nine and the various combinations of iron and bark were used

with gratifying success.

"In 65 cases of recovery the average highest pulse rate was 108; in 14 fatal cases the average highest pulse rate was 140. In 41 cases of recovery the average highest temperature was 104° 1′; in 6 fatal cases the average highest temperature was 105° 7'."

The treatment of typhus fever did not differ very materially from that of the typhoid cases. "In desperate cases, when the powers seemed to be sinking, stimulating injections, hot pediluvia, frictions to the spine, and sinapisms to the inside of the thighs and legs were ordered. During convalescence, ale and porter were recommended."

NOTE. This is the second review of this work; they have each been prepared by able members of the Profession, and will be read with interest and profit.-ED.

A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON FRACTURES AND DISLOCATIONS. By FRANK HASTINGS HAMILTON, A. M., M. D., L. L. D. Prof. of Practical Surgery Bellevue Hospital Medical College, etc., New York. Fourth Edition. Philadelphia: H. C. Lea. 1871.

As this standard work has been twice noticed in this Journal, it is not necessary to do more than call attention to the issue of the fourth edition of it. This edition is really revised and improved. One sees this fact in the text as well as on the title page. The work is illustrated by more than three hundred most excellent wood cuts; nearly one for every other page in the volume. It would be superfluous to notice this work further, Every one who knows anything of surgery, or cares anything for it, has long been familiar with the volume. It is a monument of professional care, fidelity, rare judgment, sound sense, and surgical efficiency. A work of which any one might well be proud of being the author. It is published with great care, and reflects much credit upon the well-known publishing house whose name is embodied in the title-page.

RETROSPECT OF UTERINE PATHOLOGY AND THERAPEUTICS in the United States, specially in regard to Intra-Uterine Medication in Chronic Internal Metritis. By HENRY MILLER, M. D., (Louisville, Ky.) Emeritus Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women and Children in the Louisville Medical College, and President of the Faculty, etc. New York: William Baldwin & Co. 1871.

This pamphlet contains, in full, an article which appeared, (very appropriately), originally in the "American Journal of Obstetrics." The article is an excellent manifest of what has been done in the special field described by the author, and contains a very proper and timely claim of originality for himself in having first introduced and recommeded in America the treatment of chronic internal metritis by intra-uterine medication. The time has been when Boston alone claimed to be "the hub" of the professional as well as the literary and secular wheel, but now there are multiple medical centres, each claiming a similar honor. New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago, etc., physicians are not infrequently claiming originality of suggestion, teaching or treatment, when a more creditable familiarity with medical literature would protect them from the necessary exposure of their unjust pretensions. Ephraim McDowell, Dudley, and Miller, of Kentucky; Nott, of Mobile; Eve, of Tennessee; Stone, of Louisiana; Marion Sims, of South Carolina; with many others well known and prominent, have contributed some of the most valuable currency to the professional treasury. It is proper to examine at times our professional coin, and learn "whose image and superscription" it bears, in order that those who pay tribute may always "render unto Cæsar the things which be Cæsar's," and that merit may always receive its just reward. As this excellent paper of Dr. Miller will appear in whole, or in part, in this Journal, it is unneccssary to further call attention to it here.

NEW REMEDIES-A Quarterly Retrospect of Therapeutics, Pharmacy and Allied Subjects. Edited by Horatio C. Wood, Jr., M. D., Profasor of Medical Botany, University of Pennsylvania. New York: William Wood & Co.

This is a new Journal. It is one of the best. It is ably edited

and unexceptionably published. It is replete with matter instructive, curious, entertaining, and valuable. It is already a success, and it well deserves this. The October number is the

second issue, and it is excellent.

TRANSACTIONS OF THE INDIANA STATE MEDICAL SOCIETYTWENTY-FIRST ANNUAL SESSION.

This Society met in June, 1871, at Indianapolis-Dr. R. N. Todd President. The attendance was very large; four times as many delegates being present as were to be seen at the meeting of the Kentucky State Medical Society. The volume of Transactions is highly creditable; not only for its attractive and excellent appearance, but for its contents. The Committee of Publication have discharged their duty excellently well. Some of the papers are really valuable. A good lithograph likeness of the lamented Dr. J. L. Bobbs adorns the volume. The physicians of Indiana have reason to be fully satisfied with this issue; it is worthy of praise.

TRANSACTIONS OF THE STATE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF MINNESOTA.

This Society held its last meeting at St. Paul; the attendance was creditable. The spirit of the meeting was good, and the business transacted judicious and useful. The papers published are few; they are fair, and evince creditable research. The Society seems vigorous and efficient. It is doing far better than the State Medical Society of Kentucky. This last Body seems to have lapsed into a condition of dangerous lethargy; a condition, apparently, preceding the coma ushering in dissolution. It is hoped and expected that its present excellent officers will go to work and transfuse new life into it. The young and vigorous Society of Minnesota furnishes a bright example. LARGE FIBROUS POLYPUS IN THE LARYNX REMOVED BY TRACHEOTOMY, Preceded by Laryngo-Tracheotomy. By A. RupPANER, M. D., New York, 1871.

The title-page of this pamphlet tells the whole story. The patient is doing well. The same operation for the removal of a similar growth had been previously performed (in 1870) by Von

Brüns of Tübingen. The history of this patient is very interesting. It is a complete triumph for the laryngoscope in the successful diagnostication of obscure cases. The patient has been skillfully treated by both operators, and his life has been twice saved by the operations performed. It remains to be seen whether the tumor removed last is not essentially recurrent in character, and if so, how often a patient otherwise healthy can successfully endure so grave an operation. ANNOUNCEMENT OF THE EVANSVILLE (IND.) MEDICAL COLLEGESESSION OF 1871–72.

"The cry is still they come." Another Medical College is added to the endless list.

After a Rip-Van Winkle sleep of eighteen years, this College reopens its doors. It comes not, as did Van Winkle of classic memory, with garniture mildewed and worthless, weapons rusty and broken, and a bearing expressive of the impotence of senility, but with an air of freshness, an expression of strength, and a promise of well-doing refreshing and creditable. It comes upon the stage, indeed, with a vigor and decision suggestive of Forest in his better days; before senility had emasculated him, and before his dramatic envy of others had robbed him of the little remaining claims to respect.

The Evansville school has a session of four months. Its fees are $50. It follows the example of other schools in the Ohio and Mississippi Valleys; schools which do not compete with the old schools of the East on the fair basis of didactic, illus. trative and clinical excellencies, but which secure a class by offering a money bonus; which obtain a class by buying one.

Rip-Van Winkle awoke possessed of his old nature and habits. This Van Winkle in medical school circles has parted with its old nature during its sleep. It has returned to life fully decked in the cheap finery and fashions meretriciously worn by many of its sisters in the localities immediately adjacent.

One feels almost disposed to propound to the Faculties of those cheap-fee schools, the conundrum asked of the petty Israelite peddler of cheap wares. "Why do you Israelites prefer mut

ton to venison?" The answer is suggestive and applicable: "Because we prefer what is cheap (sheep) to what is dear (deer)." It remains to be seen what is to be the result. In the meanwhile all will hope for good works and good examples in the Evansville Medical College. It has begun with a relative improvement in fees. While the cheap-fee medical schools of this section are charging $50 for five months tuition, or $10 per month, the Evansville school charges $50 for four months, or $12.50 per month. This improvement is, it is admitted, of Lilliputian proportions, but as the oak springs from the acorn, who will deny that the Evansville school may yet become one of a first-class character. The tiny germ may yet bring forth rich fruit; "ab ovo ad mala."

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CHEMICAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL.

"Diruit, ædificat, mutat."---HOR.

Portable Mixtures.-A new method of administering medicines has been proposed in Sweeden, and has come into extensive use in France in consequence of the advantages which it posIt is the employment of gelatine as a vehicle, of which Professor Almen, of Upsala, is the initiator. Six grammes of gelatine are dissolved in warm water, and the desired medicine is added to the solution, which is then turned out on a glass plate to solidify, evaporate and dry. This mass, which is about as thick as paper, is then divided into squares of such size as to contain the proper dose of the medicine. A slight addition of glycerine makes this preparation tough and flexible as paper. Insoluble agents are added to the gelatine solution by a thick emulsion of gum or tragacanth.

Morphia, emetics, acetate of lead, sulphate of copper, extracts of opium, and belladonna, and powders of digitalis, and camphor are thus easily kept ready in a portable form, and administered when necessary.-Medical Press and Circular, Sept. 13, 1871.