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406 reached,—premature, but not before a life's work had been accomplished,—the world lost a noble man, the profession one who had done much to elevate medical science, dermatology one of its most esteemed and valued chiefs, and many of us a cherished friend whose memory will long remain a sacred pleasure.

To return to our history: Among the rarer diseases which at this time received consideration, impetigo contagiosa must be mentioned, which was described by Dr. R. W. Taylor in the American Journal of Syphilography and Dermatology, and later in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal. These articles were the first on this disease which appeared in our country. The affection was also discussed especially with reference to its parasitic nature, and to its relation with vaccinia, by Dr. H. G. Piffard. The cases of scleroderma which were reported at about this date by Day, Piffard, and Pepper, are also deserving of notice.

Dactylitis syphilitica, an affection then but little known, was this year ably described by Dr. Taylor. Dr. Bumstead also called attention to the bullous eruption produced by the administration of the iodide of potassium, which, as it subsequently appeared, had been previously observed by Dr. O'Reilly. In this connection I may refer to a paper by Dr. L. P. Yandell, of Louisville, on the removal of the discoloration produced by the internal use of the nitrate of silver by iodide of potassium. Two cases, both syphilitic, where the staining was deep, and where the nitrate had been previously taken for epilepsy, were cited. An illustrated article on "the physiology and pathology of scars," by Dr. Swerchesky, and several translations, as Neumann's experiments on the lymphatics of the skin, and Auspitz's cutaneous absorption of insoluble matter, both by the writer, and during the following year Fournier's cutaneous syphilodermata, by Dr. T. B. Stirling, and Auspitz's buboes of the inguinal region, by Dr. A. R. Robinson, may also be alluded to. A number of good reviews were, moreover, written at this time, as, for example, those of Koester's epithelial cancer, by Dr. Wigglesworth; Fabre's melanoderma, by Dr. Peugnet, and Lostorfer's syphilitic blood-corpuscles, by Dr. Henry. Among the original articles we may note a communication made to the Massachusetts State Board of Health on the vegetable parasites of the human Skin, by Dr. James C. White, and a paper on the protection