liv Journal of Comparative Neurology. 



bojdal lip as in the human medulla. The rhomboidal lip as described 

 by His was nowhere developed. The tractus solitarius is not regarded 

 as wholly homologous with the oval bundle of the cord. The tractus 

 soHtarius is shown to receive fibers from the V, VII-VIII, IX and X 

 ganglia very much as in the Amphibia c. j. h. 



Uranism.' 



This extensive work of over 350 pages is devoted to a thorough 

 exposition of the subject of unisexuality in all of its aspects. It is a work 

 of more limited scope than Krafft-Ebing's f;imous " Psychopathia " and 

 is written from an entirely different standpoint. It resembles that 

 work, however, in the vast wealth of its historical, statistical and crit- 

 ical data. It is not our purpose to attempt an abstract of the author's 

 conclusions. With many of his positions our readers are already fa- 

 miliar. We need only add that we are in full accord and sympathy 

 with his thesis that the misfortune of congenital sexual inversion is in 

 no sense a justification for any form of sexual immorality. The subject 

 is confessedly a confusing and perplexing one in all of its phases, but 

 this point we think Mr. Raffalovich has quite satisfactorily established. 

 And this is by no means incompatible with the further claim that the sex- 

 ual invert ought not to be expected to conform in all respects to the 

 mode of hfe of those who are normal in this respect. But if it should 

 prove impossible for him to conform to this norm, it does not follow 

 that he should not put the same restraint upon himself to which many 

 another and perfectly normal person must often submit himself. 



c. J. H. 



Electricity in Electro-Therapentics.* 



This little book is, as the title indicates, a treatise on electricity, 

 nor a treatise on electro-therapeutics. The authors have succeeded 

 for the most part well in their attempt to so present the principles of 

 electricity that any physician may comprehend them, even though he 

 may have had no previous technical training. The book is to be com- 

 mended as just what the prat lilioncr needs to enable him to use intelli- 

 gently the electrical apparatus with which his office is, or should be, 

 su})plied. c. J. H. 



•Uranisme et Unisexualite. Etude sur differentes manifestations do I'instinct 

 sexuale. By Marc Andke Raffalovich Bibliotheque de Criminologie. 

 Lyon, 1896. 



^Electricity in Electro-therapeutics. By EiiwiN J. Houston, Ph.D., and 

 A. E. Kennf.LLEY, Sc. D. New York, The VV. J. Johnston Co., \%(^b. Price $1.00. 



