liv Journal of Comparative Neurology. 



The Physician's Tisiting List. 



Lindsay and Blakiston's Physician's Visiting List for 1896 has been 

 placed on our table. This old favorite needs no introduction to the 

 profession from us. We will merely call attention to the improvements 

 contained in the forty-fifth issue. 



More space has been allowed for writing the names and to the 

 " Memoranda Page ;" a column has been added for the " Amount" of 

 the weekly visits and a column for the " Ledger Page." 



To do this without increasing the bulk or price, the reading matter 

 and memoranda pages have been rearranged and simplified. 



The Lists for 75 Patients and 100 Patients will also have special 

 memoranda page as above, and hereafter will come in two volumes 

 only, dated January to June, and July to December. While this makes 

 a book better suited to the pocket, the chief advantage is that it does 

 away with the risk of loosing the accounts of a whole year should the 

 book be mislaid. 



The Annaal of the Uniyersal Medical Sciences.' 



We cannot too highly commend to the medical profession this an- 

 nual review of the periodical literature. Of course, every physician 

 reads his medical journals ; but no physician can read all of the jour- 

 nals, not even those of his own specialty. This is done for him by the 

 editors of the Annual and the results classified and presented in a very 

 accessible form. Altogether the work stands without a peer. The 

 issue of 1895 is at hand and presents the usual wealth of quotation and 

 illustration. 



Brain Origin. 



Sir William Broadbent's Presidential Address before the Neuro- 

 logical Society of London last January'^ deals with several interesting 

 theoretical matters under the title given above. A good point is made 

 bearing on the relation between the peripheral and the central nervous 

 organs. '' All who have attempted to grasp the mystery of nervous 

 action have recognized that the nerve endings are highly specialized 

 and endowed with some powers allied to those of the centres. This is 



'Edited by Charles E. Sajous, M.D., and seventy associate editors, assisted 

 by over two hundred corresponding editors, collaborators, and correspondents. 

 Five volumes, illustrated by chromo-lithographs, engravings and maps. Phila- 

 delphia, Fa., The F. A. Davis Company. 



"^ Brain, Parts II and III, 1895. 



