17. "The Absorption of Fibroid Tumors by Mild Electric Currents." By R. J. Nunn, M. D., Savannah, Ga. 18. "Some Observations on the Fine writer calls attention to the fact that a criminal class or variety of human beings is being produced through the intermar Wire Coil or Current or Tension." By riage of criminals, and urges that the H. E. Hayd, M. D., Buffalo, N. Y. 19. "The Treatment of Subinvolution by Electricity." By C. G. Cannaday, M. D., Roanoke, Va. 66 20. Successful Treatment by Electrolysis of Four Additional Cases of Esophageal Stricture with Exhibition of Two Cases." By D. S. Campbell, M. D., Detroit, Mich. 21. "The Treatment of Dysmenorrhoea by the Galvanic Current." By A. Lapthorn Smith, M. D., Montreal, Canada. 22. "Notes upon some Uses of Galvanism in Surgery." By W. B. D. Beaver, M. D., Reading, Pa.. Several other papers of equal interest have been promised, but the titles have not yet been received. marriage of tramps, vagabonds, and worthless defective individuals of all classes should be forbidden. A good suggestion. Sternberg's Bacteriology.-This excellent work, published by Wm. Wood & Co., is the most complete and thorough. work ever published on bacteriology in the English language. Indeed, it has no superior, if an equal, in any language. It is called a manual, but is rather a complete treatise, dealing with our knowledge of bacteria to date. It is most excellently gotten up and illustrated by heliotype and chromo-photographic plates, besides about 270 engravings. The book has some 800 pages, and is divided into four parts, the first including classification, morphology, and bacteriological technology; the second treating of the general biology of microbes; and the. third and fourth, of the pathogenic saprophytic bacteria. cluded a great deal of original work of his own, and has given proper acknowledgment to other writers and experimentalists. The author has in The work has not been in circulation very long. Though it seems to have been published in 1892, it was not received at the office of this magazine until two or three months ago. It certainly deserves. to be widely known and circulated. There is not a physician interested in the progress of medicine who can afford to do without it. It will supply the wants of any medical man on the subject of bacteriology. It is complete in all its departments. The work does credit to its author, and is certainly an honor to American medical and scientific literature. P. P. 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HIS WELL KNOWN REMEDY has justified in the most exceptional manner the opinions of medical men touching its value in modern therapeutics. Phenacetine is indicated in all acute, inflammatory, febrile conditions, and all forms of pain. It is the safest, while the most active, of the antipyretics and analgesics. PHENACETINE is supplied in ounces, tablets and pills; also in various combinations with Salophen. Sulfonal, etc. Trional RIONAL is a nerve seda- TRIONAL is administered in Physicians who wish to have the published testimony concerning the therapeutic action of these preparations, or information as to their chemistry or physiological action, should address Sole W. H. Schieffelin & Co., Agents NEW YORK. For the U.S. PUBLISHERS' DEPARTMENT. MR. ROBERT BROWN, Secretary of the Observatory of Yale University, in his report for 1892-93, calls the attention of the profession to a number of facts in relation to testing thermometers, which ought to be more generally known. A great number of cheap thermometers thrown upon the market now-a-days must be the source of an infinite number of errors in diagnosis. Prof. Brown will send a copy of his report to any one who will take the trouble to write him, making an application. HORLICK'S Malted Milk is daily coming into extended use and prominence as a food for infants and for nursing mothers. Infants thrive better on it than on cow's milk, and it is often retained and assimilated where everything else is rejected. It is being used not only by physicians in their practice, but in most of the principal asylums and hospitals for children all over the United States, and seems to be giving excellent satisfaction every where. The factory near Racine, Wis., is located in the finest farming district of the Northwest, and is surrounded by everything favorable to the production of a perfect infant food. CHEMICALLY PURE COCAINE AND NEW COCAINE PREPARATIONS.-Helbings's Pharmacological Record for June contains an able and interesting article by Helbing and Passmore on the Chemistry of Cocaine, in which many chemical facts, which must be new to the profession at large, are very clearly stated. The author gives tests by which the degree of purity of cocaine hydrochloride may be tested. The author also describes, among the various preparations of cocaine, cocaine hydrobromide, cocaine nitrate, dextro-cocaine, and tropa-cocaine. This tropa-cocaine differs from the ordinary tropa-cocaine from the fact that it does not dilate the pupil, has stronger anæsthetic properties, and is considered less toxic than the ordinary preparations. A three-per-cent solution causes anæsthesia more rapidly than ordinary cocaine. These solutions are much more stable than those of ordinary cocaine. The author found the cocaine preparations of C. F. Boehringer and Soehne, of Mannheim, Germany, remarkably pure. Dr. Carl Koller, of Vienna, who was the first to introduce cocaine into medical practice, recommends it as a chemically pure preparation. SULFONAL IN HEMATOPORPHYRIN.-The fact is reported by Schaefer (Therap. Monat., Feb., 1893) that non-ferrous hæmatin was found in the urine of a patient who had taken six ounces of Sulfonal in nine months. But the writer is unable to say whether the cerebral manifestations shown at the time were due to hæmatoporphyrin or Sulfonal. Goldstein (Deut. Medi. Woch., Oct. 27, 1892) says, however: "There are a number of observations which show that hæmatoporphyrin cannot be produced intentionally in human beings and animals by a long use of Sulfonal." Various authors have reported the presence of this substance where no Sulfonal had been used, while Garrod reports 14 cases of chorea and arthritis in which it was found, the cause of its presence being unknown. Goldstein inclines to the belief that Sulfonal can only develop hæmatoporphyrinnauria in those rare instances in which there has been a previous tendency to its formation. The author continues to administer Sulfonal, as before, and speaks highly of the excellent results he obtains from it. At the same time he believes it to be a good plan, when giving a prolonged Sulfonal treatment, to discontinue its use at times for intervals of two or three days. He states that by this proceeding all possible danger of toxic effects from Sulfonal would be prevented, since such results could only be had through a possible accumulation. As the effects of Sulfonal continue for some days after suspension, this method is easily adopted. |