CATALOGUE OF MEDICAL WORKS. 51 
tion, the composition and adulteration of foods), as well as to the Arts, Pharmacy, Manufacturing 
Chemistry, and other subjects of importance to those for whom the work is intended. The articles on 
what is commonly termed ‘Household Medicine”? have been amplified and numerically increased. 
The design of this work is briefly but not completely expressed in its title-page. Independently of 
a reliable and comprehensive collection of formule and processes in nearly all the industrial and usetul 
arts, it contains a description of the leading properties and applications ot the substances referred to, 
together with ample directions, hints, data, and allied information, calculated to facilitate the develop- 
ment of the practical value of the book in the shop, the laboratory, the factory, and the household. 
Notices of the substances embraced in the Materia Medica, in addition to the whole of their prepara- 
tions, and numerous other animal and vegetable substances employed in medicine, as well as most of 
those used for food, clothing, and fuel, with their economic ery pare have been included in the 
work. The eymorpins and references are other additions which will prove invaluable to the reader. 
Lastly, there have been appended to all the principal articles referred to brief’ but clear directions for 
determining their purity and commercial value, and for detecting their presence and proportions in 
compounds. The indiscriminate adoption of matter, without examination, has been anne avoided, 
and in no instance has any tormula or process been admitted into this work, unless it reatet: on some 
ole kpowe fact of science, had been sanctioned by usage, or come recommended by some respectable 
authority. 
TYNDALL. Essays on the Floating Matter of the Air, in 
Relation to Putrefaction and Infection. By Prof. Joun Tywpatt, F.R.S. 
12mo. Cloth, $1.50. 
CONTENTS.—I. On Dust and Disease; II. Optical Deportment of the Atmosphere in Relation 
to Putrefaction and Infection; II{. Further Researches on the Deportment and Vitality of Putrefactive 
Organisms; IV. Fermentation, and its Bearings on Surgery and Medicine; V. Spontaneous Genera- 
tion; Appendix. 
‘Prof. Tyndall’s book is a calm, patient, clear. “In the book before us we have the minute de- 
and thorough treatment of all the questions and tails of hundreds of observations on infusions ex- 
conditions of nature and society involved in this pa to optically pure air; infusions of mutton, 
theme. The work is lucid and convincing, yet not beef, haddock, hay, turnip, liver, hare, rabbit, 
prolix or pedantic, but popular and really enjoy- grouse, pheasant, salmon, cod, etc.; infusions 
able. It is worthy of patient and renewed study.” heated by bo#ling water and by boiling oil, somc- 
—Philadelphia Tt times for a few moments and sometimes for several 
hours, and, however varied the mode of’ procedure, 
the result was invariably the same, with not even 
a shade of uncertainty. The fallacy ot’ spontane- 
ous generation and the probability of the germ 
theory of' disease seem to us the inference, and the 
only inference, that can be drawn from the results 
of nearly ten thousand experiments performed by 
Prof. Tyndall within che last two years.’’—Pitts- 
burg Telegraph. 
“ The matter contained in this work is not only 
presented in a very interesting way, but is of great 
value.”—Boston Journal of Commerce. 
. “The germ theory of disease is. most intel- 
ligently presented, and indeed the whole work 
is instinct with a high intellect.””—Boston Com- 
monwealth. 
ULTZMANN. Pyuria; or, Pus in the Urine, and its Treat- 
ment: Comprising the Diagnosis and Treatment of Acute and Chronic 
Urethritis, Prostatitis, Cystitis, and Pyelitis, with especial reference to 
their Local Treatment. By Dr. Roserr Utrzmann, Professor of Genito- 
Urinary Diseases in the Vienna Poliklinik. Translated, by permission, by 
Dr. Watrer B. Pratt, F.R.C.8. (Eng.), Baltimore. 12mo. Cloth, 
$1.00. 
“Those of the profession who are familiar with 
the works of Prof. Ultzmann will welcome this 
translation as constituting a real addition to our 
literature on genito-urinary diseases. It can not 
tracts. Acute and chronic urethritis, prostatitis, 
cystitis, and pyelitis are discussed in turn, with 
especial reference to their differential diagnosis and 
treatment. As a result of observation and experi- 
be too highly recommended to the attention of the 
profession, not only on account of its scientific 
value, but also for the many practical suggestions 
regarding treatment to be found in the chapter on 
Therapeutics. The translator is to be congratu- 
lated upon the excellent manner in which his work 
has been accomplished. The book is neatly and 
tastefully got up by the publishers.’?—Maryland 
Medical Journal. 
“This excellent monograph contains, in less 
than one hundred pages, a complete review of the 
conditions that give rise to pus within the urinary 
ence, the author states that while acute urethritis 
can only be cured by the direct application of 
remedies to the diseased part, other forms of acute 
pyuria, ‘and above all that of the bladder and neck 
of the bladder, ought never to be treated locally, 
but by internal medication and regulation of diet; 
while in chronic pyuria of any part of the urinary 
tract an sppeprn romi~- 
te local treatment takes a 
nent place. he remedies and methods of treat- 
ment that have been used with most success by 
the author are considered in detail in the chapter 
on the Therapeutics of Polyuria.”— Medical Bui- 
etin, 
