192  EDITORIAL. 
mutilated  or  deformed  part  of  the  body."  The  various  important  opera, 
tions  which  constitute  this  department  of  surgery,  very  much  belong  to 
more  recent  times,  and  for  want  of  a  general  understanding  among 
surgeons  in  regard  to  the  language  used  in  describing  or  naming  them,  the 
author  thinks  loss  has  occurred.  In  the  work  before  us  he  proposes  to 
give  form  and  character  to  the  language  of  Plastic  Surgery,  and  to  present 
what  is  known  of  the  art  in  a  brief  but  connected  treatise.  Those  who  are 
able  to  judge  of  its  merits,  speak  favorably  of  its  claims  as  a  resume  of  the 
existing  state  of  the  art. 
Annual  abstract  of  Therapeutics,  Materia  Medica,  Pharmacy  and  Toxicol. 
°9i/>  for  1867,  followed  by  an  original  memoir  on  gout,  gravel  and 
urinary  calculi,  by  A.  Bouchardat,  Prof.  Hygien,  &c,  to  Medical  Faculty 
of  Paris.  Translated  by  M.  J.  De  Rossett,  M.  D.,  adjunct  to  the  Prof, 
of  Chemistry  in  the  University  of  Maryland,  &c.  Phila. :  Lindsay  & 
Blakiston,  1868,  pp.  314. 
Some  of  our  readers  may  recognize  in  this  volume  an  old  friend  in  a 
new  dress.  Bouchardat's  "  Annuaire,"  is  now  in  its  27th  year,  and  em- 
bodies a  store  of  valuable  information,  gathered  from  the  medical  and 
pharmaceuticals  journals,  chiefly  those  of  the  continent.  In  rendering  the 
quantities  of  formulae,  as  a  general  rule  it  will  be  safer  to  use  the  original 
quantities  as  they  may  be  intended  for  extemporaneous  use.  We  observe 
several  variations  from  this  rule  to  avoid  fractions.  The  book  is  neatly 
gotten  up,  and  will  afford  physicians  an  annual  expose  of  the  novelties  in 
French  therapeutics,  chiefly  gathered  from  the  journals, 
Braithwaite's  Retrospect  of  Practical  Medicine  and  Surgery.  Part  LVI, 
January,  1868,  American  Edition.  New  York,  Townsend  &  Adams. 
]868;  pp.  333. 
This  excellent  half-yearly  digest  of  British  medical  and  surgical  papers 
is  too  well  known  to  need  explanation.  The  volume  just  received  has  the 
usual  variety  of  subjects,  and  should  be  on  the  table  of  every  practitioner. 
Lindsay  &  Blakiston,  and  J.  B.  Lippincott  &  Co.,  are  Philadelphia 
agents. 
The  Half  Yearly  Abstract  of  the  Medical  Sciences;  being  a  digest  of  , 
British  and  Continental  Medicine,  and  of  the  progress  of  medicine  and 
the  collateral  sciences.  Yol.  xlvi.  J uly  to  December,  1867.  Philada.: 
Henry  C.  Lea;  pp.  288. 
Contains  very  much  of  interest  to  the  physician,  and  is  too  well  known 
and  appreciated  as  a  standard  semi-annual  to  need  other  notice  than  the 
announcement  of  its  issue. 
Obituary.— Notices  of  the  Death  of  Mr.  Warrington,  of  Apothecaries 
Hall ;  and  Dr.  Danberry,  of  Oxford,  are  necessarily  crowded  out. 
