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A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Hair and 

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This work discusses the various phases pertaining to the care of the scalp 



and hair, and to the treatment of its diseases, parasitic and non-parasitic. The 



hygiene of the hair is fully described, and directions given for its care. It is 

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The Twelve Tissue Remedies of Schiissler, comprising the 



Theory, Therapeutical Application, Materia Medica, and a Complete Reper- 

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 and Willis A. Dewey, M.D. Royal Svo, pp. 303. (Philadelphia: F. E. 

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We are told that the treatise before us contains all that Schiissler himself 

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Ambulance Lectures, to which is added a Nursing Lecture 

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 Classes. By John H. Martin, M.D. Second edition. Post Svo, pp. xii. — 136. 

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The six lectures of which this little work is composed were delivered to 

 separate classes of both sexes during the winter of 1885 — 6. The subjects of 

 the different lectures are The Human Body and its (Construction, Haemorrhage, 

 Fractures, Shock or Collapse, Methods of Lifting and Carrying the Sick and 

 Injured, and Nursing. There are 59 illustrations. 



First Principles of Modern History. i2mo, pp. 140. 

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How TO Spell AND Speak English. i2mo, pp. 32. Price is. 



A Simple Catechism of the Animal, Vegetable, and Mineral 

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English Grammar for Beginners. Part L, The Parts of 

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Dates made Easy : A Mnemonic Synopsis of the History of 

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Lesson-Pegs. Second edition. Small 4to. Price is. 



A Geographical Text-Book for Beginners. By William B. 

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(London : Relfe Bros., 6 Charterhouse Buildings.) 



Messrs. Relfe Bros, have sent us a small library of useful little books, all 

 well suited for school use. The Modern History treats of Home, Imperial, 

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