. Annals of medical history. rge part in the es-tablishment of the Army Medical all realize what an important advancethis represented. His discovery of thepneumococcus, although not recognizingits importance, the demonstration of thetubercle bacillus for the first time on thiscontinent, the demonstration that malarialfever is not due to a bacillus, the firstdemonstration of the malarial parasite onthis continent, and early work on the ty-phoid bacillus are other achievementsworthy of note. This story of the career of a medicalofficer who entered the Army in 1861 andretired from it in
. Annals of medical history. rge part in the es-tablishment of the Army Medical all realize what an important advancethis represented. His discovery of thepneumococcus, although not recognizingits importance, the demonstration of thetubercle bacillus for the first time on thiscontinent, the demonstration that malarialfever is not due to a bacillus, the firstdemonstration of the malarial parasite onthis continent, and early work on the ty-phoid bacillus are other achievementsworthy of note. This story of the career of a medicalofficer who entered the Army in 1861 andretired from it in 1902 is one of unweariedeffort, of much accomplished in many linesof work and of a steady devotion to dutyand to the wider field of the public have made so many solid contributionsto medicine and it is a cause of satisfactionthat the story of his life and work has beengiven to us by Mrs. Sternberg. She has doneher task well and we can realize that it hasbeen a labor of love. Thomas McCrae. ANNALS OF MEDICAL HISTORY. Volume III Slmmlk 1921 NUMBLR 2 MONTAIGNE AND MEDICINE By J. S. TAYLOR, washington, d. c. Montaignes claim to the notice of the profession s ^^^^^^s i i 1 m O MATTER how soonthe achilt reader isintioclueed to Mon-taigne he will alwaysregret not havingcome earlier under thespell of this all the philosophersof the past not one makes as strong an appealto the physician as Montaigne. He was foryears a great suflcrer from mahidies whichthe profession could not alleviate and so weare, in a sense, his delators. Like the true phy-sician he held everything sub judice, unai;)leto declare that the last word had been said,unwilling to speak with finality on the thou-sand and one things which he observed andstudied. In analyzing human thought andconduct he was a model for the physicianwho studies pathology and symptoms, andmany are the analogies between his situa-tion, his mode of thought, his character andtemperament and those of the r
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