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For a long time there has been no textbook available in which the local action of drugs was not subordinated to their general actions, while the average text-book omits, altogether, mention of many agents that in the hands of a specialist become valuable aids to cure, as in the local treatment of the respiratory passages, eye, eår, and skin, diseases of women, and general surgical affections. Each remedy is here taken up in alphabetical order, and, after a description of its pharmaceutical properties, is considered in reference to its physiological effect and value in local treatment. This hand-book embodies the results obtained by experienced teachers and will prove a very valuable work to the general practitioner. DUNGLISON'S NEW PRONOUNCING MEDICAL DICTIONARY. 21st Edition. 1200 pages. This new Edition of this standard work, edited by Dr. Richard J. Dunglison, is announced as in press for early publication by Lea Brothers & Co. 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The special additions in this edition are the sections on Examination of the Urine, Clinical Microscopy, and the Physiological Action of the Heart. IMPOTENCE AND SEXUAL WEAKNESS IN MODERN GYNECOLOGY. A TREATISE ON The author is a practical gynecologist, whose work forms one of the series of "Medical Classic" hand-books of this well-known publisher. It fills an important place in progressive medicine, exhibiting in a clear and concise manner the most modern gynecological practice, and will be quite as acceptable to the general practitioner as to the specialist. TREATMENT OF STERILITY IN THE WOMAN. This is another of Mr. Davis's excellent series, "The Physician's Leisure Library.” The author is a well-known Continental authority on Obstetrics and Diseases of Women, and his little work was well worthy of the excellent translation which Dr. Hurd has given it. THE NINE CIRCLES, OR THE TORTURE OF THE INNOCENTS: Being Records of Vivisection, English and Foreign. Compiled by G. M. 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SIG.-Use as a snuff ve or six times a day. -For OTALGIA (Progrès Med.): R. Chloral camphorat., Glycerini, p. v Olei amygdal. dulc., Introduce a small piece of cotton dipped in this mixture into the affected ear. -If HICCOUGH be provoked by a sensation. of hunger, pieces of bread should be swallowed (Rev. Gen. de Clinique). When PIPERAZIN URIC ACID SOLVENT BOUT two years the Chemische Fabrik auf Actien, vormals E. Schering, of Berlin, after A experimenting in its laboratory by its staff of chemists, produced a new chemical product, which at first seemed to be identical with spermine. Through clinical trials this supposition was quickly found to be erroneous, but further experiments developed the interesting fact that the new product was a uric acid solvent. This notable scientific discovery was achieved independently by the Schering laboratory, and it deserves the full credit for enriching materia medica with so valuable a new therapeutic agent. 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