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The fever has spread into the interior all along the lines of the railroads, and from the little villages into the country as high up even as Austin and Huntsville. It is about its worst at Houston, and will soon begin to decline there, as it has done here.

We publish in this number Dr. Fenner's treatment of yellow fever, for the benefit of our country subscribers, as we are frequently written to for the latest and best treatment. We gave

in our last, ours, and now Dr. Fenner's, and we have not learned any thing since, except that a solution of perchloride of iron has been used with success, by the physicians of Houston in stopping black vomit and even in preventing it and hæmorrhages. We tried it but it burnt the mouth so much that we discontinued it; perhaps our solution was too strong, and we intend trying it again. We used muriate tincture of iron, but with little success, preferring tannin as it did not irritate and could be given ad libitum.

We still beg of all our physicians to keep notes of their cases, and furnish us with everything they may think of interest in making up a complete history of the disease in this State. We do not intend to publish any more articles on yellow fever until next summer, but we wish every physician would write out his personal experience at once and we will classify and arrange the facts and give due credit to the author.

Galveston Medical College.

The regular course is put off until the 1st of December instead of November, as heretofore published, as it would not be safe for unprotected persons to visit Galveston before that time.

By the death of Prof. Gantt the Chair of Surgery is made vacant, but will be filled before the session begins, and also that of Demonstrator made vacant by the death of Dr. R. II. Hanna.

The College has sustained a great loss in these gentlemen, as they were both popular and able teachers.

The other Professors will all be in their places and will endeavor to make up for our losses.

We have some students now in the city who have had the fever, but we would warn all others from coming into the yellow fever district until frost, unless they have had the fever, as no one is exempt who has not had an attack, but to all who come, clinical instruction and private lectures will be given at the Hospital, until the regular lectures commence.

Mr. Hoff and the New York Academy of Medicine.

At the last meeting of the Academy of Medicine, the followresolutions were unanimously adopted:

WHEREAS, W. L. Hoff, proprietor or agent of the "Hoff Malt Extract," is issuing publications through the secular papers, and by means of pamphlets and circulars, professing to quote favorable opinions expressed in a report of a committee of the Academy; and, whereas, the said Hoff is widely circulating a letter purporting to have been written by a Fellow of this Academy; and, whereas, the publications of said Hoff are so adroitly and designedly worded as to impress the mind of the reader with the belief that the Academy has endorsed his nostrum, and has thus apparently compromised its dignity and professional standing; therefore,

Resolved, That the New York Academy of Medicine does hereby proclaim and declare that it has not expressed any opinion in regard to "Hoff's Malt Extract," and that any and every use of its name in recommending said Extract is unauthorized by the Academy.

Resolved, That a copy of the above preamble and resolutions be sent to the medical journals of this city, and that the medical journals throughout the country be requested to publish the same, in justice to the Academy and the profession.-New York Med. Journal.

Books, Pamphlets and Journals Received,

JOURNALS REGULARLY RECEIVED:

American Journal of Dental Science, Baltimore; September.
American Naturalist, Salem, Mass.; September.

Atlanta Medical and Surgical Journal; September.
Boston Medical and Surgical Journal; September.
Buffalo Medical and Surgical Journal; September.
Braithwaite's Retrospect; September.

Detroit Review.

Medical and Surgical Reporter, Philadelphia; September.
Medical News and Library; September.

New York Medical Journal; Vol. III, No. 3

Nashville Journal of Medicine and Surgery; September.
Richmond Medical Journal; September.

Southern Medical and Surgical Journal; September.
Southern Journal of the Medical Sciences; September.
St. Louis Medical and Surgical Journal; September.
The Medical Record, New York; September.

The Medical Reporter, St. Louis; September.

The Dental Cosmos; September.

University Journal of Medicine and Surgery; September.

Zeitschrift fur Practische. Heilkunde. September.

The American Journal of Medical Science, Philadelphia, new series, September. Phrenological Journal, New York.

The Druggist's Circular; September.

Chicago Medical Examiner; September.

Chicago Medical Journal; September.

The Agriculturalist, New York; September.

The Eclectic Journal of Medicine; September.

The Medical Investigator; September.

The Medical Gazette, a Weekly Review of Practical Medicine, Surgery, and Obstetrics; A. Simpson & Co., Publishers, New York; September.

THE NEW SYDENHAM SOCIETY.

The following extract from the Laws of the Society will sufficiently explain its objects: I. "The Society is instituted for the purpose of supplying certain acknowledged deficiences in the existing means of diffusing medical literature, and shall be called The New Sydenham Society.

II. "The Society shall carry out its objects by a succession of publications, of which the following shall be the chief: "1. Translations of Foreign Works, Papers, and Essays of merit, to be reproduced as early as practicable after their original issue. 2. British Works, Papers, Lectures, &c., which, whilst of great value, have become from any cause difficult to be obtained, excluding those of living authors. 3. Annual Volumes, consisting of Reports in Abstract of the progress of the different branches of Medical and Surgical Science during the year, 4. Dictionaries of Medical Bibliography and Biography. Those included under Nos. 1 and 2 shall be held to have the first claim on the attention of the Society, and the carrying out of those under 3 and 4 shall be considered dependent upon the amount of funds which may be placed at its disposal."

Several handsome volumes are issued every year, and members receive notice of their arrival immediately upon their receipt from London by the Secretary in Philadelphia. The duty and expenses on their importation are paid by the members, who are requested to give detailed instructions respecting the mode by which they wish their volumes to be forwarded, and also to remember that the Society's responsibility ceases when the book has been delivered according to the instructions given.

The subscription constituting a member is Seven Dollars and a half, to be paid in advance on the 1st of January annually, entitling the subscriber to a copy of every work published for that year. No books are issued to any member until his subscription for the year has been paid. The best mode of sending money is by post office order, payable to the Secretary at Philadelphia. RICHARD J. DUNGLISON, M. D.,

Hon. Local Secretary, 1116 Girard Street, Philadelphia.

LIST OF WORKS ALREADY ISSUED.

On Syphilis in Infants. By Paul Diday. Translated by Dr. Whitley.

On the More Important Diseases of Women and Children, with other Papers, by Dr. Gooch. Reprinted; with a Prefatory Essay by Dr. Robert Ferguson. (With Woodcuts.)

Memoirs on Diphtheria: containing Memoirs by Bretonneau, Trousseau, Daviot, Guersant, Bouchut, Empis, etc. Selected and Translated by Dr. R. H. Semple.

On the Minute Structure and Functions of the Spinal Cord. By Professor Schroeder Van Der Kolk. (With Lithographs.)

On the Minute Structure and Functions of the Medulla Oblongata, and on the Proximate Cause and Rational Treatment of Epilepsy. By Professor Schroeder Van Der Kolk. Translated by Dr. W. D. Moore, of Dublin. (With Lithographs.)

Experimental Researches on the Effects of Loss of Blood in Inducing Convulsions. By Drs. Kussmaul and Tenner. Translated by Dr. Bronner, of Bradford.

On the Process of Repair after Resection and Extirpation of Bones. By D. A. Wagner, of Berlin. Translated by Mr. T. Holmes. (With numerous Woodcuts.)

Three Memoirs on Glaucoma and on Iridectomy as a Means of Treatment. By Professor Von Græfe. Translated by Mr. T. Windsor, of Manchester,

Memoirs on Abdominal Tumors and Intumescence. By Dr. Bright. Reprinted from the "Guy's Hospital Reports," with a Preface by Dr. Barlow. (Numerous Woodcuts.)

A Cinical Account of Diseases of the Liver. By Professor Frerichs. Two Volumes. Translated by Dr. Murchison. (With Colored Lithographs, and numerous Woodcuts.)

A Yearbook of Medicine and Surgery, and their Allied Sciences, for 1859. ley, Dr. Handfield Jones, Mr. Hulke, Dr. Graily Hewitt, and Dr. Odling.

Edited by Dr. Har

The First Fasciculus of an Atlas of Portraits of Skin Diseases; comprising three Plates, 18 in. by 24 in., copied from those of Hebra, and illustrating: Favus, Tinea Tonsurans, Lupus Exulcerans.

Casper's Medical Jurisprudence. Four volumes. Translated by Dr. G. W. Balfour, of Edinburgh. Czermak on the Practical Uses of the Laryngoscope. Translated by Dr. G. D. Gibb. (Numerous woodcuts.

On Thrombosis of the Cerebral Sinuses. By Professor Von Dusch. Translated by Dr. Whitley. Schroeder Van Der Kolk on a Case of Atrophy of the Left Hemisphere of the Brain. Translated by Dr. W. D. Moore, of Dublin. (With Four Lithographs.)

Radicek's Papers on the Application of Statistics to Medical Enquiries. Translated by Dr. Bond. Esmarch on the Uses of Cold in Surgical Practice. Translated by Dr. Montgomery.

A Yearbook of Medicine and Surgery, and their Allied Sciences, for 1860. Edited by Dr. Harley, Dr. Handfield Jones, Mr. Hulke, Dr. Graily Hewitt, and Dr. Sanderson.

A Second Fasciculus of the Atlas of Portraits of Skin Diseases; comprising Plates from Hebra, illustrating Psoriasis Diffusa; Ichthyosis; Lupus Serpiginosus; Alopecia Areata.

A Yearbook of Medicine and Surgery, and their Allied Sciences, for 1861. Edited by Dr. Harley, Dr. Handfield Jones, Mr. Hulke, Dr. Graily Hewitt, and Dr. Sanderson. A Third Fasciculus of the Atlas of Portraits of Skin Diseases: comprising Plates, illustrating Lupus Scrophulosus, (Cicatrizing); Herpes Zoster Frontalis, (Affecting the Front il and Trochlear branches of the Fifth Nerve); Molluscum Contagiosum-A, on a Child's Face; B, on the Breast of the Child's Mother; c, Anatomical Characters of the Tumors; D, Microscopic Char

acters.

Translated by Henry

The Aural Surgery of the Present Dav. By W. Kramer, M. D., of Berlin.
Power, Esq., F. R. C. S., M. B. (With two tables and nine woodcuts.)
A Yearbook of Medicine and Surgery, and their Allied Sciences, for 1862. Edited by Dr. Mont-
gomery, Dr. Handfield Jones, Mr. Windsor, Dr. Graily Hewitt, and Dr. Sanderson.
A Guide to the Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of the Urine. By Dr. C. Neubauer and
Dr. J. Vogel. Fourth edition, considerably enlarged. Translated by William O. Markham,
F. R. C. P. L. (With four lithographs and numerous woodcuts.)

On the Anomalies of Accommodation and Refraction of the Eye, with a Preliminary Essay on
Physiological Dioptrics. By F. C. Donders, M. D., Prof. of Physiol. and Ophthalmology in
the University of Utrecht. Translated from the author's manuscript by W. D. Moore, M. D.
A Yearbook of Medicine and Surgery, and their Allied Sciences, for 1863.

A Fourth Fasciculus of the Atlas of Portraits of Skin Diseases: comprising Plates, illustrating Leucoderma, Morbus Addisonii.

A Yearbook of Medicine, Surgery, and their Allied Sciences, for 1864.

A Fifth Fasciculus of the Atlas of Portraits of Skin Diseases.

The following Works are in preparation for the Society:-A Yearbook for 1865.
Greisinger's Handbook of the Pathology and Treatment of Mental Diseases.

Atlas of Skin Diseases.

Smellie's Midwifery. Edited by Prof. Simpson.

Subscribers can procure the Entire Series, or they can commence at any year they may prefer, or procure the books of any single year without subscribing for the others. The following is the order of the works, according to the years for which they were issued:

1859. (FIRST YEAR.)

Vol. 1. Diday on Infantile Syphilis. 2. Gooch on Diseases of Women. 3. Memoirs on Diphtheria. 4. Van Der Kolk on the Spinal Cord, etc. 5. Monographs (Kussmaul & Tenner, Grete, Wagner, etc.)

1860. (SECOND YEAR)

Vol. 6. Dr. Bright on Abdominal Tumors. 7. Frerichs on Diseases of the Liver, vol. 1. 8. A Yearbook for 1859. 9. Atlas of Portraits of Skin Diseases, (1st Fasciculus.)

Vol. 10. A Yearbook for 1860.

Forensic Medicine, vol. 1. 13.

1861. (THIRD YEAR.)

12. Monographs (Czermak, Dusch, Radicke, etc.) 12. Casper's Atlas of Portraits of Skin Diseases, (2d Fasciculus.) 1862. (FOURTH YEAR.)

Vol. 14. Frerichs on Diseases of the Liver, vol. 2.) 15. A Yearbook for 1861. 16. Casper's Forensic Medicine, vol. 2. 17. Atlas of Portraits of Skin Diseases, (3d Fasciculus.) (FIFTH YEAR.)

1863.

Vol. 18. Kramer on Diseases of the Ear; on the Urine.

19. A Yearbook for 1862. 20. Neubauer and Vogel 1864. (SIXTH YEAR.)

Vol. 21. Casper's Forensic Medicine, vol. 3. 22. Donders on Anomalies of Accommodation, etc., of the Eye. 23. A Yearbook for 1863. 24. Atlas of Portraits of Skin Diseases, (4th Fasciculus.)

1865. (SEVENTH YEAR.)

Vol. 25. A Yearbook for 1864. 26. Casper's Forensic Medicine, vol. 4. 27. Atlas of Portraits of Skin Diseases, (5th Fasciculus.)

1866. (EIGHTH YEAR.)

1. Bernutz and Goupil on Diseases of Women, vol. 1. 2. Fascicuins of Atlas of Portraits of Diseases of the Skin (three beautiful colored plates, life size.) 3. Hebra on Diseases of the Skin, vol. 1. 4. Bernutz and Goupil on Diseases of Women, vol. 2.

1867. (NINTH YEAR.)

1. Griesinger on Mental Diseases. 2. Biennial Retrospect of Medicine and Surgery. 3. Fasciculus of Atlas of Portraits of Diseases of the Skin (colored plates.) 4. Hebra on Diseases of the Skin, vol. 2.

Annual Subscription, $7 50 in advance, (the duty, &c., payable on arrival of the vols., amounting to about $2 50 additional.)

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