The Neuroses of the Skin; their Pathology and Treatment. By Howard F. Damon, A. M., M. D. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co.

In this monograph the author proposes a new classification of cutaneous affections depending either upon lesions to sensation, secretion, nutrition or structure, perversions in nutrition being regarded as the foundation of all of these. It is of lesions to sensibility to which this work is devoted, which lesions the author regards as dependent either upon the sensitive or vaso-motor nerves. The affections classed under hyperæsthesia or exalted sensibility are dermalgia, prurigo, urticaria and zoster, the symptoms, causes, pathological condition and treatment to each of these being exhaustively discussed. Anæsthesia or diminished sensibility, the author regards of less frequent occurrence than the former, the local varieties of this disease occurring principally in lepra and elephanteasis. At the close of the volume the history, etc., of twenty-six typical cases are recorded which greatly adds to its practical value.

United States Sanitary Commission Memoirs.

Edited by Austin Flint, M. D.

This is the first of a series of volumes, intended by the United States Sanitary Commission to be published with a view to lessen the evils of warfare as far as possible by a systematic and efficient employment of sanitary measures." Topics relating to the Causation and prevention of Disease, Camp Disease, and an elaborate Report upon the Diseases of the Federal Prisoners at Andersonville, Ga., being an official account of personal observations made by Prof. Joseph Jones, upon the authority of the Surgeon-General of the Confederate army, constitute the contents of the present volume. The contributions have been from men distinguished as careful observers and from such as had “opportunities for special studies in hospitals and in the field." The arrangement and selection of the monographs have been made by Prof. Austin Flint, which fact is a sufficient guarantee to the profession that its compilation is perfect. Upon all the points noticed it is highly instructive. The experience of the late war is to be carefully gathered, and when fully collected, will furnish a standard more valuable for comparison and more complete than has ever before been obtainable.

Institutes of Medicine. By Martyn Paine, A. M., M. D., LL. D. Eighth edition, revised. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1867.

The philosophy of medicine as presented by Prof. Paine in his well known work, is again brought to our notice in the appearance of the eighth edition, and we believe all true students of medicine will appreciate the fact that a great store-house of medical philosophy is thus again opened up to the profession. It would be pleasant and well worth the effort, had we space, to present the author's views upon a great many subjects, but it is wholly inconsistant under the circumstances to attempt anything of this sort. The work embraces a wide range of topics and deals in the occult, explaining as far as possible the obscure and undetermined, in connection with well demonstrated truth. The mature thought and reflection of a masterly mind, given to a long life of careful study is comVOL. 7, NO. 12—61.

prised in the work before us, and we cannot peruse its pages without being more and more impressed with the immense labor which has been bestowed upon it. It will richly repay the careful, reflective reader, and nothing but attentive study can afford any adequate idea of the chain of medical philosophy which has given the author his merited distinction.

HALF-YEARLY COMPENDIUM OF MEDICAL SCIENCE-S. W. Butler, M. D. and D. G. Brinton, M. D., Editors. The first number of this work was issued in January, 1868. It has met with a cordial reception from the profession of this country, many of whom have given strong testimony to its value, both intrinsic and comparative. It fills a void in American Medical Literature, and aims to be second to none of its class published. One feature that emphatically recommends it to the medical profession everywhere, is the fact that while it contains a carefully prepared synopsis of foreign medical literature, that of our own country, which is annually growing in importance, is not neglected. None of the foreign abstracts do justice to American medical literature, being content with using the material found in scarcely half a dozen of our periodicals, thus practically ignoring by far the largest number, and many of the best of our medical writers.

The Compendium is published in January and July, containing nearly 300 royal octavo pages, and is printed with good type on good paper, and is altogether gotten up in a readable, attractive form. Each department is paged independently, so that after a few years, title pages and indexes for each can be issued, thus giving the reader separate volumes on the several departments of medical literature. The consecutive paging of each number is at the bottom of the page.

We earnestly hope that this National undertaking will be heartily supported by the profession. Those wishing to subscribe, are requested to address Dr. S. W. BUTLER, 115 South Second street, Philadelphia, at once, and not be backward about asking your neighbors to join you.

The second number-for July-is in press, and will be ready about the middle of the month.

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The two sons of Dr. R. Ogden Doremus, of New York, the well-known chemist, while playing in a wooden play-house at the back of their residence, on the 26th ult., accidentally set it on fire. They were unable to escape immediately, and the younger of the boys perished in the flames.

LONG ISLAND COLLEGE HOSPITAL.-Professors Austin Flint, Senior and Junior, and Foster Swift, have resigned their respective chairs in this institution.

The London Lancet.

The undersigned take pleasure in announcing to the medical profession in the United States that, after considerable expense, they have arranged with the Proprietors for the publication of a special edition of the Lancet on thin paper, for circulation in America, thereby enabling them to make the above great reduction in price.

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We are maturing arrangements by which we will secure the contributions of original articles of the highest value to the profession. Such contributions will · emanate only from the most distinguished Physicians and Surgeons in the United States. This plan, besides enhancing the excellence of the Lancet, already acknowledged as the ablest publication of its class in Great Britain, will operate as a legal barrier against the appropriation of the American articles by any publishers in the United States.

Taking into consideration the amount of valuable matter which we shall fur. nish our subscribers every week, the Lancet will be found not only the best, but the most valuable Medical Journal in the world.

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Books and Pamphlets Received.

Lessons in Physical Diagnosis. By Alfred L. Loomis, M. D. New York: Robert M. DeWitt, publisher, No. 13 Frankfort street.

Catalogue and Announcement of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania. Of the Missouri Medical College. Of the Bellevue Hospital Medical College. Of the Medical Department of the Washington University. Of the Medical Department of the Williamsville University. Of the Albany Medical College. Of the Annual Announcement of the University of New York.

A Medical Report upon the Uniform and Clothing of the Soldiers of the United States Army, Surgeon-General's Office 15th April, 1868.

LITERARY JOURNALS.-The Atlantic Monthly, never failing in its regular appearance and never failing in interest and instruction, is to be commended to all lovers of intellectual pleasure and progress. The August number contains for its first article "A Remarkable Case of Physical Phenomena," to which we call the attention of our readers.

The Nation, as a secular and political paper stands first in the world, and we are always glad to exchange a little medicine for so much common sense in politics and variety in everything which pertains to the common and public affairs of the world.

Unusual Effect of Subcutaneous Injection.

BY F. WOODHOUSE BRAINE, F. R. C. S., ETC.

Mrs. H. C., aged 35, in good health otherwise, had been kept awake for seventytwo hours by intense neuralgic pain on left side of head, face, and neck, arising from a carious molar tooth on the left side of lower jaw. She was injected with morphacet--1-3 gr. At 1 A. M. on June 28th last, the morphis, dissolved in about four drops of water, was introduced under the skin of the left arm, just over the insertion of the deltoid. No blood appeared at the puncture. In about fifteen seconds, tightness of the chest and difficulty in breathing was complained of, and the patient asked to be raised, saying she felt as if she were dying. Her face and lips now became pale; speech became indistinct (not audible;) pulse irregular; some spasm of the facial muscles took place, and she fell back to all appearance dead. Cold water was freely dashed over face and chest, and, as she was unable to swallow, her tongue was rubbed over with sal volatile, and ammonia rubbed to her nose, artificial respiration being kept up at the same time. During this time her face was blanched, pnlse not to be felt, and respiration not to be perceived. Insensibility continued for about three minutes; then happily, one or two feeble beats of the pulse, and a shallow inspiration or two, showed returning animation. She then became conscious; pulse feeble but regular; respiration slow; fingers remained numbed, and both thumbs were firmly drawn into the palms of the hands. This passed off in about six minutes, leaving her feeling very ill, but free from the neuralgic pain, which did not return. There was no feeling of nausea and no attempt at vomiting during any part of the time Medical Times and Gazette.-Monthly Medical Reprint.

THE DUTIES OF HOSPITAL PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS.-The needless increase of free dispensary and hospital treatment is an abuse. It is a vital injury to the young physician, who must live on small fees obtainable from just those middling classes of the community whom the dispensary system invites to a gratuitous treatment.

We hold it, therefore, to be strictly the duty of the dispensary physician, or the physician to out-patients at a hospital, to distinguish carefully between those applicants who should pay something and those who cannot; and either to exclude the former, or to enforce the payment of suitable fees for the support of the charity which is to feed the poorest class.

We hold, also, that it is the right and duty of the hospital staff to be paid for their services, a moderate salary; not in proportion to the work they do, for no hospital could afford that; but just enough to furnish an acknowledgment of the fact that their services are recognized and compensated.

Such a claim could not be considered venal or narrow on the part of our profession, unequaled and unapproached by any calling in life in the amount of gratuitous service it unavoidably and cheerfully renders to the world.-Boston Medical and Surgical Journal.

NEW MEDICAL JOURNAL.-As we go to press, we have received the first number of the Monthly Medical Reprint, published in New York, by John Hillyer, 14 South William street. This journal proposes to be a reproduction of the most valuable articles published in the latest issues of the British medical journals, and some translations from the French and German medical press. It is to be published monthly at $5 per annum. We have no space to notice the contents of this number, but shall speak of it hereafter.