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77*4* object of this work is to show that the class of cases included tinder 

 the title, and which have hitherto been invariably fatal, may, by 

 a judicious ttse of the cold bath and without venesection, be brought 

 to a favourable termination. Minute details are given of the 

 successful treatment by this method of two patients by the author, 

 follcnued by a Commentary on the cases, in which the merits of the 

 mode of treatment are discussed and compared with those of methods 

 follozved by other eminent practitioners. Appended are tables of the 

 observations made on the temperature during the treatment ; a table 

 shelving the effect of the immersion of the patients in the baths em- 

 ployed, in order to exhibit the rate at which the temperature was 

 lowered in each case; a table of the chief details of twenty-hvo 

 cases of this class recently published, and ivhich are referred to in 

 various parts of the Commentary. Two Charts are also introduced, 

 giving a connected -view of the progress of the two successful cases, 

 and a series of sphygmographic tracings of the pulses of the two 

 patients. ' ' A clinical study of rare value. Should be read by 

 every one" Medical Press and Circular. 



Galton (D.) AN ADDRESS ON THE GENERAL PRIN- 

 CIPLES WHICH SHOULD BE OBSERVED IN THE 

 CONSTRUCTION OF HOSPITALS. Delivered to the British 

 Medical Association at Leeds, July 1869. By DOUGLAS GALTON, 

 C.B., F.R.S. Crown Svo. 3^.6^. 



In this Address the author endeavours to enunciate what are those 

 principles which seem to him to form the starting-point from which 

 all architects should proceed in the construction of hospitals. Be- 

 sides Air. Galton 's paper the book contains the opinions expressed in 

 the subsequent discussion by several eminent medical men, such as 

 Dr. Kennedy, Sir James Y. Simpson, Dr. Hughes Bennet, and 

 others. The work is illustrated by a number of plans, sections, and 

 other cuts. "An admirable exposition of those conditions of struc- 

 ture which most conduce to cleanliness, economy, and convenience." 

 -Times. 



Harley (J.) THE OLD VEGETABLE NEUROTICS, Hem- 

 lock, Opium, Belladonna, and Henbane ; their Physiological 

 Action and Therapeutical Use, alone and in combination. Being 

 the Gulstonian Lectures of 1868 extended, and including a Complete 

 Examination of the Active Constituents of Opium. By JOHN 

 HARLEY, M.D. Lond., F.R.C.P., F.L.S., etc. Svo. i2s. 



