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is also a tolerance which may be acquired when large doses of 

 certain medicines are used or in the case of arsenic. In the 

 second part of the book, special attention is given to protective 

 inoculation and serum-therapy. The infectious diseases con- 

 sidered are anthrax, chicken cholera, cholera, diptheria, foot- 

 and mouth disease, glanders, hog cholera, hog erysipelas, hyd- 

 rophobia, influenza, influenza of horses, pleuro-pneumonia of 

 cattle, pneumonia, rinderpest, smallpox, swine plague, strepto- 

 coccus infection, symtomatic anthrax, tetanus, tuberculosis, 

 typhoid fever and yellow fever. 



Tables are given to show the value of antitoxin treatment of 

 diptheria from various sources. The results are certainly 

 highly gratifying. 



Dont's for Consumptives, or the Scientific Manage- 

 ment of Pulmonary Tuberculosis. — This is the title of a book 

 which, under the authorship of Dr. Charles Wilson Ingraham, 

 will soon (about Feb. 10th) be issued by the Medical Reporter 

 Publishing Co. of Rochester, N. Y. The complete work of 35 

 chapters is devoted to the general management of Pulmonary 

 Invalids, no reference whatever being made to drug treatments. 

 The object of the author is to supply the Physician with a prac- 

 tical work, and at the same time, by eliminating technical 

 terms, reduce the text within the easy comprehension of the 

 intelligent patient.* The author claims that "a good under- 

 standing of his condition is the best remedy for the Consump- 

 tive." With this book in the hands of his patient the physi- 

 cian will be relieved of a multitude of details which attach to 

 the successful management of such cases. Special atttention 

 has been given those chapters pertaining to the destruction of 

 tubercular infecti^pn. The book will be printed on 72-pound 

 antique book paper, bound in cloth (imitation morocco), with 

 title in gold leaf. Price, $1.75. 



The Best Waters to Drink.— By Ephraim Cutter, M.D., 

 12 pp., 1896. 



After giving many reasons why water is the best fluid for 

 man to drink, it is claimed that : (1) Well-water free from con- 

 tamination is good, (2) »Spring-water away from man is better, 

 and (3) Aerated distilled water is best. Reasons are given for 

 this preference. 



