176 CIIir.IOGRAl'IIICAL NOTICES. 



Circular, A^o. 3. A Report of the Surgical Cases treated in the 

 Army of the United States from 1865 to 1871. pp. 296. 

 Government Printing Office. 



Mines, Mills, and Frtrnaccs of the Pacific States and Terri- 

 tories. An account of the condition, resources, and methods 

 of the mining and metalhirgical industry in those regions, 

 chiefiy relating to the precious metals. I<y Rossiter W. Ray- 

 mond, Ph. D. J. B. Ford & Co. kew York. 

 This is a report of the condition of the niines and mining opera- 

 tions west of the Rocky Mountains, for 1870. Several plates 

 and cuts illustrating the machinery used are added. 



The Anatomy and IIistoloi:;y of the Human Eye. 13y A. Metz, 

 M. I)., Professor of Ophthalmology in Cliarity Hospital Medi- 

 cal College, Cleveland, Oh-io. pp. 184. Published at the Of- 

 fice of the Med'ual and Suri^ieal Reporter. Philadelphia. 

 We give only the contents of this work: — Anatomical description 

 of the e\e ; visual aparatus — the eyeball ; fibrous tunic ; choroid ; 

 corpus ciliare; musculus eiliaris; iris; retina; crystalline lens; 

 corpus vitreum ; acpieous humor; orbit; muscles of the eye; ac- 

 tions of muscles of the eye; optic nerve; arteries; vems; nerves; 

 eyelids; conjunctiva; lacrymal gland. This work was prepared 

 .IS a te.xt book on the eye for v.hich it is admirably adapted. 



.1 Treatise on Diseases of the Xervous System. l)y William 

 A. Hammond, M. IJ., Professor of Diseases of the Mind and 

 Nervous System and Chnicul Medicine in the Bellevue Hos- 

 pital Medical College, &.c. pp. 754. 45 illustrations. D. Ap- 

 pleton & Co. 549 & 551 Broadway, New York. 

 This work treats of: — Cerebral congestion; cerebral amemia; cer- 

 ctiral hiemorrhage; meningeal hiemorrhage; partial cerebral 

 anaemia from obliteration of cerebral arteries; cerebral softening; 

 aphasia; acute cerebral meningitis; tubercular cerbral meningi- 

 tis; supurative encephalitis or cerebretis; diffused cerebral sclero- 

 sis; multiple cerebral sclerosis; tumors of the brain; insanity; 

 spinal congestion; spinal anaemia; spinal haemorrhage; spinal 

 meningitis; acute myelitis; spinal softening; sclerosis of the an- 

 tero-lateral columns of the spinal c6rd ; sclerosis of the posterior 

 columns of the spinal cord ; tumors of the spinal cord ; secondary 

 degenerations of the spinal cord; tetanus; hydrophobia; epi- 

 lepsy; catalepsy; ecstacy; chorea; hysteria; multiple cerebro- 

 spinal sclerosis; athetosis; progressive muscular atrophy; glosso- 

 labio-laryngeal paralysis; organic infantile paralysis; paralysis 

 agitans; lead paralysis; peripheral paralysis; peripheral spasm; 

 peripliLial ana:sthcsia; and peripheral hypertesthesia.. 



