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to a favourable termination. Minute details are given of the 

 successful treatment by this method of two patients by the author, 

 followed by a Commentary on the cases, in which the merits of the 

 mode of treatment are discussed and compared with those of methods 

 followed by other eminent practitioners. Appended are tables of tin 

 observations made on the temperature during the treatment ; a table 

 showing the effect of the immersion of the patients in the baths em- 

 ployed, in order to exhibit the rate at which the temperature was 

 lowered in each case; a table of the chief details of twenty-two 

 cases of this class recejitly published, and which are referred to in 

 various parts of the Commentary. Two Charts are also introduced, 

 giving a connected view of the progress of the two successful cases, 

 and a series of sphygmographic tracings of the pulses of the tzvo 

 patients. ' ' A clinical study of rare value. Should be read by 

 everyone." — Medical Press and Circular. 



Galton (D.) — AN address on the general PRIN- 

 CIPLES WHICH SHOULD BE OBSERVED IN THE 

 CONSTRUCTION OF HOSPITALS. Delivered to the British 

 Medical Association at Leeds, July 1869. By Douglas Galton, 

 C.B., F.R.S. Crown 8vo. 3s. 6d. 



lv this Address the author endeavours to enunciate what are those 

 principles which seem to him to form the starting-point from which 

 all architects should proceed in the construction of hospitals. Be- 

 sides Mr. Galton' 's paper the book contains the opinions expressed in 

 the subsequent discussion by several eminent medical men, such as 

 Dr. Kennedy, Sir James Y. Simpson, Dr. Hughes Bennet, and 

 others. The work is illustrated by a number of plans, sections, and 

 other cuts. "An admirable exposition of those conditions of struc- 

 ture which most conduce to cleanliness, economy, and convenience.'''' 

 — Times. 



Harley (J.) — THE OLD VEGETABLE NEUROTICS, Hem- 

 lock, Opium, Belladonna, and Henbane ; their Physiological 

 Action and Therapeutical Use, alone and in combination. Being 

 the Gulstonian Lectures of 186S extended, and including a Complete 

 Examination of the Active Constituents of Opium. By John 

 Harley, M.D. Lond., F.R.C.P., F.L.S., etc. Svo. 125. 

 The author 's object throughout' the investigations and experiments on 

 which this volume is founded has been to ascertain, clearly ana 



