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Islands, with a List of Sea-bathing Places. Extra fcap. 8vo. 

 pp. XV. 205. 3^-. 6d, 



Dr. Macpherson has divided his tvork into five parts. He begins by 

 a fetv introductory observations on bath life^ its circmnstances^ uses^ 

 and pleasures ; he the^t explains in detail the composition of the 

 various mineral waters^ and points out the special curative pro- 

 perties of each class, A cJmpter on ' ' The History of British 

 Wells " from the earliest pe7'iad to the present time forms the 

 natural t^^.ansition to the seco7id part of this volu^ne, zuhich treats of 

 the different kinds of mineral water's in England^ whether purCy 

 thermal a^td earthy^ saline^ chalybeate, or sulphur. Wales^ Scot- 

 land, and Ireland supply the matej'ials for distifict sections. An 

 Index of mineral waters, one of sea-bathing places, and a third of 

 wells of pure or nearly pure zvatei^, terniinate the book. * ' This little 

 volume forms a very available ha?idbook for a large class of 



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Medical Jurisprudence in University College, London : — 



BODY AND MIND : An Inquiry into their Connection and 

 Mutual Influence, specially in reference to Mental Disorders ; being 

 the Gulstonian Lectures for 1870. Delivered before the Royal 

 College of Physicians. Crown Svo. 5^. 



The volume consists of three Lectures and two long Appendices^ the 

 general plan of the whole being to bring Man, both in his physical 

 und mental relations, as much as fossible under the scope of scientific 

 inquiry. The first Lecture is devoted to an exposition of the physical 

 conditions of mental function in health. In the second Lecture are 

 sketched the features of so7ne forms of degeneracy of mind, as exhibited 

 in morbid varieties of the human kind, with the purpose of bringing 

 prominently into notice the operation of physical causes from 

 generation to generation, and the relationship of tnental to other 

 diseases of the nervous system. In the third Lecture are displayed 

 the relations of morbid states of the body and disordered mental 

 function^ Appendix L is a criticism of the Arehbishop of York^s 

 address on *' Tlie Limits of Philosophical Inquiry ^ Appendix IL 

 deals with the ^'Theory of Vitality ^^^ in which the author en- 



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