43  2 
Reviews,  etc. 
f  Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
t      Aug.,  1877. 
Addresses  of  the  Special  Committee  of  the  Chamber  of  Commerce  of  the  State  of  New 
York  on  Customs  Revenue  Reform;  delivered  June  4th,  1877,  at  tne  Rooms  of  the 
Chamber  of  Commerce  of  the  State  of  New  York,  before  the  Commission 
appointed  to  Investigate  the  New  York  Custom  House.    Pp.  72. 
The  title  of  the  pamphlet  explains  its  aims,  to  promote  reforms  in  the  customs 
service  of  the  country. 
PettingiW  s  Newspaper  Directory  and  Advertisers''  Handbook  for  1877  5  comprising  a 
complete  List  of  the  Newspapers  and  other  Periodicals  published  in  the  United 
States  and  British  America.  New  York:  S.  M.  Pettengill  &  Co.  8vo,  pp.  334. 
Price,  $1. 
The  directory  gives  information  such  as  is  desirable  to  advertisers  about  nearly 
8,600  periodicals.  Notwithstanding  the  evident  care  bestowed  upon  the  compila- 
tion, some  of  the  scientific  journals  appear  to  have  escaped  the  editor's  eyes. 
Notes  on  the  History  and  Climate  of  New  Mexico.    By  Dr.  Thos.  A.  McParlin,  Sur- 
geon U.  S.  A.    Washington,  1877.    8vo,  pp.  28. 
This  very  interesting  report  was  communicated  by  the  Surgeon-General,  U.  S. 
Army,  and  appeared  in  the  Smithsonian  Report  for  1876. 
On  the  Surgical  Complications  and  Sequels  of  the  Continued  Fevers.  By  Wm.  W. 
Keen,  M.  D.,  of  Philadelphia.  Washington:  Smithsonian  Institution,  1877. 
8vo,  pp.  68.    Price,  25  cents. 
This  is  the  fifth  of  the  Toner  lectures,  instituted  to  encourage  the  discovery  of 
new  truths  for  the  advancement  of  medicine.    It  was  delivered  February  17,  1876. 
History  of  a  Case  of  Recurring  Sarcomatous  Tumor  of  the  Orbit  in  a  Child,  extirpated 
for  the  Third  Time,  and  ultimately  Causing  the  Death  of  the  Patient.    By  Thos. 
Hay,  M.  D.,  of  Philadelphia.    Lindsay  &  Blakiston,  1877.    Price,  50  cents. 
A  reprint  from  the  report  of  the  Fifth  International  Ophthalmological  Congress, 
held  in  New  York  September,  1876,  and  illustrated  by  three  lithographic  plates. 
On  the  Diagnosis  oj  Urethral  Stricture  by  Bulbous  Bougies,  with  Illustrated  Cases. 
By  J.  Wm.  White,  M.  D  ,  Lecturer  on  Venered  Diseases  in  the  University  of 
Pennsylvania.    Philadelphia:  J.  B.  Lippincott  &  Co. 
A  reprint  from  the  Philadelphia  "  Medical  Times"  of  May  26th,  1877. 
A  Case  of  Abdominal  Pregnancy  Treated  by  Laparotomy.    By  T.  Gaillard  Thomas, 
M.  D.,  New  York. 
Reprint  from  "Gynaecological  Transactions,"  1876. 
The  Prophylactic  Treatment  of  Placenta  pravia.    By  Prof.  T.  Gaillard  Thomas, 
M.  D. 
Reprint  from  the  "American  Practitioner,"  May,  1877. 
Transactions  of  the  Medical  and  Chirurgical  Faculty  of  Maryland  at  its  Seventy-ninth 
Annual  Session,  held  at  Baltimore,  Md.,  April,  1877.    Pp.  190. 
