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In  conclusion,  it  may  be  stated  that  the  paper  and  typography  are  excellent, 
and  that  the  volume  is  creditable  to  the  Editor  and  Committee. 
Braitlnoaite' s  Retrospect  of  Practical  Medicine  and  Surgery.     Part  Ixii. 
January,  1871.    New  York,  W.  A,  Townsend  &  Adams,  Publishers.  1871. 
Three  hundred  and  six  pages,  octavo. 
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.    Edited  by  William  Domett  Stone,  M.  D.,  F.  E.  S.  C.    Yol.  Hi. 
January,  1871.    Philadelphia,  Henry  C.  Lea,  Publisher.  1871. 
These  excellent  standard  serials  are  full  of  valuable  abstracts  from  the  jour- 
nals. Recent  information  on  New  Remedies — Chloral,  for  instance,  especially 
in  the  direction  of  therapeutics — is  abundant. 
The  Oregon  Medical  and  Surgical  Reporter.  Yol.  i.  No.  12.  December, 
1870.  Edited  by  H.  Carpenter,  M.  D.,  assisted  by  the  medical  faculty  of 
Willamette  University,  Salem,  Oregon. 
This  Journal  is  published  where,  a  few  years  ago,  the  expedition  of  Mr.  Nut- 
tall  found  a  savage  wilderness.  Thus,  after  the  pioneer,  come  the  results  of  an 
advanced  civilization,  and  testify  to  the  far-reaching  influence  of  that  liberty 
of  action  under  a  benign  government  which  enables  men,  acting  under  laws  of 
their  own  creation,  to  extend  the  circle  of  their  influence. 
OBITUARY. 
Charles  Gustavus  Bischof.  This  well-known  German  chemist  and  geolo- 
gist died  at  Bonn,  in  Rhenish  Prussia,  on  the  30th  of  November.  1870.  Ac- 
cording to  the  Times,  he  was  born  near  Nuremburg,  in  Bavaria,  on  the  18th  of 
January,  1792,  and  was  educated  at  the' University  of  Erlangen,  where  he 
studied  chemistry  and  became  one  of  the  most  distinguished  pupils  of  Prof. 
Hildebrandt.  In  1819  he  was  appointed  Prof,  of  Chemistry  and  Technology  in 
the  University  of  Bonn. 
Bischof  was  an  enthusiastic  geologist,  and  has  written  various  works  on  sub- 
jects pertaining  to  his  favorite  science.  That  by  which  he  is  best  known  here, 
and  which  was  translated  and  published  by  the  Cavendish  Society  of  London^ 
is  "Elements  of  Chemical  and  Physical  Geology." 
Samuel  D.  Hendel,  a  prominent  pharmaceutist  of  St.  Louis,  Missouri,  died 
on  the  23d  of  January,  at  that  city,  at  the  age  of  39  years  and  6  months.  Mr. 
Hendel  was  born  at  Carlisle,  Pennsylvania,  and  learned  his  business  with  the 
late  Henry  C.  Blair,  of  this  city,  and  graduated  at  the  Philadelphia  College  of 
Pharmacy  in  1852.  He  subsequently  settled  in  St.  Louis,  and  became  a  mem- 
ber of  the  firm  of  Leitch  &  Hendel.  Mr.  Wm.  H.  Crawford,  of  St.  Louis,  ta 
whom  we  are  indebted  for  information  relative  to  the  deceased,  informs  us  that 
"  he  was  much  respected  in  that  city,  and  known  to  be  thoroughly  posted  in  his 
business,  which  he  conducted  here  for  many  years." 
