Am.  Jour.  Pharm. 
June,  1893. 
Reviews, 
319 
Record  of  Experiments  with  Sorghum  in  1892.  By  Harvey  W.  Wiley.  Pp. 
100. 
These  two  pamphlets  are  Bulletins  36  and  37  of  the  U.  S.  Department  of 
Agriculture,  Division  of  Chemistry,  and  have  been  prepared,  the  former  with 
the  collaboration  of  Dr.  W.  Maxwell,  and  the  latter  with  the  assistance  of 
Messrs.  A.  A.  Benton,  G.  O'Brien,  W.  J.  Thompson,  J.  L.  Fuelling  and  O. 
Carr, 
The  addresses  at  the  inauguration  of  Chas.  Kendall  Adams,  LL.D.,  to  the 
presidency  of  the  University  of  Wisconsin,  January  17,  1893.  Madison. 
Pp.  69. 
That  on  an  occasion,  as  indicated  on  the  title  page,  the  addresses  should  be 
on  the  subject  of  education  and  educational  institutions  in  their  various  rela- 
tions, is  self-evident ;  they  will  be  read  with  much  interest. 
Psychopathia  Sexualis,  with  Especial  Reference  to  Contrary  Sexual  Instinct. 
A  Medico-Legal  Study.  By  Dr.  R.  von  Krafft-Ebing,  Professor  of  Psychiatry 
and  Neurology,  University  of  Vienna.  Authorized  translation  of  the  seventh 
enlarged  and  revised  German  edition.  By  Charles  Gilbert  Chaddock,  M.D., 
Professor  of  Nervous  Mental  Diseases,  Marion-Sims  College  of  Medicine,  St. 
Louis,  etc.  Philadelphia.  The  F.  A.  Davis  Company,  Publishers.  1893.  8vo. 
Pp.  436.    Price,  cloth,  $3  ;  sheep,  $4. 
The  author  states  in  the  preface  that  the  purpose  of  his  treatise  is  a  descrip- 
tion of  the  pathological  manifestations  of  the  sexual  life  and  an  attempt  to 
refer  them  to  their  underlying  conditions.  The  task  is  a  difficult  one,  and,  in 
spite  of  years  of  experience  as  an  alienist  and  medical  jurist,  the  author  is 
well  aware  that  what  he  can  offer  must  be  incomplete.  Yet,  the  importance 
of  the  subject  for  the  welfare  of  society,  especially  forensically,  demands  that 
it  should  be  examined  scientifically.  This  the  author  has  faithfully  done.  His 
work  is  divided  into  four  parts,  treating  respectively  of  psychology  of  the 
sexual  life,  physiology,  general  pathology  and  special  pathology,  each  part 
being  comprehensive,  and  in  its  details  as  well  as  in  its  generalizations,  show- 
ing the  earnest  search  after  the  fundamental  facts,  so  as  to  gain  an  insight  into 
cause  and  effect.  A  noted  physician  has  said  that  the  terminal  forms  of  sexual 
aberrations  end  in  asylums  for  the  insane,  but  the  doubtful  cases  in  which  com- 
pleteness of  development  or  apparent  viciousness  render  correct  diagnosis  diffi- 
cult, make  up  the  majority.  This  it  seems  to  us  states  the  necessity  for  such  a 
work  in  a  few  words  ;  it  is  intended  for  the  physician  as  well  as  for  the  jurist. 
The  translation  has  been  well  done,  and  the  intentions  of  the  author  are  clearly 
presented  in  the  Bnglish  version.    The  book  is  sold  only  by  subscription. 
Contribution  d  V etude  des  lactoses.  Par  Georges  Deniges,  docteur  es  sciences 
physiques,  etc.    Bordeaux.    Pp.  69. 
This  contribution  to  the  study  of  the  lactoses  is  a  thesis  presented  to  the  Paris 
School  of  Pharmacy  for  obtaining  the  diploma  of  pharmacist  of  the  first  class. 
The  author  has  studied  the  sugar  contained  in  six  different  milks,  that  of 
Woman,  cow,  goat,  ewe,  ass  and  mare,  and  has  shown  the  chemical  identity  of 
these  sugars.  The  milk  sugar  contained  in  the  extract  obtained  by  evaporation 
at  ioo°  C.  was  found  to  be  anhydrous.  The  properties  of  the  sugar  and  of  the 
serum  have  been  investigated  and  compared  ;  and  in  the  latter  two  different 
substances  were  found,  which  are  freely  soluble  in  water,  not  precipitated  by 
