REPORT ON PEACOCK'S BROMIDES.- We have purchased, in London, a bottle of Peacock's Bromides (Syr. Brom. Comp. Peacock) and subjected it to analysis. We found the preparation to consist of a NEUTRAL solution of the mixed bromides of potassium, sodium, calcium, ammonium, and lithium.

The amount of bromide present was found to be equivalent to 14,989 bromides in the fluid drachm, thus proving the exactness of the medication in the product. The salts employed for the solution were particularly free from iodides and bromates, which, of course, is the important factor. H. HELBING,

London, England.

F. W. PASSMORE.

BETTER RESULTS THAN FROM ANY OTHER COMBINATION.-I must say that Neurosine has given better results and more universal satisfaction than any other combination ever used by me. I have tried it in many nervous affections and in epilepsy of long standing. In some it is a specific, in others a therapeutic agent of great value.

W. L. GAHAGAN, M. D.,

Coroner of Hamilton County, Chattanooga, Tenn.

Beviews and Book Notices.

BLAKISTON'S QUIZ COMPENDS. A Compend of Medical Chemistry, Inorganic and Organic, including Urinary Analysis.- By Henry LeffMANN, A. M., M. D., Professor of Chemistry in the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, and the Wagner Free Institute of Science. Fifth edition, revised. 12mo, cloth, 200 pages. Price, $1.00. P. Blakiston's Son & Co., Publishers, 1012 Walnut St., Philadelphia, 1905.

A very excellent little compend that will be found of especial value to students of Medicine and Dentistry. We have had occasion to commend the previous editions and can say that this fifth edition is fully revised and brought up to the latest advances in Medical Chemistry. For correctness of statement and the clearness and conciseness of the text it may be relied on.

CUSHNY'S PHARMACOLOGY. A Text-Book of Pharmacology and Therapeutics: The Action of Drugs in Health and Disease.- By ARTHUR R. CUSHNY, M. A., M. D., Aberd., Professor of Pharmacology in the University College, London; formerly Professor of Materia Medica

and Therapeutics in the University of Michigan. In one handsome octavo volume of 752 pages, with 52 illustrations. Cloth, $3.75 net. Lea Brothers & Co., Publishers, Philadelphia and New York, 1906.

On the publication of its first edition Cushny's Pharmacology was at once accepted as the standard authority in its field, a position which has been strengthened by each succeeding edition. The author is a diligent, painstaking investigator, who enters personally into his subject, and the knowledge he imparts is largely first-hand. His work was the first earnest attempt to cut loose from the dogmatical teaching and empirical methods so long current and to furnish an honest, scientific treatise on Therapeutics based upon exact laboratory findings and the physiological action of drugs. It has aptly been termed "Therapeutics with a reason." Pharmacology is by no means a stationary science; on the contrary, it is growing rapidly in many directions. Dr. Cushny's work gives all that is actually known to date and the best of what is generally believed regarding the action and value of drugs.

The discussions of doubtful points are interesting and practical, happily omitting wordy rehearsals of historic experimentation. This new edition has been carefully revised to include the most recent advances, as well as to bring it into accord with the Eighth Decennial Edition of the United States Pharmacopoeia. The changes made in the text are too numerous to be detailed here, but mention might be made of the new features in regard to the action of Chloroform and its dangers; the change of views held as to the effect of Wood Alcohol, etc., etc.

MAN AND HIS POISONS. A Practical Exposition of the Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment of Self-Poisoning.— By ALBERT ABRAMS, A. M., M. D., (Heidelburg) F. R. M. S., Consulting Physician to Denver National Hospital for Consumptives, Director of the Medical Clinic Cooper Medical College of San Francisco, etc. Cloth, 258 pages. Price, $1.50 E. B. Treat & Co., Publishers, 241-243 West 23rd St., New York, 1906.

The human body is a receptacle and laboratory of poisons, and man is at all times exposed to the danger of being overcome by poisons generated in his system. The subject of self-poisoning has advanced from a plausible and entertaining theory to an estab

lished fact, and Dr. Abrams in this excellent monograph goes into the subject very thoroughly and practically, giving in plain and correct terms the etiology, symptoms, and treatment. Repeated reference is made to the principles of Psycho-therapy, the mind being a most important factor for influencing the body for good or ill.

PRACTICAL DIETETICS, with Reference to Diet in Disease.- By Alida FRANCES PATTEE, Graduate Boston Normal School of Household Arts; Late Instructor in Dietetics, Bellevue Training School for Nurses, Bellevue Hospital, New York City; Special Lecturer at Bellevue, Mount Sinai, and the Hahnemann Training School for Nurses, New York City. Third edition. 12m0, cloth, 300 pages. Price, $1.00, net; by mail, $1.10; C. O. D., $1.25. A. F. Pattee, Publisher, 52 West 39th St., New York City, 1905.

This is a most excellent little work on the proper new preparation of food for the sick and convalescent, giving in detail the methods of preparing and administering liquid, semi-liquid, and solid food. It contains diet lists and what to avoid in various diseases; also the proper diet for infants and children as advised by the leading physicians and hospitals of New York and Boston. It fulfills the requirements as to simplicity, brevity, and exactness with reference to the dietetic treatment of disease, and represents the course in dietetics as arranged for and used at Bellevue Hospital.

It is especially valuable as a reference book on diet, for the physician; to students, as it teaches that which they do not get in the class room; to the hospital, as a class room text-book; to nurses, for their hand bag equipment, as it teaches the very things they need in their work; in the home, to all who may need to exercise care in the matter of diet.

URINARY ANALYSIS AND DIAGNOSIS, by Microscopical and Chemical Examination. By LOUIS HEITZMAN, M. D., of New York. Second revised and enlarged edition. 8vo, cloth, 319 pages. Price, $2.50, net. Wm. Wood & Co., Publishers, New York, 1906.

Many advances have been made in the chemical analysis of urine since the first edition of this work was issued more than

six years ago; and in the revision the aim of the author has been to increase and improve the part on chemical examination, and to incorporate in it all the simpler methods and tests which have proven of value as an aid to urinary diagnosis in the hands of different authors. The more complicated tests, however, which can only be carried out in a completely fitted chemical laboratory have been omitted.

The greatest stress has been placed on microscropical examination and especially microscopical diagnosis. In many cases. in which the clinical symptoms, although pointing to an affection of the genito-urinary tract, are vague, and even with the aid of a chemical analysis of the urine will not admit of a positive diagnosis, microscopical examination, if carefully conducted, will completely clear up the case.

The work is freely illustrated, the illustrations having been drawn by the author in many instances, directly from specimens in his possession. In the third part of the work, devoted to microscopical diagnosis, the splendid full page illustrations are of the greatest value in a most practical way, and a careful study of the different formations in the urine here shown, cannot fail to be of greatest service. Doubtful questions in the clinical symptoms can often be cleared up by the microscope at once, and correct conclusions as to the exact condition of the patient determined.

DOSE-BOOK AND MANUAL OF PRESCRIPTION-WRITING: with a List of the Official Drugs and Preparations, and the More Important Newer Remedies. By E. Q. THORNTON, M. D., Assistant Professor of Materia Medica, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Third, edition, revised and enlarged. 12m0, 392 pages, illustrated. Bound in flexible leather, $2.00, net. W. B. Saunders & Company, Philadelphia and London, 1905.

A glance at the contents of Dr. Thornton's book fully explains its attainment of a third edition. In addition to the consideration of the official and the more important nonofficial preparations intended for internal administration, weights and measures, solubilities, and incompatibilities, attention is given to the grammatic construction of prescriptions, illustrated by examples. In revising the text for this edition Dr. Thornton has

made it conform with the new (1905) Pharmacopoeia, the radical change in strength or name of many chemicals, drugs, and preparations already official, and the admission of many newer remedies necessitating the rewriting of a number of sections. We notice in the Appendix an addition of much value-a table showing the change in strength of important preparations, and also a list of average doses for adults in accordance with the new Pharmacopoeia. Dr. Thornton's Dose-book is, as it always has been, accurate and up to date.

GALL-STONES AND THEIR SURGICAL TREATMENT.- By B. G. A. MOYNIHAN, M. S. (London), F. R. C. S., Senior Assistant to Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds, England. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Octavo of 458 pages, beautifully illustrated. Cloth, $5.00, net; half morocco, $6.00, net. W. B. Saunders & Company, Philadelphia and London, 1905.

The first edition of Mr. Moynihan's work on gall-stones was completeley exhausted in eight months. Dr. Moynihan, by his masterly presentation of operative technic and clear, logical discussion of indications and contraindications, has won an enviable place in contemporary abdominal surgery. In this edition, increased in size by some seventy pages, many additional case records have been incorporated and a number of new illustrations added. We note also the addition of a very valuable chapter Congenital Abnormalities of the Gall-Bladder and Bile-Ducts. It is evident that the whole text has undergone a careful revision and all recent work along the line of gall-stone surgery included. Dr. Moynihan's book still holds first place in its field. The illustrations are very beautiful, especially the nine colored plates.

NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASES. BY ARCHIBALD CHURCH, M. D., Professor of Nervous and Mental Diseases and Medical Jurisprudence in Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago; and FREDERICK PETERSON, M. D., President of the State Commission in Lunacy, New York; Clinical Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry, Columbia University. Fifth edition, revised and enlarged. Octavo volume of 937