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REVIEWS. 
Archives of Medicine. Edited by Lionrt Bears, M.B. 
London: Churchill. 
Tis is the first number of a new medical periodical, but 
how often it is to appear the editor does not inform us. ‘The 
object of the editor is to publish papers of a more thoroughly 
scientific character than are usually found in medical perio- 
dical literature, and to have these papers freely illustrated. 
The subjects on which he wishes to receive papers are as 
follows : 
1. Practical clinical observations. 
2. Original researches in Physiology and Pathology. 
3. Chemical and Microscopical examination of the solids 
and fluids of the body. 
4. Descriptions of scientific processes. 
5. Condensed reports of researches published elsewhere. 
The distinguishing features of this first number are the 
papers devoted to chemical and microscopical research and 
the accompanying lithographic plates. Of course microsco- 
pical examination is only one means pursued in the investiga- 
tion of healthy or diseased structures, and in most of the 
papers in this first number we have observations recorded by 
the use of the microscope. As an example of the papers we 
republish one by the editor. 
“On the Manner in which the Drawings illustrating the Papers have been 
made, and of obtaining Lithographs from Microscopical Drawings. 
“JT have always felt it very desirable that the description of scientific 
observations should be curtailed as far as is consistent with accuracy and 
perspicuity in the statement of the results, and it is my desire, as far as 
possible, to see drawings take the place of long and necessarily tedious 
descriptions of observations. Instead of alluding to the dimensions of an 
object in the text, the reader will be referred to the scales appended to every 
plate, and with the aid of very little trouble, the diameter of every object 
depicted may be readily ascertained. For all ordinary purposes it is only 
necessary to compare roughly the size of the drawing with the scale magni- 
fied in the same degree as the specimen itself, but in those instances where 
great accuracy is important, a pair of compasses nay be used. 
“In comparing the representation of the same object delineated by different 
observers, it will be often found that great confusion has been produced in 
