Reviews,  etc. 
Am.  Jour.  Pharm 
April,  1880. 
ordered  to  be  printed  after  receiving  the  necessary  funds  by  subscriptions.  Our 
readers  are  aware  that  we  highly  appreciate  the  invaluable  services  of  the  chairman, 
and  the  efficient  labors  of  the  various  contributors.  Notwithstanding  this,  we  have 
been  opposed  to  the  publication  of  the  report;  but,  although  we  see  no  reason  to 
change  our  views,  we  sincerely  trust  that  our  misgivings  may  ultimately  prove  to 
have  been  unfounded. 
Sore  "Throat,  its  Nature,  Varieties  and  Treatment ;  including  the  connection  between 
affections  of  the  throat  and  other  diseases.    By  Prosser  James,  M.D.,  Lecturer  on 
Materia  Medica  and  Therapeutics  at  the  London  Hospital,  etc.    Fourth  edition. 
Philadelphia:  Lindsay  &  Blakiston,  1880.     i2mo,  pp.  318.    Price,  $2. 
The  intrinsic  value  of  this  work,  and  the  researches  of  its  author  in  the  class  of 
diseases  of  which  the  book  treats  are  well  known  to  our  medical  readers,  and  need 
no  further  comment.  The  typography  is  unexceptionable,  the  wood  cuts  are  instruc- 
tive and  the  copper  plate  engravings,  colored  by  hand,  are  excellent     The  present 
enlarged  and  partly  rewritten  edition  will  doubtless  be  hailed  with  the  same  satisfac- 
tion, by  every  laryngoscopi^t,  that  has  been  accorded  to  the  preceding  ones. 
Brain  Work  and  Over  Work.  By  Dr.  H.  C  Wood,  Clinical  Professor  of  Nervous 
Diseases  in  the  University  of  Pennsylvania,  etc.  Philadelphia  :  Presley  Blakiston. 
1880.  i6mo,  pp,  126.    Price,  50  cents. 
This  is  one  of  the  volumes  ot  the  American  Health  Primers,  which  were 
formerly  published  by  Lindsay  &  Blakiston.  The  little  book  before  us  should  be  in 
the  hands  of  all  using  their  mental  faculties  in  their  daily  labors.  It  discusses  all 
questions  connected  with  brain  work  in  a  forcible  and  suggestive  manner,  and  we 
feel  confident  that  all  interested  in  the  .^^uhject  will  study  it  with  profit  to  themselves. 
Our  Homes.  By  Henry  Hartshorne,  A.M.,  M.D.,  formerly  Professor  of  Hygiene 
in  the  University  of  Pennsylvan'a.  Philadelphia:  Presley  Blakiston.  1880.  i6mo, 
pp.  150.    Price,  50  cents. 
Another  volume  of  the  American  Health  Primers,  and  one  in  the  subject  matter 
of  which  every  one  is  interested,  since  it  discusses  the  all-important  question  :  How 
shall  we  have  healthy  homes  ?  Situation,  construction,  light,  warmth,  ventilation, 
water  supply,  drainage,  disinfection,  population  and  workingmen^s  homes  are  the 
topics  considered.  More  than  30  w^ood  cuts  have  been  introduced  in  illustration  of 
the  correct  and  improper  systems  of  ventilation  and  drainage. 
On  the  Internal  use  of  Water  for  t/ie  Sicky  and  on  Thirst,  A  clinical  lecture  at  the 
Pennsyh'ania  Hospital,  October  25,  1879.  By  J.  Forsyth  Meigs,  M.D.,  one  of 
the  attending  physicians  to  the  hospital,  Philadelphia:  Lindsay  &  Blakiston.  1880. 
pp.  54,    Price,  25  cents. 
The  pamphlet  wdiich  bears  on  its  title  page,  as  a  motto,  the  old  English  proverb  : 
"Drinking  water  neither  makes  a  man  sick,  nor  in  debt,  nor  his  wife  a  widow" — 
discusses  a  subject  of  the  utmost  Importance  in  which  all  are  interested.  Though 
delivered  before  medical  students,  this  lecture  may  be  read  with  profit  by  others,  and 
more  particularly  by  those  to  whom  the  care  of  sick  people  is  intrusted. 
Sulphate  of  ^ifiia.     Statement  of  the  American  manufacturers  regarding  the 
repeal  of  the  duty  on  the  foreign  article.    January,  1880.    pp.  12 
This  pamphlet,  which  we  suppose  may  be  obtained  from  any  one  of  the  four 
manufacturers  of  quinia  in  New  York  and  Philadelphia,  furnishes  much  food  for 
thought  to  the  advocates  of  the  hasty  and  injudicious  legislation  by  which  the  duty 
on  foreign  quinia  was  repealed. 
