THE HOMEOPATHIST'S VISITING LIST. Book of Engagements and Pocket Repertory for 1860. Compiled and arranged by HENRY MINTON, M. D. Brooklyn, published by J. T. P. Smith.

These works are indispensable to the physician, and the one before us pleases us better than any we have seen.

We have in a previous number spoken of the first edition of this very useful diary. There have been several alterations made which we think add much to the usefulness of the work. We have first a calendar; then a table of signs, some of which are new and very ingenious, which will very much assist the physician in its use; a table of poisons and their antidotes in connection with the Repertory, and then follows the Diary proper. Here the arrangement is simple and convenient; a number of pages are devoted to daily visits, with headings for name of patient. date of visit, prescription, fee charged or collected. Then an obstetrical record with the name of the patient, age, time of expected confinement, date, no of pregnancy, presentation, sex of child, hours in labor, natural or artificial, and remarks. Vaccination engagements, with places for name and dates; address of nurses, patients and others; bills and accounts rendered, well arranged with a debit aud credit column; list of things loaned and a memorandum of wants are the headings for the rest of the pages. For those who do not wish the Repertory, the publisher has had some bound without it.

The work is very well got up, considerable improvement having been made in this respect on the one of last year. Another desirable change has been made in reducing the price, as will be seen by reference to the advertisement.

LECTURES ON SURGICAL PATHOLOGY, Delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. By JAMES PAGET, F. R. S. Second American edition. 8vo. pp. 700. Philadelphia, Lindsay & Blakiston. 1860 These Lectures of Dr. Paget deservedly rank among the first as authority in Surgical Pathology. They were first published in this country in 1854, and so popular have they been that a second edition is now called for.

The author speaks of nutrition, its nature and necessary condition; growth, hypertrophy and atrophy; reproduction, the repair of the various tissues, of fractures, &c.; phenomena of inflammation, its nature and causes; tumors, general and special; and illustrates his remarks with a number of very well executed engravings. Most of our readers are doubtless familiar with the work. and therefore, anything more than a notice of the publication of another edition is scarcely necessary in this connection.

We take pride in the addition to our medical literature of works of this character, as we do in works on anatomy, physiology, surgery, chemistry, and all others on general medical science, belonging as they do to the medical profession, to the Allopath no more than to the Homœopath. We acknowledge our obligation to all those, who by giving us the results of their study and observation advance the healing art, and enable us to apply the therapeutic law discovered by Hahnemann to the facts ascertained by them.

ALLOPATHY AND HOMEOPATHY CONTRASTED. Medicine: its Origin and Early History. Allopathy: what it is. Homeopathy: what it is. By JOHN WILLIAMS HAYWARD, M. D, M. R. C. S. pp. 23. Manchester, Eng. H. Turner & Co.

In the above pamphlet we have the pleasing evidence that our trans-Atlantic brethren are engaged in spreading before the public the facts relative to our method of cure in contrast to that of the old school. We know not, from the number of tracts published in England, whether the laity of that country are difficult to convince, or have their appetites sharpened and desire more.

BOOKS IN PRESS.

Messrs. Blanchard & Lea, Philadelphia, announce :—

THERAPEUTICS AND MATERIA MEDICA; A Systematic Treatise on the History, Description, Actions, and Uses of Medicinal Agents. By ALFRED STILLE, M. D. In two large and handsome octavo volumes, of over 1,500 pages.

A COMPLETE PRACTICAL TREATISE ON FRACTURES AND DISLOCATIONS. By FRANK H. HAMILTON, M. D. In one very handsome octavo volume, with about two hundred and fifty illustrations.

AN INTRODUCTION TO PRACTICAL PHARMACY. BY EDWARD PARRISH. Second edition, thoroughly revisod and extensively enlarged and improved. In one large and handsome octavo volume, with several hundred illustrations.

A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON INFLAMMATION OF THE UTERUS, its Cervix and Appendages; and on its connection with Uterine Disease. By HENRY Bennet, M. D. New and much enlarged edition. In one octavo volume.

Messrs. S. S. & W. Wood, New York, announce :

CLINICAL LECTURES ON THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF MEDICINE.

By JOHN HUGHES BENNET, M. D., F. R. S. E. 1 vol. 8vo. 1005 pages.

500 illustrations on wood.

With

Mr. William Radde, New York, will shortly publish a new edition of HAHND MANN'S ORGANON; and also HULL'S JAHR, vol. 1 or Symptomatology.

Messrs. Strong & Co., St. Louis, will publish early in January a HoмœоPATHIC DIRECTORY OF THE UNITED STATES.

OBITUARY.

HENRY TURNER, Manchester, England. We are pained to learn of the death of this well-known homœopathic chemist, which occurred on the 4th of October. at Northampton, England. Mr. Turner was well known as a careful and reliable pharmaceutist; and although not personally acquainted, we have had considerable correspondence with him, and can attest to his honesty, truthfulness and fine business qualities.

He was the publisher of several works and tracts on Homœopathy, and his loss will be felt in this country as well as in England. For some year past we believe he was the proprietor and publisher of the British Journal of Homacpathy and also publisher of the New Repertory. He was 47 years of age.

BY D. M. DAKE, M. D., PITTSBURGH, PA.

On the subject of this report much, very much, has been said and written both as to what constituted it, and the means of obtaining it; so much that it would seem that little, if any thing now could be said to make more distinct the pathway to a correct, and thorough medical education. Homopathy presents its pure and complete formulæ by which all the objective elements of study, in this field of science and art, are to be comprehended by the human mind, and made available for the accomplishment of their legitimate and final purposes in the economy of life.

This system of rules presents to the student of medicine the human body and its functions, or vital phenomena, as the centre and radii by which to find the several arcs in the circle that surrounds said centre, that can in any way affect it for good or for evil. The centre and radii being given to find the arcs; the thinking and honest inquirer may proceed to the solution of the problem before him with the greatest

A report to be presented to the American Institute of Homoeopathy. at its meeting in June next. Published in accord nce with a resolution, passed at its meeting in June, 1859, requesting con mittees on scientific subjects to publish their reports before presenting them to the meeting.

certainty of reaching its logical consequences; and the result required, providing always that each process of observation and reason shall be directed by the rules of our school, or those by which Hahnemann's method of investigation was distinguished from those of other observers preceeding him. The foregoing remarks apply equally to each of those branches of study a knowledge of all of which constitutes a true medical education.

Anatomy and physiology, constituting the centre and radii, of course, compose no part of the circle. nor do normal phenomena in any way indicate the existence of the circle that bounds the physician's field of inquiry. It is only when objects in the circle are brought to bear upon the centre, and leave there their legitimate impression, that we obtain a clue. to the fact that such a circle has an existence. The vital mirror, reflecting the objects impinged upon it, gives the likeness of things of which the circle is composed. And it is not until each object in the circle has thus set for its likeness that our knowledge of the types which complete the circle, will be perfected. As will be seen at a glance, the circle contains all that can affect the human body and its functions, favorably, or unfavorably to its normal integrity; the likeness of each of which, as reflected in modified vital phenomena, and arranged in order around the centre gives the circle, or the great object sought. Phenomena, thus reflected from the centre, take their respective places in the circle by no arbitrary generalization of human invention, but as naturally as water seeks its level, giving the several arcs of which the circle is composed. These arcs are symmetrical, and antagonistic. That is, the causative and curative arcs occupy opposite segments of the circle, and are the natural opponents of each other, and when equally ballanced, the centre is maintained in its normal integrity, to announce through symptoms the active presence of neither, but of health unimpaired.

We have in one segment of the circle, specific or dynamic causatives; opposed to this, one which embraces all dynamic

curatives, the Materia Medica. We have also an are of general causatives, and opposed to it, general curatives, and lastly, mechanical causatives, and oppose to it, mechanical curatives. Facts and phenomena, at first view, seemed to indicate a chemical, and an antidotal arc, or an arc of toxical causatives and curatives, but on reflection they seem to take their place in the arcs of dynamic causatives and dynamic curatives, but should such disturbing and harmonising agents require separate arcs in the circle of sciences, in order to a clear understanding of their relations to the vital centre; let the distinction be made; for it is unimportant to my present purpose. My object is to give a distinct view of the objective elements of study, that go to make up a true medical education. One half of the circle embraces pathology, which investigates the causes; nature's symptoms and effects, or foot prints of disease; the opposite half embraces the materia medica, surgery and regulated regimen. Thus grouped into six co-ordinate branches of study, or branches sustaining to the centre and radii, equal relations; all the wide world of objects that sustain distracting, or harmonising relations to the economy exist before us, as objects of study for the physician. All other branches of study not embraced in these, we will denominate the subordinate or collateral sciences-as chemistry, botany, etc., which merely aid the student in his acquisition of medical knowledge.

Operative obstetrics finds its place, contrary to usage, in the surgical arc. Pathological anatomy in the arc of specific or dynamic causatives, giving the foot prints of disease, when the sound of its steps are no longer heard in the deserted citadel of life. Toxicology finds its place in the materia medica, etc.

The human body with its functions has constituted the point of reference, or standard of comparison by which in all past time men have sought the relations of things around, to the human economy. And they have been compelled at every step of their progress to heed physiological signs as the only language spoken by which could be communicated to the human mind the information sought.