480  Reviews,  etc. — Obituaries.  {A"'j2%,£r"" 
Contributions  from  the  Laboratory  of  the  [Missouri)  State  University.  Part  I.  Deter- 
mination of  Baryum.    By  Prof.  P.  Schweitzer,  Ph.D. 
This  is  the  first  of  a  series  of  essays  on  the  various  methods  of  separating  and 
determining  barium,  strontium  and  calcium,  and  treats  of  the  determination  of 
barium  as  sulphate,  chromate,  carbonate,  silicofluoride  and  oxalate. 
An  Address  on  some  of  the  leading  Public  Health  Questions,  with  Remarks  on  the 
Extent  of  Swamp  Lands  in  the  United  States  and  their  Reclamation  as  a  Sanitary 
and  Economic  Measure.    By  J.  M.  Toner,  M.D. 
The  address  was  delivered  before  the  American  Public  Health  Association,  at 
its  third  annual  meeting,  at  Baltimore,  November  9th,  1875. 
A  Report  on  Dermatology.    By  Prof.  Lunsford  P.  Yandell,  Jr.,  M.D. 
Read  before  the  Kentucky  State  Medical  Society,  April,  1876. 
A  Clinical  Lecture  on  the  Use  of  Plastic  Dressing  in  Fractures  from  Lower  Extremity. 
By  Prof.  David  W.  Yandell,  M.D. 
From  the  "American  Practitioner,"  of  July. 
Orthopedic  Surgery:  Deformities  of  the  Lower  Extremities.  By  Van  S.  Lindsley^ 
M.D. 
Read  before  the  Medical  Society  of  Tennessee,  April,  1876. 
A  Plea  for  Principles  and  Conservatism  in  the  Treatment  of  Diseases  peculiar  to 
Females.    By  Prof.  Wm.  Abram  Love,  M.D. 
From  the  Atlanta  "  Medical  and  Surgical  Journal,"  July,  1876. 
Sulphate  of  Cinchonidia  a  Substitute  for  Sulphate  of  Quinine.  By  Prof.  J.  W.  Comp- 
ton,  M.D. 
Read  before  the  Kentucky  State  Medical  Society,  April,  1876. 
On  Strictures  of  the  Male  Urethra,  its  Radical  Cure.  By  Prof.  Fessenden  N.  Otis,, 
M.D. 
On  the  Treatment  of  Incipient  Stricture  by  Otis'  Operation.  By  Prof.  Berkeley  HilL 
Together  with  Explanatory  Remarks  on  the  Treatment  of  Stricture  and  Gleet, 
By  Prof.  F.  N.  Otis. 
From  the  London  "Lancet,"  April  8,  June  3  and  June  10,  1876. 
OBITUARIES. 
Robert  P.  Southall,  a  native  of  Virginia,  died  at  Washington,  D.  C,  August 
26th,  at  the  age  of  40  years.  He  had  practised  pharmacy  for  over  21  years,  princi- 
pally in  Richmond,  Baltimore  and  Washington. 
Francis  S.  Gaither  died  suddenly  at  Washington,  D.  C,  on  the  evening  of 
September  12th,  from  hemorrhage  of  the  lungs,  at  the  age  of  40  years.  He  was 
born  in  Georgetown,  D.  C,  and  learned  and  practised  his  profession  in  Washing- 
ton, where  he  became  a  charter  member  of  the  National  College  of  Pharmacy,  in 
which  he  was  elected  to  the  chair  of  Theory  and  Practice  of  Pharmacy,  but,  his 
health  failing,  was  compelled  to  resign.  His  studies  were  mainly  devoted  to  phar- 
maceutical chemistry. 
