1 to 4 p.m., 7 to 8 p.m., by appointment only. Both telephones at residence, 5070 Washington avenue. Office telephones: Linmar Building, Lin. 231, Kin. C 1363.

DR. A. L. BENEDICT, of Buffalo, attended the meeting of the Canadian Medical Association at London, Ont., August 26, 1903, as delegate from the Medical Society of the State of New York. He also read a paper entitled, Multiple visceral lesion, at the annual meeting of the Erie County Medical Society, held at Erie, Pa.. September 1, 1903.

DR. WILLIAM A. WHITE, formerly assistant superintendent of the State Hospital for the Insane at Binghamton, N. Y., has been appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, Superintendent of the Government Hospital for the Insane at Washington, D. C., vice A. B. Richardson, deceased.

DR. EUGENE A. SMITH, of Buffalo, who was ill for some weeks last spring, spent the summer in much needed rest, and resumed his professional work about September 1, 1903, much to the gratification of his colleagues and other numerous friends.

DR. MONTGOMERY A. CROCKETT, of Buffalo, who has been studying general surgery in Europe during the summer, has returned and resumed his professional work.

DR. W. S. BAINBRIDGE, of New York, delivered a series of lectures on medical history at Chautauqua during the last summer

season.

DR. and MRS. J. V. WOODRUFF, of South Buffalo, are making a two months' tour of the Bermudas.

DR. IRVING M. SNOW, of Buffalo, has returned after a few weeks of rest and recreation in Europe.

OBITUARY.

DR. WILLIAM CARY BARRETT, D.D.S., dean of the dental department of the University of Buffalo, died at Nauheim, in Germany, on August 22, 1903, aged 70 years.

Dr. Barrett was born in Monroe County, N. Y. He received his preliminary education at Kingsville Academy, Ohio, Carey Academy and Yates Academy, in that state, and for some years taught in various places. In 1864 he began the study of dentistry and took the degree of master of dental surgery in 1869. He practised in Warsaw until 1876, when he came to Buffalo. In 1880 he received the degree of M. D. from the University of Buf

falo. The next year he gained the title of doctor of dental surgery from Pennsylvania.

Dr. Barrett, in 1885, began lecturing at the University of Buffalo, and in 1890 became professor of oral pathology. About the same time he was appointed to a professorship in the Chicago College of Dental Surgery of the Lake Forest University. Dr. Barrett retained his residence in Buffalo, however, and went to Chicago at stated intervals, to deliver his lectures and give the instruction belonging to his chair.

Upon the organisation of the dental department of the University of Buffalo in 1891, Dr. Barrett was elected dean of the faculty, and also held the professorship before referred to. He was also oral surgeon on the staff of the Buffalo General Hospital. For some years Dr. Barrett edited the Dental Practitioner, and was the author of several monographs upon subjects connected with dental medicine.

Dr. Barrett was a member of the Erie County Medical Association, and of the American Medical Association. He was a member of the International Medical Congress (London, 1881): an honorary vice-president of the ninth congress (Washington, 1887); and of the tenth congress (Berlin, 1899). He was president of the State Dental Association in 1875 and 1876, and of the American Dental Association in 1886. He was an honorary member of many state, national and foreign professional societies. Dr. Barrett had traveled much and studied in many hospitals. His pathological collection is very valuable.

Dr. Barrett was married in 1857 to Amelia Harris Ryerse, of Port Ryerse, Ont., who survives him. Mrs. Barrett was with her husband abroad and brought his remains home for interment. The faculty and alumni of the dental department of the University of Buffalo took appropriate action upon the receipt of the news of Dr. Barrett's death.

DR. JAMES FARQUHAR HIBBERD, of Richmond, Ind., died at his home in that city, September 8, 1903, aged 86 years. He was born at Monrovia, Md., and received his academic education at Alexandria, Va. He attended medical lectures at Yale University and received his degree at the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, in 1849. He practised his profession for a few years in California, removing to Richmond in 1856. He was professor of physiology and general pathology in the Ohio Medical College. Cincinnati, during the sessions of 1860 and 1861.

Dr. Hibberd was one of the founders of the Ohio State Medical Society, one of the chief organisers of the Indiana State

Medical Society, and served a term as the first vice-president of the American Medical Association in 1865; later its president in 1894. He was a member of many other local and national medical societies, in most of which he held official positions. He served for a time in the union army during the Civil War, was in the Ohio legislature for three terms, and from 1875 to 1877 was mayor of Richmond.

DR. ROBERT A. PATCHEN, of Des Moines, Ia., a graduate of the University of Buffalo, 1869, died at his home August 31, 1903, aged 53 years. Dr. Patchen occupied a prominent position as a physician and citizen in the city where he lived. He had been president of Polk County Medical Society, was a member of the Iowa State Medical Society, State Association of Railway Surgeons, and of the International Association of Railway Surgeons. The cause of his death, as reported, was an acute exacerbation of disease of the liver.-a malady that had afflicted him for a number of years.

DR. JOHN B. LUNDY, of Preston, Ont., a graduate of the University of Buffalo, 1851, died of paralysis, at his home, August 20, 1903, aged 77 years.

SOCIETY MEETINGS.

THE American Public Health Association, representing the United States, Canada, Mexico and Cuba, will hold its thirty-first annual meeting at Washington, D. C., Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, October 26, 27, 28, 29 and 30, 1903, under the presidency of Dr. Walter Wyman, surgeon general of the United States Marine Hospital and Public Health Service, of Washington.

The executive committee has selected the following topics for consideration, but papers will be received upon other sanitary subjects: purification of water supplies; disposal of industrial wastes; purification and disposal of sewage; disposal of garbage; animal diseases and animal food; car sanitation; steamboat and steamship sanitation; etiology of yellow fever; tuberculosis; plague; demography and statistics in their sanitary relation : cause and prevention of infectious diseases; infectious period of communicable diseases; public health legislation; cause and prevention of infant mortality; disinfectants and disinfection; production and free distribution of vaccine; teaching of hygiene

and changes many since the previous edition was put forth. Drugs are now classed according to their pharmacological action, instead of alphabetically as heretofore. Old drugs have been elaborately considered and all modern knowledge concerning them has been utilised; newer drugs, that is, such as are possessed of merit, have been carefully analysed; references have been omitted in order to economise space,-these and other features of the book will at once commend themselves to the searcher for facts.

The status of Stevens as a teacher is so fully established on a high plane that whatever he has to say commands respect and carries weight, hence there is safety in accepting this textbook as a guide for the student and practitioner. It is a complete modern treatise on the subjects with which it deals.

THE PRACTICAL MEDICINE SERIES OF YEAR BOOKS. Ten volumes. Issued under the general editorial charge of Gustavus P. Head, M. D., Professor of Laryngology and Rhinology in the Chicago Post Graduate Medical School. Vol. V., Obstetrics. Edited by Reuben Peterson, M. D., Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan. 12mo, pp. 204. Chicago: The Year Book Publishers. 1903. (Price, $1.25; entire series, $7.50.).

The object of this book is to give a resume of the best obstetric literature of the year, a purpose in which it succeeds. It is constructed on the same lines as the previous volumes by the same author. The object of the series is primarily to place in the hands of the general practitioner of medicine that for which he would search the periodical and other literature, perhaps vainly; and place it promptly without loss of valuable time. This is particularly important for the obstetrician who may need suggestive aid in a pending case, and he will here find the latest thought on pregnancy and its complications; labor and its complications; the puerperium and obstetric surgery.

We commend the book for its careful preparation of the material it contains and for its value as an aid to the busy physician who engages in the practice of obstetrics.

SQUINT-ITS CAUSES, PATHOLOGY AND TREATMENT. By CLAUD WORTH, F. R. C. S. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co. 1903.

In these days of much bookmaking, a writer who has original ideas and who presents them in a clear forceful way so as to carry conviction, is entitled to more than a perfunctory word of commendation. Such a writer is Claud Worth, whose studies on "Squint" have been most careful, and whose conclusions are revolutionary. Only the first chapter deals with a common subject in a stereotyped way. The remainder of the book is replete with careful observations, valuable suggestions and logical conclusions.

The most important of his studies is on the fusion function.the causes of the amblyopia, which develops in the squinting eye, and the method of training, by which the sight may be pre