Am'jffy,ri8Sarm'}    Reviews  and  Bibliographical  Notices.  381 
Public  Health.  The  Lomb  Prize  Essays,  award  made  at  the  thirteenth  an- 
nual meeting  of  the  American  Public  Health  Association,  Washington, 
D.  C,  December  10,  1885,  with  an  appendix.  Second  edition,  Concord 
F.  H.,  1886.    8  vo.  pp.  198. 
We  acknowledge  the  receipt  of  this  handsome  and  instructive  volume, 
which  contains  the  following  four  essays  : 
I.  Healthy  Homes  and  Foods  for  the  Working  Classes ;  by  Prof.  Victor  C. 
Vaughan,  of  Ann  Arbor. 
II.  Sanitary  Conditions  and  Necessities  of  School  Houses  and  School 
Life;  by  Dr.  D.  F.  Lincoln,  of  Boston. 
III.  Disinfection  and  Individual  Prophylaxis  against  Infectious  Dis- 
eases ;  by  Dr.  G.  M.  Sternberg,  Surgeon  U.  S.  A. 
IV.  Preventable  Causes  of  Disease,  Injury  and  Death  in  American 
Manufactories  and  Workshops;  by  Geo.  H.  Ireland,  of  Springfield,  Mass. 
These  interesting  and  important  essays  should  become  widely  known,  and 
we  are  pleased  to  learn  that  the  Association  is  enabled  to  furnish  them  to 
those  interested  at  the  cost  of  printing  and  postage,  viz.  :  single  essays,  10 
cents;  any  two  of  them,  15  cents;  the  four  bound  in  cloth,  65  cents,  and  the 
same  printed  on  extra  heavy  paper  and  well  bound,  $1.  They  may  be  pro- 
cured from  the  Secretary,  Dr.  Irving  A.  Watson,  Concord.  N.  H. 
Report  of  the  Committee  on  Disinfectants,  presented  at  the  fourteenth 
annual  meeting  of  the  American  Public  Health  Association,  held  at  To- 
ronto, Canada,  October  5-8,  1886.    Concord,  N.  H.    8vo.    pp.  33. 
A  reprint  from  vol.  xii  of  the  Transactions  of  the  above-named  associa- 
tion. The  report  describes  a  number  of  apparatus  which  have  been  designed 
for  disinfecting  purposes,  the  construction  and  application  being  illustrated 
.by  37  cuts. 
Foods  and  Food  Adulterants.  Part  I.  Dairy  Products,  Washington :  Gov- 
ernment Printing  Office.    1887.    8vo.    pp.  132.M 
This  is  bulletin  13  of  the  Division  of  Chemistry,  U.  S.  Department  of  Agri- 
culture. It  treats  of  butter,  milk,  cheese,  and  similar  products,  their  quali- 
ties, deterioration,  adulteration  and  fraudulent  substitution,  and  enters  fully 
into  the  various  methods  proposed  for  their  analysis ;  it  contains  twelve 
plates  prepared  from  photographs  taken  with  the  aid  of  the  microscope,  and 
illustrating  the  appearance  under  various  conditions  of  butter  and  different 
fats. 
New  Treatment  of  the  Affections  of  the  Respiratory  Organs  and  of  Blood  Poison- 
ing by  Rectal  Injections  of  Gases,  after  the  Method  of  Dr.  Bergeon.  By  Dr.  V. 
Morel.  Translated  from  the  French  by  L.  E.  Holman.  Philadelphia: 
J.  W.  Queen  &  Co.   8  vo.  pp.  21.    Price,  25  cents. 
Ttventy-sixth  Annual  Report  of  the  Board  of  Managers  of  the  Woman's  Hospital 
of  Philadelphia.    1887,  pp.  38. 
■Seventieth  Annual  Report  of  the  state  of  the  Asylum  for  the  Relief  of  Persons  De- 
prived of  the  Use  of  their  Reason.    Philadelphia,  1887.    pp.  28. 
