360 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY [Nov., 



Dr. Chas. E. Page thinks that typhoid can be best treated 

 by fasting and using the brand bath. 



George Otis Mitchell is the secretary ol the San Francisco 

 Society who used to send us reports of its meetings. 



A. N. Edwards has decided not to publish the book on Ba- 

 cilariacea? at present owing to the hard times and the consequent 

 economy of subscribers. 



Dr. Albert Schneider is one of the rising biologists of Min- 

 nesota. He is studying Symbiosis. 



Dr. VJ. "W. AUeger will be pleased to know that his j^aper 

 on formalin is being quoted quite extensively. 



Alfred Allen prefixes a preface to his index for 1894. This 

 is a new departure in magazine work and quite a good one. 



Dr. A. C. Stokes has an article on the structure of insect 

 trachcie in the current number of Alfred Allen's journal. Bet- 

 ter make him one of the associate editors, brother Allen. 



NEW PUBLICATIONS. 



Travaux (V Electrotherapie Gynecologique. Par Le Dr. G. Apostoli. 

 Paris 1894, 8° pp. 720. 



We have received Vol. 1, Nos. 1 and 2 of this serai-annual 

 periodical and find it to contain an immense amount of matter 

 collected frotn the publications of the past 10 years upon this 

 specialty. The works of medical congresses and of societies 

 have been largely drawn upon. England, Belgium, America, 

 Russia, Italy, Germany, Austria, Denmark, Poland, Hungary 

 and Canada are represented. It will be of great value to Gyne- 

 cologists . 



Report on Typhoid Fever in the District of Columbia submitted by 

 the Medical Society of the D. C. to Congress, June 14, 1894. 



This document sets forth an alarming prevalence of typhoid 

 for several years past, attributes them to infected milk aad wa- 

 ter. The Potomac water is not badly infected, but it is the wa- 

 ter of public wells which is accused. They advise closing them 

 all regardless of protests by the masses whose only dependence 

 in hot weather for a cool drink is upon these wells. Water of 

 the river gets warm and contains mud. Altogether, the outlook 

 is serious. 



