read a book which tells them how to win a SORE THROAT; ITS NATure, VarietieS AND race, and such a race as that for professional success, is but an evidence of human nature; but that many will accept this book and commend it, can never be believed. The Queen of Navarre insisted on seeing "the poor Troubadour; because," said she, "he is the oracle that can tell Nations I am beautiful." She saw him, but after seeing him, dismissed him. He could never be an associate, a companion or friend. This book offers to give more than the flattery of the Troubadour; it offers to give the golden secret of how to win money and success. But after every audience it secures with the noble and the true, it will share the fate of the Troubadour. When a book contains, as this does, so much that is useful, and admirable and commendable, it is to be hoped that it will be, in future editions, fully expurgated; that its great errors of commission, will be thorough eliminated; and the book presented as an excellent guide to young physicians, and as a welcome and fit companion for those of maturer age. SLIGHT AILMENTS: THEIR NATURE AND TREATMENT. By LIONEL S. BEALE, M.D., F. R. S, F.R.C.P., Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine in King's College, London, etc. Second Edition, Enlarged and Illustrated. Philadelphia. P. Blakiston, Son & Co. 1882. Pp. 283. Price: Paper, 75 cents; Cloth, $1.25; Extra, $1.75. When the first edition of this work appeared, it met, deservedly, with a large sale, This edition is far better than the last, and the illustrations make it still more valuable. There are dozens of works in the physicians library telling him how to treat cases of acute disease, but how many has he which advise him as to the disposition to be made of cases of slight ailments; the malaise of society? What books teach the physician how to manage properly and intelligently cases of sick headache, vertigo, constipation, heartburn, neuralgia, colds, and the numerous minor evils which need treatment or relief, and yet are not accepted as worthy of serious notice in the text books? Great attention is given to the changes of the tongue as indices of disease, actual and prospective. If the physician has not this work, he most probably has no friendly guide or assistant in the management of minor maladies. Apart from its scientific value, the work is written in a most entertaining and instructive style. It is well issued. TREATMENT. INCLUDING THE CONNECTION BETWEEN AFFECTIONS OF THE THROAT AND OTHER DISEASES. BY PROSSER JAMES, M. D., Physician to the Hospital for Diseases of the Throat and Chest. Fourth Edition. Enlarged. With Colored Plates and Engravings. "Hand-Book" Series. P. Blakiston, Son & Co. 12mo. pp. 318. Paper, 75 cents; Cloth, $1.25. Many physicians recognize in this book one of the first, earliest and best authorities on the use of the laryngoscope. The specialist needs, of course, nothing simple and elementary on this subject, but the general practitioner will find in this volume exactly the aid and information he seeks, on this subject. The author has written most happily and instructively on the various kinds and degrees of sore throat, and the reader obtains, by him, information which he may seek in vain elsewhere. The anatomical descriptive in regard to the throat is most useful and excellent. Those who use the atomizer will obtain great support and information in regard to it; and those who do not, must become converts after reading the author's testimony and experience. The various remedies and their mode of preparation are carefully given, the diction is clear, simple and intelligible, and the entire work is one that can be fully commended. NITRO-GLYCERINE AS A REMEDY FOR ANGINA PECTORIS By WM. MURRELL, M.D., M. The Medical Journals for the past two years have contained many ephemeral and disjointed articles on this subject, and physicians have looked in vain for some systematic treatise which could be carefully and usefully studied. The author and publisher of this work, appreciating this fact, have furnished exactly what is at present wanted. The book is, though small, quite comprehensively written, and gives a great deal of valuable facts and information. All who wish to know the rationale and the success of using nitro-glycerine therapeutically should secure this volume. A RATIONAL MATERIALISTIC DEFINITION OF INSANITY AND IMBECILITY. With the Medical Jurisprudence of Legal Criminality, founded upon Physiolo gical, Psychological and Clinical Ob- The first edition of this well known The present edition thoroughly ard on the Anatomy, Physiology and revised and improved is prepared for both The author of this work by no means The work is fully recommended. ON OVARIAN AND UTERINE TUMORS; the views of those regarded by him with justice. Third American, with additions from AN INDEX OF COMPARATIVE THERAPEU the Fourth London Edition. 145 illus- TICS. With Tables of Differential bility of Medicines, Ethics, Anæsthet While orthodoxy in medicine cannot tics, Fees, Asphyxia, etc. With full counsel any one to seek for guidance in accounts of Homœopathic Pharma- therapeutics from a homoeopathic adviser, cology and Nomenclature. By SAM- the most bitter sectarian and schismatic UEL O. L. POTTER, A. M., M. D. Sec- would look in vain for false doctrines in ond edition. 12mo, pp. 279. Gross this little monograph. It is homoeopathic & Delbridge. Cloth. Price $2.00. in design, scope, and results, and one can The author of this work was a homoeo- say of it, as the farmer did of the vicar's path, but he has since abandoned his sermon, "There is enough of it. It's "faith," and graduated at the Jefferson good enough, so far as it goes." No one Medical College. His entire fairness, wishes for more. For plain instruction, in and his competency for expressing dis- simple language, this monograph will be interested opinions must be conceded. instructive to those who know nothing of The diseases are presented in alpha- the subject, and care to know but little. betical order, and then he furnishes the description of medicines used by the different schools in separate columns. The BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS RECEIVED. New York. 1882. work is carefully compiled and is a good How to Be Weather-Wise. By Isaac P. Noyes. work of reference. It is not likely to be generally purchased, but those who do will find it entertaining, curious and instructive. SEA AIR AND SEA BATHING. By JOHN H. cents. It is late to notice a book of this kind, but, in the interests of the public, it can safely be said, "better late than never." The author has written sensibly. This manual does much to do away with the general but foolish idea that sea air and sea bathing are panaceas for "all the ills that flesh is heir to." He gives plain rules, The Application of Pressure in Diseases of the Boletin De Ciencias Médicas Guadalajara. The Columbus Medical College Imbroglio. From the Columbus Medical Journal. And Vesico Vaginal Fistulæ. By Dr. D. Hayes The Diseases of the Rectum. By William in plain language, for the guidance of the From the Surgical to the Mechanical Act. SPECTACLES AND HOW TO CHOOSE THEM; C A. Frees. New York. 1882. Libraire De Bernardin. Béchet. Paris. 1882. Index Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon Transactions of the Medical Association of South Carolina. 1882. cal Journal. Vol. 1, No. 1. C. T. Kirk, M.D., Editor. Meridian, Miss. Transactions of the Medical Society of West Duration of the Period of Incubation of WHAT CHURCH IS IT?-Mr. Geo. C. Booth recently said that "the wealthiest and most prominent church corporation in New York City has scores of tenement houses which are in a most foul condition, and that the Journal of Cutaneous and Vernereal Diseases by H. G. Piffard, A.M., M.D. and Prince A. Morrow, A. M. M.D. New York. Treatment of Arthritis of the Temporo-Maxil- church corporation exacted last May lar Articulation. By D. H. Goodwillie, ten and fifteen per cent. increase of M.D. D.D.S. New York. rent under pain of eviction, instead of Furnace for Privies. W. S. Ross. Kentucky. spending some thousands out of its millions in remedying such monstrous evils."--Medical News. 1882. First Biennial Report of the Free Eye and Ear Report of the Board of Managers of the Ameri- Genius Breastless. An Ode. By J. J. Caldwell, An Old System and a New Science. DIVORCED ON ACCOUNT OF a PerSISTENT HICCOUGH.-Dr. Pollak, at a recent meeting of the St. Louis Medical Society, related a case of persistent By hiccough which lasted for twenty years and resisted all treatment. The patient was a lady, and her husband was compelled to get a divorce from her. He could not sleep with her, and it was most unpleasant. The woman was apparently strong and healthy. F. E. Stewart, Ph.G., M.D. Detroit, The Columbus Medical College Imbroglio. A Reply to Dr. Foster Platt's Paper on the On the Nomenclature and Classification of TRANSFUSION IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.-A curious account of the difficulties of a transfusionist of the seventeenth century has been disinterred by the Union Medicale from the "Mémoires of Bouteillier d'Ardenay" published in the year 1670. A certain Dr. Denys, of the University of Rheims, who was, moreover, enThe Multum In Parvo Reference and gaged in teaching mathematics in Dose Book. By C. Henri Leonard, Paris, had a high opinion of the theraM.A., M.D. Detroit. 1882. peutic value of transfusion; and one Eureka-The Epitome. A Monthly Medi- day, seeing a young man running naked 1882. through the streets in a state of "de- lic Instruction, regarding the length mentia," tried the remedy upon him of time a pupil affected with any of the with great success. The patient re- contagious The patient re- contagious diseases should remain gained his senses and continued well separated from the other pupils. M. for two months, but then relapsed into Hillairet's report may be summed up the same dementia. Denys a second in the following propositions: time transfused some calf's blood, Ist. Pupils suffering from varicella, which he always employed. The pa- small-pox, measles, mumps, or diphtient this time was improved only, and theria should be completely isolated not cured. At the end of a few weeks and hold absolutely no communication he lost his senses entirely, and was with the other members of the school. again brought by his wife to Denys, 2d. Isolation should continue forty with the request that he would once days for small-pox, measles, scarlatina, more employ his sovereign remedy. and diphtheria; twenty-five days for Denys hesitated on account of the varicella and account of the varicella and mumps; the patient man's weakness, but yielded to the should have repeated baths before bewife's solicitations. During the opera-ing allowed to join his comrades. 3d. tion, as soon as the blood of the ani- The clothes worn by the patient at the mal began to flow through the veins, time he fell sick should be submitted the patient suffered such insupportable to a heat of 90° C., and then to retorments that Denys was obliged to peated fumigations of sulphur. 4th. desist. The man died six hours after- The bed clothes, curtains, carpets, furward, on which the grateful widow niture, and even the walls of the room sued Denys for damages for having occupied should be carefully disinfected, killed her husband. Denys, however, washed and aired. 5th. If the pupil is brought a reciprocal action against the taken sick at home he should not be widow on the grounds that she had allowed to return to school without attempted to poison him. At the trial the certificate of a physician attesting the judgment went in favor of the that all these precautions have been widow. Appeal followed appeal, and faithfully carried out. the case ultimately went up to parliament, where it was pleaded by eminent counsel for the widow and for a Paris surgeon, who was involved in the proceedings on the ground that he had assisted Denys. The latter pleaded his own cause in Latin with great ability. The case seems ultimately to have been discharged, but an edict found a considerable excess of iron. was issued forbidding the practice of transfusion under pain of corporal punishment.-Lancet. FERRUGINOUS LIVERS.-The presence of an excess of iron in the livers of anæmic patients is a curious fact, of which several instances have been described in Germany. One case was described by Stahel; and Lindenlang, in the liver of a patient with purpura, Marchand has lately described the liver of a phthisical patient, aged sixty years, which presented an unusual brownish-red color associated with eviISOLATION IN CONTAGIOUS DIS- dent cirrhosis. The microscope showed EASES. At a recent meeting of the an infiltration of the hepatic cells and Académie de Médecine, M. Hillairet of the interstitial connective tissue by read a report prepared in answer to a pigmentary corpuscles, which gave the question asked by the Minister of Pub-characteristic test for iron with yellow |