EDITORIAL. 
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"Dr.  J,  F.  Meig's  ancesthettc  pills. 
R.  Morphiae  sulphatis,      .       .       .  gr.  viij. 
Camphorae,   gr.  xx. 
Olei  cajuputi,       ....  gtt  x. 
Pulveris  tragacanthae,     .       .       .  gr.  v. 
Ext.  gentianae,     .       .       .       .  gr.  xv. 
Syrupi  acacise,  q.  s. 
Misce.  et  div.  in  pilulas  C. 
Take  2  or  3  at  a  dose,  to  be  repeated  every  half  hour  till  relieved." 
■'  Compound  anodyne  pill. 
B.  Ext.  cannabis  indica^, 
Ext.  belladonnae, 
Ext.  nucis  vomicae,   .       .       .     aa.  gr.  ij. 
Ext.  Valerianae, 
Quiniae  sulphatis,  ...        aa.  gr.  xij. 
Misce.  et  div.  in  pilulas  xij. 
Sigva.    Take  one  pill  every  2  hours  until  relieved  (of  simple  neuralgia, 
especially  cephalagia  from  cerebral  irritation,  or  excessive  mental  ac- 
tivity.") 
A  treatise  on  the  Principles  and  Practice  of  Medicine  ;  designed  for  the 
use  of  practitioners  and  students  of  medicine.    By  Austin  Flint,  M.  D., 
Prof,  of  the  principles  and  practice  of  ^nedicine  in  the  Bellevue  Hos- 
pital Medical  College,  N.  Y.,  &c.    Third  edition,  thoroughly  revised. 
Philadelphia,  Henry  C.  Lea,  1868  ;  pp.  1002,  octavo. 
The  second  edition  of  this  work,  published  less  than  two  years  ago, 
was  favorably  received  by  the  medical  public,  both  at  home  and  abroad. 
The  endeavor  of  the  author  to  prune  it  from  redundancies  and  add  to  its 
practical  character  from  the  lines  of  his  clinical  experience,  has  been 
very  successful  in  the  present  or  third  edition,  gives  it  the  freshness  of  a 
new  work,  and  claims  for  it  the  attention  of  medical  practitioners.  Speak- 
ing of  pulmonary  tuberculosis,  the  author  says  : 
"  The  hypophosphites  were  introduced  some  years  since,  by  Dr.  Church- 
ill, as  a  specific  remedy,  the  pathology  of  the  disease  being  supposed  to 
involve  a  deficiency  in  the  system  of  phosphorus,  and  this  element  exist- 
ing in  the  hypophosphites  in  a  form  readily  assimilable  and  in  a  low  state 
of  oxidation.  Experience  has  abundantly  shown  that  the  disease  is  not 
arrested  by  the  introduction  of  phosphorus  into  the  system  ;  in  other 
words,  that  this  has  no  claim  to  be  considered  a  specific  remedy  ;  but  it 
appears  in  some  cases  to  be  highly  useful  as  a  tonic  remedy." 
The  work  is  gotten  up  in  the  usual  good  style  of  the  publishers,  bound 
in  leather.    Price,  in  this  form,  $7.00  ;  in  muslin,  .$6.00. 
Criminal  Abortion ;  its  nature,  its  evidence,  and  its  law.  By  Horatio 
R.  Storer,  M.  D.,  LL.  B„  and  Franklin  Fiske  Heard.  Boston:  Little, 
Brown  &  Co.,  1868  ;  pp.  215,  octavo. 
To  the  non  professional  reader  this  work  embodies  much  to  cause  sur- 
prise that  there  exists  so  much  latitude  in  opinion  in  regard  to  the  pro- 
duction of  abortion  in  the  minds  of  a  large  number  of  women,  married 
and  single,  and  of  men,  in  regard  to  its  criminality.    Like  the  Lacedae. 
