820 Miscellaneous Inielligence. 
force; and im and progress of physical science. They are all 
of the widest general interest, and are treated in a simple and 
popular man he volume has several wood-cut illustrations. 
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3, Minerals Springs of North America, how to reach and how 
to use them ; by J. J. Moorman, M.D., Physician to the White Sul- 
phur Springs, Virginia, 394 pp. 12mo, 1878 (Lippincott & Co.). 
A popular work, containing notices of many of the mineral springs 
of the continent, intended for the tourist and invalid. 182 pages 
out of the whole are devoted to Virginia Springs. Some analyses 
are given, and also the “ thermalization ”— in ordinary and much 
more correct language, temperatures—of various warm and hot 
springs of the United States. We leave it for medical men to 
pronounce on its medical opinions. 
4. Foods ; by N 
York, 1873. (D. Appleton and Co.)—This work is one of Apple- 
ton’s “ Scientific Series,” of which Tyndall’s Form of Water and 
own person carried out a large number of ex eriments 0 the 
influence of food and drinks upon respiration, nutrition and diges- 
tion. He handles his subject, therefore, with the power of an orl 
must be pardoned for smiling at some of his statements respecting 
familiar facts in this country: as for example, that the “ juices 
not to be preferred to the purified cane sugar where that could be 
obtained at about the same cost;” while this is the very T° 
to settle this little difference with “ Young America,” who wu! 
as a unit against his statement. Not less will the Amen™ a 
whisky drinker be surprised to hear that the “ peach whisky i 
named first of those kinds “ accounted the best.” His chapte? Me 
“ Alcohols,” which follows that on Tea, Coffee, ete., a8 Liquid Foo iy 
is the one of all others on which opinion will be most agrite 
divided, as he frankly says, both on “the question of their Tg 
ng . 
to be called foods, and upon moral grounds, they are ad 
civilized nations into two hostile camps.” however men 
differ, the experimental results recited by Dr. Smith on his tise 
rson 
research, 
Dr. Smith’s statements as to the nearly valueles 
the Liebig beef extract as nutriment, have excited much 
but he sustains them by arguments founded on analyses por 
rvation. The book is full of valuable hints for the phys 
It is to be followed by another on Diets. 
