432* 
Reviews. 
Am.  Jour.  Phatru. 
Aug.,  1^90. 
Lisbon,  has  been  awarded  to  Dr.  R.  W.  Philip,  of  the  Victoria  Dispensary  for 
Consumption  and  Diseases  of  the  Chest,  Edinburgh,  for  his  essay  on  Pul- 
monary Tuberculosis,  whicawill  be  published  by  the  College. 
The  Sixth  Centenary  of  the  University  of  Montpellier  was  celebrated  in  that 
city  in  May  last  (see  April  number,  p.  201),  according  to  the  programme  pre- 
viously arranged.  We  acknowledge  the  receipt  of  a  pamphlet  containing  the 
"discourses  delivered  on  that  occasion  by  the  Rector,  Professor  Chancel,  and  by 
Professor  Croiset,  of  the  Faculty  of  Arts,  the  latter  containing  a  historical 
review  of  the  origin  and  growth  of  the  University,  and  of  the  important  events 
connected  therewith  during  the  six  centuries  of  its  educational  labors. 
The  American  Jour?ial  of  the  Medical  Sciences. — We  learn  that  wTith  the 
completion  of  the  July  issue,  Dr!  I.  Minis  Hays  has  withdrawn  from  the  editor- 
ship of  the  journal  named,  and  that  he  will  be  succeeded  in  the  editorial  chair 
by  Dr.  Edward  P.  Davis.  It  does  not  frequently  happen  that  a  scientific  jour- 
nal of  the  standing  and  influence  of  the  one  named  remains  in  the  editorial 
care  of  father  and  son  for  sixty  years,  yet  such  has  been  the  case  with  The 
^American  Journal  of  the  Medical  Sciences.  The  retiring  editor  has  well  suc- 
ceeded in  retaining  for  the  Journal  the  high  esteem  of  the  medical  profession, 
and  in  the  hands  of  the  new  editor  its  reputation  will,  doubtless,  not  be  per- 
mitted to  decrease. 
REVIEWS  AND  BIBLIOGRAPHICAL  NOTICES. 
Practical  Sanitary  and  Economic  Cooking  adapted  to  persons  of  moderate 
and  small  means.  Ity  Mrs.  Mary  Hinman  Abel.  Published  by  the  American 
Public  Health  Association.    1S90.    i2tno.    pp.  182.    Price,  cloth,  40  cents. 
This  is  the  Lomb  prize  essay  for  18S8,  selected  out  of  seventy  presented  for 
competition.  The  committee  making  the  award  consisted  of  Prof.  C.  A. 
Lindsley,  New  Haven  ;  Prof.  G.  H.  tRohe,  Baltimore  ;  Prof.  V.  C.  Vaughan, 
Ann  Arbor  ;  Mrs.  E.  H.  Richards,  Boston,  and  Miss  E.  C.  G.  Poison.  New 
Haven.  In  their  final  report  the  committee  stated,  "that  of  all  the  essays 
submitted  the  one  selected  is  not  only  pre-eminently  the  best,  but  that  it  is 
also  intrinsically  an  admirable  treatise  on  the  subject.  It  is  simple  and  lucid 
in  statement,  methodical  in  arrangement  and  w7ell  adapted  to  the  practical 
wants  of  the  classes  to  which  it  is  addressed.  Whoever  may  read  it  can  have 
confidence  in  the  soundness  of  its  teachings,  and  cannot  fail  to  be  instructed 
in  the  art  of  cooking  by  its  plain  precepts,  founded  as  they  are  upon  the  correct 
application  of  the  scientific  principles  of  chemistry  and  physiology  to  the 
proper  preparation  of  food  for  man." 
The  book  may  be  procured  from  the  Essay  Department  of  the  American  Pub- 
lic Health  Association,  P.  O.  Drawer  289,  Rochester,  N.  Y. 
The  Suppression  of  Consumption. — By  G.  W.  Hambleton,  M.D.,  President 
of  the  Polytechnic  Physical  Development  Society  of  Great  Britain.  New 
York  :    N.  D.  C.  Hodges.    1890.    i2mo.    Price,  40  cents. 
This  is  the  first  number  of  a  series  of  essays  which  are  being  published  under 
the  general  title  of  "  Fact  and  Theory  Papers."  The  subject  indicated  in  the 
title  is  treated  of  in  a  plain  and  convincing  manner. 
