and pathological facts, and the report of many cases of disease, showing the results of treatment.

our next.

We shall endeavor to give a more extended notice of it in In the mean time, we have no hesitation in advising our professional brethren to buy and attentively read the work.

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ARTICLE VI.

The Principles and Practice of Modern Surgery. By ROBERT DRUITT, Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons. "Id potissimum agrus ut omissis hypothesibus in praxi nihil adstruat quod multiplici experientia non sit roboratum."Act. Erud. Sips. 1722. A new American from the last London edition. Edited by F. W. SARGENT, M. D., author of Minor Surgery, etc.; illustrated with one hundred and ninety-three wood engravings, pp. 576. Philadelphia, Lea & Blanchard, 1848. (From the publisher, and for sale by J. Keene & Bro., Chicago.)

This is the best work of its size, on the subject of surgery, that has made its appearance on our desk.

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For the use of the general practitioner, it may be preferable to many of the larger works, as it has the important facts he wants, in a more condensed form, from which he can get information with less labor and time, if not with clearer views of the subject.

ARTICLE VII.

A Dictionary of Medical Science, containing a concise explanation of the various subjects and terms; with the French and other synonymes, notices of climate, and of celebrated mineral waters, formula for various official and empirical preparations, etc. By ROBLEY DUNGLISON, M. D., Professor of the Institute of Medicine in Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Seventh edition carefully revised, and greatly enlarged. pp. 912. Philadelphia, Lea & Blanchard. (From the publishers, and for sale by Keene & Bro., Chicago.)

A standard work so well known as Dunglison's Medical Dictionary, and admitted by all good judges, both in this country and in Europe, to be equal, and in many respects superior, to any other work of the kind yet published, needs no commendation from us.

The new edition, now before us, has been carefully revised by the author, so as to comprise all the new and interesting medical information acquired since the publication of the last. The mechanical execution of the work is equal to that of the best of Lea & Blanchard's publications.

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ARTICLE VIII.

Transactions of the American Medical Association. Instituted 1847 Vol. I, pp. 463. Philadelphia, printed for the Association, by T. K. & P. G. Collins, 1848.

Through the politeness of J. B. Herrick, M. D., Delegate of Rush Medical College to the last meeting of the Association, we have been favored with a copy of the above work. It contains first the proceedings of the last meeting of this body, a Vol. 1. No. 5.-7.

synopsis of which was given in a former number of this Journal. This makes 46 pages-the remaining 359 pages are made up of the reports of commitees, which form highly interesting documents upon the several subjects which had been referred to them by the association.

The work can be had of the publishing committee, through their chairman, Dr. Isaac Hays, of Philadelphia.

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ARTICLE IX.

An Account of some of the most important Diseases peculiar to Women. By ROBERT GOOCH, M. D. With illustrations, second edition, pp. 322. Philadelphia, Ed. Barrington & Geo. D. Haswell, 1848. (From the publishers and for

sale by Jos. Keene & Bro., Chicago.)

The style of Dr. Gooch is very entertaining, and frequently amusing; which, added to his strong practical judgment, and clear views, render his small volumes very attractive.

Although embracing a limited range of subjects, the work before us is good on those it treats of, and will make a valuable addition to the practitioner's library. The style of printing we can most cordially recommend on account of its clearness, and the size of the type. Many books are published in such small type, that to read them attentively, and, as physicians generally must, by candle light, most seriously injures the

eyes.

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ARTICLE X.

Memoranda on Anatomy, Surgery, and Physiology; forming a Pocket Companion for the young Surgeon or the Student, preparing for Examination. By MARK NOBLE BOWER, Surgeon. Corrected and enlarged. By an American Physician. pp. 320, 18mo. New York, Samuel S. & William Wood, 1848. (From the publishers, and for sale by⚫ J. Keene & Bro. Chicago.)

The title given above sufficiently indicates the object of the small book before us.

We like the plan of combining instruction upon anatomy, physiology, and surgery, in the same volume, as it gives the student a better opportunity of observing the practical bearing upon other branches of the knowledge acquired during his investigations upon any one in particular. We cheerfully recommend the work to young practitioners and students, as being well adapted to recall to mind knowledge already acquired from more elaborate works.

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Part 3.-Selections

ARTICLE I.

On the Treatment of Cholera.

(Monthly Journal, March 1848.) In a review of Parkes, Milroy, Giacomini and Cowdell on Cholera, we find the following remarks:

It is unnecessary, perhaps, for us to remark, that every possible kind of remedy, and plan of treatment, even the most opposite in their nature, have been proposed and employed in Asiatic cholera. This at once betrays the absence of rational indications based upon a knowledge of the pathology of the disease. It is not, then, our intention to draw up a catalogue of what the numerous individual experiences and ideas of practitioners have led them to recommend, but rather to place before our readers the views of our authors on the subject, and ascertain, if possible, how far they may reasonably be considered consistent with the known phenomena the dsease presents.

According to Dr. Parkes, cholera runs a certain course. When the algide symptoms have once shown themselves, a case cannot be cut short. Even in the mildest forms warmth does not return for a long time; but, when the disease has reached its acme, the patient is invariably seen to remain in a peculiar state, during which time nature seems gradually to be repairing the injury which has been done. If respiration could be maintained-not the mere mechanical act of breathing in and out, but the chemical process in sufficient integrity to allow the blood to circulate through the capillaries of the lungsnature would gradually bring about the cure. This is the great problem which medicine has to accomplish, and which, next to the discovery of some actual antidote to the poison itself, appears to be the most ready method of accomplishing the cure of cholera.-(Parkes, p. 204.)

According to Giacomini, the rational treatment consists in overcoming the phlebitis (venus congestion,) causing suspension of the circulation. For this purpose various hyposthenics