“Pioneer Medicine on the Western Reserve” is the title of a series of articles which began in the November (1885) number of the Magazine of Western History (Williams & Co., Cleveland). They are written by Dr. Dudley P. Allen, which insures a warm interest in the subject as well as a capable handling of it. The series is historical and biographical, and the publisher promises several portraits before the last chapter in March or April. Probably none of the Magazine's various serials will be of more interest to the public, as well as to medical men generally. In the opening chapters we enjoyed the author's skillful joining into readable continuity of the broken facts that have been gathered from so long ago. SOCIETY PROCEEDINGS. PROCEEDINGS OF NORTH CENTRAL OHIO MEDICAL SOCIETY. TWENTIETH QUARTERLY SESSION. GALION, OHIO, December 18, 1885. The president, Dr. MITCHELL of Mansfield, called the meeting to order, and owing to the number of papers to be presented and the brief time for the session, ordered the omission of reading of minutes of last meeting and all miscellaneous business. E. H. Hyatt of Delaware, was first called, and excused on the ground that he could not do justice to his subject, “The Use and Abuse of Alcohol from a Professional Standpoint,” in so short a time. Dr. R. HARVEY REED of Mansfield, the appointed lecturer, read a paper on Anæsthetics, in which he gave a brief review of the different general and local anæsthetics in use and the different compounds of the same. He referred to the elaborate experiments of Dr. Watson of Jersey City, which showed the following mortality on rabbits: Sulphuric ether, 16.66 Chloroform, 62.50 Bromide of ethyl, 50.00 Alcohol, chloroform and ether, 75.00 Alcohol, chloroform and ethyl, 66.66 And on dogs: Sulphuric ether, 00.00 Chloroform, 00.00 Bromide of ethyl, 100.00 Alcohol, chloroform and ether, 60.00 Alcohol, chloroform and ethyl, 80.00 In these experiments the doctor found it necessary to resort to artificial respiration on dogs as follows: Sulphuric ether, None at all. Chloroform, 2 times.