576  Reviews  and  Bibliographical  Notices.  {Amxov.^Sarm' 
Third  Biennial  Report  of  the  Commissioners  of  Pharmacy  for  the  State  of  Iovja  ; 
with  regulations  and  abstract  of  State  Pharmacy  Eegister.  August  15,  1885. 
8vo,  pp.  136. 
Official  Circulars  of  the  Commission  of  Pharmacy  of  Iowa.  Issued  April  8  and 
^May  28, 1886. 
Fifth  Annual  Report  of  the.  Illinois  Board  of  Pharmacy  ;  with  abstract  of  State 
Pharmacy  Eegister.   8vo,  pp.  184. 
Sixth  Annual  Report  of  the  State  Board  of  Health,  lunacy  and  Charity,  of  Massa- 
chusetts. Supplement  containing  the  report  and  papers  on  Public  Health. 
Boston  :  1886.    8vo,  pp.  357. 
This  volume  contains  also  the  General  Index  to  the  Health  Supplements, 
issued  since  1879. 
Commonwealth  of  Pennsylvania,  State  Board  of  Health.  We  acknowledge 
the  receipt  of  a  number  of  documents  from  the  secretary,  Benj.  Lee,  M.D., 
1532  Pine  street,  Philadelphia.  Among  them:  Eeport  of  Organization;  Eules 
of  the  Board;  Provisional  Eegulations  relating  to  Slaughter  Houses,  etc.;  Pre- 
cautions against  Cholera  and  against  Small-pox;  Model  Ordinance  for  the 
Better  Preservation  of  the  Public  Health  in  Cities  and  Boroughs,  etc. 
Report  for  the  Year  1885-6,  Presented  by  the  Board  of  Managers  of  the  Observatory  to 
the  President  and  Fellows  of  Yale  College.   8vo,  pp.  15. 
Methods  of  Analysis  of  Commercial  Fertilizers.  Proceedings  of  the  third  annual 
convention  of  the  Association  of  Official  Agricultural  Chemists,  August  26 
and  27,  1886.   8vo,  pp.  59. 
Issued  by  the  Department  of  Agriculture,  Division  of  Chemistry,  as  Bulletin 
No.  12. 
The  following  reprints  from  medical  journals  have  been  received: 
Impetigo  Contagiosa.   By  E.  J.  Beall,  M.D.,  Fort  Worth,  Tex.    From  Texas  Med. 
Jour.,  August. 
Some  Recent  Experiences  in  Clinical  Surgery.   By  Donald  Maclean,  M.D.,  Detroit. 
From  Transactions  Mich.  State  Med.  Soc  for  1886. 
Galvano  cautery  in  Diseases  of  the  Prostate,  Bladder  and  Urethra.   By  Eob.  New- 
man, M.D.,  New  York.   From  Jour.  Amer.  Med.  Assoc.,  August  28. 
Is  Electrolysis  a  Failure  in  the  Treatment  of  Urethral  Strictures  t   By  Eob.  New- 
man, M.D.,  New  York.   From  The  Med.  Record,  Sept.  25. 
