DR. CLENDENEN says, in case of threatened heart failure, inject hypodermically the equivalent of one-hundredth of a grain of glonoin; the strengthening of the heart's beats will be perceptible in one minute. It is also good in congestive chill. Also, a pill of one-hundredth of a grain, given three times daily, and increased to the one-fiftieth of a grain after a week, is the remedy in sciatica. Would also apply, by rubbing into the root and the entire length of the nerve, an ounce of carbon-disulphide each day. The good effects will be observed immediately. The same authority says the balsam of Peru is a specific in cracked nipple. Should be washed off with warm water when the child nurses, then reapplied. He also says sudden attacks of coughing and spitting froth can be readily cured in many cases by excising the uvula. He also says, for hemorrhoids, use fifteen grains of calomel and one ounce of fresh lard. Apply by rubbing a little of the ointment, with the finger, at night. Will stop all itching, and the hemorrhoidal tumors will disappear in two weeks. AT THE International Medical Congress of Electrology and Radiology, held in Paris from the 27th of July to the 1st of August, 1900, Dr. J.-A. Rivière, of Paris, read a paper relating to facts and observations which show that cancer can be cured by means of special mono or bi-polar effluviations of high frequency and high tension currents. A judicious application of these effluviations brings about: I. A thermo-electro-chemical action whose effect is to eliminate the neoplastic tissues and, accepting the parisitary theory, to destroy by their actinic radiations all micro-organisms and their toxine. 2. A tropho-neurotic curative action which restores the vital processus to its normal condition, while it fosters phagocyloss and generally improves the condition of the patient. He further states that the patient can be guarded against the recurrence of the evil by means of a judicious electrical treatment, the latter treatment being the best in cases of tumors that cannot be operated upon. PRACTICAL URANALYSIS AND URINARY DIAGNOSIS. A Manual for the Use of Physi- cians, Surgeons and Students. By Charles W. Purdy, LL. D., M. D., Queens University, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, Kingston, Canada; Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Chicago Post-Graduate Medical School; Author of "Bright's Disease and Allied Affections of the Kidneys;" also of "Diabetes: Its Causes, Symptoms and Treatment." Fifth Revised and En- larged Edition. With numerous Illustrations, including Photo-engravings, Colored Plates and Tables for estimating total solids from Specific Gravity, Chlorides, Phosphates, Sulphates, Albumin, Reaction of Proteids, Sugar, etc., etc., in Urine. 6x9 inches. Pages xvi.-406. Extra Clotb, $3.00, net. F. A. Davis Company, Publishers, 1914-16 Cherry street, Philadelphia. The above revised edition of this excellent work on uranaly- sis and urinary diagnosis contains much original and new mat- ter and sheds much new light on a very important branch of medical science. Urinary diagnosis is an important adjunct to general diagnosis in a large class of diseases. The more thor- oughly the physician masters it the broader will become his knowledge of disease and the more capable will he be to treat it along scientific lines. The intimate relation of the chemistry of the urine to physiological processes is becoming more apparent every day, and the time is approaching when every physician will recognize its significance in the treatment of disease. In life insurance especially uranalysis is an indispensable guide to the medical examiner. Contents are as follows: Part I., Analysis of Urine. Part II., Urinary Diagnosis. Appendix gives Examination of Urine for Life Insurance. Appendix STUDIES IN THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SEX. The Evolution of Modesty. The Phenom- ena of Sexual Periodicity. Auto-Erotism. By Havelock Ellis. 63 x 8 inches. Pages xii.-275. Extra Cloth, $2.00, net. Sold only to physicians and lawyers. F. A. Davis Company, Publishers, 1914-16 Cherry street, Philadelphia. The author of this book has had a very delicate and perplex- ing subject to treat, but he has surmounted every obstacle and struct all by whom it was intended to be read. Sexual phenomena exert a powerful influence over human actions. They give an impetus to all the noble and ignoble efforts of man. They are forces which make heroes and criminals. A knowledge of normal and abnormal sexual manifestations is therefore equally indispensable to those who preside over the laws and those who administer to the sick. One of the greatest difficulties to be met in the study of psychology of sex is in collecting data and facts bearing on all the different phases of the subject. Persons who are communicative on all other matters are reticent on this subject. Legal restrictions also hamper scientific investigation in this direction. The author, however, has overcome all these difficulties, and thoroughly analyzed the subject without incurring the risk of offending the most fastidious taste. Contents are as follows: The Evolution of Modesty. The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity. Auto-Erotism: a Study of the Spontaneous Manifestations of the Sexual Impulse. Appendix "A," The Influence of Menstruation on the Position of Women. Appendix "B," Sexual Periodicity in Men. Appendix "C," The AutoErotic Factor in Religion. MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS. With Special Reference to Practical Medicine. A Guide to the Knowledge and Discrimination of Diseases. By J. M. Da Costa, M. D., LL. D., Physician to the Pennsylvania Hospital. etc. Illustrated. Ninth Edition. Revised. Philadelphia and London: J. A. Lippincott & Co. 1900. This revised edition of the above work contains much new matter as well as fresh illustrations, including skiagraphs and colored plates, without enlarging the book, as new and smaller type has been used. In the discrimination of disease, especially since bacteriology has cast a new light on its etiology, students and young graduates require a guide. For this purpose no work has been published which will meet such demands better than this book. While all the topics are clearly presented, the chapters on diseases of the blood, rheumatism and gout, fevers, diseases of the skin, poisons and parasites, will prove of special interest, not only to students and young graduates, but to the profession at large. ABOUT September 25th W. B. Saunders & Company will have ready "The American Illustrated Medical Dictionary," by W. A. N. Dorland, editor of "The American Pocket Medical Dictionary." This is an entirely new and unique work for students and practitioners. It contains more than twice the matter in the ordinary student's dictionary, and yet by the use of clear, condensed type and thin paper of the finest quality it forms an extremely handy volume only one and one-half inches thick. It is a beautiful specimen of the bookmaker's art. It is bound in flexible leather, and is just the kind of a book that a man will want to keep on his desk for constant reference. It is absolutely up to date, containing hundreds of important new terms not to be found in any other dictionary. It is also extremely rich in the matter of tables, containing over one hundred original ones, including new tables of stains and staining methods, tests, etc., etc. An important feature of the book is its handsome illustrations and colored plates, drawn especially for the work, including new colored plates of arteries, muscles, nerves, veins, bacteria, blood, etc., etc.-twenty-four in all. This new work has been aptly termed by a competent critic "the new standard." Price will be $4.50, net. ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE LONDON BRANCH OF W. B. SAUNDERS & COMPANY.-W. B. Saunders & Company desire to announce that they are about to establish a branch of their business in Great Britain. Mr. Saunders has recently spent several weeks in London, where all the arrangements preliminary to the opening of an English house have been completed. This London branch will be operated in immediate connection with the home establishment, and the same methods that have been so successful in building up the business in this country will be employed in the conduct of this new branch. The details of the various departments of the firm's affairs have now been developed to such a state of perfection that the house feels the time has come for extending its field of operations. For a number of years Saunders' books have been sold in England through the agency of a London publisher, and, although they have already met with remarkable favor, the house is confident that by applying to the English market the same policy that has proved so successful at home, the sale of its publications in Great Britain and her colonies can be enormously increased. THE DISEASES OF THe blood in their reLATION TO SURGERY, AND THEIR TREATMENT. BY GEORGE G. VAN SCHAICK, M. D., Attending Surgeon to the French Hospital and to St. Vincent De Paul As surgeons, we have to consider altered conditions of the blood from a twofold standpoint. We see them either as disturbances affecting the general health of our patients, and bearing a more or less complicated character, or as a direct result of actual hæmorrhage due to pathological, accidental, or operative processes. In other words, we deal with anæmias due to imperfect or insufficient formation of the elements constituting the blood, and with anæmies due to prolonged or sudden copious bleeding. The study of these conditions, from the surgical point of view, is extremely interesting, by reason both of their great frequency and of the fact that most of them are so distinctly relieved by appropriate treatment. As a matter of fact, we are better informed as to the therapeutics of anæmic troubles than in regard to the pathological states which give rise to them, and our knowledge of their ætiology is limited to the simple understanding that the blood, not being an independent tissue, can be modified only by changes affecting primarily other elements of the animal economy, except in the case of the direct introduction of toxic substances within the blood current. The histological and chemical changes to which the blood is subject have in the last few years been studied so persistently and accurately that the diagnosis of blood diseases is as subservient to laboratory investigation as that of certain infectious diseases is to bacteriological research. But, while paying the strictest attention to blood count, to the estimation of hæmoglobin, and to the microscopical appearance of the globules, we must acknowledge that even these means of investigation sometimes prove somewhat insufficient, and that we occasionally are unwillingly compelled to remain in the dark. We know, for instance, that among cases of so-called pseudo-anæmia some of the patients have what we might call a natural normal pallor, which is sometimes very pronounced, although the examination of the |