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THOSE of our readers who want to share "a physician’sholiday" should peruse the ,Doctor Abroad" in Blackwoodfor May. Eighteen months of hard work and ungenialweather have cc hipped " the doctor, who accordingly triesthe remedy he has so often prescribed to his patients, andstarts on a continental tour. He traverses the beatentrack-describes the 11 regular round,"-but with a phy-sician’s culture, an artist’s eye, and a scholar’s tastes. Justsufficient of the dramatic element is infused into hisnarrative to give it personal interest, and one or twolittle episodes break its smooth current. But the greater ,,

part of the first instalment consists of reflections, moral,artistic, and professional, and embodies the results of awide, if not always profound, range of reading.

THE Medical Committee of the Brompton Hospital forConsumption have requested Drs. Pollock, Theodore Wil-liams, Symes Thompson, and Douglas Powell to deliver,during the ensuing summer, a series of lectures on Diseasesof the Lungs and Heart. Dr. Theodore Williams will deliverthe first two lectures, which will be on the subject of

Spasmodic Asthma. ____

THE second reading of Mr. Dalrymple’s Habitual Drunk-ards Bill stands for Wednesday, the llth of June, and, fromthe nature of the Bills before it, it is pretty sure to comeon. There is reason to believe that the Government are

disposed to adopt a considerable part of the Bill-viz., thatwhich relates to voluntary entrance to established inebriateretreats.

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FROM the Quarterly Paper of the Edinburgh MedicalMissionary Society we are glad to learn that its operationshave been productive of much good, especially in India andthe East. Meanwhile the home work of the Society has notbeen neglected, satisfactory accounts of its success in Glas-gow, Aberdeen, and Liverpool having reached us.

THE practitioners of the old Indian school of medicine-the Hakims, as they are called-have protested against thereplacement of their own by the European Pharmacopœia..A company of them have lately opened an " Indo-EuropeanMedical Hall," where only native drugs are vended.

A SOCIETY has been formed in New York to establish whatare called "diet kitchens" in every dispensary district ofthat city. Each " kitchen" will furnish properly preparedfood to the sick poor on the requisition of the dispensarymedical 0fficer.

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THE King of Bavaria has given 1000 florins towards theerection of a monument to Liebig at Munich. A committeepresided over by Councillor von Niethammer are activelyengaged in the preliminary steps. -

LORD NAPIER AND ETTRICK will preside on the 21st inst.at the distribution of prizes in the Faculty of Medicine ofUniversity College, London. The chair will be taken attwo o’clock.

Analytical Records.GOODALL’S QUININE WINE.

The combination of quinine with alcohol and the flavour-ing ingredients of wine, especially orange wine, is certainlyas useful as it is pleasant and popular. The acid used toensure the solution of the quinine, in place of being mineral,as in most of the mixtures prescribed by the faculty, isvegetable, and hence is less liable to disagree with thestomach and give rise to painful tormina-a result rendered

still less likely to occur in consequence of the presence ofthe alcohol and the aromatic oil of the bitter or Sevilleorange.

It is obvious, however, that the efficacy of quinine winewill depend greatly upon the quality and quantity of theconstituents of which it is composed, and especially of thequinine employed; but on this point Messrs. Goodall ex-pressly state that their wine is made with Howard’s quinine.The samples of Goodall’s quinine we have examined havebeen of excellent quality, and remarkable for unprecedentedcheapness, which, in these days of dearness and scarcity, iscertainly in itself a great and unusual recommendation.

SOLUBLE PHOSPHATE OF IRON.

The soluble phosphate of iron of M. Leras consists ofthe pyrophosphate of iron and soda. It is usually pre-scribed in the form of the syrup-a very agreeable pre-paration. It is free from acidity, and is stated not toblacken the teeth or produce constipation. On account ofits extreme solubility it is dissolved more readily than mostpreparations of iron, and the system is in consequence morespeedily brought under the effects of this powerful remedy.The agents for its sale are Messrs. Newbery and Sons, 37,Newgate-street, London.

DRAGEES DE PHOSPHATE DE FER.

This is another and very elegant preparation of the pyro-phosphate of iron and soda. In this form the remedy maybe administered with the greatest ease to children or themost fastidious adult.

THAPSIA.

Thapsia gargarinea is an umbelliferous plant very com-mon in Algeria, and stated to be freely used by the Arabsfor its revulsant properties. The active principle of theplant is a resin, which Dr. Reboulleau has succeeded inseparating, and with which the revulsive plaster we arethus bringing under the notice of our readers is prepared.The English agents are Messrs. Newbery.

ZOLLHAUS SELTZER WATER.

A sample of seltzer water has been sent to us which issaid to come from a spring at Zollhaus, in Nassau, abouteight miles from the celebrated Selters spring, the propertyof the German Government. A company has been startedfor the purchase and utilisation of the Zollhaus spring; andit should have a fair chance of success if we may judge fromthe composition of the water, which we have ascertainedapproximately by analysis. The water has a sharp, acidtaste, and is even more highly charged with carbonic acidthan the ordinary kind, from which it differs, moreover, inseveral particulars. The solid matter consists almost en-tirely of the carbonates of sodium, calcium, magnesium, andiron, the last three being of course held in solution by car-bonic acid. No sulphuric acid, and only a trace of chlorine,could be detected. This last point is very singular, sincechlorides, and particularly sodium chloride, form the largestsolid ingredient of the Government seltzer water. Whetherthe presence of a large quantity of common salt in seltzerwater is an advantage may well be doubted, so that a com-parison seems to tell in favour of the Zollhaus water, whichhas, moreover, the additional merit of containing iron.The waters will be introduced to the profession and thepublic by the well-known importers, Mr. Ingram and Mr.Gallais.

ACQUA SALSO IODICA DI SALES.

This is a mineral water which is said to have met withgreat success in Paris. Its chief constituents are the chlo-rides of calcium, magnesium, alkali, metals, &c. ; but it is

chiefly interesting from the presence of an unusually largeproportion of iodine. We should like to see a trustworthyquantitative analysis of the water, as it is probable thatsome curious points would come to light. The specificgravity of the sample we examined was 1015, and it con-tained no sulphates.

CELENTA EGYPTA.

A preparation (made by W. Hill & Son, 60, Bishopsgate-street) which appears to be similar to the well-knownRevalenta Arabica. It is very rich in the flesh-forming ele-ments of food, and is well prepared.