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future Number. In the meantime we highly commend 
“India’s Past Wrongs” to all who are interested in that 
great country over which it is our lot to rule. 
The Proportions of the Human Figure. By W. W. STORY. 
Chapman and Hall. 
Mr. SToryY has evidently made the proportions of. the 
human body his especial study. He divides his volume 
into four chapters. The first three are devoted to the con- 
sideration of the ancient Cabala of numbers and symbols, 
an examination of the well-known Canon of Polycletus, 
and also of the principal ancient and modern systems of 
proportion. In the fourth chapter the author treats of his 
proposed new system, which he fully discusses. The au- 
thor has been confirmed in his views by Dr. F. P. Liharzik, 
who gives the following laws as to the increase of the 
body :— 
“The whole increase of all parts of the body comprises 
24 epochs. These 24 epochs are subdivided into 3 sections: 
the Ist embracing 6 epochs (from birth to the end of the 
21st month) ; the 2nd, the following 12 epochs (from the 
21st month to the 171st month) ; and the 3rd, the last 6 
epochs from the 171st to the termination of the 300th 
month.” 
The volume is excellently printed, and is embellished 
with plates illustrative of the author’s system. 
The Treatment of Epilepsy. By JOHN CHAPMAN, M.D. 
Triibner and Co. 
THIS monograph is an abstract of a paper read to the 
Medical Society of London, in which the writer advocates 
the application of ice-bags along the spine to effect the 
cure or improvement of epilepsy, and he cites some 
cases which exemplify the efficacy of the method adopted. It 
is well-known that cold exercisesa sedativeinfluenceon parts 
to which it is applied, and in this way would tend to allay 
the convulsive fits characteristic of epilepsy. The same 
principle would, doubtless, apply to other nervous dis- 
orders, in fact, Dr. Routh confirms this view, by quoting a 
case of sickness associated with pregnancy, in which long 
