160 THE MICROSCOPE. [July. 



PVBLI CATIONS 



Artificial Aficesthesia and Ancesthetics, By Prof. De Forest 

 VVillard and Dr. Lewis H. Adler, Jr. " Detroit: Geo. S. 

 Davis. i6mo, pp. 144. 35 cents. 

 The authors say that their manual is intended to be complete 

 in detail as far as important facts are concerned, and to be a 

 resume of the uses, the abuses, and dangers of each anaesthetic 

 substance. These objects seem to be accomplished. Its state- 

 ments are concise and in the main trustworthy. After a brief 

 historical chapter, the authors treat of the preparing of the 

 patient, methods of administering anaesthetics of ether, chloro- 

 form, nitrous oxide gas, less commonly used substances, anaes- 

 thetic mixtures, local anaesthesia, and substances, special modes 

 of producing anaesthesia, and the medico-legal relations of arti- 

 ficial anaesthesia, the whole being comprised in twelve instructive 

 and serviceable chapters. 



The Supreme Passiojis of Man. By Paul Paquin, M. D., 

 Battle Creek, Mich. : The Little Blue Book Co. i6mo. 

 The author seems to think that most diseases and most crimes 

 are caused by mal-nutrition of the cells forming the human animal, 

 and that improper food is at the bottom of all trouble. He says : 

 " Get mankind once under a safe system of nutrition based on 

 science, a system allowing foods only of such kinds, qualities, 

 and quantities, and at such times as nature intends for him, fully 

 seventy-five per cent, of the prevailing diseases and crimes will dis- 

 appear from the globe, because the cause shall be no more." And 

 although he is not quite ready to recommend a strictly vegetable 

 diet, yet he believes that it " affords all the nutrition necessary for 

 the system, and may ofter the easiest path to reach the aim of life 

 and the end of existence in the healthiest and purest manner." It 

 is nevertheless pretty generally accepted by scientific physicians 

 that a vegetable diet will speedily bring about an atheromatous 

 degeneration of the arteries in him that delivers himself over to 

 that method of living. 



\y. p. Collins' Scientific Book Catalogue., No. 27. 1S93, 

 This catalogue is devoted to botany, zoology, geology, paleon- 

 tology, and petrography. Among the entries are many well- 

 known American prints. Cole's " Studies in Microscopical 

 Science," with 89 colored plates, are ofiered at £2 23-., which is 

 half the publication price. 



