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BOOKS RECEIVED. 
The Half-Yearly Abstract of the Medtcal Sciences. January to June, 1865. Lon¬ 
don: John Churchill and Sons, New Burlington Street; Edinburgh: Maclachlan and 
„ Co.; Dublin : Fannin and Co. 
A Course of Practical Chemistry. Arranged for the use of Medical Students. 
By William Ojdling, M.B., F.B.S., etc. Second edition. London: Longmans, Green, 
and Co. 1865. 8vo, pp. 241. 
On the Ultimate Nerve-Fibres distributed to Muscle and some other Tissues, 
etc. etc. Being the Croonian Lecture for 1865, delivered by Lionel S. Beale, 
M B., F.R.S., etc. 
A Course of Lectures on Hydrophobia, its History, Pathology, and Treatment, etc. 
By T. C. Siiinkwin, M.D., M.R.C.S.L. Dublin: printed by Thomas Deey. 
TO correspondents. 
Persons having seceded from the Society may be restored to their former status on 
payment of arrears of subscription and the registration fee for the current year. 
those who were Associates before the 1st of July, 1842, are privileged (as Founders 
of the Society) to become Members without examination. 
Licence for the use of Stills or Retorts. —As several of our correspondents appear to 
be under the impression that it is not necessary to take out a Licence for the use of 
Stills or Retorts, we beg to call the attention of our readers to the subject, and remind 
them that in all cases where stills or retorts are used for the purposes of trade , it is 
necessary to take out a licence, the cost of which is 10s. per annum. For the words of 
the Act relating to the above, see vol. iii. (2nd series), page 202. 
“ Nervine Balsam. Mr. Applegate (Upper Holloway), in reply to a correspondent 
in our last number, sends the following formula for “Nervine Balsam,” said to be one 
of the ingredients of “Dupuytren’s Pomade,” from Beasley’s ‘Receipt Book’:—Beef 
marrow, oil of mace, aa 4 oz., melt together, then add balsam tolu 2 drachms, oil of 
cloves, camphor, aa 1 drachm, dissolved in ^ oz. of rectified spirit, and mix. 
I. 0. U. (Newport, Mon.)—(1) The two are synonymous. (2) Creasote maybe 
made into pills with bread-crumb. 
“ Adolescent.” —(1) As the first work mentioned is the text-book in use, it would 
be better to obtain it through any bookseller. (2) Morton’s ‘ Manual of Veterinarv 
Pharmacy.’ (3) We think not. 
A. P. S. (Edinburgh).—Apply by letter to the Director-General of the Medical 
Department of the Navy, Somerset House. 
Qucestor (Sheffield).— Crystalline constituents of plants. See papers on this sub¬ 
ject by Dr. Attfield in this Journal, Yol. III. (2nd series), page 447, and Yol. VI. (2nd 
series), page 212. 
“ Legality .”—No. The article in question is not liable to the Patent Medicine Dutv. 
a Juvenis ,” “New Student.”— Fownes’s ‘Manual of Chemistry’ and Bentley’s 
‘ Manual of Botany’ arc the text-books in use. 
A. P. S. (Rochdale).—(1) Wishes to know of a cheap mode of bleaching resin. 
(2) Magnesia; Carbonas. 
Mr. Atkins (Salisbury) wishes to correct an erroneous statement which has been 
published, to the effect that his recent loss by fire was covered by insurance. This is not 
the case; the insurance policy not covering more than one-third of the amount of loss. 
“ Pharmaceutist—Ammoniated Solution of Quinine. Yol. XIII. page 344. 
B. P. (Newcastle on Tyne).— Betts’s Patent Capsule. See page 41 of our present 
number. 
A■ W. L. (Birmingham).—Messrs. Horner and Sons, Bucklersbury. 
Mr. Johnson is thanked for his communication. 
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