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its elimination as stercorine (in French .lang.)> 8vo., Germer Bailliere, 
Paris. Helmholtz’ treatise on the Physiological Theory of Music has 
been translated into French. 
Practical Medicine .— Aitken’s Science and Practice of Medicine is 
out in a fifth enlarged edition (offered by Lippincott & Co., Philad., at 
$12 00 ); a second American edition is in press, Lindsay & Blakiston. 
The second part of Lebert’s work on Medical Practice has appeared. 
Appleton & Co., N: Y., have in press a translation of the seventh German 
edition of v. Niemeyer’s celebrated textbook of Practical Medicine , by 
Drs. Humphreys and Hackleyso tardy an acknowledgment of its merit! 
A French translation is also in process of publication, Chamerot et 
Lauwereyns, Paris. 
Durand-Fardel, Traite fratiquedes maladies chroniques, in 2 vols. 
8vo., Germer Bailliere, Paris, is probably a work of merit. On Diseases 
of Children three new works are announced : by Prof. Elliot, of New 
York (D. Appleton & Co., N. Y.); by J. Lewis Smith, M.D., Professor 
of Morbid Anatomy in Bellevue Hospital (Lea, Philad.); and by Thos. 
Hillier, M.D., F.R.C.P., Phys. to the Hosp. for Sick Children, London 
(James Walton) ; the latter clinical treatise is republished in this country 
by Lindsay & Blakiston. Prof. Henoch, of Berlin, has produced a new 
series of his Contributions to Paediatrics, 8vo., pp. 434’ Hirschwald. 
The first volume of Dr. Paul Niemeyer’s “ Handbook of theoretical 
and clinical Percussion and Auscultation , prepared from a historical and 
ni c^ rr »r»oint,” wh-* h ^ t. ' ne time ago, has appeared, 
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