A Treatise on the Motor Apparatus of the Eyes. Embracing an Exposition of the Anomalies of the Ocular Adjustments and their Treatment, with the Anatomy and Physiology of the Muscles and their Accessories. By George T. Stevens, M.D., Ph.D. Illustrated with 184 engravings, some in colors. 496 pages, Royal Octavo. Philadelphia: F. A. Davis Company. 1906. (Price, $4.50 net). A Primer of Psychology and Mental Disease for use in Training Schools for Attendants and Nurses and in Medical Classes, and, as a ready reference for the practitioner. By C. B. Burr, M.D., Medical Director of Oak Grove Hospital (Flint, Mich.) for Mental and Nervous Diseases. Third edition. Revised, with illustrations. Pages viii-183, 12mo. Philadelphia: F. A. Davis Company, (Price, $1.25 net). The Ear and its Diseases. A textbook for students and physicians. By Seth Scott Bishop, B.S., M.D., LL.D., Honorary President of the Faculty and Professor in the Post-Graduate School and Hospital of Chicago; Surgeon to the Post-Graduate Hospital and to the Illinois Hospital, etc. Illustrated with 27 Colored Lithographs and 200 Additional Illustrations. Royal Octavo, 440 Pages. Philadelphia: F. A. Davis Company. (Price, $4.00 net). Saunders' Pocket Medical Formulary. By William M. Powell, M.D., author of "Essentials of Diseases of Children." Containing 1831 formulas from the best known authorities. With an appendix containing Posologic Tables, Formulas and Doses for Hypodermic Medication, Poisons and their Antidotes, Diameters of the Female Pelvis and Fetal Head, Obstetric Table, etc., etc. Eighth Edition, Adapted to the new (1905) Pharmacopeia. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders Company, 1906. In flexible morocco, with side index, wallet and flap. ($1.75 net). Prevalent Diseases of the Eye. By Samuel Theobald, M.D., Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology and Otology, Johns Hopkins University. Octavo of 551 pages, with 219 text-illustrations, and 10 colored plates. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders Company. 1906. (Cloth, $4.50 net; half morocco $5.50 net). A Textbook on the Practice of Gynecology. By W. Easterly Ashton, M.D., LL.D., Professor of Gynecology in the Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia. Third Edition, thoroughly revised. Octavo of 1096 pages, with 1057 original line drawings. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders Company, 1906. (Cloth, $6.50 net; half morocco, $7.50 net). Abdominal Operations. By B. G. A. Moynihan, M.S. (London), F.R.C.S., Senior Assistant Surgeon at Leeds General Infirmary, England. Second Revised Edition, greatly Enlarged. Octavo of 815 pages, with 305 original illustrations. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders Company, 1906. (Cloth, $7.00 net; half morocco, $8.00 net). The American Illustrated Dictionary. All the terms used in Medicine, Surgery, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Chemistry and kindred branches; with over 100 new tables. By W. A. Newman Dorland, M.D., Fourth Revised Edition. Octavo of 836 pages, with 293 illustrations, 119 of them in colors. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders Company, 1906. (Flexible Morocco, $4.50 net; thumb indexed, $5.00 net). Diet in Health and Disease. By Julius Friedenwald, M.D., Clinical Professor of Diseases of the Stomach in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore; and John Ruhrah, M.D., Clinical Professor of Diseases of Children in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore. Second Revised Edition. Octavo of 728 pages. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders Company, 1906. (Cloth, $4.00 net; half morocco, $5.00 net). Photoscopy (Skiascopy or Retinoscopy). By Mark D. Stevenson, M.D., Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Akron City Hospital; Oculist to the Children's Home, Akron, Ohio. Octavo of 126 pages, illustrated. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders Company, 1906. (Cloth, $1.25 net). Obstetrics for Nurses. By Joseph B. DeLee, M.D., Professor of Obstetrics in the Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago. Second Revised Edition. 12mo., 510 pages, illustrated. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders Company, 1905. (Cloth, $2.50 net). The Technic of Operations upon the Intestines and Stomach. By Alfred H. Gould, M.D., Boston, Massachusetts. Octavo volume, containing 190 beautiful original illustrations, some in colors. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders Company, 1906. (Cloth, $5.00 net; half morocco, $6.00 net). A Textbook of Obstetrics. By Barton Cooke Hirst, M.D., Professor of Obstetrics in the University of Pennsylvania. Fifth Revised Edition. Octavo of 915 pages, with 753 illustrations, 39 in colors. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders Company, 1905. (Cloth, $5.00 net; half morocco, $6.00 net). Studies in the Psychology of Sex-Erotic Symbolism, The Mechanism of Detumescence, The Psychic State of Pregnancy. By Havelock Ellis. Pages x-285. Sold only by Subscription to Physicians, Lawyers, and Scientists. F. A. Davis Company, Philadelphia. ($2.00 net). Transactions of the American Otological Society. annual meeting held at New York, June 26 and 27, 1906. M.D., Boston, Secretary. Thirty-ninth Ten volumes. The Practical Medicine Series of Year Books. Series of 1906. 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. VII. Pediatrics and Orthopedic Surgery, edited by Drs. Isaac A. Abt and John Ridlon. Chicago: The Year Book Publishers. Series, 1906. (Price, $1.25; entire series, $10.00). Retinoscopy in the Determination of Refraction at One Meter distance with the Plane Mirror. By James Thorington, M.D., Author of "Rrefraction and How to Refract." etc. Fifth edition. pp. 67. With 54 illustrations. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co. 1906. The Medical Directory of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. Published by the Medical Society of the State of New York. Volume VIII. 1906. Genitourinary Diseases and Syphilis. By Henry H. Morton, M.D. Clinical Professor of Genitourinary Diseases in the Long Island College Hospital. Illustrated with 158 Half-tone and Photo Philadelphia: F. engravings and 7 Full-page colored plates. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Royal Octavo, 500 Pages. A. Davis Company. 1906. (Price, $4.00 net). Atlas and Textbook of Human Anatomy. Volume I. By Professor J. Sobotta, of Wurzburg. Edited, with additions, by J. Playfair McMurrich, A.M., Ph.D., Professor of Anatomy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Quarto volume of 258 pages, containing 320 illustrations, mostly in colors. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders, 1906. (Cloth $6.00 net; half morocco, $7.00 net). Medical Epitome Series. Edited by Victor C. Pederson, M.D., Lecturer in surgery in the New York Polyclinic Medical School and Hospital. Pathology, by John Stenhouse, M.D., and John Ferguson, M.D. 12 mo. pp. 285. Illustrated. Philadelphia and New York: Lea Bros. & Co. (Price, $1.00). LITERARY NOTES. THE Therapeutic Gazette, the Medical Age and Medicine will be consolidated January 1, 1907, and become one magazine. The publication will be edited by Drs. Hobart A. Hare and Edward Martin, who have been editors of the Therapeutic Gazette for several years. The title of the consolidated magazine will be The Therapeutic Gazette, incorporating Medicine and the Medical Age. The subscription price will be $2.00 a year. E. G. Swift is the publisher and Harry Skillman is the business manager. ST. LOUIS Medical and Surgical Journal has combined with the Medical Mirror. The former journal is absorbed in the latter. MISCELLANY. CHARLES S. FOWLER, Chief Examiner, announces that the State Civil Service Commission will hold examinations December 15, 1906, for the following positions: Appraiser of Forest Lands, $600 to $1080 and expenses; Architectural Draughtsman, $15 to $25 a week; Assistant Civil Engineer, $5 to $6 a day; Bridge Designer, $1500 to $1800; Bridge Draughtsman, $1200 to $1500; Chemist, Department of Agriculture, $1200; Civil Engineering Draughtsman, $4 to $5 a day; Fireman, Onondaga County Service, $2 a day; Law Library Assistant, State Library, $600 to $720; Librarian, Department of Labor, $900; Superintendent of Industries, State Prisons, $1500; Tracer, $40 to $75 a month. The last day for filing applications for these positions is December 10th. Full information and application forms for any of these examinations may be obtained by addressing the Chief Examiner of the Commission at Albany. BUFFALO MEDICAL JOURNAL. VOL. LXII. A JANUARY 1907. ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. Reciprocity in Medical Licensure.' By ALBERT VANDER VEER, M. D., Albany, N. Y. No. 6 S a result of conferences between the States of New Jersey, Michigan, and Ohio, formal agreements for reciprocity in medical licensure have been entered into between the States of New York and New Jersy, Michigan, and Ohio, during the school year just closed. The basis upon which reciprocity obtains between these states is a license earned on examination in either one of them. The candidate for endorsement of a medical license must present credentials from the officials of the state board of medical examiners which licensed him, showing that at the time of such application he is a reputable practitioner. Provision is made for the inspection of the qualifications of an applicant either personally or professionally when there are reasonable doubts of his qualifications, and an applicant presenting a license issued prior to the establishment of reciprocity may be required to submit the original papers on which the license was granted or certified copies thereof. Only an original state license can be endorsed. The preliminary education required for admission to the medical schools must be the same in each state, and the certification of the education department of the state as to the standards maintained by secondary schools will be accepted by the education department of the other states. The standards to be required of secondary schools without those states must be fully equivalent to those required within the states, and such standards shall be determined in joint conference between the education departments of the states, the registered list of New York State remaining in force till a joint list becomes operative. The unit of value in measuring or estimating the preliminary qualifications is the count which is of universal use in New York state and is in accord with the academic syllabus for secondary 1. From the New York Medical Journal, October 13, 1906. schools. The recognized medical schools registered as maintaining the required standards are those of the states in which the applicant seeks endorsement. The standard of registration of the board of regents of the University of the State of New York and their list of registered medical schools in group 1 are adopted, each state reserving the right of submitting evidence with reference to any institution, either for removing it from or for placing it on the approved list. Full faith and credit are given by the board of each state to the examinations held by the boards of the other states. The applications for license under this agreement must be endorsed in the representative states by the president and secretary of the board of examiners and by the commissioner of education. The agreement has been signed by the representatives of the state boards and the education departments, and remains in force until rescinded by formal action. From the report of an American Consul in Austria, Hugo Donzelmann, Prague, March, 1898, the following statement of the principles of the first laws promulgated in Europe with reference to the practice of medicine and pharmacy is condensed. Their principle is still apparent in all later laws, namely, the public good, and this principle is the underlying principle in the growth of laws affecting admission to the practice of the learned professions in the United States. The first decree of Frederick II., in 1224, can be said to have been the fundamental constitution of all existing laws in Europe, the same having been amended and improved upon from time to time, but always bearing in mind that the practice of medicine and pharmacy was to be under the special care and supervision of the government in order to protect its people against imposition. In that year he established by a decree the first college for the education of physicians, at Naples, and promulgated the first laws governing the practice of medicine within his domain, viz., that no person should be admitted to the practice of medicine who had not passed his examination before the Collegio Medico de Napoli; that after having received his diploma from said college it became necessary for the person to enter into active practice with a regular practising physician for the period of one year as assistant; and that an oath had to be taken by the person whereby he promised to follow and live up to the laws of the country respecting the practice and sale of medicine and whereby he bound himself to attend to the sick, to accept only a reasonable fee from all who were able to pay, and to treat the poor and impecunious free and without charge. It would be interesting in this connection to trace the development of professional laws in the United States, but this is foreign |