Medical furor bordering on panic used to occur in the 1830's and at various periods before this during violent epidemics of Asiatic cholera which spread through Europe, England, parts of the British Isles, and then in epidemic waves invaded the seaboard and inland rivers of the United States. It so agitated the good burghers of Boston that the Counsellors of the Massachusetts Medical Society in February, 1932, decided they should collect what information was available from detailed reports of Asiatic, Indian, Continental European, and British sources. These were condensed, collated, and issued in a report of a commitee containing, among others, James Jackson and John C. Warren, notable medical figures in the notable medical history of Boston. It is interesting to compare this book which is really a collection of essays and medical reports rather than a critique or a critical commentary with Daniel Drake's book published the same year,