cines, generally obtained from indigenous plants, which have been safer, more successful, and in all respects preferable to those embraced in the Materia Medica of the old school. No school of medicine in either hemisphere has discovered and applied so many important new remedies as the Eclectics of North America; and this is attested by the voluntary testimony of the most reputable medical journals of Europe, as well as by the fact that many of them have been adopted in the practice of "regular" physicians in this country under pretense of having been discovered by them. Chemical science is rapidly increasing the number, and thus keeping the Eclectic practice as a healing art and a learned profession, far in advance of all rivals. Instruction in an institution where this practice is fully taught is, therefore, essential to the student who desires in good earnest to be an intelligent and a successful practitioner.

It is the aim of the Eclectic Medical College of the City of New York, to fulfil all these indications. The most careful and critical instruction will be daily given by an accomplished faculty; the best opportunities afforded for clinical instruction by the professors, and at the numerous hospitals; the most approved text-books will be used; and in short every facility will be furnished at the command of the Institution. No other Eclectic College, east of the Alleghany mountains, has the same claim upon public confidence.

At the meeting of the Board of Trustees of this Institution, held on the 19th of June, the following resolution was adopted:

"Resolved, That female students be educated in the Eclectic Medical College of the City of New York, upon the same conditions as male students."

This is no innovation. It has been done in the Universities of Zurich, in Switzerland, of Hesse and other cities of Europe. It has been the policy generally adopted in Eclectic Medical Colleges in this country, and with the most favorable results. The women who have become physicians, have fully equalled their masculine confreres in reputable, successful and remunerative practice. The sentiment of the age is fast determining in favor of female practitioners; and it has become unnecessary to defend their claim to labor in this department of usefulness. For an obolescent fogyism, unjust dis. crimination between persons, and narrow professional prejudice, there can be no rightful place in a school of Reformed Medical Practice.

Such are the principles and policy of this Institution. We can magnify the Eclectic Medical Profession, and perpetuate it as a re

putable system of practice, only by the most thorough instruction of its members. With this view, this college was established; and we now appeal to the friends of Eclectic Medicine everywhere, as they value its success and favor its dissemination, to add their endeavors for the maintenance of this institution.

By order of the Board of Trustees.

JOHN F. CLEVELAND, Secretary.

ALEXANDER WILDER, M.D.,

Missisquoi Water.

President.

THE country is now almost completely inundated with pamphlets and advertisements extolling the superior efficacy of mineral waters in almost every variety of disease. One might suppose from the amount of evidence brought forward to support their claims, that there was in mineral waters a panacea for every ill that flesh is heir to. This evidence comes not alone from parties immediately interested in the sale of these waters, but physicians and chemists of high standing, infected by the too common infirmity of an inordinate desire to have their names in print, bear witness to their remarkable composition and marvellous virtues. One physician of this city, whose prominent connection with a medical institution should be a sufficient guarantee of respectability, certifies to having cured twenty cases of malignant cancer of the uterus by the use of Missisquoi water. We cannot too strongly condemn the practice of physicians appending their names to such shameless and extravagant certificates. That some mineral waters possess remedial virtues, we do not question, because they are impregnated with certain substances of acknowledged medicinal value, but statements imputing to them such wonderful virtues and claiming their efficacy in such diverse, and directly opposite, conditions are too absurd to be for a moment entertained.

The best proof of the generally worthless character of mineral springs may be found in the fact that most all of them after enjoying a brief run of popularity, sink into comparative obscurity, until perhaps in a few years they are again revived by some enterprising speculator. As an illustration of this, we notice in a recent exchange that of a dozen mineral springs in Ohio, which have been extensively advertised during the last ten years, all of them have failed.

Many cases in which the Missisquoi water has been used, have come under our observation, and in none of them was it productive

of the least benefit. Any one examining the chemical constitution of this water, and observing how minute the proportion of saline ingredients, unless he be a devout believer in infinitesimals, would be at a loss how to explain the wonderful effects that are claimed for it.

SUGAR-COATED PILLS.-Bullock & Crenshaw, of Philadelphia, whose elegant and reliable preparations we have before called the attention of our readers to, are now putting up many of the Eclectic Resinoids in sugar-coated form. We have for some time past used the Podophyllin and Leptandrin so prepared. They have now given us Gelsemin, gr.; Helonin, gr.; Macrotin, gr., all of which practitioners will find convenient in form and certain in action.

REVIEWS AND BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES.

THE SURGICAL TREATMENT OF THE DISEASES OF INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD. By T. HOLMES, M. A., Cantab., Surgeon to the Hospital for Sick Children, Surgeon and Lecturer on Surgery to St. George's Hospital; Surgeon-in-Chief to the Metropolitan Police, etc., etc., London: Longmans, Green, Reader & Dyer, 1868. 8vo. pp. 648.

THERE has long been an admitted want of a comprehensive and systematic work on the surgical treatment of the Diseases of Children. Dr. Holmes, widely celebrated on both sides of the Atlantic, as a surgeon and writer, has endeavored in the work before us, to supply this want. The rich mine of facts contained in this volume, and the compendious and practical form in which they are presented, is sufficient proof, if any were needed, of the author's eminent fitness for the task.

There has been much written in regard to the surgery of children, but these contributions are scattered over a large number of medical works, many of them not accessible to the general practitioner. Dr. Holmes has collected all the valuable material that existed from these various sources, and has added to them the results of his own extensive experience. His connection with the Children's Hospital as Surgeon-in-Chief for so many years, has afforded him peculiar advantages for studying the subject, and the character and practical value of his observations proves that he has made the best possible improvement of his opportunities.

The work is divided into three parts. Part I., treats of Malformations, Part II., of Injuries, and Part III., of Diseases. In the consideration of Malformations, the author does not enter into any

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ingenious speculations in regard to the causes of these affections, or the pathological processes through which they are produced, but confines himself to suggestions and rules which may serve as a guide to their surgical treatment. Each of these divisions is treated in a thoroughly able and practical manner. The nature and importance

of the different injuries and diseases are fully discussed. When surgical interference is required, the most approved method of operating is described and the various steps in the procedure are fully and clearly detailed.

We could not hope in a simple notice to give anything like an adequate idea of the valuable contents of this work. We would advise each of our readers to procure it for himself.

The work is illustrated with 95 well executed wood-cuts, and quite a number of fine chromo-lithographs. The very handsome and attractive style in which the work has been presented is highly creditable to the publishers.

CONSUMPTION, BRONCHITIS, ASTHMA, CATARRH, AND CLERGYMAN'S SORE THROAT, successfully treated by Medicated Inhalations. Comprising all the recent Improvements in this mode of Practice, with the remedies used. By H. P. DILLENBACH, M.D. Illustrated with cases and engravings. Second Edition, enlarged and revised. Boston, 1866.

In this work the author endeavors to establish the superior efficacy of medicated inhalations in throat and pulmonary diseases. The use of inhalations is by no means a novel mode of treatment, but it is only comparatively recently that the attention of medical men has been so prominently directed to it as a remedial agent. There is, no question but that much good may be derived from local applications in discases of the air-passages, especially when combined with judicious general treatment, but we are far from giving our assent to the almost universal applicability claimed for it by Dr. Dillenbach. Like too many specialists, he urges the claims of his peculiar method of treatment with more pretension than its real value warrants, and neglects other, and in many cases, much more efficient means.

The first part of the work is taken up with a consideration of the diseases in which medicated inhalations may be employed with advantage, while the latter part is devoted to the detail of cases demonstrating the curative power of medicated inhalations in Consump tion and other diseases of the respiratory organs. The author's style is clear, conspicuous, and the book a very readable one. It is substantially bound, printed on beautiful paper, and is a model of typographical neatness.

DENTAL MATERIA MEDICA. Compiled by JAMES W. WHITE, Philadelphia. Published by Samuel S. White, 1868.

THIS little work embraces a consideration of those medicinal agents and preparations in most frequent use by the dental profes

sion. Without attempting anything like a complete notice of the various articles with their physical properties, physiological and therapeutic action, the author merely mentions their dental uses and the general indications for their employment. Many valuable facts not otherwise readily accessible, are here presented in a condensed and available form, and from its convenience and admirable arrangement will, no doubt, prove very acceptable as a work of reference to the dental practitioner.

NEWS AND MISCELLANY.

OHIO STATE ECLECTIC MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.

THE fourth annual meeting of this Association was held in the hall of the E. M. Institute, in Cincinnati, May 27th and 28th. The meeting was called to order by the President, Prof. John King Minutes of last meeting were read and approved.

The chair then appointed the following Committees:

Committee on Permanent Organization.-Drs. Potter, McCarthy and Branstrup.

Committee on Next Place of Meeting. Drs. Sidwell, Butcher and Wright.

Committee on Selection of Essays.-Drs. Scudder, Jones and Merrell.

The report of the Treasurer showed the finances of the Association to be in a healthy condition.

The Committee on Permanent Organization made the following: report, which, on motion, was accepted.

President: T. J. Wright, M.D., of Cincinnati.

Vice-Presidents: Wm. S. Merrell, M. D., of Cincinnati, and Wm. H. Jones, M.D., of Jeffersonville.

Recording Secretary: J. P. Marvin, M.D., of Cincinnati.

Corresponding Secretary: J. M. Butcher, M. D., of North Lewisburg.

Treasurer: Prof. J. M. Scudder, M.D., of Cincinnati.

At the request of Dr. Butcher, Dr. Anton's name was substituted in the place of his as Corresponding Secretary.

The newly elected officers were then installed, and the thanks of the Association tendered those retiring.

Committees appointed at the last meeting were then called on for

reports.

Committees on Revision of the Pharmacopoeia reported that they had done nothing material.

The following resolution was submitted by Dr. Merrell, and adopted by the Association:

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Resolved, That the Committee on Revision of the Pharmacopoeia