This book contains the papers read before, and the proceedings of the Indiana State Medical Society, which we believe is the second largest state society in the country. Its membership is 1561. The session was the fiftieth annual meeting, and the event was duly celebrated. The address of the president, which is full of good, round common sense, took a reminiscent phase, and the address of the good, old Dr. Wishard, one of the founders of the society, is full of interest as a historic paper. Only four of the original founders of the society are now alive, and their photographs are printed in a group as a frontispiece. These are Drs. William H. Wishard, John N. Gaston, and Patrick H. Jameson, Indianapolis, and Thomas W. Florer, Waxahachie, Texas. Besides the papers mentioned, the volume contains forty original articles, all of superior merit. The book is well edited and the