The Medical News Pocket Formulary for 1899.-By E. Quin Thornton, M. D., Demonstrator of Therapeutics, Pharmacy and Material Medica in the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Lea Brothers & Co., Philadelphia and New York.

1899.

The best of doctors will sometimes be at a loss as to what is best to prescribe in a given case. This neat little pocket volume is designed to help them out in just such crises. The prescriptions for the various diseases and symptoms are modern and practicable, and each formula is designated for certain specific indications. The amount of each drug is stated in both the English and the metric systems. The book also contains tables of weights and measures, thermometry, important incompatibles, poisons and antidotes and of doses. Multum in parvo seems to have been the author's motto when compiling this epitome of treatment.

The Physician's Perfect Call-Book and Record. By Dr. G. Archie Stockwell, F.Z.S. Thirty-two patients per page. Thirteenth Edition. Price, $1.50. Published by William M. Warren, Detroit, Mich. Mailed, prepaid on receipt of price, or to be had through book-sellers. (Prowitt Pharmacy.)

This handy pocket volume contains, in addition to the complete visiting record, corect tables of doses, axioms of posology, many useful points on diagnosis and prescription writing and on diet, poisons and antidotes, artificial respiration, etc. In the blank portion of the pages there are also an obstetric record, death record, vaccination record and spaces for memoranda, and bills and accounts. The latter may be kept on one double page, and in other respects the book is exceedingly convenient.

Saunders' Pocket Medical Formulary.-By William M. Powell, M.D., Author of "Essentials of Diseases of Children," etc. Fifth Edition, Thoroughly Revised. Price, $1.75 net. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders.

1899.

The test of use has proved the every day worth of this tasteful and compact pocket companion. The formulas number more than 1,700, including favorite prescriptions of the leading physicians of the past and present, together with many recipes of tried value in hospitals. Blank pages are conveniently interspersed for additional formulae to be selected by the owner of the book. The appendix contains a posological table, formulae and doses for hypodermic medication, poisons and their antidotes, diameters of the female pelvis and fetal head, and obstetric table, diet list for various. diseases, materials and drugs used in antiseptic surgery, treatment of asphyxia from drowning, a surgical remembrancer, tables of incompatibles, eruptive fevers, weights and measures, etc. A thumb ixdex makes reference easy.

An Essay on the Nature and Consequences of Anomalies of Refraction.-By F. C. Donders, M.D., late Professor of Physiology and Ophthalmology in the University of Utrecht. Revised and Edited by Charles A. Oliver, A.M., M.D., Philadelphia. With Portrait and Other Illustrations. Price, $1.25. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son and Co., 1012 Walnut Street. 1899.

The publishers of this unique brochure have paid a tasteful trubute to a great man and at the same time done a real service to ophthalmology in thus presenting to the English speaking world. the aphorisms of the pioneer master of dioptrics. Every ophthalmologist ought to avail himself of this fundamental exposition of the chief part of his specialty.

Gerrish's Anatomy by American Authors.-Gerrish's forthcoming ANATOMY BY AMERICAN AUTHORS promises to be the work for which teachers and students have long been looking. Its editor, Prof. F. H. Gerish, of Portland, has selected as his fellow-contributors leading anatomists throughout the country, wisely restricting their number to accord with the best division of the subject, gaining thereby unity in result, joined with the highest authority. The list includes Professors Bevan of Rush in Chicago, Keiller of the Uni'versity of Texas, McMurrich of the University of Michigan, Stewart of the University-Bellevue College in New York, Wollsey of Cornell Medical College in New York, and Gerrish himself, who is not only editor, but perhaps the largest contributor. The plan of the work judiciously avoids the unimportant and exceptional, reserving its space for those portions of anatomical knowledge which are necessary to the intelligent study of physiology, surgery and internal medicine. The authors have endeavored to stand in the place of a living teacher to the student, selecting such portions as will be of actual service to the pupil in his study and to the practitioner in his subsequent clinical work, clarifying obscurities, giving most help in the most difficult parts, and illustrating everything by all available methods. Pictorially GERRISH'S ANATOMY will be by far the most lavish work ever offered on a subject which can already boast of many elaborately illustrated text-books. The engravings number about one thousand, their size is large enough to make visible every detail, colors have been employed more liberally than ever before, and lastly the labels of the parts have been conspicuously engraved upon them, whereby a glance gives not only their names but also their position, extent and relations, obviating entirely the slow, toilsome and wasteful mental processes necessitated where only reference letters are employed. In an early issue we shall give our readers a review of the book itself.

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The preparations of Pepsin, made by Robinson-Pettet Co., are endorsed by many prominent physicians. We recommend a careful perusal of the advertisement of this well known manufacturing house. (See page 3.)

Don E. Ashley, M. D., Guy's Mills, Pa., says: "After the mania produced by improper use of alcoholic beverages has been controlled, I know of no better compound than Celerina to restore tone to the nervous system and vigor to the whole human economy. I find it an excellent remedy for colliquative sweats, especially in convalescent cases of typhoid fever. I speak not from the experiences of other physicians, not from hearsay, but from knowledge obtained from the careful observance of happy results brought about by the administration of this useful medicine."

A Card. Dr. H. L. Campbell, Watauga, Tenn., writes: "I received the sample of Blennostasine you so kindly sent me. I was suffering from an extremely severe "coryza" and took a pill once every hour until three had been taken. The cold disappeared as if by magic. I have prescribed it in two or three other cases of acute colds, with invariable relief."

Chicago Polyclinic.-Chicago is rapidly coming to the front as the medical center of the new world. Nowhere in the United States can be found better clinical advantages than in this windy city. The Chicago Polyclinic is the equal of any in this country. A glance over the names composing the faculty will satisfy any one on this point. The practical courses given in surgery, gynecology, skin and venereal diseases is a special feature of the college work this

summer.

Pruritus Ani.-A. J. Baker Flint, M.D., 102 Huntington Ave., Back Bay, Boston, writes of a case: "I want to, in the interest of humanity, ask you to lay special stress upon the value of Unguentine in pruritus ani. I personally have been tortured with it for seven or eight years and never have found anything to act only as a palliative until I used your preparation, which has absolutely cured me, and now my faith in it is such that I prescribe it for everything in which there is inflammation or where it is necessary."

One of the Oldest Antiseptics. There are thousands of physicians; yes, tens of thousands, we doubt not, who can say with "Doctor," in "An Interview, "Why, I absolutely depend upon Listerine in most of my throat work, and find it of inestimable value in my typhoid cases (as many a poor soldier boy can testify), and there are a number of purposes I put it to in the sick room, where nothing can take its place, notably, as a douche, mouth-wash, and in sponging my fever patients. Furthermore, I always deem it my duty to see that patients get exactly what I order for them, therefore I always order an original package, thus avoiding all substiutes. That is just where my views upon professional attitude and sound business policy consolidate into one joint effort for the patient's benefit, and, incidentally, my own." Like every other good thing, Listerine has been counterfeited, as many a physician has found to his regret, none of the "just as good and cheaper" preparations approaching it for trustworthy antiseptic service.--Mass. Medical Journal.

Rectal Alimentatlon.-Dr. L. H. Watson, of Chicago, Ill., in a most interesting article on this subject, in the New England Medical Monthly, of February, 1899, states that while rectal feeding is a makeshift, it is, according to our present light, at least a valuable one, life being prolonged in many cases. With regard to the different nutritive substances adapted for this purpose, he especially calls attention to Somatose, which he considers very useful as an enema on account of its richness in albumen, four times as much as meat. He states that an enema of Somatose in salt water relieves the feeling of hunger and faintness at the stomach. Ferro-Somatose, which is practically a proteid iron preparation, can also be employed in cases of anemia and chlorosis when ulcer is suspected. Although the first thought of the patient and friends, when told that it is impossible to feed by the stomach, is that death is inevitable, he regains his peace of mind when assured that he can be fed with nutritive enemata, and this affords the physician time for reflection.

An Emulsion.-Dunglison's Medical Dictionary defines Emulsions as follows: "Pharmaceutical preparations of a milky-white opaque appearance composed of oil divided and held in suspension in water by means of mucilage." Worcester says: "A medicinal preparation of milky appearance, composed of a fixed oil divided and held suspended in water by means of mucilage." There seems to be a very general agreement that mucilage is the essential part of oil emulsions. When the physician prescribes an emulsion of fat, he attempts to present fat to the absorbing vessels of the bowels ready for immediate absorption. Gum Arabic and Gum Tragacanth (the latter is generally used, and which is insoluble in water), are not foods. But when emulsions are prescribed, you are compelled to give not less than 50 per cent. of these substances, which are known to be inert and which increase the difficulties of absorption. In an emulsion each oil globule receives an envelope or coating of gum, consequently the digestive fluids are not only compelled to break up the globules anew, but are first compelled, in order to reach the oil, to dissolve the envelope of gum. Hagee's Cordial Cod Liver Oil Comp. is not an emulsion, but an elegantly aromatized cordial, containing all the active principles of Cod-Liver Oil taken from Cod-Liver Oil, without the grease.

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