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T’1’a’vaux de Neurologie Ohi’1’u’1’gioale. Revue Trimestrielle,dirigee par le Docteur A. CHIPAULT. Paris : Vigot Freres.29 Figures. 96 pp. Price 4 fr. January, 1899.-Dr. Chipault’sjournal, which has hitherto been published once a year,now makes its first appearance as a

" quarterly." It consists

entirely of original articles, several of them of greatinterest. 1. Experimental Researches on the Methods of

Trephining in Prehistoric Times, by Professor Capitan.2. On a Case of Local Lesion of the Rolandic Region(adhesions from meningitis), by Professor Raymond. The

lesion gave rise to Jacksonian fits, but they continued afterremoval of the affected membranes. 3. A Case of

Traumatic Abscess of the Right Temporo-sphenoidalLobe, by Signor Roncali. One abscess was evacuated,but the patient did not improve and after death two

large abscesses independent of the first were discovered,one in the right frontal lobe and the other in the middle lobeof the cerebellum. 4. A Case of Intradural Resection ofthe Posterior Cervical Nerve Roots for the Relief of Neuralgiain a Painful Stump, by MM. Monod and Chipault. 5. OnDeviations of the Cord in Pott’s Disease, by M. Cestan.6, 7 and 8. Treatment of Perforating Ulcer by Nerve-Stretching, by MM. Duplay, Finet and Soulier. 9. Onthe Instruments required for Excision of the Sympa-thetic, by Professor Jonnesco. 10. A Case of Myxomaof the Superior Cervical Ganglion of the Sympatheticfound at the operation of removal of the sympatheticfor the relief of epilepsy in a melancholic patient, byM. Chipault.The Microspope. By JABEZ HOGG, M.R.C.S. Eng., F.R.M.S.

Fifteenth edition. London : George Routledge and Sons.

1899. Price 10s. 6d.-When a book has reached its fifteenthedition it is difficult to find anything to say about it whichhas not been said before. The first edition appeared so longago as 1854, when, as Mr. Hogg remarks in the preface to

the present edition, the microscope was seldom or never

employed in the laboratory or in the medical schools. It is

needless to say how different matters are nowadays. The

present volume, though greatly enlarged from the formerones, does not pretend to deal with medical microscopyexcept in so far that it gives an account of one or two ofthe better-known pathogenic bacteria, such as the bacilliusanthracis and the bacillus pestis. But as regards a largeportion of the other subjects with which, microscopy deals itis a mine of information. The book is very well printed andis fully and admirably illustrated.

’CG)01G3’ Annual and Analytical Gzyelopelicc of Practical....1fedicine. Vol II. : Bromide of Ethyl to Diphtheria. Phila-

delphia : The F. A. Davis Company. Price 5 dollars.-Thesecond volume of this admirable work has made its appear-ance. We noticed Vol. I. in THE LANCET of May 28th,1898. In the present volume will be found articles whichare practically monographs by such authorities as ProfessorAdami of Montreal upon Cirrhosis of the Liver; by Pro-fessor Lepine of Lyons upon Diabetes; and by Dr. WilliamBrowning of Brooklyn upon Cerebral Haamorrbage. Thereis also an admirable and exhaustive article upon Diphtheriaby Dr. Northrup and Dr. Bovaird of New York. We haveselected these articles not in any invidious sense but

simply because they happened to be the most striking and todeal with the better known diseases, but the volume con-tains information upon nearly every conceivable medicaland therapeutical subject within the alphabetical limitsassigned to it. One omission, we have noted, occurs in

the article on Calcium in which under Therapeutics" :there is no mention of the use of calcium chloride in i

hemorrhages and various forms of urticaria as studied J

by Dr. Wright of Netley. The printing, binding, and i

illustrations of this volume are as admirable as those of i

the first. (

JOURNALS.

Scottish Medical and S1lrgioal Journal.-In the openingarticle of the February number Dr. J. J. Graham Browndiscusses the Symptoms, Pathology, and Prognosis of

Diabetes. Mr. Rutherford Morison contributes an Abstractof Clinical Lectures on Gall-stones. A gall-stone, he says,is more serious than a urinary calculus and the operation forthe removal of the former is as safe as that for the excisionof the latter. Dr. Francis D. Boyd describes two cases ofRegurgitation at the Pulmonary Artery. The diagnosticfeatures are the location of the point of differential maximumintensity in the second interspace to the left of the sternum ;the conduction of the murmur down to the left border of the

sternum; the area of audition of the murmur being widedownwards and to the left, very limited upwards or to theright ; and the absence of any such characteristic alterationin the pulse as is found in aortic incompetence.Edinbnrgh Medical Ju?tr2tal.-In the February number

Dr. F. W. N. Haultain publishes a retrospect of a first seriesof 110 Abdominal Sections for Pelvo-abdominal Disease,with two deaths. Dr. J. H. Ferguson describes the occur-rence of repeated Ectopic Pregnancy in the same patient.An article on the Bacteriology of Typhus Fever has beennoticed already in THE LANCET of Feb. llth (p. 390).Dublin J01l’rnal of .J.l1edical Science.-In the February

number Dr. Alfred Smith gives a summary of a secondseries of Abdominal Sections-100 cases with two deaths.

Captain W. J. Buchanan, I.M.S., writes on Cerebro-spinalFever in India. Dr. H. T. Bewley describes a case ofChyluria in which filariae could not be found in the blood.Dr. Patrick Letters continues his paper on PreventableDisease in the Counties of Cork, Kerry, and Waterford. Hementions that in England only 58 persons died from typhusfever in 1895, but that in Ireland there were 129 deathsfrom this disease in 1896 and 121 in 1897.

Birmingham Medical Reviem.-The February number

opens with a practical paper by Mr. W. J. McCardie onNitrous Oxide and its Uses, with especial reference to theadvantages of a mixture of nitrous oxide and oxygen. He

has administered such a mixture several times most success-

fully for a period of a quarter of an hour and once for24 minutes during a plastic operation on the vulva. The

other original article is Dr. E. W. W. White’s MiddlemorePost-Graduate Lecture on Inflammations of the Con-

junctiva.

Mercy and Truth.-In the February number Dr. A. R.Cook gives some notes of a journey of 750 miles in the

neighbourhood of the lakes which supply the Nile. On the

way he had many patients and did various operations.Medical Chronicle.-The original articles in the January

number are : (1) Observations upon the Pathology of Intra-cranial Suppuration of Otitic and Rhinitic Origin, by Mr. W.Milligan of the Manchester Ear Hospital, and (2) a continua-tion of a paper on Fractures and Dislocations of the UpperExtremity, by Mr. J. E. Platt, late resident surgical officerto the Manchester Royal Infirmary.Monist.-A paper with the heading Vitalism" in the

January number is an examination from a metaphysician’spoint of view of Professor Japp’s Presidential Addressdelivered before the Chemical Section of the British Associa-tion in 1898. The writer is Professor C. Lloyd Morgan ofBristol who takes up the position that " if by Vital Force wemean the noumenal Cause of the special modes of molecularmotion that characterise protoplasm, its metaphysical validitymay be acknowledged, so long as it is regarded as immanentin the dynamical system and not interpolated from withoutin a manner unknown throughout the rest of the wide realmDf nature."