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published  in  the  United  States  in  1870  was  5871 ;  in  all  other  parts  of  the- 
world  it  has  been  estimated  at  7642  in  the  same  year.  The  yearly  issue  of  all 
periodicals  amounted  in  1870  in  the  United  States  to  1,508,548,250  copies,  ave- 
raging nearly  forty  copies  to  every  inhabitant,  young  and  old.  There  are  seven 
papers  which  have  lived  over  one  hundred  years,  and  forty  have  reached  the 
mature  age  of  fifty  years  and  more.  In  1871  the  post-office  deparment  of  the 
United  States  delivered  32,610,553  newspapers;  yet  this  department  performs 
but  a  small  part  of  the  service  of  newspaper  delivery. 
Braithwaite's  Retrospect  of  Practical  Mtdicine  and  Surgery.  Part  LXVII, 
July.  Uniform  Americm  edition.  New  York:  W.  A.  Townsend,  publisher, 
1873.    8vo,  pp.  295.    Price,  $1.50  a  part,  or  $2.50  a  year. 
The  Half- Yearly  Abstract  of  the  Medical  Sciences ;  being  a  Digest  of  British 
and  Continental  Medicine,  and  of  the  Progress  of  iVIedicine  aud  the  Colla- 
teral Sciences.  Edited  by  Win.  D.  Stone,  M.D.,  F.R.C.S.  Vol.  LVIL 
July,  1873.  Philadelphia  :  Henry  O.  Lea.  8vo,  pp.  295.  Price,  single  vol- 
umes $1.50,  or  $2  50  per  annum. 
Half  Yearly  Compendium  of  Medical  Science.  Part  XII.  July,  1873.  Phil- 
adelphia: S.  W.  Butler,  M.D.  8vo,  pp.  280.  Price,  single  numbers  $2.00> 
or  $3  per  annum. 
The  above  three  half  yearly  periodicals  contain  pretty  complete  abstracts  of 
most  of  the  important  papers  bearing  on  medicine  and  the  collateral  sciences, 
Unofficinal  Formula?  Published  by  the  Maryland  College  of  Pharmacy  for  the- 
Use  of  its  Membership  and  Physicians.  With  the  Code  of  Ethics,  List  of 
Members  and  Faculty  of  College.  Second  edition.  Collected  and  revised 
by  a  Committee.    Baltimore,  1873.    8vo,  pp.  43. 
Report  of  the  State  Board  of  Pharmacy  (of  Rhode  Island)  made  to  the  Gene- 
ral Assembly.    1873.    Providence.    8vo,  8  pages. 
Report  on  the  New  or  Fifth  Decennial  Revisio7i  of  the  United,  States  Pharma- 
copoeia to  the  Medical  Society  of  the  State  of  Ntiu  York.  By  E.  R.  Squibb, 
M.D.  Reprinted  from  the  New  York  Medical  Journal,  April,  1873.  New 
York:  D,  Appleton  &  Co.    8vo  25  pages. 
Proceedings  of  the  Third  Annual  Meeting  of  the  Mississippi  State  Pharmaceu- 
tical Association,  held  at  Vicksburg  April  2d. 
Ou  Strictures  of  the  Urethra.  Results  of  Operation  with  the  Dilating  Ure- 
throtome, with  Cases.  By  F.  N.  Otis,  M  D.,  Clinical  Professor,  &c.  Re- 
printed from  the  N.  Y.  Medical  Journal,  March,  1873.  New  York:  D.  Ap- 
pleton &  Co.    8vo,  20  pages. 
Ergot  in  the  Treatment  of  Nervous  Diseases.  By  D.  H.  Kitchen,  M.D.,  &c. 
From  the  American  Journal  of  Insanity,  July,  1873.    8vo,  16  pages. 
Thirteenth  Annual  Report  of  the  Managers  of  the  State  Lunatic  Asylum,  Utica, 
N.  Y ,  for  the  Year  1872.  Transmitted  to  the  Legislature  March  20,  1873. 
Albany,  1873.    8vo,  96  pages. 
Fifth  Annual  Report  of  the  Pennsylvania  Society  for  the  Prevention  of  Cru- 
elty to  Animals.    Philadelphia,  1873.    8vo,  32  pages. 
Geological  Survey  of  Pennsylvania.  Report  to  Governor  Hartranft.  By  P. 
Lesley.    8vo,  12  pages. 
Cincinnati  Industrial  Exposition  of  Manufactures,  Products  and  the^Arts,. 
Rules  and  Premium  List  of  the  Fourth  Exposition,  1873.  Cincinnati,  1873.. 
8vo,  52  pages. 
The  reception  of  the  above  pamphlets  is  hereby  acknowledged. 
