Reviews. 
Am.  Jour.  Phar m. 
March,  1891. 
mathematicians,  generals  or  athletes,  at  pleasure,  unchecked  save  by  the 
occasional  effect  of  ataxism.  Although  this  will  never  be,  we  may  yet  clearly 
perceive,  if  we  but  observe  closely,  wTith  minds  divested  of  prejudice,  the 
working  of  the  indicated  law,  which,  as  it  has  ever  done,  holds  important 
sway  at  all  times  and  in  all  places  on  earth." 
It  must  be  understood  at  the  outset  that  the  work  is  not  a  treatise  on 
evolution  ;  yet  from  its  title  it  can  be  plainly  seen  that  questions  and  facts 
must  be  discussed  which  are  likewise  involved  in  the  former  theory.  Refrain- 
ng  from  abstruse  discussions,  the  author  endeavors  to  elucidate  the  relations 
of  causes  and  effects,  regarding  health  and  beauty  in  man,  and  drawing  his 
illustrations  from  the  savage  and  the  cultured,  and  from  all  conditions  of 
society,  reaches  his  conclusions  in  a  persuasive  and  convincing  manner.  It 
is  impossible  to  enter  into  details  in  this  place  ;  reference  must  be  had  to 
the  work  itself ;  but  it  should  be  stated  that  all  questions  involved  are  dis- 
cussed with  frankness  and  delicacy  combined. 
The  subjects  of  the  thirty-seven  chapters  may  be  briefly  summarized  as 
follows  :  Laws  of  health,  life  and  growth  ;  man's  spiritual  and  physical  place 
in  uature ;  phenomena  of  evolution  ;  environment,  training,  gracefulness, 
walking,  dressing,  bathing  ;  the  aspect,  cosmetic  care  and  treatment  of  the 
face,  hands,  feet,  nails,  hair,  etc.;  food,  clothing,  ventilation,  and  three 
chapters  on  cosmetic  articles,  medicated  soap  and  household  remedies.  The 
make-up  of  the  work  is  quite  attractive. 
Staunton,  Virginia;  its  past,  present  and  future.  By  Armistead  C.  Gordon. 
With  illustrations  from  photographs,  by  Edmund  Berkeley.  Designed,  illus- 
trated and  printed  by  the  South  Publishing  Co.,  New  York. 
The  work,  which  is  very  handsomely  illustrated,  the  text  being  ^historical 
and  descriptive,  is  issued  by  the  Staunton  Development  Co.,  whose  Eastern 
office  is  in  Philadelphia,  D.  Z.  Evans,  Jr.,  agent. 
Some  experimental  Tests  of  the  Pasteur  Filter.  By  D.  E.  Sayre  and  V.  h. 
Kellogg.    Pp.  7. 
Reprint  from  the  Transactions  of  the  Kansas  Academy  of  Science,  23d- annual 
meeting. 
The  Treatment  of  the  Morphine-disease.  By  J.  B.  Mattison,  M.D.,  Brooklyn, 
N.  Y. 
Reprint  from  the  Therapeutic  Gazette. 
Ab?iormal  intra-thoracicair-pressures  and  their  treatment.  By  Chas.  Deni- 
son,  A.M.,  M.D.,  Denver,  Col. 
This  is  the  president's  address  at  the  seventh  annual  meeting  of  the  Ameri- 
can Climatological  Association  ;  reprinted  from  The  Sanitarian. 
VARIETIES. 
Malic  acid  lozenges  have  recently  found  considerable  favor  in  England  as  a 
remedy  for  sore  throat  and  bronchial  cough.  They  are  reported  as  efficient 
not  only  in  excessive  secretion  of  mucus  and  cough,  but  also  in  catarrhal  con- 
ditions of  the  bowels  and  in  haemorrhoids.— Jour.  Am.  Med.  Assoc.,  Jan.  io, 
1891. 
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