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ity on the subject. Both professions have long felt, the need of a ■ 

 rehable work of reference in this branch of jurisprudence. Dr. 

 Elwell has supphed this deficiency. The second part is devoted 

 to Medical Evidence, and is fully up to the present state of juris- 

 prudencial science. The whole combined make it the most 

 practical, clear, and concise guide extant. 



Clinical Lectures on the Diseases of Women. By Sir James Y. 

 Simpson, Bart., M. D., D. C. L., Late Professor of Midwif- 

 ery in the University of Edinburgh, Edited by Alexander R. 

 Simpson, M. D. pp. 789. D. Appleton & Co., 549 & 551 

 Broadway, New York. 

 The greater portion of this work was published in the Medical 

 Times and Gazette during 1859-61. Ten of the fifty Lectures, 

 however, are here published for the first time. A copious Table 

 of Contents and a full Index are introduced for reference. It is 

 illustrated with 141 wood cuts These valuable contributions to 

 gynaecological science are presented to the profession in a conve- 

 nient form for reference, and much credit is due the publishers 

 for the neatness in which they have done their work. 



Medical Thennometry, and Htanan Temperature. By C. A, 



Wundcrlich, Professor of Clinic at the University of Leipziij, 



etc , etc , and Edward Seguin, M D. pp 280. William 



Wood &• Co., 2-j Great Jones Street, New York 



It is only within a few years that the profession generally have 



adopted thermometry as a means of diagnosis. Our author 



having had abundant opporrunitcs of makmg obser\'ation5 in 



this branch renders the work before us a very reliable authority. 



Ovarian Tumors: Their Pathology, Diagnosis, and Treatment, 

 espec ally by Ovariotomy. By E. Randolph Peaslec, M. D,, 

 LL. D., Professor of Gynaecology in the Medical Department 

 of Dartmouth College; etc., etc. With fifty-six illustrations 

 on wood. pp. 551. D. Appleton & Co , 549 & 551 Broad- 

 way, New York 

 Prof. Peaslee prepared this work with a view of furnishing the 

 medical profession with a text book on Ovarian diseases and 

 Ovariotomy, Previous authors have published their individual 

 experience without a view to this end, but in the volume before 

 us the author has a wider scope, and presents us with a system- 

 atic treatise which the profession has for some time felt a want. 

 Considerable time is taken in giving a history of the operation in 

 various countries, giving to our own countryman, Dr. McDowell, 

 the credit of pcrforminj]; the first operation. 



