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to here, was the first to suggest the plan of placing a fractured thigh upon the double inclined plane (see description and comparison of Bell and Pott's methods, Bell's "Surgery": 1872; vol. 2d, p. 134), which was improved upon in several ways by the American method, and is to be found of three different sizes among the assortment of what is known as "Day's Carved Splints." Pott treated his cases of this class of fractures by placing the patient on the side corresponding to the fractured limb (not to the extent of semi-flexing), then applying only lateral splints se cured with padding and bandaging. This surely is not even an apology for a double inclined plane such as Sir Charles Bell claims.

In regard to the theory of the extension of the foot, and so forth, all our obtuse friend has to do is to place his own limb in the attitude, and dress it in the manner described in our paper, with the screw attachment in proper position. Supposing the apparatus has been properly adjusted and the limb dressed, turn the wooden screws attached to the foot piece simultaneously in the proper direction and he will soon ascertain that extension will be made upon the leg as far up as the knee; this joint being confined at the angle, and thus fixed by means of the outer dressings.

We did not claim that raising the foot of the bed was the entire source of gaining counter extension on the part of the trunk of the patient's body or thigh, but simply an aid, which it is; and we have practiced this feature, as a common sense view, as far back as 1856, simply to prevent the patient settling toward the foot of the bed, which it will do. We assigned as a reason for placing the pillow under the head only that the weight of the trunk of the patient's body is utilized more completely in aiding extension upon the thigh (the knee being the fixed point, as before remarked). This precaution is observed while the patient lies horizontal only; when in the semi supine or in the sitting position,his back and shoulders are supported, of course, while assuming either of these attitudes. The gentleman's faculties seem as dull and inaccurate as his manner of quoting. We said nothing about an inclined plane, which he did, and don't wonder that he became muddled. We very much doubt whether he knows anything about the splint we speak of. Again, the charge of "unscientific and unsurgical" recoils upon its author, and goes conclusively to prove his ability to misconceive as well as misconstrue.

In reply to his astonishment at the results, and so forth, together with the balance of his communication, we will state that the gentleman tries to "blow hot and cold with the same breath,"and we wonder he cannot “object" He still goes on and tries to impugn our veracity by casting doubts upon our figures. Even granting that they are somewhat astonishing, we hope the doctor is aware that this is not the first instance that results obtained under homœopathic treatment have far exceeded those of the "self-styled regulars," and have been astonishing. Nor does he appear to know that we have medicinal agents within the range of our remedies, that possess the power of aiding nature in the reproduction of bone, and so forth, that our opponents and would-be followers "wot not of." His is not the first instance that has come under our observation. We will enlighten the gentleman a little by stating that our hospital practice has been more extensive than he has presumed to imply by his language. We would advise him for his own credit's sake to study his figures more carefully. We cannot see how, when we date our first practical experience from 1856, as we did in our essay, and up to the time of our writing, taking the gentleman's own figures, "one case in every ten days" would nearly multiply four times the number of our cases reported.

from, especially one who is familiar with the much briefer time of homeopathic treatment of fractures. He seems to be more at home with these reports than with homoeopathic statistics. We would advise him to look into the last named before he figures again, and when he comes to peruse the balance of our essay, containing the typical cases, he will learn something that he apparently never knew before.

The question resolves itself here, in our mind: Is not the gentleman an enemy in disguise? His language implies doubts as to his being a homeopath, as he confines himself entirely to allopathic statistics, showing a woful ignorance of the superior advantages of homœopathy over her opponents.

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We did not take our diploma from the Hahnemann Medical College. Here again the gentleman has erred in stating so. But, on the contrary, it was bestowed upon us from the Pennsylvania Homœopathic Medical College, nearly ten years before the Hahnemann Medical College had any existence. We were appointed among the original professors of the last named college, which was organized by Dr. C. Hering, of Philadelphia. It is nothing wonderful to have treated successfully "one-third the number of cases,' quoted from the Pennsylvania Hospital reports, as the mortality list does not show up very favorably there for the results of their method of treatment, which is as varied as many of their prescriptions, as we have personally observed in repeated instances. Most hospitals of this school of practice, not only in Philadelphia but elsewhere, have afforded striking illustrations of a lack of system, being merely convenient mediums for the trial of experiments. After centuries of experience they have never yet adopted any one system or guiding principle, neither in the selection of their remedies, nor the adoption of a suitable apparatus for any one class of fractures, but fly from pillar to post, and have floundered around in the dark, making themselves fit subjects for pity, if not for condemnation. It would be a source of very deep regret if, after the years of practical experience we have passed through, we had not profited thereby as well as from their experiments and large mortalities. It is not only in this branch of surgery that we have excelled them before, but also in many others.

Another feature of homœopathy, we would remind the gentleman, of which he does not appear to know, is, that we possess remedies that will overcome shock that our benighted brethren ignore. We will also take occasion to state here, for the edification of our friend, the doctor, that we have enjoyed at various times, for years, a considerable experience with railroad surgery, having had a number of cases, on several occasions, in hand at one time, of fractured thigh bones; also, during the Southern rebellion, from gunshot wounds, contusions, and other causes. The results obtained in some of these cases were regarded by other surgeons, of longer experience than our own, as hopeless ones, and were given 'over to die; but, by skillful surgical treatment and the properly selected remedies, both limbs and lives were saved notwithstanding.

We desire to state, in conclusion, that we would advise our critic to peruse more carefully our language, which he does not yet seem able to interpret properly; otherwise he could not put such a construction as he has done upon it. There are also some errors throughout our article, that should deservedly be accredited to the printer; and we note among the number that the word "extensor was substituted for "flexor;" "cruralis" for "crureæus," and so forth.

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STERILIZATION.-The plan consists in a radical We will also here state that the average time of two obliteration of the uterine orifices of the tubes. The or three months' treatment, which the gentleman galvano-caustic sound is the means employed. Time, quotes as the average period of allopathic treatment, 45 to 60 seconds for each tube, and little pain and danis no criterion for a homœopathic surgeon to judge' ger attends the operation.

The Homeopathic Times.

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during the year was divided up, and the several parts were assigned to different members, all physiological tests were placed in his hands and those of Dr. Sherman, of Milwaukee. (See announcement of the subject selected by the Bureau in another col

Of Medicine, Surgery and Collateral Sciences, umn.) Drs. Allen and Sherman were requested to

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supervise each other's plans, so far as safeguards

EGBERT GUERNSEY, M "), ALFRED K. HILLS, M.D. against errors and fraud might be called for in any

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direction.

For some reason Dr. Allen declined suggestions from Dr. Sherman; and when still called upon by

Office, 18 West Twenty-third Street, New York, the chairman of the Bureau to listen to his asso

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DR. ALLEN'S LAKE GEORGE TEST, A few weeks ago Dr. Guernsey, one of the editors of this journal, was requested by Dr. Dake, chairman of the Bureau of Materia Medica, Pharmacy, and Provings in the American Institute, to act as chairman of a special committee, the other members being Prof. Chandler, of the Columbia College School of Mines, and Prof. O'Connor, of the New York Homoopathic College, to take charge of the preparations and records of the tests to be made by Dr. T. F. Allen, as proposed by him at Lake George.

Dr. Guernsey had signified his acceptance of the appointment, and was waiting for instructions, when he was notified by Dr. Dake that Dr. Allen had declined to make the experiments.

Dr. Guernsey has since been furnished with the following items of history, considered due to him by the chairman of the Bureau of Materia Medica, Pharmacy and Provings:

We need make no apology for laying the information thus received before our readers, inasmuch as the offer of Dr. Allen was made in open session of the American Institute, and the medical profession, allopathic as well as homeopathic, had been led to expect some decisive results from his experiments.

The proposition made by him at Lake George was that, among ten bottles, exactly alike in appearance, one of them being medicated with the thirtieth centesimal dilution of a drug, and the others containing pure alcohol, he would designate the one containing the medicine by its effects upon persons in health.

As soon as made chairman of the Bureau of Materia Medica, Pharmacy and Provings, for the ensu ing year, Dr. Dake notified Dr. Allen that his proposition was accepted, and asked for a sketch of his plan of procedure in applying the test, and received

ciate, he turned suddenly to Dr. Wilson, president elect of the Institute, asking him to appoint a special commission to take charge of the preparations and His reason for thus papers called for by his test. deserting the Bureau was that his test might be more officially considered. Dr. Wilson at once appointed Dr. Pemberton Dudley, of Philadelphia, Chairman of such a special commission, and was going on to designate the other members, when Dr. Allen was reminded that the action taken by Dr. Dake was strictly official, while the appointing power of Dr. Wilson would not mature before next January, and no commission designated by him, before that time, could be official, and the matter was dropped ; but not, however, before Dr. Dudley had drawn up and sent forward a system of safeguards for the experiments of Dr. Allen, more stringent, if possible, than that already submitted by Dr. Sherman; and not before Dr. Ailen had concluded to abandon the test for this year.

Upon a representation from Dr. Dake, that the resort to Dr. Wilson and the abandonment of the test for this year, seemed like a studied indignity to the Bureau of Materia Medica or a decided back-down from the offer, so exultingly made at Lake George, Dr. Allen again consented to go on, under the auspices of the Bureau and asked Dr. Dake to appoint a committee to look after the preparations for the test and the records of the same. Being requested to name one member of such committee, he selected Prof. O'Connor; Dr. Sherman selected Prof. Chandler, and Dr. Dake appointed Dr. Guernsey with the request that he act as Chairman.

As already stated, before our committee had commenced work, Dr. Allen notified Dr. Dake that the state of his health and his many other engagements would not allow him to go on with the test proposed!

INTRAVENOUS INJECTION OF AMMONIA. Dr. Griswold, the house physician of Bellevue Hospital, has recently made a number of interesting experiments upon dogs, with reference to the action of intravenous injections of ammonia, and confirmed Dr. Allen having accepted a place on the Bureau, the conclusion thus reached upon patients in the when the subject agreed upon for consideration hospital. The experiments upon dogs were made

it in outline.

where the viscera had been exposed for the pur- by arousing public opinion to the evils existing at poses of vivisection, where there was great exhaus- our doors and necessitating a change. The same tion from loss of blood and the entrance of cold paper has just offered a prize of five hundred dollars air into the cavities. He waited until the heart for a model public school house, and we sincerely had nearly ceased to beat, and then injected into a hope the discussion of this question, and the comconvenient vein half a drachm of a solution com- petition excited among architects, will bring into posed of equal parts of Aqua ammonia and water. clear light the miserable conditions of our public At this stage, it is probable a larger amount of school houses. If there can be found anywhere in ammonia taken into the stomach would have pro- the land public buildings in every way so poorly duced no perceptible effect, but injected into the adapted for the uses to which they are put as the vein its action was almost immediate. The heart great school houses of New York, where the majority had, a moment before, been dark and congested, its of our young receive their instruction, we have yet right cavities engorged, and the contraction of its to see them. With scarcely a single exception they fibres weak and uncertain. Suddenly the systole are miserably ventilated, and both teachers and acquired a new energy, which emptied the distended pupils are compelled to breathe the pestilential gases right ventricle into the lungs and filled the aorta of sewers, the stifling air of crowded school rooms, with fresh oxygenated blood. The heart itself be- or be exposed to currents of air which produce incame bright red again as the new supply flowed in flammatory conditions not unfrequently ending in through the coronary arteries. The circulation was death. Some of the worst forms of diphtheria and almost immediately re-established. Fifteen or cerebro-spinal meningitis we have ever seen, both twenty experiments upon dogs, with uniformly the same result, prompted the doctor to repeat the experiment upon patients in the wards. In all cases where it was possible to produce stimulating effects, and where the most active stimulants administered by the mouth failed, the intravenous injection with the hypodermic syringe, of one drachm of the solution of ammonia was followed by marked results. In the many cases in which the experiment was tried no bad results followed.

Ammonia is undoubtedly one of the most active diffusible stimulants we have. There are times when a few moments' consciousness are all-important, or where, as in laryngotomy and tracheotomy, done in cases of croup, etc., there is sufficient latent strength for recovery if the circulation can only be kept up for a few moments. Possibly, in intravenous injections of ammonia, we have a remedy to produce just these results. It is not easy to perform the operation through the skin, as the vein collapses under the necessary pressure. The only safe method to pursue is to dissect down upon the vein and expose it; the needle may then be carefully introduced until the point is felt free in the interior of the vessel.

among teachers and pupils, have been traced directly to the school house; and in scores of cases we have been obliged to advise our friends to take their children away, because their exposure was attended with constant sickness. The people of New York, sorely taxed as they are, would willingly pay liberally for proper accommodations for their children, and have a right to demand of a scientific department something better than now exists. A thorough education, such as can be obtained in our public schools, is oftentimes purchased at the expense of life or health, and it is quite time the pub. lic attention is aroused to the grave evils, the fearful dangers, to which the children of the city are constantly exposed. We know of no better agent to inaugurate the necessary reform than the Sanitary Engineer. It has already proved a vast power for good in bringing to light the festering sores and fruitful causes of disease, and we have the satisfaction of knowing that whatever abuse it takes hold of it pursues with unflagging power and relentless hand until the work is accomplished.

CIRCULATION OF BLOOD VISIBLE.

By means of a simple arrangement invented by Dr. C. Hüter, the actual flow of the blood in the blood PUBLIC SCHOOL HOUSES. vessels can be distinctly seen. The patient's head is About a year ago the Sanitary Engineer gave a fixed in a frame, something like a photographer's, on prize for the best design for a tenant house. This which is a contrivance for supporting a microscope led to a careful investigation of the tenement houses and a lamp. The lower lip is drawn out and fixed of New York, and an active discussion of them in by means of clips on the stage of the microscope, the papers and in public meetings. It was seen how with its inner surface upward; a strong light is badly constructed many of them were, and what thrown on this surface by a condenser, and the breeders of pestilence existed in our very midst. microscope, provided with a low power objective, is The discussion of this subject, in which the Sanitary Engineer so abiy and practically led the way, has been of untold benefit to the poor and to the city,

brought to bear upon the delicate net-work of vessels which can be seen in the position indicated with the naked eye. The appearance is at first as if the

vessels were filled with red injection. By focussing a small superficial vessel, the observer is soon able to distinguish the movement of the blood stream, rendered evident by the speck-like red corpuscles, the flow of which in the cork-screw like capillaries is said to be very beautiful. The colorless corpuscles are distinguished as minute white specks occuring now and again in the course of the red stream. Besides the phenomena of the circulation, the cells of parement epithelium lining the lip and their nuclei can readily be distinguished, as well as the apertures of the mucus glands.

Besides the normal circulation, various pathological conditions can be observed. By a pressure quite insufficient to cause pain, the phenomena of blood stagnation-the stoppage of the flow and the gradual change in the color of the blood from bright red to purple-are seen. A momentary stoppage is also produced by touching the lips with ice, and a more enduring stasis by certain reagents, such as glycerine or ammonia. We do not share in Hüter's enthusi asm of the great benefit of cheiloangioscopy, as he calls the new process, in medical practice. As a physiological study it is of course interesting, but the great nicety and precision required will prevent its use except in chronic cases.

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL.

LECTURES ON CLINICAL MEDICINE: Delivered in the Hospital Saint-Jacques, of Paris. By M. le Dr. P. Jousset. Physician to the Hospital SaintJacques, of Paris; Professor of Pathology and Clinical Medicine; Editor of L'Art Medical; Author of "The Elements of Practical Medicine," etc. Translated, with copious notes and additions, by R. Ludlam, M. D., Professor of the medical and surgical diseases of women and of clinical midwifery in the Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital of Chicago; author of "Clinical Lectures on the Diseases of Women," and " Clinical Lectures on Diphtheria;" member of the Illinois State Board of Health, etc., etc.

"The work sets forth the best and freshest pathological views; the most practical application of the homœopathic method of treating disease; and a clear and forcible bed-side analysis of the cases that are presented. It is a book for the busy practitioner who does not wish to be troubled with theories, nor to depend upon remedies that have been advised without experience.

The author discusses briefly, and from a very practical standpoint, the questions of alternation, attenuation, dose and repetition, and of individualization and aggravation. The subjects embraced in these lectures include: asthma, emphysema, rheumatic endocarditis, articular rheumatism, bronchitis, pneumonia, croup, diphtheria, typhoid fever, nephritis, albuminuria, hemoptysis, hemorrhoids, chronic gastritis, scrofulous ophthalmia, hydrarthrosis, pelvi-peritonitis, vaginismus, menorrhagia, etc., etc.

"The translation is flowing and easy, and the notes and additions are exceedingly useful. This is especially true of the additions made to such of the lectures as treat of the diseases of women, to which Dr. Ludlam has also added some extracts from his own clinics

on puerperal pelvi-peritonitis, puerperal pneumonia, vaginismus, and pelvic hematocele.

The work will be one of very great interest to the profession and to students, embodying as it does about forty years of experience on the part of the author, and that of nearly thirty years by the translator." The above quotation from the prospectus is amply borne out by a careful perusal of its pages.

It is refreshing to read an author who discusses his subjects with such clearness, and who deals with facts as they exist, with no attempt to distort them to suit his own theoretical notions. Jousset is a good representative of the modern homœopathist. While he does not discard any fact which has descended to us from the illustrious Hahnemann, at the same time he does not lie down in the furrow, proclaim infallibility, and assert that all discovery and progress must have ended with Hahnemann, and lie buried in his grave. Hahnemann was a discoverer, a progressive man, and philosopher; one who would not countenance indolence, and was always looking for facts.

With his theories we have nothing to do any farther than they are borne out by the clean-cut results of reliable experience.

It is to the clinique that we must look for the demonstration of therapeutic facts, but we cannot expect these to develop without a full and correct knowledge of pathogenesy, as well as of true pathology, which must include the subjective as well as the objective symptomatology; and the cases here reported are of the class met with in every-day practice, intelligently stated, and the remedy properly adapted. THE WONDERS OF LIGHT AND COLOR; INCLUDING

CROMOPATHY, OR THE NEW SCIENCE of Color
HEALING. By Edwin D. Babbitt.

Very pleasant reading, from which can be gleaned
a great many valuable scientific facts.
THE PATHOLOGY AND TREATMENT OF HEREDITARY
SYPHILIS: A Monograph in Six Letters. By H.
C. Jessen, M. D.

The object-raison d'etre-of this brochure is not easily made out.

It contains nothing new, is a mere compilation, as though it were an effort to accustom the writer to the labors of authorship. In fact, it seems to have been written with no expectation of its being read, and rather as an exercise in evidence of the compiler's ability to quote authors. In scarcely any point is it otherwise than superficial. A reader unfamiliar with the subject would be only mystified; a well-informed reader would find nothing profitable in the reading. It is styled "Pathology and Treatment;" there is no description of the pathology of the disease attempted, and for the treatment the reader is referred to the standard works on materia medica and therapeutics. A

GUIDE TO HOMOEOPATHIC PRACTICE; designed for the use of families and private individuals. By I. D. Johnson, M. D., New York and Philadelphia. Boericke & Tafel, Publishers. 1880. enabling individuals to relieve the trifling maladies of Family guides are often of great service, not only in such frequent occurrence in every family, but in the graver forms of disease by prompt action to prepare The work under notice seems to have been carefully the way for the riper intelligence of the physician. prepared by an intelligent physician, and is one of the from the house of Boericke & Tafel, its publishers. handsomest specimens of book-making we have seen TESTING THE VALUE OF GUNS BY FIRING UNDER WATER. By Henry A. Mott, Jr., Ph. D., E. M. A careful course of scientific experiments are detailed, from which the author concludes that the most correct way to test an arm is to fire it under water instead of into the air.

AN EXAMINATION OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE MINI- preparation. Thus Abies nigra, Nat. Order, ConiMUM DOSE AND THE THEORY OF DYNAMIZATION fera. Syn., Pinus nigra vulg., black or double spruce. PROMULGATED BY DR. HAHNEMANN. By H. M. Tinct. of the gum. We have in this little volume, conPaine, M. D., of Albany. Reprinted from the densed in a small space for ready reference, the inAmerican Observer, May and July, 1879. formation for which we should otherwise be obliged DISEASES OF WOMEN. By Lawson Tait, F. R. C. S. to turn over the pages of Botanies and large Dispensatories. Second edition; revised and enlarged Specially prepared for Woods' Library. New York: Wm. Woods & Co. 1879.

The author presents as his chief object in his book, to offer the results of his own experience in as condensed a form as possible. He has therefore avoided long quotations, needless references, and detailed accounts of cases. As the author has for many years taken a front rank among the many able gynecologists of Great Britain, a work on his specialty, the outgrowth of his large and varied experience, is most acceptable to the profession Many of his views, both of the pathology and treatment of disease, are original, but are now generally accepted as correct. YELLOW FEVER A NAUTICAL DISEASE: Its Origin and Prevention. By John Gamgee. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1879.

The author discusses, with a vast array of clear and well digested facts, the nature and prevention of yellow fever. Its permanent home is in ships sailing in West Indian seas. These communicate to ocean harbors, which cherish and retain the infection in direct relation to prevalent heat and moisture. It never has existed permanently on land; it is simply accidental, and promptly extinguished the farther from shore or the higher the ascent up hills and mountains. The work is admirably written, and the author's theories plausible, and well sustained by logical deductions

from established facts.

CONDENSED MATERIA MEDICA. By C. Hering. Second edition; more condensed, revised, enlarged, and improved. Boericke & Tafel: New York. 1879. The great favor with which this work has been received has rendered a second edition necessary in a year from the issue of the first. The changes in this edition are so few as to call for no special comment in addition to our notice of the first edition. We have no doubt in time the work will find a place in the office of almost every homœopathic physician. LARYNGEAL PHTHISIS: A Paper Read before the N. Y. S. Homœopathic Medical Society. By Charles C. Jones, A M, M. D.

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OBITUARY.

CHARLES J. HEMPEL, M. D.

Dr. Hempel has so long been an invalid, with vitality at a very low ebb, that the announcement of his death will cause no surprise, although no particularly unfavorable turn in his condition had been reported. He expired at his residence on East Bridge Street, Grand Rapids, September 24th, shortly before midnight, at the age of sixty-eight years.

Dr. Hempel was a native of Rhenish Prussia, born at Solingen, a manufacturing town near Cologne. Having received a collegiate education, he availed himself of the privilege afforded to all young Prussians at that time, of passing a military examination. Young being entitled to postpone entering the military service men who passed through this ordeal successfully of Prussia until the completion of their twenty-third year, the doctor profited by this interval to go to Paris then filled the chairs in the University and College de and attend the lectures of the distinguished men who France.

In Paris he made the acquaintance of the celebrated Michelet, who succeeded Guizot as Professor of History in the College de France, and whom the doctor assisted in the publication of his "History of France." The six months he resided in the Professor's family as his co-laborer in this great work, constituted one of the most profitable and agreeable periods in he doctor's life. While attending the lectures of Baron Thenard, Gay-Lussac, Dulong, Broussais, and others, he became intimate with American families residing in Paris, and was induced by them to emigrate to

America.

He landed in New York on the 5th of September, 1835, the twenty-fourth anniversary of his birth. He always regarded this circumstance as a remarkable coincidence, for he dated the higher intellectual activ ity of which he speedily became conscious, from the day when he landed on the shores of America. He at once applied himself to a thorough acquisition of Dr. Jones has given in his paper a very clear and the English language, read the English and American excellent condensation of the best literature of laryn- classics with a passionate fondness, at the same time geal phthisis, together with hints as it regards treat-pursuing the study of the Italian language and literament. He very correctly says: In all our local treat- ture with great zeal and enthusiasm. Very soon after ment we must bear in mind that the affected parts are his arrival in New York he became intimately very irritable, and should therefore exercise great cau- Silvio Pellico, and with the other members of the acquainted with Signor Maroncelli, the friend of tion in our manipulations Society of the Carbonari who had been released from the dungeons of the Spielberg, and had taken refuge in the United States. He resided two years in Signor Maroncelli's family, where he imbibed an ardent love for music, Italian literature and erudition, and for the great and exalted ideas of social, political, and religious liberty which the members of the Carbonari entertained, and for which they had suffered martyrdom. cultivating his taste for the classical literature of forWhile enjoying the society of these gentlemen, and eign nations, he attended medical lectures of the then recently organized Medical Department of the University of New York, of which he became one of the first graduates. Among his intimate friends and associates at that period he numbered John Manesca, author of a new system of studying the French language, and otherwise a gentleman of vast intellect and scientific attainments; Parke Godwin, editor of the Evening Post; Charles A. Dana, co editor of the Tribune; Mr.

A TEXT-BOOK OF ELECTRO-THERAPEUTICS AND ELECTRO-SURGERY: For the Use of Students and General Practitioners. By John Butler, M. D. Second edition; revised and corrected. New York: Boericke & Tafel. 1880.

We have nothing to add, in hearty commendation of this work, to our notice of the first edition. The second edition follows the first in but little over a year, and, notwithstanding it has been carefully revised, the first was so complete the author finds but little need of change and improvement. It is undoubtedly the best book on uterine surgery, and the only really scientific

one on uterine therapeutics now before the public. SMITH'S LIST OF MEDICINES.

This list contains all the remedies mentioned in homœopathic literature, with all the authorized synonyms, together with the common name and officinal

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