this remedy has removed the extreme nervous tension, it is well to prescribe pure air and cheerful companionship with a healthy moral tone. These tend to divert the thoughts and relieve monotony, and the result is soon seen in the increasing strength of the body, and the activity of the mental processes, which promptly reassert themselves.

Reviews and Book Notices.

THE ELEMENTS OF HOMEOPATHIC THEORY, MATERIA MEDICA, PRACTICE AND PHARMACY. Compiled and arranged from Homeopathic textbooks by Drs. F. A. BOERICKE and E. P. ANSHUTZ. 196 pages. $1.00. Postage, 5 cts. Philadelphia. Boericke & Tafel. 1905.

Cloth,

For those who wish to look into the fallacies and vagaries of the "infinitesimals and dilutions" the time can be as well wasted with this elementary brochure as with larger volumes. No claim is made for originality other than condensation.

MESSRS. D. APPLETON & COMPANY, Publishers, 436 Fifth Avenue, New York, take pleasure in announcing that they will issue for use in the colleges this fall new revised editions of the three following important books: Osler's "Practice of Medicine;" Holt's "Diseases of Infancy and Childhood;" Butler's "Diagnostics of Internal Medicine."

Dr. Osler has for some time contemplated a thorough rewriting of his book, and we, the publishers, have deemed it advisable to destroy the old plates and reset the book from new type, making a larger page. This new and revised edition is the Sixth of Osler's "Practice of Medicine," and the fact that we have printed over one hundred thousand copies is sufficient in itself to pronounce it the leading book on the Practice of Medicine.

The new edition of Holt's "Diseases of Infancy and Childhood" is the third edition of this new work, and is a thorough revision of the second edition. As the author says in his preface, the chapters on Examination of the Sick Child, Hypertrophic Steno

sis of the Pylorus, Diarrheal Diseases and Dysentery, Vaginitis, Cerebro-Spinal Meningitis, Mental Defects, Chrondro-Dystrophy, Status Lymphaticus, Diphtheria, "have been entirely rewritten, and some appear for the first time in this edition." Many new illustrations added to this third edition are original and add to the value of this wonderful book, which has now passed in sales beyond the fifty thousand mark.

Of the first edition of Butler's "Diagnostics of Internal Medicine" over fifty thousand copies were printed. This second edition has one hundred pages more than the previous edition, and over sixty new illustrations have been added, together with an entire new section on Diseases of the Mind.

MANUAL OF DISEASES OF THE EYE. BY CHARLES H. MAY, M. D., Chief of Clinic and Instructor in Ophthalmology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Medical Department Columbia University, New York, 18901903; Ophthalmic Surgeon to the City Hospitals, Randall's Island, New York; Consulting Ophthalmologist to the French and the Red Cross Hospitals, New York; Adjunct Ophthalmic Surgeon to Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York, etc., etc. Fourth edition, revised. Cloth, 400 pages, 21 colored plates, including 60 colored figures, 360 engravings in the text. Fourth edition. Price, muslin, $2.00 net. William Wood and Company, Publishers, 51 Fifth Ave., New York. 1905.

This book is not intended to take the place of the larger works, but as a means of supplying a foundation, to which further knowledge can be added by reference to more extensive and comprehensive works.

In presenting the fourth edition of this excellent manual, the author desires to express his appreciation of the continued favor with which his work has been reviewed. Every page has been carefully examined and a considerable number of alterations made in this thoroughly revised edition. Many illustrations have been replaced by superior ones. New figures have been added, including eight additional colored plates; among the latter are six presenting twenty-nine colored drawings of external diseases of the eye.

The volume has been kept fully up-to-date, but has not been increased in size, the original plan of presenting a book for the student and practitioner having been adhered to.

DAYTON'S EPITOME OF THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE. A Manual for Students and Practitioners. By HUGHES DAYTON, M. D., Principal to the Class in Medicine, New York Hospital, Out-Patient Department; Clinical Assistant in Medicine, Vanderbilt Clinic, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University. In one 12mo volume of

324 pages. Cloth, $1.00 net. Lea Brothers & Co., Publishers, Philadelphia and New York. 1905.

Without pretending to usurp the field of the larger treatises, the series of Epitomes, of which the above named is the most recently issued, has proved to be exceedingly useful to the student as a means of refreshing his recollection in regard to essentials.

The new volume is a wonderfully comprehensive little manual, giving under each named disease definition, etiology, pathology, symptoms, complications, diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment. The subject of Immunity has been succinctly treated with the assistance of Dr. T. Mitchell Prudden.

GREEN'S PATHOLOGY. A Text-book of Pathology and Pathological Anatomy. By T. HENRY GREEN, M. D., F. R. C. P., Consulting Physician to Charing Cross Hospital, London. New edition. Thoroughly revised by W. Cecil Bosanquet, A. M., M. D., F. R. C. P., Assistant Physician to Charing Cross Hospital. Tenth edition, octavo, 606 pages, 348 engravings and a colored plate. Cloth, $2.75 net. Lea Brothers & Co., Publishers, Philadelphia and New York, 1905.

The vigor and vitality of Green's Pathology are excellent evidences of qualities which have won the favor of students, professors, and practitioners alike. A text-book which has reached its tenth edition stands in no need of an introduction. This work has been from its first edition a simple, clear, and adequate presentation of pathology and pathological anatomy—the foundation of all medicine. The subject of the work has undergone many changes since Green was first issued. Pathology is by no means stagnant. In fact, it is doubtful whether any branch of medicine has undergone so rapid and so transforming a growth during recent years. The demand for Green has made necessary very frequent editions. Each edition represents a thorough revision, but none, perhaps, so thoroughgoing as the present. The pages of this work have, therefore, always been

consulted for the recent advances and condition of its science, and the diction of the work is so clear, so directly to the point, so easy of understanding, that the popularity of Green throughout the student world, and equally as a quick reference for the busy practitioner, it is not to be wondered at.

Selections.

ALCOHOL IN CARBOLIC POISONING.-C. V. Burke believes that the general teaching concerning carbolic acid poisoning is erroneous. In the first place, the prognosis is much more unfavorable than generally considered. In 12 cases he has seen but two recoveries. The ordinarily recommended antidote magnesium or sodium sulphate, he says, is useless. On the other hand alcohol is of great value. A stomach tube should be passed and the stomach washed out with diluted whiskey.-Therapeutic Review.

A REMARKABLE CASE. Before the meeting of the Louisville Clinical Society, May 2, Dr. Wm. H. Wathen presented a full term child fully developed with membranes and placenta removed from the abdominal cavity of a woman eighteen months after conception. This child had developed to term inside the abdominal cavity and completely external to the womb, and had died after full term, been carried for possibly nine months dead in the cavity in contact with intestines and was finally removed by Dr. Wathen. The mother recovered and left the hospital all right.- Southern Clinic.

FOOT POWDER.- To prevent perspiration and cure corns:R Pulv. salicylic acid, dr. iss.

Pulv. sodium bibor., oz. ss.

Cretæ preparata, oz. j.

M. Sig. Make into a powder and use as a local application inside stockings and shoes.- Doane, in the Medical Sum.

FACIAL ACNE.- Shoemaker (Med. Bulletin) recommends the following:

RESURRECTION BY VENESECTION AFTER HANGING.- The old authors, as the Progres Médical (July 15, 1905) remarks, often describe cases where supposed victims of hanging return to life. In olden times there was much carelessness in executions, and death most frequently resulted from strangulation. Anna Green was hanged for infanticide in 1650 by Narison. Her body was maltreated, stoned, thrown into a box, and delivered to physicians for dissection. When they opened the casket it was seen that the breast still moved, and re-execution was suggested. The physicians opposed it. She was put to bed, bled, and at the end of fourteen hours could speak. The physicians obtained her pardon. Although hanging for half an hour she had felt no pain, and had awakened as if out of a deep sleep, and language gradually came back. In 1724 another woman, also hanged for infanticide, awoke during the transportation of the body in the cart. The two women became respectable members of society, married, and had children. A highway robber, knowing these facts, had a young physician tracheotomize him and place a cannula in the throat before the execution. He breathed very well. but the cord broke, and he fell violently to the earth, breaking his