40 THE AMERICAN MONTHLY [ February. 
representing the typical form of ten different characteristic micro-organisms. The 
form of the book is square, 16mo, with flexible covers, and is very pleasing. 
Outlines of Lectures on Physiology. By T. Wesley Mills, M.D. W. Drysdale & Co. 
Montreal. (pp. 200). 
Dr. Mills, in this little volume, has condensed a truly enormous mass of material. 
It would be utterly impossible for a beginner to read the book. On the other hand, for 
a student of physiology the work would be simply invaluable as a clear and convenient 
statement of hard, dry facts. It has evidently been the author’s purpose to schematize 
the existing information upon human physiology, and with it anatomy, with at the 
same time very free reference to comparative physiology. Science, then biology, then 
morphology, then physiology are defined, and then the characters of living things and 
those which distinguish animals from plants are tabulated in the first three pages. The 
work throughout is synoptical in its treatment, and is, so far as we are aware, the only 
_work of the kind for sale. To better indicate the method of the book, let us glance 
over SECTION IX—DIGESTION; general physiology of secretion. I. Digestion in the 
mouth : (a) anatomical facts; (4) physiological facts. Salivary glands: saliva, digestive 
action of saliva, nervous mechanism of salivary secretion, gland histologically consid- 
ered before and after secretion, deglutition. II. Digestion in the stomach, ete. 
It is not at all a discount upon this work that it states the fact and at once leaves the 
reader for the next one. Any discussion would have violated the present plan, and 
no limit to the work could well have been assigned. At present any physiologist who 
reads the work finds there a most convenient tabulation of the facts, and any student 
. ho should possess it would find it a most valuable guide to him as an outline for his 
ieading. In addition to the tabulation of facts is also the tabulation of a very large 
amount of experimental matter, fully one-fourth of the work being occupied with this, 
so that it is a guide and summary of a full course in laboratory work. The work is 
brought down to the present time, as is assured by the fact that Dr. Mills is himself an: 
active and enthusiastic original worker in the field of physiology, and has contributed 
to science many new communications, those especially in physiology of voice having 
attracted very great attention. 
We desire to acknowledge here, with thanks, the receipt of the following articles from 
the authors :— 
1. The Surgery of the Pancreas. By N.Senn, M. D. Reprint from Trans. Am. 
Surgical Assoc. Apl. 29,'86. 2. Proceedings and Addresses at the Sanitary Conven- 
tion, Kalamazoo, Mich., June 1 and 2, 1886. 3. Certain Hereditary and Psychical 
Phenomena in Inebriety. T.D. Crowther, M. D. Hartford, Conn. 4. Simple Method 
of Photographing Biological Subjects. T.C. White. London, England. 1886. 5. The 
Curttee as a Diagnostic and Therapeutic Agent in Gynecology and Obstetrics. B. B. 
Brown, M. D. Baltimore, Md. 
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invited from any one. K. M. CUNNINGHAM, 
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Pathological and Histological Slides (very fine) in exchange for other good slides. 
F. M. HOYT, 160 Washington Park, Brooklyn, N. Y. 
Wanted histological and pathological mounts. Send list for exchange. 
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