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Human Physiology: Designed for the use of Students and Practitioners of 

 Medicine. By John C. Dalton, M. D., Professor of Physiology in the 

 College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York pp. 722. 

 Philadelphia: Henry C. Lea's Son & Co. 18S2. Seventh edition. 



The general practitioner does not desire an extended review of 

 a work of this character and the student only desires to hear the 

 announcement that the work has been thoroughly revised to avail 

 himself of it. We have recommended this work to our students for 

 years and shall continue to do so. 



The most marked changes in this edition that we have noticed 

 refer to the nervous system. This part of the work has been brought 

 up to the standard of the present time, and aids in maintaining the 

 book as one of the best authorities. 



The Microscope: Its Revelations with some of the Bearings upon Christian 

 Evidences. Hon. Thomas B. Redding, Ph. D., Newcastle, Indiana, pp. 

 20, 8 vo. A lecture delivered in the Acton lecture course 



This is a very pleasing address indeed. The author discusses, 



in a very intelligent way, the relations of low to higher forms of 



matter, the processes of growth and multiplication; in all these 



things "faith beholds modes of Divine action." 



Sixth Biennial Report of the Illinois Northern Hospital for the 

 Insane: Elgin, 111. 



The part that especially interests us is the method given for 

 hardening nervous tissues and cutting sections of the same. The 

 fresh tissue is hardened with alcohol, from weak solutions to full 

 strength. The whole brain is hardened by putting it in a 33 per cent, 

 solution of alcohol to which five grains, to the ounce, of ammonic 

 bichromate has been added. This mixture is injected into the vessels 

 of the brain also. Dr. Woodward's voilet-carmine is used for stain- 

 ing; oil of cloves for clearing,and balsam and benzole for mounting. 

 Photo-micrography is successfully employed here also. 

 Dr. C. A. Kilbourne is in charge. 



An Experimental Study on the Action of Salicylic Acid upon Blood- 

 cells AND upon Amceboid MOVEMENTS AND EMIGRATION: By T. Mitchell 

 Prudden, M. D., Lecturer on Histology in Yale College; etc. 



A careful study. The author shows that salicylic acid restrains 

 emigration, and is inimical in strong solutions to the life, and in 

 weak solutions to the activity of the white blood-cells. 



Primer of the Clinical Microscope. By Ephraim Cutter, M. D., Boston. 



Chas. Stodder. Price 50 cents. 8 vo. pp. 32. 



The author asks a large number of questions and then proceeds 

 to answer them. While it is a primer yet there are plenty of crumbs 

 in it for us all to pick up. 



