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country and England by careful and observing physicians the opinion was arrived at that as a cure for cancer cundurango was perfectly inert.

The report is embelished by twenty-one full page photographs of cundurango leaves, wood, flowers and fruit, and by one of the leaves of a plant called Chinininga obtained by Dr. Ayers in 8. America which is administered there as a remedy for syphilitic skin diseases. As a scientific work its only value lies in the description of a new plant and in the fact that it will remain as a monument of the credulity evinced by the American people in accepting candurango on so small and unreliable a recommendation as a remedy for Cancer.

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The Passions in their relation to Health and Disease. from the French of Dr. X. Bourgeois. By Howard F. Damon, A. M., M. D. Boston: Jas. Campbell, 1873. The author of this work, if we take the title as a guide, proposes to speak of the relation of the Passions to Health and Disease. He divides his production into two parts: Love and Libertinism, and then treats his reader with a review of some of the most disgusting phases of Parisian life. We see nothing in the work to recommend it to the reader and much to condemn it, In fact did it not receive the sanction of an American Physician in good standing, whose name we are sorry to see connected with it, we should look upon it as the advertisement of a quack worthy only of being classed with the productions of those who make their capital upon the judicious use of the phrases "Early indiscretion," etc., etc.

This is designed for popular reading and with all its faults, it states many facts connected with the reproductive functions of poor humanity which the public will be interested in. Indeed, it is a book which will be read, it has been written to be read and nothing can suppress the reading of this and all similar books. That any one will be much the wiser or any better for its instructions is more doubtful.

Family Thermometry; A Manual of Thermometry for Mothers, Nurses, Hospitalers, etc., and all who have charge of the Sick and the Young. By Edward Seguin, M. D, New York: G. P. Putman & Sons, 1873.

This is an excellent little manual of Thermometry for the use of Mothers and Nurses. We fear however that the mother in cases of sickness can not as a general thing, be prevailed upon to make careful thermometric observations, but will be the rather inclined to rely upon the physician. As a handbook for Nurses and beginners in the study of Human Thermometry it will be of great value, and where heads of families can be prevailed upon to follow its teachings it will doubtless be the medium of much valuable information.

A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of Medicine; Designed for the use of Students and Practitioners of Medicine. By Austin Flint, M. D., Prof. of Principles and Practice of Medicine and of Clinical Medicine in Bellevue Hospital Medical College. Fourth Edition, Carefully Revised. Philadelphia: H. C. Lea, 1873. Buffalo T. Butler & Son.

The excellent work of Dr. Flint is so widely known and prized, that anything more than a brief notice of the appearance of a fourth edition will be unnecessary. Embracing all departments of the Practice of Medicine Dr. Flint has in a style at once clear and condensed placed in the hands of practitioner and student a work which in many particulars is without a peer. The five years which have elapsed since the publication of the third edition have witnessed many advances in the science of practical Medicine. To keep pace with this advance Dr. Flint has thoroughly revised the former edition making numerous corrections and additions. These additions are scattered through the whole work, the most noticable change however being in the de partment of Nervous Diseases. Dr. Flint's work will continue to merit the confidence of the profession, and the improvements made in the fourth edition will cause it more than ever to be regarded as the best American text book on Practical Medicine.

PERIODICALS AND PAMPHLETS.-The American Agriculturist published by Orange, Judd & Co., of New York, is a well known, very able and enterprising publication. It is furnished to the public at a minimum rate and is crowded with valuable articles. Among its excellent features we notice the monthly expose it presents of the medical humbugs that are having their run. Messrs. Judd & Co. also publish the Hearth and Home, an illustrated family paper issued weekly.

As a premium to subscribers they present with the "Agriculturist" a Chromo entitled "Mischief Brewing," and with "Hearth and Home" one called "The Strawberry Girl." We have to acknowledge the receipt of these Chromos, and can honestly pronounce them to be excellent. They offer these two papers with both Chromos at the low price of $4.75 for the year.

The first number of the New Orleans Medical ́and Surgical Journal is announced to appear July 1st. The Journal will be issued on every alternate month, and will contain one hundred and fifty pages. The Journal is to be under the editorial management of Dr. S. M. Bemis. We extend to the New Journal our best wishes for its success.- -The Globe is the name of a new monthly magazine published in this city by Mr. E. L. Cornwell. Each number consists of sixteen pages well filled with instructive reading matter. It numbers among its contributes some of the best writers of the city and vicinity and well deserves the support of our citizens.

Books and Pamphlets Received.

Skin Diseases: Their Description, Pathology, Diagnosis and Treatment. By Tilbury Fox, M. D., Lond., etc. Second American, from Third London Edition, Re-written and Enlarged. New York: Wm. Wood & Co., 1873. Buffalo: H. H. Otis.

Pharmaceutical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Pharmaceutical Science, containing a concise explanation of the various subjects and terms of Pharmacy, with appropriate Selections from the Collateral Sciences. By H. V. Sweringen, Member American Pharmaceutical Association, etc. Philadelphia: Lindsay & Blakiston, 1873. Buffalo: T. Butler & Son. By Subscription only. Price Sheep $7.00, Cloth $6.00.

Contributions to Practical Surgery. By Geo. W. Norris, M. D. Philadelphia Lindsay & Blakiston, 1873. Buffalo: T. Butler & Son. Cloth, Price $4.00.

Chemistry: General, Medical, and Pharmaceutical. Including the Chemistry of the U. S. Pharmacopoeia. A Manual of the General Principles of the Science and their Applications to Medicine and Pharmacy. By John Attfield, Ph. D., F. C. S., Fifth Edition. Philadelphia: Henry C. Lea, 1873. Buffalo: T. Butler & Son.

On the Treatment of Diseases of the Skin: With an Analysis of eleven thousand consecutive cases. By Dr. McCall Anderson. Philadelphia: Henry C. Lea, 1873. Buffalo: T. Butler & Son.

An Introduction to the Study of Clinical Medicine: Being a Guide to the Investigation of Disease, for the use of Students. By Octavius Sturges, M. D., Cantab., etc. Philadelphia: Henry C. Lea, 1873. Buffalo: T. Butler & Son.

The Mechanism of the Ossicles of the Ear and Membrana Tympani. By H. Helmholtz. Translated from the German by Albert H. Buck and Normand Smith, of New York. New York: Wm. Wood & Co., 1873.

On Ovariotomy. By J. Marion Sims, M. D. Reprinted from N. Y. Medical Journal, Dec. 1872 and April 1873. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1873.

The Etiology and Indications for Treatment of Irregular Uterine Action During Labor. By Wm. T. Lusk, M. D. Reprinted from New York Medical Journal, June 1873. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1873.

Thirtieth Annual Report of the Managers of the State Lunatic Asylum, Utica, N. Y., for the year 1872.

An Eye Case in Court. By C. A. Robertson, A. M., M. D, Albany, 1873. A Report of the Rochester City Hospital for 1872.

Ophthalmic and Aural Surgery Reports. By Julian J. Chisholm, M. D. Baltimore, 1873.

ART. I-A Paper read before the Montgomery Co. Medical Society. Illinois, June 1873. By T. D. WASHBURN, M. D.

The President of the last National Medical Association in St. Louis, in his address uses the following language:

"Let us throw away all puerile notions about the dignity of our calling and approach the people through the only channels by which they can be reached-the newspaper and the Lecture-room. This is our work for the future-to educate the people."

Again he says after giving them to understand, he does not wish to do more than "spread abroad such sound ideas of enlightened hygiene as will enable the people to co-operate with us in correcting all these formidable obliquities-physical, mental and moral, which are insidiously polluting the stream of humanity."

"Such publications as your president now proposes cannot be misconstrued-they cannot be tortured into a violation of the code,” and then adds if they can let us alter or amend the code, etc. These are wise and most timely words: coming from the most representative body and a representative man, well should they be heeded.

Has not the time arrived, when we should make an advance in this direction? Can we afford to let our enemies occupy this vantage ground, and bring their batteries and small arms to bear on us, and we remain silent?

How is the public mind in regard to the great preacher of the

nineteenth century, upon whom the vilest slanders and most shameful insinuations have been heaped from reputable and disreputable sources? His warmest friends admit the time has come to speak out and deny, or investigate the charges.

How did Infidelity in France and this country first wield the press for the rapid dissemination of false religion and unbridled license, by scattering leaves, tracts and newspaper articles broad cast, and how soon did the religious world seize the same agency to disseminate truth and purity wherever the art of printing was known.

We have hardly been honest to ourselves in this matter. We boast of having no secrets to conceal; our best attainments and most wonderful results, our choicest remedies, and most approved formulæ we never attempt to hide from the public; whoever enters the profession has access to all the grand results of generations gone before. We have no blue book or cabalistic signs, known only to the initiated. Our whole Science is open to any intelligent mind, and we have always been ready to give a reason for the medical faith within us to both sick and well; but as a profession we have been inclined to put a ban on all who proposed to instruct the Public. We have severely censured the display of successful practice either in medicine or surgery, we have even questioned the propriety of Specialities. We have been jealous of those, to whom ourselves and the public conceded special accomplishments.

We have kept in the ruts of preconceived prejudice, and educated bigotry far beyond any other learned profession. The Pulpit does not hesitate, while it publicly appeals to the masses on the most accessible rostrum in the land, to spread far and near old and new truths through the Press.

The Lawyer is ever advertising his wares at the most prominent and public locality in the County. He is always before the people in the Court-room, on the political rostrum and in the press; every judicial opinion is published in the press as well as in their official organs; and why should the medical profession be enforced to put their "light under a bushel," and muzzle their lips and their pens, while ignorance, empiricism and pretension boldly arrogate to themselves, knowledge, science and philanthropy by their garbled ex