478 
Reviews,  etc. 
f  Am.  J  our.  Pharm. 
\      Sept.,  1883. 
digestive  apparatus— of  converting  albuminoids  into  peptone ;  this  is  par- 
ticularly the  case  with  the  lungs  and  kidneys.  This  conversion  is  not  a 
decomposition  or  splitting  of  the  molecule  of  albuminoids,  but  consists  in 
the  softening  or  swelling  of  the  latter,  a  condition  which  is  effected  also  by 
a  large  number  of  plants.  Peptone  may  again  be  transformed  into  albu- 
minoids by  the  action  of  agents  attracting  moisture,  such  as  alcohol  and 
neutral  alkali-salts  ;  but  the  time  of  this  influence  is  an  important  factor  in 
this  transformation.    (See  also  page  444  of  the  present  number.) 
Report  of  the  Board  of  Managers  of  the  Fennsylvania  Hospital  to  the  Con- 
tributors^ at  their  Annual  Meeting,  held  May  7,  1883.    8vo,  pp.  37. 
Pharmacie  Centrale  de  France.    Compte  rendu  de  V Assemhlee  generale 
annuelle  du  29  A  vril,  1883. 
Report  to  the  General  Annual  Meeting  of  the  Central  Pharmacy  of  France. 
2'he  Bead  Suture,  a  Modification  of  the  Quilled  Suture,  etc.    By  David 
Prince,  M.D. 
From  the  Brooklyn  "Annals  of  Anatomy  and  Surgery." 
The  Percentage  of  College-bred  3Ien  in  the  Medical  Profession.    By  Chas. 
Mclntyre,  Jr.,  M.D.,  of  Easton,  Pa.    Philadelphia,  1883,    8vo,  pp.  13. 
A  valuable  paper  on  an  important  subject,  read  before  the  American 
Academy  of  Medicine,  October  27,  1882. 
Twenty-sixth  Annual  Report  of  the  Pharmaceutical  Council  of  the  Pharma- 
ceutical Society  of  Victoria,  1883 ;  with  List  of  Members  and  Honorary 
Members.    Melbourne,  1883.    8vo,  i)p.  15. 
The  roll  of  members  contains  about  250  names.  During  the  past  year  the 
first  session  of  the  Melbourne  School  of  Pharmacy  has  been  carried  through 
successfully. 
Remarks  on  Hydrophobia.    By  Chas.  W.  Dulles,  M.D. 
A  paper  read  before  the  Philadelphia  County  Medical  Society  ;  reprinted 
from  the  Philadelphia  "  Medical  Times,""  August  11,  1883. 
Report  for  the  year  1882-1883  of  H.  A.  Newton,  Director  of  the  Observatory 
in  Yale  College,  and  of  Leonard  Waldo,  Astronomer  in  charge  of  the 
Horological  and  Thermometrical  Bureaus.    New  Haven. 
From  the  last-named  report  we  note  more  particularly  the  increase  in  the 
work  of  examining  and  verifying  physicians'  thermometers,  the  number 
being  5,140  during  the  past  year  against  3,811  and  1,667  during  the  two  pre- 
ceding years. 
The  History  of  Tubercidosis  from  the  Time  of  Sylvius  to  the  Present  Day  : 
being  in  part  a  Translation,  with  ISotes  and  Additions,  from  the  German 
of  Dr.  Arnold  Spina ;  containing  also  an  Account  of  the  Researches  and 
Discoveries  of  Dr.  Robert  Koch  and  other  Recent  Investigators.  By 
Eric  E.  Sattler,  M.D.  Cincinnati :  Rob.  Clarke  &  Co.,  1883.  12mo,  pp. 
190.    Price,  cloth,  |1.25. 
