The authors give the results of their treatment of epileptics by the method suggested by Richet and Toulouse, according to whom diminution of the excess of chlorides present in the organism favours the curative action of bromide salts in epilepsy without disturbing appreciably the normal physiological metabolism. They experimented on twenty patients, eleven men and nine women, who were taking from 45 to 120 grains of bromide per diem. Chlorine was suppressed from the diet. They noted the number of crises during the six months preceding this special treatment, during the forty days of treatment, and during the two months following. A brief history of each case is given. No objection to the treatment occurred on the part of the patients. Their general conclusions may be thus summarised:

A meeting of the Scottish Division was held in the Hall of the Royal College of Physicians, Queen Street, Edinburgh, on Friday, December 5th, 1902. The following members of the Association were present:—Drs. Clouston, Yellowlees, W. W. Ireland, John G. Havelock, J. Carlyle Johnstone, George M. Robertson, A. R. Turnbull, John Keay, R. B. Mitchell, E. R. Wilson, J. M. Rutherford, C. C. Easterbrook, R. D. Hotchkis, J. H. Macdonald, J. Carswell, W. Ford Robertson, and Lewis C. Bruce (Secretary).

The author observes that the treatment of acute cases of insanity by confinement to bed has made good progress, in spite of criticism, during the last ten years.

In this lecture, delivered before the University of Lausanne, the author defines the issues between the old classic school of penology and the modern scientific spirit.

This is the report of a case of great medico-legal interest.

The author shortly reviews the opinions which have been held regarding the relationship of alcoholism to tubercular disease. There are three possible views, and each has had its advocates: (1) that alcoholism is antagonistic to tuberculosis; (2) that alcoholism has no special relationship to tuberculosis; (3) that alcoholism definitely predisposes to tuberculosis. The last view is that which at present tends to prevail, and the most reliable sort of evidence—that afforded by the pathological study of a large mass of cases—is strongly in its favour. For instance, in ten fatal cases of alcoholic polyneuritis the author found pulmonary tuberculosis in eight. And examination of the records of the Manchester Royal Infirmary showed evidence of tubercular disease in 23 per cent of the fatal cases of common hepatic cirrhosis.

The American Medico-Psychological Association having become affiliated with the Congress of American Physicians and Surgeons, it is obligatory under the constitution and bye-laws of the Congress that the Association hold its meeting in 1903 and every third year in Washington. The Council has therefore instructed the Secretary to issue this notice, changing the place of meeting from Providence to Washington, and fixing the dates, May 12th, 13th, 14th, and 15th of this year.