LITERARY NOTES.

We have just received the first number, dated May, 1920, of the new "Journal of Neuro- logy and Psychopathology," which is produced under the direction of a distinguished Editorial Committee, including Drs. S. A. Kinnier Wilson, T. Graham Brown, R. M. Stewart, Bernard

Hart, Henry Devine, Maurice Nicoll, and Carey F. Coombs. The journal is attractively got up with clear type and illustrations well reproduced. The character of the material dealt with in its

pages is such as to make the journal appeal not only to the specialist in neurology and psycho- pathology, but also to the general practitioner. For instance, the present issue includes articles on the treatment of cerebrospinal fever and the pathology of encephalitis lethargica. We can recommend this journal to all who are in- terested in the advance of the science of Neuro- logy or Psychology.

The; Indian Medical Record offers a special prize of ?10 for the best article on Tuberculosis, its Etiology, Prophylaxis and Treatment. Essays should reach the Editor, Indian Medical Record, Corporation Street, Calcutta, by the 31st September, 1920, from whom further parti- culars are available.

Wu have received from Messrs. W. B. Saunders & Co. a copy of their latest catalogue of medical books. It is unnecessary to write of the excellence of Messrs. Saunders' publica- tions, which is well known to all interested in medical literature. Suffice it to say this list includes some of the latest publications on

medicine, surgery, midwifery and allied sub-

jects by American authors.

Professor Jose Albert, Member, Council of Hygiene, Philippine Health Service, writes to

correct an apparent mis-statement made in Rosenau's Preventive Medicine.

In dealing with .the prevention of leprosy, Professor Rosenau is quoted as follows:?-

" In the Philippine Islands segregation of all discoverable cases reduced new admissions by 90 per cent." Professor Albert cites the figures of the Philippine Health Service setting forth all the yearly admissions in the Culion Leper Colony for the last fourteen years and five

months, or since the. institution of the drastic

experiment of compulsory segregation. These

figures show that in spite of the measures taken the number of annual admissions has

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oscillated with relatively narrow limits, without any great noticeable decrease."