The article is illustrated with cuts showing the changes in form that the plasmodia undergo. The action of quinine has been found to be that of immobilizing the parasite, which then is cast off by the corpuscle it infected.- Weekly Med. Review. OXALATE OE CERIUM IN DYSENTERY.-Dr. Benjamin Pearson, of Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania, writes as follows: Reading, in your Class-Room Notes, remarks made by Prof. Bartholow, on Oxalate of Cerium, is my only excuse for writing the following: I gave an infant of sixteen months, very ill with dysentery, oxalate of cerium to quiet the stomach and relieve vomiting. I commenced with one-half a grain every two hours, giving it night and day, and increased rapidly to seven and onehalf grains in three days after, and continued that dose for two weeks without seeing any injurious results therefrom. J also used laudanum injection in conjunction. By these two remedies the child was cured, having taken 1260 grains in two weeks.College and Clinical Record. HUCHARD'S HEMOSTATIC PILLS. R. Ergotine....... Quin. sulph............. Digitalis pulv...... Ext. hyoscyama............. M. Ft. pil. No. xx. ..aa gr. xxx .aa gr. iii. Sig.--Five to eight pills daily.--L' Union Mèdicale. BACTERIA. The great question at present to be settled is, says. Dr. Loomis in his recent lecture on bacteriology, whether we are about discovering the ultimate cause of many hitherto obscure pathological states, or whether these microbes are only bacteria of health taking advantage of diminished vitality to develope with increased rapidity-whether they are the cause or the scavengers of disease.-American Lancet. In ANTIPYRINE IN RHEUMATISM.-Dr. Immerman has found antipyrine a most efficient remedy in acute and masked articular rheumatism. He states that it not only reduces the temperature, but also exerts a specific action on the joint manifestations. one case of masked rheumatism of the trifacial nerve a permanent cure followed the exhibition of only one drachm of the remedy. Med. Record. A WRITER on medical education, in the last number of the Popular Science Monthly, commenting on the popular interest in medical topics, fostered by medical bulletins from the sick-beds of great men, and especially on the fascination which the germ theory seems to have for everybody at the present time, remarks that in the wilds of the West a cow-boy recently shot another for calling him a d-d microbe.-Boston Med. and Surg. Journal. TREATMENT OF SPRAINS.-M. Mare Sie endeavors to fulfill the two indications of provoking absorption and favoring cicatrization in the injured joint, by applying firmly an India-rubber bandage over the articulation, taking care to protect the long protuberances with a layer of cotton-wool. It should not be applied so tighty as to cause pain. The elastic bandage causes resorption and keeps the part immovable.-L' Union Med. du Canada. NEW HEMOSTATIC AGENT.-Dr. Spaak employs two parts of chloroform to 200 parts of water as a hemostatic in operations on the mouth and throat, and claims that patients thus treated suffer but slight hæmorrhage. He also uses the chloroform water as a spray after excision of the tonsils. This chloroform water seems to close the open mouths of all small blood vessels instantly.--Journal de Medicine, Brussels, Belgium. THE manuscript of the third medical volume of The Medical and Surgical History of the War, and the last of the series, is now well advanced toward completion; its earliest forms are in the hands of the printer. The work will probably be ready for issue during the coming winter. THE Germans have nearly stamped out small-pox. In the years 1870-1874 the number of deaths from the disease per 100,000 inhabitants in London, Paris, Vienna, Prague, and St. Petersburg was 101-05. In Berlin, Breslau, Hamburg, Munich, and Dresden during the same period it was but 1-44.-National Druggist. POMADE OF DR. JULIEN'S FOR PRURITUS VULVE. R. Zinci oxidi.... Acidi salicylici...... Glycerini amyli.......................... Sig.--Apply as needed.-Phila. Med. Times. ..25 grammes. 1 gramme. ..25 grammes. A PIOUS citizen of Buffalo proposes to chain a Bible to each telephone in the country, so that while waiting for replies, the telephoners will have something to read of a nature to repress profanity.-Ex. ONE by one are the dear old remedies displaced by modern science. The so-called rattlesnake weed has supplanted whisky as a cure for snake bites and there is no longer any temptation to stroll in the fields.-Am. Pharmacist. HYPODERMIC injection of pilocarpine is said to be a sure antidote to poisoning from stramonium or its alkaloid, daturine.— Louisville Med. News. Reviews and Book Notices. THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF SURGERY. BY JOHN ASHHURST, JR., M.D., Professor of Clinical Surgery in the University of Pennsylvania, Senior Surgeon to the Children's Hospital, Consulting Surgeon to the Woman's Hospital, to St. Christopher's Hospital, and to the Hospital of the Good Shepherd, etc. Fourth edition. Enlarged and thoroughly revised, with 597 illustrations, 8 vo., leather, pp. 1,118. Lea Brothers & Co., Publishers, Philadelphia. 1885. This work needs no commendation at our hands. Previous editions established for it an enviable reputation as a complete, thorough and reliable treatise on Surgery, which is fully maintained in the fourth edition. The profession has already placed a satisfactory estimate on the work by exhausting the three preceding editions in a very short space of time. The object of the work is, as its title indicates, to present, in as concise a manner as may be compatible with clearness, a condensed but comprehensive description of the modes of practice now generally adopted in the treatment of surgical affections, with a plain exposition of the principles upon which they are based. In revising the work for a fourth edition, the author has spared no pains to render it worthy of a continuance of the favor with which it has hitherto been received, by incorporating in it an account of the more important recent observations in surgical science, and of such novelties in surgical practice as have seemed to him to be really improvements; and by making such changes as have been suggested to him by his enlarged personal experience as a clinical teacher and hospital surgeon. In regard to the very important subject of anæthesia, the author states his preference, and of late years, his exclusive reliance 3 S. P. upon ether. We regret that he dismisses Dr. Crawford Long's claim of priority in its use so summarily-stating in a foot note that the evidence to sustain said claim is, to him, quite inconclusive. We also think that Dr. Packard's suggestion of “primary anesthesia," and Hewson's "analgesia" deserving of more extended notice. There are other minor points of objection, but as no work on surgery yet written can claim perfection, and as each author with whom we may differ is entitled to his opinions, and as our space precludes a more extended notice, we pass them over without further criticism. The press-work, paper, binding and mechanical execution of the work are most excellent. DISEASES OF THE LUNGS (of a Specific, not Tuberculous Nature): Acute Bronchitis, Infectious Pneumonia, Gangrene, Syphilis, Cancer and Hydatid of the Lungs. By PROF. GERMAIN SEE, Member of the Academy of Medicine, Member of the Faculty of Medicine, Physician to Hotel Dieu, Paris, France. Translated by E. P. HURD, M.D., Member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, etc., etc., with Appendices by GEO. M. STERNBERG, M.D., Surgeon U. S. A., and PROF. DUJARDIN BEAUMETZ, Member of the Academy of Medicine, Physician to the Hospital Cochin, Paris, etc., 8 vo., cloth, pp. 398. Wm. Wood & Co., Publishers, 56 and 58 Lafayette Place, New York, N. Y. 1885. In the November number of their very valuable and now standard library, Messrs. Wood & Co. place before their subscribers this most excellent treatise of Prof. Germain Sée. This distinguished author, in his introduction, very clearly indicates the character of his treatise. We quote it as follows: "The specificity is the result of but one cause, a living agent, parasitic or virulent, and is the characteristic not only of tuberculosis (which is bacillary in its origin), but also of the greater part of the acute broncho-pulmonary diseases, particularly certain bronchites, the pneumonia, and gangrenous affections of the lungs, which form a first series, easy to define and justify. Certain chronic diseases have the same distinctive quality; these are |