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the patients thus treated, though taken from amongst those most seriously 

 attacked, have always, since 1874, presented a less mortality than those 

 who have been treated otherwise. He also points out to his colleagues that 

 the mortality of typhoid patients has been increasing in the hospitals as 

 the number of patients subjected to baths has been diminished. 



Eemedy roR Sandcracks. — The English Live Stock Journal published the 

 following recipe for a preparation by means of which sandcracks or frac- 

 tures in hoof or horn may be durably cemented up : Take one part of 

 coarsely powdered gum-ammonia and two parts of gutta-percha the size of 

 a hazel nut. Put them in a tin-lined vessel over .a slow lire, and stir con- 

 stantly until thoroughly mixed. Before the thick resinous mass gets cold 

 mould it into sticks like sealing wax. The cement will keep for years, and 

 when required for use it is only necessary to cut of a sufficient quantity, and 

 remelt it again for application. The only precaution necessary for its suc- 

 cessful application is the careful removal of all grease by spirits of sal- 

 ammonia, sulphite of carbon or ether. 



EDITORIAL NOTES. 



Owing to an unexpected absence in the latter part of March we were 

 unable to get the second number of the " Review" out in that month, hence 

 date it April. Such interruptions are very annoying, but as the "Eeview" 

 is not a newspaper no special harm has been done by the delay. Hereafter 

 it is hoped that we will be able to issue each number promptly at the proper 

 date. 



The Popular Science Monthly, April, 1877. D. Appleton & Co., JS'ew 

 York. 128 pages. Fifty cents. 



Promptly on time, this ever welcome journal greets us with a most at- 

 tractive appearance, both in typography and paper, while to scientific 

 readers the following table of contents presents a rare intellectual feast: 

 A Combat with an Infected Atmosphere, by Prof John Tyndall, F. E. S., il- 

 lustrated; Relations of the Air to Our Clothing, by Dr. Max von Petten- 

 kofer; Audubon's Lily Rediscovered, by Prof Samuel Lockwood; The 

 Plant-Eaters of North America, by Prof Sanborn Tenney, illustrated ; the 

 Science vs. the Art of Chemistry, by Prof Ira Remsen; Vital Statistics, by 

 Charles P. Russel, M. D.; World-Creations, by C. C. Merriman, Esq.; Accou- 

 trement of a Field Geologist, by Prof Geikie, F. R. S., illustrated; On the 



