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credit is given; PART II gives the essential diseases of the hair; PART III the parasitic diseases, and PART IV the diseases of the hair secondary to diseases of the skin, and a bibliography of 640 references concludes the volume. These important affections are considered as local lesions and, we regret to say, are treated almost wholly by topical medicated applications. They are all constitutional diseases and should be eradicated by constitutional means only. The suppression of tinea capitis and other diseases of the scalp in children often leads to disastrous complications; or, if a fatal issue be averted for a time, life long impairment of health is liable to ensue. But our author has evidently yet to learn the secret.

OTIS CLAPP & SON'S VISITING LIST: PERPETUAL. Boston and Providence. This is a convenient pocket visiting list, for sixty patients a week, with a calender, obstetric table, poisons and their antidotes, emergencies, treatment of asphyxia, etc. It has a blank space between the columns for each day's visits, for the prescription, which is a great convenience. Being perpetual it can be used more than one year. It is in the field early, being the first on our table. For thirty patients, $1; for sixty patients, $1.25.

THE ELEMENTS OF MODERN DOMESTIC MEDICINE. By Henry G. Hanchett. M. D. Issued after careful revision by A. H. Laidlaw, M. D. New York: Charles T. Hurlburt, 1887. Pp 377.

This is intended as a practical guide for the domestic treatment of the more common affections met with in every day practice. There are also full directions for cases of emergency; and also for the hygienic management of young children which should be inculcated in every family using homœopathic remedies, of which the following are sound, practical common sense examples which every physician can recommend:

"Never use soothing Syrup.

"Never use opium, paregoric, laudanum, rhubarb, purgatives, or any patent medicine, or nostrum, containing these articles, or whose component parts are not stated.

"Never do anything, beyond taking a warm foot bath, to bring on the monthly period.

"Never trust a medical advertisement of any kind, or a physician who advertises, or take any patent or proprietary medicine, or nostrum of unknown composition, for any purpose whatever."

In its medication it is neither so complete nor reliable as Hering's or Johnson's, and there is a too frequent reference to the use of "the mother tincture." It would have been better to have allowed the family physician who orders or suggests the procuring of a book and case to suggest the potency of the remedies with which it is to be filled. Neither can we endorse the recommendaE*

tion on page 99 to mix Bryonia and Gelsemium in the same glass. The author, though evidently a firm believer in the law of the similars, fails to grasp the true spirit of its practice. However, in diet and hygiene, the work has much practical advice to give, and one of great value in the family is strongly insisted upon in every chapter on disease, viz.: to send for a physician when a physician is needed.

SEXUAL HEALTH: A COMPANION TO MODERN DOMESTIC MEDICINE. By Henry G. Hanchett, M. D. New York: C. T. Hurlburt, 1887. Pp. 86.

In the preface the author thus explains why this is a companion yolume to the "Domestic Medicine": "The following pages have been put by themselves in order that the method of their use in the family might be determined in each case in accordance with the views of the parents. A work on domestic medicine to be of any service, must be on hand when wanted and many persons are not willing that such information as these pages contain, should be within easy reach of boys and girls." Perhaps this is a laudable desire, but healthy reading and sound advice, even on sexual subjects, may find a fitting receptacle in a work for family use. It contains plain teaching on the following subjects: “Sexual Health of the Male," "Sexual Health of the Female," "Marriage and Reproduction." The author says that "The life of chaste celibacy is undoubtedly the highest ideal and gives best promise of health, happiness and usefulness," and quotes St. Paul as his authority. That may have been true in St. Paul's time, but great changes have taken place since then and the great Apostle is not looked up to as authority on marriage in 1887.

THE CURABILITY OF INSANITY AND THE INDIVIDUALIZED TREATMENT OF THE INSANE. By John S. Butler, M D. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1887. Pp. 59.

Three years before Pinel began to unchain the shackled insane at Salpetriére, Hahnemann demonstrated the immense advantages of using kindness in the treatment of the insane when he restored Klockenbring, the insane Chancellor of Hanover, to his friends after the case had baffled the skill of Wichman, the court physician, one of the ablest men in Germany. This was in 1790. Since then, and especially within the last fifty years, many theories in the management of the insane which were then considered radical, have been put into successful practice. In the small work before us the author's enthusiasm in his method of individualization is seen in every page and must be felt by every reader. His extensive experience in the management of the "Connecticut Retreat for the Insane" leads him to the conclusion that by the humanitarian treatment-moral and social influences, the proper cultivation and use of the will and the individual appeal to the better

nature-many cases now considered incurable may not only be cured, but when taken in their incipiency the actual outbreak may be prevented. While in no sense a text-book there is a vein of earnestness throughout the work which will well repay perusal, whether by lay or professional reader.

PROCEEDINGS OF THE TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL SESSION OF THE HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICAL SOCIETY OF OHIO, held at Cleveland, Ohio, May 10 and 11, 1887. C. E. Walton, M. D., Secretary.

This is the first volume of transactions for 1887 which has reached our table, and contains many valuable papers-some of the best ever presented to this able and efficient society-nearly all, we regret to say, sadly marred by defective proof-reading. If a medical society expects good work from its members, it must see to it that a paper which has cost the author much labor, appears in the printed transactions in a readable manner. Members capable of preparing instructive papers, generally decline to prepare them for the waste-basket; and a society which does not or cannot publish its transactions might as well surrender its charter, for its usefulness is practically ended.

MASSAGE: MECHANICAL PROCESSES, PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF REMEDIAL TREATMENT BY IMPARTED MOTION. By Geo. H. Taylor, M. D. New York: John B. Alden, 1887. Pp. 173.

The author is evidently one of our self-reliant, practical mena man who would make a success of any special study which he undertook. He has very successfully adapted the mechanical processes to the treatment of nearly every form of disease, and in this small volume the reader can find out how to do it, if he will. Many cases of chronic invalidism where drugging has been too indiscriminately used until the patient has lost all faith in drugs, in his physician and in himself, can, by the rules there laid down, be restored to health and usefulness.

THE CENTURY.-After finishing a series of papers on "The War," unrivalled in interest, and giving the best "Life of Lincoln" yet written, The Century will soon bring out another series of papers, "Siberia, and the Exile System," by Kennan, author of Tent Life in Siberia, who has spent four years in, and travelled ●ver 15,000 miles through European and Asiatic Russia. Subscribe now, if you are not a constant reader, and secure the entire volume.

GRAY'S ANATOMY.-Lea Brothers & Co., announce for November a new edition, thoroughly revised with much additional matter and 113 new engravings, many of them original, and a part of them colored, for which an extra charge of $1.25 will be made.

BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS RECEIVED.

CYCLOPEDIA OF OBSTETRICS AND GYNECOLOGY Vol IX. DISEASES OF THE FEMALE MAMMARY GLAND. By Th. Billroth, M. D.. and New Growths of the Uterus. By A Gusserow, M D. Vol. X. DISEASES OF THE FEMALE URETHRA AND BLADDER. By F. Winkel, M. D., and Diseases of the Vagina. By A. Briesky, M. D. Edited by E. H. Grandin, M. D. New York: William Wood & Co., 1887.

THE CREMATION OF THE DEAD: CONSIDERED FROM AN ESTHETIC, SANITARY, RELIGIOUS, HISTORICAL, MEDICO-LEGAL AND ECONOMICAL STANDPOINT. By Hugo Erichsen, M. D. With an Introductory Note by Sir T. Spencer Wells, Bart, F. R. S. Illustrated. Detroit: D. O. Haynes & Co., 1887.

ON THE PATHOLOGY AND TREATMENT OF GONORRHOEA AND SPERMATORRHOEA. By J. L. Milton, General surgeon to St. John's Hospital for Diseases of the Skin, London. Octavo. Pp 481. Illustrated. Price, bound in extra muslin, $4. New York: Wm Wood & Co., 1887.

MANUAL OF CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS. By S Otto Seifert and Dr. Friedrick Müller. Revised and corrected by Dr Müller, and Translated by W. B Canfield, M. D. (Berlin); with sixty illustrations. New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sous, 1887.

DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS: A MANUAL OF THE COMPARATIVE SEMEIOLOGY OF THE MORE IMPORTANT DISEASES. By F. De Haviland Hall, M. D. Third American Edition. Philadelphia: D. G. Brinton, 1887. Pp. 255.

THE PRINCIPLES OF ANTISEPTIC METHODS APPLIED TO OBSTETRIC PRACTICE. By Dr. Paul Bar. Translated by Henry D. Fry, M. D. Philadelphia: P, Blakiston Son & Co., 1887. Pp. 175.

DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF THE DISEASES OF THE SKIN, FOR STUDENTS AND PRACTITIONERS. By Condit W. Cutler, M. D. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1887.

THE TREATMENT OF HEMORRHOIDS BY INJECTIONS OF CARBOLIC ACID AND OTHER SUBSTANCES. By S. T. Yount, M. D., Lafayette, Ind.

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A MANUAL OF THE PHYSICAL DIAGNOSIS OF THORACIC DISEASES. By E. D. Hudson, M. D. New York: William Wood & Co., 1887.

SPECULATIONS: SOLAR HEAT, GRAVITATION AND SUN SPOTS. By J. H. Kedzie. Chicago: S. C. Griggs & Co, 1886. Pp. 304.

VASO-RENAL CHANGE vs. BRIGHT'S DISEASE. By J. Milner Fothergill, M. D. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons. Pp. 219.

INSANITY; ITS CLASSIFICATION, DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT. By E. C. Spitzka, M. D. New York: E. B Treat, 1887.

WINTERING ABROAD. By Alfred Drysdale, M. D., Cannes, France. Second Edition. London: J. S. Virtue & Co., 1887.

EDITOR'S TABLE.

DR. GEO. BLATCHFORD, has removed to Clinton, Mich.

DR. ED. ULRICH has removed to 178 North 3d St., San Jose, Cal.

DR. W. B. HURON, has removed from Jerome to Tipton, Indiana.

DR. HOWARD CRUTCHER, formerly of Chicago, has removed to Louisville, Ky.

DR. E. G. GRAHN has removed to North Vernon, Ind., succeeding Dr. T. B. Gullefer.

DR. T. F. POMEROY's address for the present is No. 200 A. Street, S. E., Washington, D. C.

DR. THOMAS SKINNER has returned to his former address, 25 Somerset street, London, W.

DR. RUFUS L. THURSTON, formerly of Brooklyn, is now located at 136 Boylston, Boston, Mass.

MARRIED.-Dr. Chas. G. Wilson and Carrie K. Wallace, at Clarksville, Tenn., on Thursday, Sept. 29, 1887.

DR. F. B. ADAMS, (Plymouth, Mich.) reports the arrival of a brand new daughter. Congratulations.

L. L. HELT, of Chillicothe, O., is attending lectures at Pulte. Address, 132 Carlisle Ave., Cincinnati, O.

DR. D. C. MCLAREN, formerly of Brantford, Ont., has removed to Nashville, Mich., succeeding to the practice of Dr. Barber.

DR. J. M. GRIFFIN, (Detroit) has removed his office and residence to 167 Congress street East, formerly occupied by Dr. Richards.

ANOTHER HOMEOPATHIC COLLEGE.-As we go to press a new college is announced at Bogotá, S. A. Opens February 15, 1888.

FRANK KRAFT, M. D., for the past year associate editor of the ADVANCE, has relinquished journalistic work and resumed practice.

DR. H. A. BARBER having removed from Nashville, is now devoting his attention to Surgery and office practice at Hastings, Mich.

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