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form of original articles, reviews of foreign books, translations, and abstracts. Its appearance was the signal for a more general interest in the subject, which many began to find attractive. Much of the success which American dermatology has since achieved can, I think, be traced more or less directly to the influence which this journal exerted upon the profession. It was carried on to the completion of the fifth year. The Photographic Review of Medicine and Surgery, edited by the late Dr. F. F. Maury and the writer, made its appear- ance in the autumn of this year, and, though not specially devoted to dermatology, contained several rare cases of skin disease. A re- markly large development of keloid upon a negro, by Dr. Maury ;* an extensive growth of dermatolysis, by Dr. Keen ;f cornu cuta- neum of the cheek, by Dr. Pancoast ', enormous elephantiasis of one lower extremity, by Dr. Ingraham ;§ a similar case, by Dr. J. R. Wood ;|| leprosy in a Cuban, by Dr. Beecher;^ syphilis of the nose simulating epithelioma, by Dr. Gross;** and acne rosacea hyper- trophica,'|"f by the writer,, may be noted. Elephantiasis also re- ceived notice from Dr. Isaac Smith, Jr. ,|]; of Fall River, who am- putated the thigh for the relief of the disease. The nature of the so-called eczema marginatum of Hebra was considered by Dr. E. L. Keyes§§ in a review of the work which had recently been done by Hebra, Kobner, and others. In pathology. Dr. Foster Swift|||| gave his views on " the pathology of eczema ;" and the writer, ^^ a short article on "the pathology of alopecia areata," wherein the effort was made to disprove the commonly received view of its para- sitic nature, and to show its dependence on nerve disturbance. A practical paper on alopecia was also read before the Massachusetts Medical Society, by Dr. Wigglesworth.***

The subject of syphilization, which at this period was being agi- tated in our country owing to the visit of Dr. Boeck and the views he promulgated, was discussed by the late Dr. Bumsteadftf in an article entitled "the treatment of syphilis by repeated inoculations of matter derived from venereal sores," while excellent descrip- tions of the serpiginous tubercular^]; and papular§§§ syphilodermata were given by Dr. Taylor. In this connection admirable articles by Dr. Frank P. Foster|||l|| on the question of vaccino-syphilis, in which was clearly proved the impossibility of syphilis being conveyed by vaccination with unmixed lymph, may be quoted. In the way of contributions to literature in book-form, reference

II 1871-72. 1870-71. ** 1871-72. tt 1S71-72. % Amer. Jour, of the Med. Sci., July, 1870. ■ Amer. Jour, of Syph. and Derm., January, 1870. nil Ibid., April, 1870. " Amer. Jour, of the Med. Sci., July, 1870. -*^* Publications of the Mass. Med. Soc, 1871. -fff Amer. Jour, of the Med. Sci., Ju'y, 1870. Amer. Jour, of Syph. and Derm., Jan. 1870.  Ibid., April, 1870. jiim Ibid., 1870, 1871, 1873.
 * 1870-71. t 1871-72. X 1870-71. I 1870-71.