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A Text-Book of Physiology. By M. Foster, M.D. Sixth Edition, 

 Revised. Part IV. (comprising the remainder of Book III. , 

 The Senses and Some Special Muscular Mechanisms, and 

 Book IV., The Tissues and Mechanisms of Reproduction). 

 New York, Macmillan & Co. 1891. 



Without doubt Foster's "Text-Book of Physiology" must be 

 accorded the foremost place among the works upon this subject, 

 which have been published in the English language. It embodies 

 the results of the most recent researches in this department of 

 biological science, and is not only comprehensive, up to date, and 

 accurate, but is admirably arranged and most convenient as an 

 encyclopaedic work of reference upon all that relates to the sub- 

 ject. 



A large portion of the present volume is devoted to the senses, 

 including sight, auditory sensations, olfactory sensations, gusta- 

 tory sensations, cutaneous sensations, the muscular sense, and 

 tactile pei'ceptions and judgments. Each of these subjects is 

 treated in a masterly manner, the anatomical elements concerned 

 in each special sense being minutely described, and the facts and 

 theories relating to the perception of various sensations being fully 

 detailed. 



Chapter VII., "On Some Special Muscular Mechanisms," con- 

 tains three sections: one devoted to the voice, one to speech, and 

 one to walking. 



Book IV., which concludes the volume and the work, gives a 



very satisfactory account of "the tissues and mechanisms of re- 

 production." 



Diphtheria, Its Natural History and Prevention. By R. Thorne 

 Thorne, Assistant Medical Officer to Her Majesty's Local 

 Government Board. London and New York, Macmillan & 

 Co. 1891. 



This is a valuable resume of what is known at the present day 

 with reference to the etiology and prevention of diphtheria. The 

 volume abounds in interesting details relating to the prevalence 

 of the disease in England and Wales, and gives numerous facts 

 showing the not infrequent transmission of the disease by con- 

 taminated milk and its probable transmission by cats, which have 

 been proved to be subject to the disease as a result of experimental 

 inoculations in the trachea with bits of diphtheritic membrane, or 

 cultures of the Klebs-Loffler diphtheria bacillus. 



According to Thorne Thorne there has been a progressive in- 

 crease in the mortality from diphtheria in England and Wales 

 during the past twenty years, and this progressive increase has 

 coincided in time with steady improvement in regard to such sani- 

 tary circumstances as water-supply, sewerage, and drainage; and 

 also with a continuous diminution in the death-rate from the group 

 of zymotic diseases and from typhoid fever. 



The diphtheria mortality remains, as heretofore, greater in the 

 sparsely-peopled districts, but there is a marked increase in its 

 prevalpnce in large towns and cities. 



Publications Received at Editor's Office. 



Benotire, Capt, Charles. Life Histories of Ameri- 

 can Birds. Washington, Grovernment. 4°. Paper. 

 «3p. III. 



Chadwick, French E. Temperament, Disease and 

 Health. New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons. 8°. 

 85 p. 75 cts. 



Dall, William H. Instructions for Collecting Mol- 

 lusks. Washington, Government. 8°. Paper. 

 56 p. 



BIooREHEAD, WARREN K Primitive Man in Ohio. 

 New York, G. P. Putnam's Sons. 8-. a6a p. $3. 



Philosophical Society of Washington. Bulletin 

 1888-91. Washington, The Society. 8°. 653 p. 



EiDGWAT, Robert. The Humming Birds. Wash- 

 ington, Government S°. Paper. 38 1 p. 



Riley, C. P. Directions for Collecting and Preserv- 

 ing Insects. Washington, Government. S° 

 paper. J 47 p. 



University of Minnesota. Quarterly Bulletin 

 Vol. I., No. 1. 4°. Paper. :W p. 



Reading Matter Notices. 

 Ripans Tabules : best liver tonic. 

 Eipans Tabules cure javmdice. 



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