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PENNSYLVANIA HOSPITAL REPORTS, VOL. I., 1868. Lindsay & Blakiston, Philadelphia.

The oldest Hospital in the country has at last opened its treasure-house, and we may expect an annual blessing in rich gifts from its stores.

In 1755 the corner-stone of the building was laid "by the honorable hands of Franklin, with prayers and blessings." Like everything he touched he left upon it the indelible impression of his character. "Slow, but sure," was one of his maxims. Slow but sure has been its progress from infancy through childhood and puberty up to mature age; and now that it has attained to the ripe age of one hundred and twelve years it is fitting that it should "send forth, under its own seal, the experiences gained within its walls.”

"Each volume will be complete in itself, and will be made up of papers of practical interest, and of clinical lectures by the Medical and Surgical staff of the Hospital. But they will not be the only contributors, for its pages are open to the physicians and surgeons-many of eminence now in the land-who have, as residents or otherwise, been connected with the Institution, have imbued its opinions, and received their training while serving in it."

The present volume contains twenty-three articles, all of them interesting and valuable contributions, the titles and authors of which are as follows:

The Pennsylvania Hospital: and Reminiscences of the Physicians and Surgeons who have served it, by Charles D. Meigs, M. D.; Laceration of the Female Perineum: its History and Treatment, by D. Hayes Agnew, M. D.; On the Morphological changes of the Blood in Malarial Fever: with remarks upon Treatment, by J. Forsyth Meigs, M. D., assisted by Edward Rhoads, M. D., and William Pepper, M. D.; On Acupressure,

by Addinell Hewson, M. D.; Statistical Account of the Cases of Amputation performed at the Pennsylvania Hospital from January 1, 1850, to January 1, 1860, with a General Summary of the Mortality following this operation in that Institution for Thirty Years, by George W. Norris, M. D.; Physiological Observations and Experiments on a case of Large Artificial Anus, with an account of the Surgical and Mechanical efforts to cure, by William Hunt, M. D.; Observations on the Action of Narcein, by J. M. Da Costa, M. D.; Review of the Ligations of Large Arteries at the Pennsylvania Hospital between the years 1835 and 1868; including several hitherto unpublished cases, and a detailed report of a Ligation of the Left Internal Iliac Artery, by Thomas George Morton, M. D.; A case of Aneurism of the Arteria Innominata, illustrating some points in Physiology and the principle of Mr. Wardrop's operation, by Addinell Hewson, M. D.; On the Treatment of Continued Fevers, from Clinical Lectures at the Pennsylvania Hospital, delivered in the Winter of 1867-8, by W. W. Gerhard, M. D.; A contribution toward our knowledge of the Pathological Changes in the Fluorescence of the Tissues, by Edward Rhoads, M. D., and William Pepper, M. D.; Case of Penetrating Wound of the Skull, in which the ball entered the Brain, terminating in recovery, with Analyses of Similar Cases, by T. H. Andrews, M. D.; A contribution to the history of Toxæmia, by William Hunt, M. D.; Notes on Medical Cases, by Horatio C. Wood, M. D.; Cases of Progressive Locomotor Ataxia, with remarks, by James H. Hutchinson, M. D.; Poisoning from Atropia, treated by Opium, and subsequent recovery, by D. H. Agnew, M. D.; Brief note on Fracture of the Acromion Process of the Scapula, by A. D. Hall, M. D.; A case of Retroversion of the Uterus, the Posterior Wall of which was the seat of a large Mural Fibrous Tumor, by George Pepper, M. D.; Heat Fever (Sunstroke), by James J. Levick, M. D.; On the use of Paper for Surgical Dressings, by Addinell Hewson, M. D.; Extracts from a Clinical Lecture on certain forms of Muscular Rheumatism, particularly Wryneck, and its treatment, by J. M. Da Costa, M. D.; List of the more important specimens added to the Pathological Museum during the past year, with descriptions, by William Pepper, M.

D.; Extract from the Statistical Report of the Pennsylvania Hospital, for the year ending April 27, 1867.

The work is illustrated with two lithographs and sixteen wood cuts, and in typography, paper and binding is all that could be desired. Send for it, for it will amply repay the expenditure. Price, by mail, $5.00.

THE SCIENCE AND PRACTICE OF MEDICINE. BY WILLIAM AITKEN, M. D., &c., &c. Second American from the Fifth Enlarged and Carefully Revised London Edition, with Large Additions by MEREDITH CLYMER, M. D., Ex-Professor of the Institutes and Practice of Medicine in the University of New York; formerly Physician to the Philadelphia Hospital, &c. In two volumes Royal Octavo. Lindsay & Blakiston, Philadelphia, 1868.

The rapid sale and exhaustion of the first American edition of this valuable work is not only evidence of its merit and appreciation by the Profession of this country, but is also a legitimate apology for presenting to the public a new edition.

As an evidence of the intention of Dr. Aitken to keep pace with the age, we may mention that he has spent fifteen months in thoroughly revising his work and in making valuable additions and improvements, amounting to about one hundred pages of new matter, included in which will be found the adoption and incorporation in the text, of the "new nomenclature of the Royal College of the Physicians of London;" to which are added the Definitions and Foreign equivalents for their English

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The American editor, DR. MEREDITH CLYMER, recognizing the necessity of adapting the work to the changed circumstances, has also made additions, equal to over three hundred pages the London edition, with particular reference to the wants of the American Practitioner, in which are new articles upon the following subjects:

Spinal Symptoms of Typhoid Fever, Typho-Malarial Fever, Chronic Camp Dysentery, Cholera Morbus, Cholera Infantum, Hereditary Syphilis, Gonorrhoeal Rheumatism, The Delirium of Inanition, Chronic Alcoholism, Syphilitic Disease of the Liver, Epileptiform Neuralgia, Capillary Bronchitis, Plastic Bronchitis,

Dilatation of the Bronchia, Fibroid Degeneration of the Lung, Chronic Pyæmia, &c.

The two volumes contain two thousand royal octavo pages, a colored map, a lithographic plate, and one hundred and thirty illustrations on wood.

This is the most complete and comprehensive work on the practice of medicine extant, embodying as it does the most advanced knowledge of the times, upon a greater variety of subjects than any other production of this character.

Price, in cloth, $12.00. For sale by Drake Brothers.

THE PHYSICIANS' VISITING LIST, FOR 1869. Lindsay & Blakiston, Philadelphia.

This indispensible pocket companion is again welcome to our table. For eighteen years it has stood the test of criticism and is still the most popular production of its kind. After having used it once it is difficult to understand how one ever did without it. The present edition contains a catalogue of American and British medical periodicals, with their prices.

Price from 75 cents to $3.00, according to size, style, and binding.

THE ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY OF THE HUMAN EYE. By A. METZ, M.D., Professor of Ophthalmology in Charity Hospital Medical College, Cleveland. Published at the office of the Medical and Surgical Reporter: Philadelphia, 1868.

The want of a text book for his classes, which included the results of the labors of the more recent histologists, these being found only in memoirs on special subjects, and in ophthalmological journals, induced the author to collect this material into a connected form, and in such a manner as to adapt it to the requirements both of the medical student and of the practicing physician.

Dr. Metz has succeeded most admirably in his designs, and

we now have a treatise fully up to the times on a subject second to none in importance.

The seventy-five illustrations on wood are well executed, and add very materially to the interest and value of the volume. In mechanical execution the work is in every respect firstclass, and is a credit to the publisher.

To those devoting attention to ophthalmological studies this work is a necessity."

For sale by W. A. Rose & Co. Price, $2.50.

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