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Motherhood. By E. S. Harris, M. D., Independence, Missouri. Published by the author. This is not a large book or an ambitious book, but it contains in a very few words the facts that the average woman about to become a mother wants to know about herself and her child. The price is so small (10 cents) that any physician can afford to secure a generous supply to place in the hands of his patients. We take pleasure in recommending the booklet to readers of the Standard.

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A DOCTOR'S VIEWPOINT.

A Doctor's Viewpoint. By John B. Huber, A. M., M. D., Editor of the Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette; author of Consumption and Civilization; Fellow of the American Medical Association, etc. Published by the Gazette Publishing Company, 87 Nassau Street, New York City. This volume contains a number of essays which have been contributed by the author to the American Review of Reviews, Collier's Weekly, Harper's Weekly, the Scientific American, and other publications, together with a large amount of new material. The subjects discussed are various. For instance, the first essay, "A Twentieth Century Epic," is a triumphant record of the great achievements in medicine during the last few years-the first years of the twentieth century. Doctor Huber writes as an American proud of the work that our own people have done to make the world a better and safer place to live in.

It would be a pleasant task to make frequent quotations from these essays; indeed, I am not sure that I shall not do so later, for there is a spirit of friendliness and optimism-a determination to look on the bright side of thingsrunning through them all which makes the book very pleasant to read. Thus, Doctor Huber writes hopefully of the conquest of tuberculosis; he thinks that the danger signals that come to a man of forty or thereabouts are blessings in disguise and give no reason for worrying; and he

sees pleasure and health in getting out into the sunshine.

We might wish the book better printed and bound, but certainly we can find little fault with what Doctor Huber has to say. The book is a good one to help while away many a leisure winter hour. Buy it.

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EVERYDAY DISEASES OF CHILDREN. Everyday Diseases of Children and Their Rational Treatment. By George H. Candler, M. D. Second edition. Publishers: The Abbott Press, Chicago, Ill. Price, $1.00.

This book contains more real, practical helpfulness for the general practitioner than any work upon pediatrics which we have seen, regardless of price and size. True, there are many books which are more complete and undoubtedly more "scientific," entering with greater detail into the late advances in pediatrics, but, unfortunately, the majority of these books do not concentrate greatly upon therapy, with the exception of the dietetic treatment of children's diseases, which most of the textbooks upon this subject discuss very fully.

Doctor Candler, on the contrary, believes in the use of drugs, and knows how to use them. Also, he describes the methods of using them with the most minute detail, so that any physician who becomes familiar with this work is hardly likely to lack for information when it comes to the treatment of the acute diseases at least. In this field, the acute infectious diseases, the book is particularly strong. It is for this reason that it should appeal with especial interest to general practitioners.

There will be many physicians, of course, who will rebel at the repeated references to the vari ous active-principle and closely allied remedies. Such men will undoubtedly declare this book commercial. However, if commercialism can give the doctor the means of treating his little patients successfully and pleasantly, as this book undoubtedly does, it deserves praise rather than blame. The price of $1.00 for a book of 432

pages is ridiculously small. The book is well printed and bound.

ANNOUNCEMENT.

Other important papers, leading up to and extending the issues discussed in "The Call of the Twentieth Century," published in The Medical Standard, June, July and August, 1914, from the pen of Dr. Munro, are as follows:

(1) Published in The Illinois Medical Journal, October, 1914, and to appear soon in Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, a paper entitled "The Emotional Factor in the Etiology of Suieide, Criminality, Insanity and Mortality," read by invitation before the Meeting of Alienists and Neurologists of the United States for the Discussion of Mental Diseases in Their Various Phases, under the auspices of the Chicago Medical Society, July 13, 1914.

(2) Published in The American Practitioner, November and December, 1913, a paper entitled "The Correlation, Unification or Synthesis of Chemo- and Psychotherapy."

(3) Published in The Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy, 1914, a paper entitled "Instinct, Intellect and the Game," read by invitation before the National Society of Physical Therapeutics, Denver, Colo., July, 1913. (4) Published in The Medical Herald, February and March, 1914, a paper entitled "AutoIntoxication and Dis-Intoxication in Relation to the Etiology and Treatment of Disease," read before the Society of the Missouri Valley, Omaha, Sept. 19, 1913.

(5) Published in The Medical Herald. March, 1912, a paper entitled "The Retraining of the Human Animal for the Restoration of Health," read before the Society of the Missouri Valley, Sept. 7, 1911.

(6) Published in The Medical Standard, a paper entitled "The Activating Motives of Professional Conduct," the first part of which appeared under the Department of Psychotherapy of several 1913 issues of The Medical Record.

(7) Published in the New York Medical Record, May 30, 1914, a paper entitled "The Prevention of Psychic Trauma."

(8) Published in The Medical Standard, July, 1913, a paper entitled "What I Prescribed for a Patient.

(9) Published in The Medical Herald, June, 1910, a paper entitled "Psychotherapy in Relation to the General Practice of Medicine and Surgery," read before the Society of the Missouri Valley, March, 1910.

(10) Published in The Medical Herald, in 1912, the following papers: (a) Suggestion

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the Dominant Factor in Evolution." (b) "Conscious Evolution in Relation to Medical Science and Art." (e) "Practical Hints to the Evolving Physician.''

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Published in The American Journal of Clinical Medicine, March, 1913, a paper entitled "Evolution's Message to Physicians."

(12) Published in The Medical Herald, September, 1913, a paper entitled "Evolution His Foundation Stone,'-an expression of commendation and appreciation of the election of Prof. Victor G. Vaughan, as President of the American Medical Association.

(13) Published in The Medical Herald, June, 1914, a paper entitled 'Some Broader Issues of Public Health."

(14) Published in The American Journal of Clinical Medicine, August, 1914, a paper entitled "Opportunity as a Therapeutic Expedient."

PAPERS TO APPEAR SOON.

(15) To be published in The St. Louis Medical Review, November, 1914, a paper entitled "The Arrival of the General Practitioner."

(16) To be published in The Medical Herald, November, 1914, a paper entitled "The View Point of the Laity."

(17) To be published in The Illinois Medical Journal and also in The Medical Standard, November, 1914, a paper entitled "An Open Question."

(18) To be published in The General Practioner, November, 1914, a paper entitled "The New Era in Medicine.'

For fifteen years have I been working in the interests of the medical profession, that I might benefit humanity in an indirect way through the physicians of the United States. We have now come to the parting of the ways. Henceforth, I will direct my appeal to people, rather than to depend entirely upon physicians for referred. work, as I have done for the past five and a half years, while working for the people through the Medical Profession.

If I am forced to conform to the rules of the game, or to "go your own route," I prefer the latter. If the competitive system must prevail, I choose to work in the interest of the larger social organization, and not in the interest of the Medical School Monopolists, under the title of "The American Medical Association,❞—an aggregation of men organized for the exploitation of medical schools and hospitals, for the treatment of pathological end products (gross pathology), while the real cause of disease is being neglected.

I hereby express my grateful acknowledgment

AN ETHICAL PROPRIETARY FOR ETHICAL PHYSICIANS

A careful canvass shows that
75% of the Medical Profession use

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in their regular treatment of PNEUMONIA

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Old-time Doctors renew alligiance to the original-Antiphlogistine; while the Younger Generation, following their example, avoid disappointment "through risky experimentation."

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.M. D. New Jersey.

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.M. D. New York.

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PHYSICIANS' PATIENTS

may be sent to MUDLAVIA with the full assurance that they will be as well taken care of as though their physician accompanied them. We appreciate the co-operation of the physician and are glad to receive his advice and report to him the condition of patients that he may send to us.

The Mudlavia Treatment

is now administered under the direction of Dr. George F. Butler, whose reputation is firmly established with the profession, and he has gathered about him an able corps of assistants.

The laboratory is complete and the entire Medical department in keeping with the other splendid service of this institution.

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Physicians are invited to write freely for
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Medical Director Mudlavia

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I shall continue my work for the future according to the principles outlined in "The New Era in Medicine," see The American Practitioner, Washington Square, East, New York, issue of November, 1914.

The work for the people through the physicians has been wrought. "The New Era in Medicine" is at hand, and we are only better qualified for the real work for, with and among those needing our help.

HENRY S. MUNRO, M. D., 506-8 Brandeis Theatre Building, Omaha. Neb.

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ACROSS THE SEA.

By John Greenleaf Whittier.

Across the sea I heard the groans
Of nations in the intervals

Of wind and wave. Their blood and bones
Cried out in torture, crushed by thrones,
And sucked by priestly cannibals.

1 dreamed of Freedom slowly gained
By martyr meekness, patience, faith,
And lo! an athlete grimly stained,
With corded muscles battle-strained,
Shouting it on the fields of death.

I turn me, awe-struck, from the sight,
Among the clamoring thousands mute;
I only know that God is right,
And that the children of the light

Shall tread the darkness under foot.

I know the pent fire heaves its crust, That sultry skies the bolt will form

To smite them clear; that Nature must The balance of her powers adjust,

Tho with earthquake and the storm.

God reigns, and let the earth rejoice! I bow before His sterner plan. Dumb are the organs of my choice! He speaks in battle's stormy voice,

His praise is in the wrath of man.

Yet, surely as He lives, the day

Of peace He promised shall be ours,
To fold the flags of war, and lay
Its sword and spear to rust away,

And sow its ghastly fields with flowers.
WEWE VE

The New British Pharmacopeia.-The British Imperial Pharmacopeia, which succeeds the old British Pharmacopeia, will go into effect on January 1, 1915. This is an entirely new work, and, as its name implies, is intended for the use of the people of the entire British Empire. From the

New York Medical Journal we learn that "the total list of drugs and preparations named is smaller than the combined number in the Pharmacopeia of 1898 and the addendum, 168 articles having been omitted, and only forty-three introduced. The recommendations of the Brussels conference for the unification of the formulæ of potent remedies have been followed, except in particular instances and in the matter of using weights for liquids as well as for solids. The metric system of weights and measures has been used throughout."

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A HOT ONE.

The Cincinnati Medical News hands a hot one to its contemporary, the Cincinnati Lancet-Clinic. It makes the statement that the latter journal "has sold out to the liquor interests," the consideration being "five hundred dollars, minus a bill for postage." It is charged that the Lancet-Clinic was subsidized by the "wet" interests of the state of Ohio, for the sum mentioned, to send a marked copy of the journal to every physician in the state of Ohio, calling attention to an article written by a prominent alienist, said article containing "a review of two hundred nervous and mental cases tending to show the negligible importance of alcohol as an essential factor in their causation.'' This article, the News says, "is a brilliant presentation of the author's view that alcohol in itself is not habitforming." This indictment of the Lancet-Clinic is the more significant because at the time it sold its pages to the liquor interests the state was engaged in a state-wide prohibition campaign. We shall wait with interest for the Lan, cet-Clinic's reply.

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