320 REVIEW, ETC. 



We understand that Mr Rimmel has experimentalised with his process in 

 large theatres and ball-rooms with complete success, and that it has also been 

 found exceedingly beneficial in sick-rooms and hospital-wards. "We expect 

 next to hear of his services being called into requisition to neutralise the 

 after-dinner fumes at the Mansion House, London Tavern, City Companies' 

 banquets, and other festive occasions, and to impart a soothing fragrance to 

 the atmosphere, which will cause his name to live in the memory of many 

 a civic and public celebrity. We are fully convinced that this simple but 

 ingenious contrivance will be most extensively adopted and patronised so 

 soon as it becomes more generally known, for it combines useful with 

 agreeable properties, and hence may truly be termed utile dulci. 



SUJmto. 



Diagnostics op Aural Disease. By S. E. Smith, M.R.C.S. Bailli^re. 



This work, in its general detail, cannot be said to lie within our province. 

 The discussion of the anatomical, physiological, and curative portions we will 

 leave to those more competent than ourselves to decide. But there is one 

 feature, in the work which, amid much that is interesting chiefly to the medical 

 man, makes it also of interest to the technologist. This consists in the 

 announcement of the successful treatment of certain phases of aural disease 

 by means of the vapour of Bromine. Of so much importance does the 

 Author think this agent — for the suggestion of which, by the way, he acknow- 

 ledges himself to be indebted to one of our contributors — that he has 

 invented an apparatus for its application. We have no doubt that this 

 treatise will receive due attention from the Faculty. It is written in a 

 pleasing style, apart from the necessary technicalities to be found in all 

 scientific works, and cannot fail to be duly appreciated in all medical 

 circles. 



Twickenham Economic Museum. — We are glad to learn the appointment 

 of M. C. Cooke, Esq., F.S.S., as Lecturer on Botany and Technology, and to 

 develop more fully this Museum. A more suitable person could scarcely 

 have been found for the office, and we doubt not that under his super- 

 vision it will speedily progress towards greater completeness, and become 

 one of the most interesting and valuable institutions in the vicinity of 

 the Metropolis. 



