110  Reviews,  ete.  {AmFebT,\m&Tm' 
Sketch  of  the  Botanical  Work  of  the  Rev.  Moses  A.  Curtis,  A.  M.,  D.  D.,  F.  A.  A.  8.  By 
Thos.  F.Wood.    Raleigh,  N.  C,  1885.    8vo,  pp.  31. 
A  very  interesting  sketch  of  the  work  done  by  this  American  botanist,  whose 
portrait,  a  fine  steel  engraving,  accompanies  the  pamphlet.  Dr.  Curtis  was  born 
in  Massachusetts  in  1808,  and  died  in  1872.  The  paper  was  read  before  the 
Mitchell  Society  of  the  University  of  North  Carolina. 
Experiments  with  Diffusion  and,  Carbonatation  at  Ottawa,  Kansas,  Campaign  of  1885. 
By  Harvey  W.  Wiley,  Washington,  D.  C.    8vo,  pp.  20. 
The  pamphlet  is  issued  by  the  Department  of  Agriculture,  and  contains  ex- 
periments on  the  manufacture  of  sugar  from  sorghum,  made  with  the  view  of 
recovering  a  larger  percentage  of  it  than  has  hitherto  been  accomplished.  This 
the  author  believes  can  be  done  after  some  difficulties,  which  are  wholly  me- 
chanical, have  been  overcome. 
Lectures  on  Syphilis.  Delivered  at  the  Chicago  College  of  Physicians  and  Surgeons 
by  G.  Frank  Lydston,  M.  D.,  etc,  reported  by  Wm.  A.  Walker,  A.  M.,  M.D., 
Attending  Physician  to  the  West  Side  Dispensary.  Chicago:  A.  M.Wood  & 
Co.,  1885,  pp.  185.    Price,  $1.25. 
After  having  been  published  in  The  Western  Medical  Reporter,  these  lectures 
have  been  collected  for  republication  in  their  present  convenient  form.  The 
aim  of  the  lecturer  has  been  to  present  a  plain  and  practical  idea  of  the  whole 
subject  of  syphilis  as  at  present  taught,  together  with  practical  points  drawn 
from  personal  observation  in  hospital  and  dispensary  practice.  The  nomencla- 
ture used  in  the  prescriptions  given,  although  in  general  that  of  the  U.  S.  Phar- 
macopoeia, lacks  uniformity ;  thus  we  have  Sarsa  and  Sarsaparilla,  Kalium  and 
Potassium,  etc. 
An  Experimental  and,  Clinical  Study  of  Air-Embolism.  By  N.  Senn,  M.  D.,  of 
Milwaukee,  Wis.,  etc.    Philadelphia:  Collins,  Printer,  1886.    8vo,  pp.  121. 
A  reprint  from  the  Transactions  of  the  American  Surgical  Association,  vol. 
iii,  1886.  , 
Transactions  of  the  American  Dermatological  Association  at  the  ninth  annual  meet- 
ino1  held  at  Indian  Harbor  Hotel,  Greenwich,  Conn.,  August  26  to  28,  1 885. 
Official  Report  of  the  Proceedings  by  the  secretary,  W.  T.  Alexander,  A.  M., 
M.  D.   New  York:  1885,  8vo,  pp.  47. 
Lecons  sur  Vetiologie  et  la  prophylaxie  de  la  fievre  jaune.  Par  le  Dr.  Manuel  Car- 
mona  y  Valle,  Professeur  de  Clinique  internea  la  Faculte  de  Medecine  de 
Mexico,  etc.  Mexico :  Imp.  du  Ministere  des  Travaux  Publics,  1885.  8vo, 
pp.  299.' 
Lectures  on  the  etiology  and  prophylaxis  of  yellow  fever. 
The  lectures  were  delivered  toward  the  close  of  the  year  1884 ;  but  the  re- 
searches detailed  therein  extend  over  a  series  of  years.  The  botanical  history 
of  the  fungus,  met  with  in  the  various  secretions  of  yellow  fever  patients,  is 
fully  illustrated  upon  two  chromo-lithographic  plates,  and  by  six  photographs 
magnifying  the  objects  500  or  1000  diameters. 
Hydronaphthol,  a  new  antiseptic.  By  Geo.  R.  Fowler,  M.D.,  Surgeon  to  St.  Mary's 
General  Hospital,  Brooklyn.   Pp.  31. 
Reprinted  from  the  New  York  Medical  Journal.    (See  page  93  of  this  number.) 
