Serious objections may be urged against the purely dietetic treatment of diabetes. It is not long tolerated by the patient; exposes him to the grave danger of acetonæmia; is expensive, and difficult to enforce on the patient, who is sure to be discontented; and, finally, is at best but a palliative, not aiming at a curative result. Salicin should be given in three to six gramme doses, half an hour before each meal. When no more sugar can be detected in the urine, we may allow one meal of amylaceous food daily, increasing the dose of salicin. Med. Times. THE USES OF COCAINE.-Decidedly there is a future for cocaine. It is destined to have a permanent placé in medicine, surgery, and dentistry. The scope of its uses is not yet defined, but it is safe to say that its applications are widening as experiments with it are extended. We have been especially impressed with this fact in looking over the literature of the subject recently issued by the house of Parke, Davis & Co., Detroit. They have published several most interesting pamphlets. One is entitled "Cocaine in Dental Surgery," another is a working bulletin on the drug, containing a variety of original material, and a third, a well composed collation of what has been reported about it in home and foreign medical literature. These pamphlets will be sent without charge by the house to any one mentioning the name of this journal, and they are worth reading by all. The same firm has devised a very handy and ingenious "cocaine case," which they sell at a moderate price, and which impresses us as the best of the kind we have seen.-Philadelphia Medical and Surgical Reporter, Aug. 29, 1885. HICCOUGH.-Dr. Maxwell Ramos, in a letter to Dr. Dujardin Beaumetz, speaks highly of cooling the lobe of the ear in obstinate hiccough. It is not necessary to refrigerate; a cold lotion suffices. Beviews and Book Notices. POISONS, THEIR EFFECTS AND DETECTION; a manual for the use of Analytical Chemists and Experts, with an introductory essay on the growth of Modern Toxicology. By ALEXANDER WYNTON BLYTH, M. R. C. S., F. C. S., etc. Public Analyst for the County of Devon; Medical Officer of Health and Public Analyst for St. Marylebone. With tables and illustrations. Vol. 11, cloth, 8 vo., pp. 333. Wm. Wood & Co., Publishers, 56 and 58 Lafayette Place, New York. 1885. We called the attention of our readers to the second volume of this excellent work in our last number; this one having failed to reach us in its proper time by some mishap on the part of Uncle Sam's post-office officials. The first volume contains: Part 1. Introductory; 2. Definition, Classification, Statistics, Methods of Testing, etc.; 3, Acids and Alkalies; 4. More or less volatile poisonous substances capable of being separated by distillation from neutral and acid liquids; Alkaloids and poisonous vegetable principles separated by alcoholic solvents. The two volumes give a very complete and satisfactory history and elucidation of toxicology from the earliest times to the present day, and will be a most valuable addition to any physician's library. A TREATISE ON EPIDEMIC CHOLERA and ALLIED DISEASE. BY A. B. PALMER, M. D., L.L. D., Professor of Pathology, Practice of Medicine and Clinical Medicine in the College of Medicine and Surgery in the University of Michigan; author of a work on The Science and Practice of Medicine, etc., 8 vo., cloth. Register Publishing House, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Publishers. 1885. This publication, so timely in view of the probable visitation of epidemic cholera in this country, consists of a volume of about 200 pages, neatly and substantially gotten up, and bound in cloth. It contains a summary of the literature on the subject brought down to the present time, including the recent investigations of Koch and others; and in it the causes, methods of prevention and treatment will be fully discussed, and definite directions will be given. The reputation of the author as a practitioner, teacher and writer, and his large experience in cholera during three seasons of its prevalence in Chicago, is a guarantee of the character of the work. In order to render it readily accessible to all who may desire it, the price has been put down to $1, and for this sum it will be sent by mail, postage paid, to any address in the United States or Canada, by the Ann Arbor Register Publishing House, 19, 21 and 23 Huron street, Ann Arbor, Michigan. INDEX-CATALOGUE of the Library of the Surgeon-General's OfFICE, UNITED STATES ARMY. Authors and Subjects. Vol. vi. HEASTIE-INSfeldt. Washington, Government printing-office. 1885. Pp. 1051. The sixth volume of this handsomely-printed catalogue completes the work to and beyond the ninth letter of the alphabet, and includes 7,900 author-titles, representing 2,543 volumes and 7,250 pamphlets. It also includes 14,590 subject-titles of separate books and pamphlets, and 35,290 titles of articles in periodicals. The total number of book-titles contained in the six volumes which have appeared is 64,142, and of the journal articles, 219,154. In arrangement of matter and general appearance the volume corresponds with former issues of the series, which reflects honor upon American medicine. Pub TABULE ANATOMICA OSTEOLOGIE. Edited by CHARLES H. VONKLEIN, A. M., M. D., 4to, cloth, 32 lithograph plates. lished by Cincinnati Lithographic Company. 1883. For the student of anatomy, and as a reference book for the practitioner of surgery and medicine, we cannot too highly extol this work. The plates are excellent, and the elucidation of each individual figure renders it simple and easy to comprehend. Our profession at the present day is clamoring for simplicity and brevity in its medical works, and where we find them united as in this collection of anatomical material, not only will it be readily purchased, but recommended and praised. In this book we have both these factors admirably connected inseparably together. Its author needs no eulogy at our hands. INSOMNIA AND OTHER DISORDERS OF SLEEP. Dy HENRY M. Lyman, A. M., M. D., Professor of Physiology and Nervous Diseases, in Rush Medical College; Professor of Theory and Practice of Medicine in the Woman's Medical College; and Physician to the Presbyterian Hospital, Chicago, Ill. 8 vo., cloth, pp. 239. W. T. Keener, Publisher, 96 Washington street, Chicago, Ill. 1885. Professor Lyman has given us a very excellent monograph on the Disorders of Sleep, that will fully compensate any one for the time occupied in its careful perusal. It is written in an easy, entertaining manner, and was to us, for one night at least, a cause of wakefulness. He discusses and thoroughly considers in chapter 1: The Nature and Cause of Sleep, 2. Insomnia and Wakefulness; 3. Remedies for Insomnia; 4. Treatment of Insomnia in Particular Diseases; 5. Dreams; 6. Somnambulism; 7. Hypnotism. The type, paper and binding comprise a very fitting repository for the very correct and instructive ideas of the author. COMPARATIVE ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY. By F. JEFFREY BELL, M. A., Professor of Comparative Anatomy in King's College. This is another of "The Students' Manual Series," and a most excellent one at that. The descriptions are clear, the illustrations good, and the press-work and paper unexceptionable and quite in keeping with the custom and established rule of the well-known publishing house of Lea. The student of biology will be materially benefited by a caretul investigation of this valuable little work. DISEASES OF THE TONGUE. By HENRY T. BUTLIN, F. R. C. S., late Sugeon and Demonstrator of Practical Surgery and Diseases of the Larynx, St. Bartholomew's Hospital; lately Erasmus Wilson, Professor of Pathology at the Royal College of Surgeons. Illustrated with chromo-lithographs and engravings, 12 mo., cloth, pp. 451. (Clinical Manual Series.) Lea Brothers & Co., Philadelphia, Publishers. 1885. The author of this excellent monograph has made a most excellent use of his opportunities as a member of the Staff of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and has placed before his professional brethren a very valuable mass of clinical facts, neatly and systematically arranged. The student and general practitioner will here find a full but condensed statement of both the rare and common pathological conditions of the tongue. Editorial. THE AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION.-Some of our contemporaries have, during the past few months, been waging war upon the National Association. We say National, for it is unquestionably the representative medical organization, and the only one, of the American people. We can but question the wisdom and propriety of this. It certainly is not the result of a calm and dispassionate consideration of the merits or demerits of the Association; but rather shows upon the face-or it is quite apparent by reading between the lines-to be born of one of the twin daughters of Tartarus-Malice or Envy. What are the facts in regard to the Association? Commencing its existence thirty-six years ago, it has held its annual meetings |