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liable to catarrhal affections, the examina- 

 tion of the pharynx, the value and method 

 of local and constitutional medication, and 

 the remedies used, the effect of climate on 

 hay-fever, and the pathology and treatment 

 of catarrh, and acute sporadic catarrh, with 

 descriptions of many cases. 



The Hysterical Element in ORTHOPiEDic 

 Surgery. By Newton M. Shaffer, M. 

 D., Surgeon in charge of the New York 

 Orthopaedic Dispensary and Hospital, 

 etc. New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons. 

 Pp. 66. Price, $1. 



Cases of knee-joint disease, hip-joint dis- 

 ease, Pott's disease, lateral curvatures, and 

 club-foot, have come before the author in 

 his practice, which were not real, but the 

 result of hysterical affection, or what he 

 calls nervous mimicry. Some of them ex- 

 isted in persons who had never seen a gen- 

 uine case of the disease with which they 

 presumed they were afflicted. The present 

 volume gives the diagnosis of such cases, 

 with accounts of the method and results of 

 treatment. 



Brief Review of the most Important 

 Changes in the Industrial Applica- 

 tions of Chemistry within the Last 

 Few Years. By J. W. Mallet, F. Pi. S. 

 Pp. 98. 



This work hardly needs any other notice 

 than the transcription of its title, which 

 fully defines its purpose and scope. It is 

 full of instructive facts, valuable for prac- 

 tical application in nearly every department 

 of the arts. The improved chemical proc- 

 esses and applications which it describes in 

 classified detail, when brought together and 

 considered in the aggregate, are significant 

 of the great and wonderful advance that has 

 been made in all that contributes to the 

 economy and comfort of life. 



Educational Journalism. An Address 

 before the New York State Teachers' 

 Association, at its Thirty-sixth Annual 

 Meeting, Saratoga Springs, August 1, 

 1881. By C. W. Baudeen. Syracuse, 

 New York : C. \V. Bardecn. Pp. 30. 



This address gives the history of the 

 older and of some of the most famous edu- 

 cational journals of the country, with re- 

 marks on the value of publications of that 

 class. 



A Fatal Form of Septicemia in the Rab- 

 bit produced by the Subcutaneous 

 Injection of Human Saliva. An Ex- 

 perimental Research. By George M. 

 Sternberg, Surgeon United States Army. 

 Baltimore : John Murphy & Co. 1 881 

 Pp. 22. 



In this interesting research the author 

 discovered that the injection of his saliva 

 into the subcutaneous connective tissue of 

 a rabbit infallibly produced the death of the 

 animal, usually within forty-eight hours. 

 Experiments with the saliva of other per- 

 sons resulted variously; some salivas ap- 

 pearing to be more virulent than others. 

 These facts afford an interesting commen- 

 tary on the discovery announced by Pasteur 

 of a " new disease " produced by the injec- 

 tion of the saliva of infants which have died 

 from hydrophobia. The experiments are 

 described in detail, and photographs of the 

 septic organisms developed after the injec- 

 tions are also given. 



What shall we do with the Inebriate ? 

 By T. D. Crothers, M. D. Pp. 24. 



The author of this pamphlet, who is 

 superintendent of a home for the treatment 

 of inebriates and opium cases at Hartford, 

 Connecticut, and who may therefore be sup- 

 posed to know something of the subject 

 about which he writes, controverts the the- 

 ory that drunkenness is a vice to be coun- 

 teracted by moral and penal influences only. 

 He regards it as a disease requiring peculiar 

 treatment, and divides inebriates into three 

 classes, to whose condition the method of 

 treatment requires to be specially adapted. 

 Thus managed, he believes inebriety to be 

 as curable as other forms of disease. 



FiFrn Annual Report of the State Board 

 of Health of Wisconsin. 1880. Madi- 

 son, Wisconsin: David Atwood, State 

 Printer. Pp. 156. 



Besides the accounts of the operations 

 of the Board and the condition of health of 

 the State, this report contains a number of 

 special papers prepared for the information 

 of the people, on such subjects as " General 

 Hygienic Knowledge a Necessity for the 

 People," " Recreation as a Sanitary Agent," 

 " School Hygiene," " The Management of 

 Contagious Diseases in the City of Milwau- 

 kee," " Diseased Meat and its Relations to 

 Health," and " Kerosene." 



