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Lectures  on  Diseases  of  Children.  A  Handbook  for  Physicians  and  Stu- 
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pp.  357. 
As  dispensary  physician,  and  subsequently  as  director  of  the  clinic  and 
polyclinic  for  diseases  of  children  in  the  Roj^al  Charite,  and  professor  in 
the  University  of  Berlin,  the  author  has  had  an  extensive  experience  in 
this  field,  covering  a  period  of  thirty-seven  years,  and,  considering  the 
many  thousands  of  cases  that  have  thus  come  under  his  immediate  obser- 
vation, has  had  ample  material  for  writing  a  practical  work,  based  almost 
exclusively  upon  i^ersonal  experience.  The  subject  matter  is  divided  into 
ten  parts,  embracing  diseases  of  the  new-born,  of  infancy,  of  the  nervous 
system,  of  the  respiratory  organs,  of  the  circulatory  organs,  of  the  diges- 
tive organs,  of  the  uropoetic  organs,  infectious  diseases,  constitutional  dis- 
eases and  diseases  of  theskifi.  In  an  appendix  a  limited  number  of  for- 
mulas are  added,  merely  for  the  purj^ose  of  furnishing  hints  to  younger 
physicians  in  beginning  children's  practice. 
The  volume  forms  a  valuable  addition  to  the  present  series  of  Wood's 
Xiibrary  of  Standard  Medical  Authors. 
J^2>s/!  Biennial  Report  of  the  Cominissioners  of  Pharmacy  for  the  State  of 
Iowa,  with  abstract  of  State  Pharmacy  Register.  Printed  by  order  of  the 
General  Assembly.    1882.    8vo,  pp.  81. 
The  pamphlet  gives  a  full  account  of  the  systematic  manner  in  which 
the  Commissioners  carry  out  the  duties  devolving  upon  them  under  the 
Pharmacy  law\ 
Histoire  et  Origine  de  la  Corporation  des  Chirurgiens  et  des  Apothicaires 
d^Audenarde,  dite  des  SS.  Cosmes  et  Damien^  depuis  le  XIP  jusqu  ^au 
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JRecherches  et  les  Traductions  des  Archives  de  la  Villed'Audenarde,  par 
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History  and  Origin  of  the  Corporation  of  Surgeons  and  Apothecaries  of 
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from  the  Archives  of  the  Town  of  Audenarde,  by  Th.  Devacht. 
A  very  interesting  and  valuable  contribution  to  the  history  of  pharmacy 
-and  medicine,  containing  many  documents  and  biographical  notes  and 
fac-similes  of  quaint  ancient  pictures,  seals,  and  of  an  api)lication  for  exam- 
ination in  pharmacy,  with  the  official  endorsements  of  the  document. 
The  pictures  are  those  of  a  Sister  Beguine  from  the  XlVth  century,  and 
of  Dr.  Jacobus  Varentius,  Rector  Magnificus  of  the  University  of  Lou- 
vain,  who  died  in  1577,  and  is  represented  holding  in  his  right  hand  a 
large  volume  and  in  his  left  an  enormous  saw. 
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