the motor power -Dr. Smith, of Sioux City, has left London and gone to Switzerland.-Dr R. E. Kiddle, of Council Bluffs, contemplates removing to Little Sioux.-The State Board of Health has decided a local health physician has no power to contract for supplies for persons quarantined by local boards of health, unless the board shall specifically instruct him to make such contracts --Dr. Myers, of Aurelia, contemplates removing to Sheldon.-The residence of Dr. Scarff, of Burlington, was recently burglarized.

KANSAS.-Dr. J. II. Hesser, of Farlinville, died recently from paralysis.

KENTUCKY.-On motion of Dr. Satterwhite an attempt is to be made to compel the State to pay $75 per year for every imbecile and insane person that city hospitals are forced to maintain. Within the past few months a number have been confined in the workhouse and almshouse simply because there was no room for them at the asylum at Anchorage, and nothing else could be done.-Dr. B. F. Grant died August 20, from cardiac disease, at the age of 52 --Dr. Jas. Chenoweth has been appointed interne at Bellevue hospital, New York.Dr. Jno. H. Perkins, of Somerset, died August 6, of bronchitis, aged 72 years.--Dr. A. Y. Isaacs was married recently to Miss Lucy Kirk, of Louisville. -Dr. J. T. Hourigner, who murdered his brotherin-law and escaped from the Bardstown jail, was captured in Tennessee.

LOUISIANA --Dr J. J. Goss, of New Orleans, has been placed under $500 bonds on the charge of assault. Dr. R. Morgan, of Saur Grove, has been held to the Federal Court on the charge of mal administration of poisonous substances. The medicine proven to be oil of worm seed.-Dr. J. L Davis, of Greensburg, d'ed August 3.--Dr. J. A. Blanchard, of Napoleonville, has removed to La Fourche Parish.

MAINE. Dr. W. L. Gatchell has been appointed a member of the pension board of Fryeburg.-A Bangor lady was very ill a few days ago, and a physician was called, who prescribed for her The prescription was given to a servant girl, who was directed to take it to a drugstore and have it filled. She went to the drugstore, but, instead of carrying out her instructions, bought a postage stamp, placed it upon the prescription and dropped it into the postoffice. In a short time it returned to the physician who gave it It may be well to add that the lady did not die from the delay in receiving the medicine.

MASSACHUSETTS.-Dr. F. C. Hersey, of Salem, has been seriously injured by a runaway horse.— Dr G. W. H. Libby, of Worcester, died August 3, of phthisis.-Dr. Jno. K. Wade, of Lowell, died August 16th.-Dr. Thos. L. Chapman, of Springfield, died recently, aged 72 years.--Dr. Lane has resigned his position as assistant physician of Northampton Insane Asylum.-Dr. Rufus Moulton died at his home in Worcester from intestinal hemcr

rhage, August 24th.-Dr. Stanford, of Cambridge, has been held in $10,000 bonds for criminal malpractice. Dr Stebbins Foskit died recently at Springfield.-Boston.-Dr. Le Barron Russell died August 19, at the age of 75 years.

MICHIGAN-Dr. E. Amsden, of Allegan, recently married Mrs. Cordie E. Gunn.--Dr. C. G. Crunvine has located at Battle Creek Dr. L. O. Senghas, of Marine City, was recently drowned.--Dr. F. M. Gier, of Pittsboro, succeeds Dr. Williams, of Jonesville, as pension surgeon.--Dr. F. W. Main, of Van Antwerp Camp, Sons of Veterans, of Jackson, has been appointed first assistant surgeon general of the Michigan division, Sons of Veterans. --Dr. M. C. Heath, of Cadillac, has gone to Colorado in search of better health.-Dr. D. F. Stone, of Bay City, is to erect a substantial office building. --Dr. E. H. Cummings, of Edmore, has removed to Grand Rapids.-The Adrian pension board has organized; Dr. Kirkpatrick was elected president, Dr. Hull, secretary, and Dr. Nelson, treasurer.-Dr. C. H. Holt, of Grand Rapids, has returned from Pennsylvania.--Ann Arbor.-Dr. G. W. Lacea was recently married to Miss A. L. Upson.--Detroit -According to the Albron "Mirror," "some of the ligaments of the brain were found very much en larged" by Dr. Wyman, on trephining in a case of traumatic epilepsy.-Dr J. S. Owen was recently married to Miss B G. Calhoun.--Dr. Walsh, chief of the medical staff of Grace Hospital, has resigned. Harmony in the hospital will probably be restored by the appointment of Dr. D. Lessure, as Dr. Walsh's successor -Dr S. A Jones, of Ann Ar bor, has been appointed consulting physician at Grace Hospital, Detroit.--Dr. S. D. Richards has been arrested on charge of performing criminal abortion

MINNESOTA --Dr. Crawford has resigned the health officership of Luverne --Dr. C. L. Codding, of Duluth, was recently married to Mrs. Katherine Buchanan St. Paul.-Dr. D. P Bigger died recently at Hot Springs -Dr. C. E. Dutton, of Ft. Snelling, was recently married to Miss G Harring. ton.-Dr. Albert Shaw, of Minneapolis, has arrived home from Europe.-Dr. Williamson, of Middletown, N. Y., has been appointed superintendent of the Fergus Falls Insane Hospital --Dr. Rockwell, of West Superior, has located in West Duluth

MISSISSIPPI Dr. Robert Lowry, of Canton, recently married Miss M. T. Foote -Dr. A. J. Quimbe, of Oxford, attempted suicide August 12, by cutting his throat.

MISSOURI.-Drs. A. S. Long, J. T. Berghoff and W. H. Gough, compose the new pension board of St. Joseph-Dr O. D Young, of Ridge Prairie, was recently married to Miss A. Finley.-Dr. T. B. Head, of Chillicothe, recently committed suicide at the age of 60-Dr. Geo. C. Stamen, of Kansas City, is recovering from a serious illness.

NEBRASKA-Dr. Susan La Flesche, an Omaha Indian, has been appointed physician to the gov

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ernment school for the Omahas-Dr. J. O. Dawson, of Lincoln, recently removed a 224 grain vesical calculus from a seven-year-old boy.-Dr. H. K. Painter, of Lincoln, died August 8, from cardiac paralysis. Dr. J. S. Eaton, of Lincoln, was recently married to Miss E. C. Keefer -Dr. E. L. Holyoke, of Lincoln, is a candidate for coroner.Dr. Thompson, of Belvidere, has removed to Strang. Dr. J. M. Sweetman, of Omaha, was arrested on the charge of criminal libel.-Dr. R. Livingston has removed from Plattsmouth to Henningsford.

NEW HAMPSHIRE.-The Manchester Board of Pension Examining Surgeons now consists of Dr. W. W. Wilkins, president; Dr. Geo. D. Towne, treasurer; Dr. J. M. Collity, secretary.-Dr. Henry Dow died at Dover, recently, aged 85 years.

Dr. J J. Adams, of Manchester, N. H. has become insane.

NEW JERSEY.-Dr. A. Q. Donovan, of Elizabeth, was lately arrested for breach of promise, seduction and criminal abortion at the instance of the daughter of a boardinghouse keeper.-Dr. H. C. Fihian, of Port Norris, committed suicide, Aug. 22. He had been suffering from inflammation of the stomach.Dr. T. D. Westcott died at Camden, on Aug. 5th, aged 51 years.-Dr. Carl Buttner, of Orange, has been appointed surgeon to the Third Battalion.

NEVADA.-Whooping cough is prevalent in the Reese River Valley.

NEW YORK.-Dr. J. E. Turner, founder of the New York Inebriate asylum, died recently at Bing hamton. Drs. W. W. Jamieson or New Bremen, W. H. Johnson of Port Leyden, and F. A. Crane, of Lowville, have been appointed pension examiners for Lewis County.-Dr. Isaac Lea of Stapleton, L. I., recently committed suicide at the age of 76.Dr. D. W. Harrington of Lockport, narrowly es caped death July 27 from an overdose of morphine. -Dr. Danon has sold his practice at Gainesville to Dr. Cunningham of Hespeler, Can.-Dr. G. B. Upham of Yonkers, died August 9.-Dr. E. P. Clarke of Oneida, was recently married to Miss M. J. Brownell.-Dr. Mary W. Case of Troy, died August 19 from an overdose of degitatis taken for cardiac disease-Dr. Otto Ritzman of Albany, was recently drowned in Lake Champlain while boating. Dr. Cornelia Simpson of Hoosick Falls, died suddenly August 19.-Dr. George W. Mangus of Herkimer, has returned to Little Falls.-Dr. G. W. Arnold of Salamanca, has gone into the drug business in Olin.-Dr J. J. Shanks has resigned the superintendency of the Flatbush Insane Asylum and gone to Europe.-Dr. Jul us Folennis, a farmer resident of Green Toland, committed suicide at Helena, Mont., recently.-Dr. L. A. Weigel of Rochester is seriously ill.--Dr. B F. Showerman has been appointed coroner of Batavia.-John Janes, of Phoenix, has brought suit against Drs. John Aug, Andrew Hamill, whom he charges with