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A  Treatise  on  Diseases  of  {he  Air  Passages : — Comprising  an  inquiry  into 
the  history,  pathology,  causes,  and  treatment  of  those  affections  of  the 
throat  called  Bronchitis,  Chronic  Laryngitis,  Clergyman's  sore  throat,  etc. 
By  Horace  Gkeen,  M.  D.,  LL.  D.,  President  of  the  Faculty  and  Emeritus 
Professor  of  the  Theory  and  Practice  of  Medicine  in  the  New  York  Med- 
ical College,  &c.  &c.  Fourth,  edition  revised  and  enlarged,  with  an  Appen- 
dix. New  York,  Wiley  &  Halstead,  1858,  pp.  348,  octavo. 
As  the  discussion  of  the  subject  of  Dr.  Green's  work  lies  entirely  with- 
out the  province  of  this  journal,  we  have  passed  it  by  with  the  simple  an- 
nouncement of  its  title  page. 
Trials  of  a  Public  Benefactor ,  as  illustrated  in  the  discovery  of  Etherization. 
By  Nathan  P.  Rice,  M.  D.,  New  York.  Published  by  Pudney  &  Russell, 
1859,  pp.  460,  12mo. 
This  volume  arrived  too  late  to  give  a  notice  of  it  in  this  number.  It  is 
written  in  view  of  the  claims  of  Dr.  Morton,  of  Boston,  as  the  discoverer 
of  Etherization. 
Medical  Journals — Our  Exchange  List. — "We  have  for  some  time  past 
felt  it  due  to  the  editors  of  several  new  medical  journals  to  give  expres- 
sion to  a  few  words  on  the  subject  of  exchanges.  There  are  but  two  phar- 
maceutical journals  besides  our  own  published  within  the  limits  of  the 
United  States,  whilst  the  medical  journals  can  be  counted  by  scores. 
Of  the  selected  matter  contained  in  our  pages,  nineteen-twentieths  or  more 
come  from  kindred  journals  and  these  generally  from  beyond  the  sea. 
With  but  two  of  these  we  exchange,  and.  hence  the  great  part  of  our  select- 
ed matter  is  made  up  from  journals  paid  for  in  advance.  We  have  on  our 
list  nearly  all  the  American  medical  journals,  of  several  years  standing, 
and  though  seldom  benefitted  by  their  matter,  owing  either  to  its  being  in- 
apposite, or  having  been  anticipated,  we  feel  no  inclination  to  discontinue 
their  intercourse,  and  are  always  glad  to  find  that  our  pages  can  occasion- 
ally be  made  useful  to  them,  and  they  are  entirely  welcome  to  employ 
them  ;  yet  our  extra  copies  are  so  few,  that  in  some  instances  they  have 
been  nearly  exhausted  by  the  demand  incident  to  postal  irregularities. 
We  hope,  therefore,  that  those  new  journals  who  do  not  find  us  to  respond 
to  their  invitation  to  exchange,  will  not  consider  us  discourteous,  but  at- 
tribute our  course  to  the  necessity  of  self  preservation. 
Obituary — Soubeiran. — It  becomes  our  duty  as  chronicler  of  events 
interesting  to  pharmaceutists  to  announce  that  M.  Soubeiran,  the  greatest 
of  French  pharmaciens,  died  on  the  17th  of  Nov.,  of  a  tedious  and  painful 
disease.  From  an  address  by  H.  Buignet  to  the  Society  of  Pharmacie,  we 
learn  that  he  was  born  at  Paris,  the  4th  Prairial,  year  5th  (May,  1796,^ 
and  early  manifested  a  marked  taste  for  the  study  of  the  sciences. 
