between collapse and shock, and concludes that surgical shock is mainly due to impairment or break-down of the vasomotor mechanism.

Diagnosis by the Urine, or the Practical Examination of Urine with Special Reference to Diagnosis.-By Allard Memminger, M.D., Professor of Chemistry, Urinology and Hygiene in the Medical College of the State of South Carolina. Second Edition, Enlarged and Revised. With Illustrations. Price, $1.00. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1012 Walnut Street. 1899.

This little book is an exceedingly simple presentation of the fundamental principles of the subject. The author's observations are all practical, and some of them are quite original. He does not lay so much stress upon the presence of casts as upon the relation of total solids to the quantity of urine. His modification of the heat test for albumin is to be commended. The book will prove of most service to physicians who have never had the advantages of a thorough laboratory course in uranalysis.

Proceedings of the American Medico-Psychological Association.-At the Fifty-Fourth Annual Meeting, held in St. Louis, May 10-13, 1898.

We are indebted to the secretary of the society, Dr. C. B. Burr, for this valuable collection of papers. Henry M. Hurd is the president this year. The annual address at the last meeting was delivered by J. T. Eskridge.

SELECTIONS.

Pillsbury's Vitos.-In this issue will be found descriptive ad. of this Ideal Wheat Food, which is being so widely advertised and placed on sale in every market throughout the world. It is rapidly becoming The World's Breakfast Food, as its sale in all European countries is even greater than in America, as foreigners eat more cereals and less meat than our own people, and are therefore more healthy and stronger. Pillsbury's Vitos is the practical result of more than twenty years of careful study and analysis by a corps of competent chemists employed by the great Pillsbury Mills in their own laboratory at Minneapolis, Minn.

Robinson's Lime Juice and Pepsin is an excellent remedy in the gastric derangements particularly prevalent at this season. It is superior as a digestive agent to many other similar goods. (See page 3, this issue).

J. J. Grant, M. D., Monticello, Fla., says: "I find nothing in the materia medica to equal Aletris Cordial in uterine diseases. I have used it in a very obstinate case, which outstood several important remedies. When I put the patient on Aletris Cordial every diseased symptom disappeared in a week's trial. I have used it in several cases, and can, therefore, say that it is an active and powerful agent for diseases of the womb."

"M. S., 52 years of age, male, was some years afflicted with an obstinate form of erythema, probably of specific origin, which heretofore had resisted the usual constitutional and local treaments. The itching of the eruption was intolerable, the anaemia very pronounced the whole constitution run down. Six weeks medication with Iodia, supplemented by extract of malt and cod-liver oil, brought the case under control. I attribute the good effect of Iodia in this, as in other cases, not so much to its mineral ingredients (potass. iodide and ferri phosphate) as to their combination with the fresh principles of vegetable alteratives. I, for my part, believe that only the extracts of the green or fresh plants are reliable for therapeutic effects, the common fluid extracts of the dried plants having proven mostly inert in my hands."-A. Ziegler, M. D., Allegheney, Pa.

Better Still. The influenza has been quite prevalent in a number of cities during the past month. In Richmond, there have been many cases, though no deaths distinctly attributed to it. It is

affecting mostly those who have had the disease almost annually during the past few years. Although the attacks of this year are relatively mild, they are severe enough to keep business men away from their places of business. Phenacetin, or better still, Antikamnia, with salol or quinia, and a little powdered digitalis added, has proved a satisfactory plan of treatment, presupposing, of course, that the bowels are kept open, the secretions of internal organs are attended to, and that the patient is kept in-doors, especially at night or in bad weather.—The Virginia Medical Semi-Monthly.

Pillsbury's Germos.-We take pleasure in calling the attention of the medical fraternity to this world-famed Dietetic Flour (made from the whole of the wheat), which has just been placed on this market by the manufacturers. It is thoroughly sterilized; absolutely pure; digests itself; possesses phosphates far the brain, and bone, flesh, blood and muscle ingredients, which cannot be found in like quantity in other flour in the world. The large percentage of proteids, and the very low percentage of starch to be found in Pillsbury's Germos, makes it the ideal flour for both brain and brawn workers. The use of Germos Flour will nourish the blood, stimulate the bowels, and prevent and cure digestive disorders. It is unquestionably the best hygienic whole wheat flour on the market, and as such physicians would do well to call the attention of their patrons and patients to this fact, and advise its use generally.

Mal-Nutrition."I am sure the Imperial Granum Food was an efficient agent in restoring the health of a baby boy recently under my care. He was suffering from mal-nutrition, with a most persistent diarrhoea. Many foods were tried and discarded, and I was beginning to lose heart, when I happened to think of the Imperial Granum. Its use proved it to be very easily assimilated, and I think it saved the baby's life."M.D.

Acute Coryza. In this unpleasant affection the action of Blennostasine is "magical." It arrests the sneezing and mucous discharge without producing serious after-effects. Its superiority over quinine lies in the fact that it is a vaso-motor constrictor. Blennostasine is superior to belladonna, atropine, etc.; as a blennostatic, is non-toxic, and can consequently be given in large doses, if necessary without fear of after-effects. It exerts a tonic effect on the vocal mechanism, and is especially valuable in colds of public speakers and singers.