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The Hygiene and Treatment of Catarrh, by Thos. H. Rumbold, M. D. ; 



i2mo; pp. 174; St. Louis, Mo.; 1880. 



Dr. Rumbold has devoted many years to the study of catarrh and is as fully 

 competent to discuss it as any physician in the country. In the volume above 

 named, he mainly treats of this disease from a hygienic standpoint, giving rules 

 and instructions for its avoidance and prevention, which, if observed, will cer- 

 tainly prove efficacious. We fully agree with the Arkansas Medical Monthly, that 

 " it is a well written, concise and practical work, embracing a careful study of all 

 the conditions which are liable to produce the diseases of which it treats. The 

 relations which bad colds, bad teeth, clothing, head-wraps, bathing, exercise, 

 diet, stimulants and use of tobacco bear toward the disease in question, are mi- 

 nutely considered. This is not only a good book for the speciaUst, and general 

 practitioner, but one which they should advise the laity to purchase and study, 

 that they may learn how to protect themselves from these too common affections." 



OTHER PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



Bulletin of the Essex Institute, Salem, Mass., Oct., Nov. and Dec, 1880, 

 Vol. XII. — Rogers' Birds Eye View of English Language, a chart 22x28 inches 

 with rules for spelling, punctuation, use of capital letters, etc. ; L. H. Rogers, 

 New York, 25 cents. — Index t3 Papers on Anthropology, published by the 

 Smithsonian Institution, 1847 to 1878, by Geo. H. Boehmer. — The Mississippi 

 River and What its Proper Utilization will Accomplish; Toledo, O., 1881. — Li- 

 brary Aids, by Hon. John Eaton, Commissioner of Education, Washington, D. 

 C, 188 1. — On the Projection of Lines of Equal Pressure in the United States 

 West of the Mississippi River, by Henry A. Hazen, 1881. — Abstract of Transac- 

 tions of the Anthropological Society of Washington, D. C, with the Annual 

 Addresses for 1880 and 1881. Edited by J. W. Powell. 1881. 



SCIENTIFIC MISCELLANY. 



GLASS SPINNING AND WEAVING. 



Quite recently a glass firm in Pittsburg, United States, has succeeded to a 

 notable degree, in producing glass threads of sufficient fineness and elasticity to 

 permit of their being woven into fabrics of novel character and quality. Their 

 success is such as to warrant the assumption that garments of pure glass, glisten, 

 ing and imperishable, are among the possibilities of the near future. The spin- 

 ning of glass threads of extreme fineness is not a new process, but as carried on 

 at present by the firm in question — Messrs. Atterbury & Co. — possesses consid- 



