A-m.  Jour.  Pharm , ) 
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Reviews,  etc. 
479 
Illinois  Pharmaceutical  Association. — The  annual  meeting  which 
^as  to  be  held  at  Peoria  Nov.  8th  will  be  held  there  Oct.  18th,  the  change 
having  been  found  desirable  and  necessary  for  various  reasons. 
REVIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGIIA.PHICAL  NOTICES. 
'Clinical  Lectures  on  the  Diseases  of  Old  Age.  By  J.  M.  Charcot,  M.D., 
Professor  in  the  Faculty  of  Medicine  of  Paris,  etc.  Transhited  by  Leigh 
H.  Hunt,  B.Sc,  M.D.,  etc.:  with  additional  lectures  by  Alfred  Ij. 
Looniis,  M.D.,  Professor  of  Pathology  and  Practical  Medicine  in  the 
Medical  Department  of  the  University  of  New  York.  New  York: 
William  Wood  &  Co.,  1881.    8vo,  pp.  280. 
'•Coulson  on  the  Diseases  of  the  Bladder  and  Prostrate  Gland.  Sixth  edi- 
tion. Revised  by  Walter  J.  Coulson,  F.R.C.S.,  Surgeon  to  St.  Peter's 
Hospital  for  stone,  etc.  New  York:  William  Wood  &  Co.,  1881.  8vo, 
pp.  393. 
The  above  works  are  Nos.  6  and  7  of  Wood's  Library  of  Standard  Med- 
ical Authors.  The  first  one  contains  21  lectures  by  Professor  Charcot,  of 
which  the  first  is  devoted  to  the  general  characteristics  of  senile  pathology 
and  the  second  to  the  febrile  state  in  the  aged.  The  following  IG  lectures 
treat  of  the  various  forms  of  gout  and  rheumatism,  their  pathology,  S3'mp- 
tomatology,  etiology  and  treatment.  The  remaining  three  lectures  are  on 
the  clinical  importance  of  thermometry  in  old  age.  These  are  followed  by 
ten  lectures  by  Prof.  Loomis  on  other  senile  diseases,  namely,  pneumonia, 
chronic  catarrh  of  the  bronchii,  asthma,  atheroma,  fatty  heart,  cerebral 
hemorrhage,  apoplexy,  cerebral  softening,  chronic  gastric  catarrh,  consti- 
pation and  hypertrophy  of  the  prostrate  gland. 
The  second  work  opens  with  a  chapter  on  general  anatomical  and  phy- 
siological considerations,  followed  by  another  on  the  method  of  examining 
the  bladder  and  prostrate  gland.  The  remaining  chapters  treat  of  the 
-abnormities,  injuries  and  diseases  of  the  bladder  and  their  treatment,  about 
160  pages  being  devoted  to  calculi  and  their  removal,  including  the  preven- 
tive treatment.  The  last  four  chapters  are  devoted  to  the  diseases  of  the 
prostrate  gland. 
Both  works  are  well  gotten  up,  illustrated  with  the  necessary  good  wood- 
cuts, and  each  is  supplemented  with  a  coj^ious  index  for  ready  reference. 
The  Compend  of  Anatomy.  For  Use  in  the  Dissecting  Room  and  in  Pre- 
paring for  Examinations.  By  John  B.  Roberts,  A.M.,  M.D.,  Lecturer 
on  Anatomy  and  Operative  Surgery  in  the  Philadelphia  School  of  Ana- 
tomy, etc.  Second  edition;  revised.  Philadelphia:  C.  C.  Roberts  & 
Co.,  1881.    12mo,  pp.  198. 
The  subject  matter  of  this  little  work  is  divided  into  chapters  on  bones, 
articulations,  ligaments,  muscles,  the  vascular  system,  the  nervous  system, 
organs  of  digestion,  circulation  and  respiration,  urinary  and  genital  organs 
and  organs  of  sense.  The  material  appears  to  be  well  prepared  for  jjracti- 
cal  use  in  the  dissecting  room,  and  to  supply  the  notes  and  memoranda 
which  the  student  would  wish  to  make  during  lectures  on  anatomy. 
