LEMON WINE.-To one gallon of water add three pounds of pounded sugar, boil it for a quarter of an hour, skimming it well; pare four lemons very thin, and pour the thin syrup on the peel; make their juice into a thick syrup with one-half pound of sugar, pounded; toast a slice of bread, spread on it a spoonful of fresh yeast, put it into the liquor when lukewarm, allow it to work two days, then pour off into a small cask, close down tightly, let it stand for three months, and then bottle off.

QUINCE CIDER.-A very pleasant beverage can be produced as follows: Take a quantity of ripe quinces, cut into quarters and with the pips, etc., removed. Boil these in a copper with double their weight of water; when boiled to perfect softness pour the must into a vat. To this add, to every fifty pints of must two pounds of sugar and half a pint of yeast, diluted in a sufficiency of hot water. Mix the whole well together and allow it to ferment. Then strain and bottle.

LEMON WHEY.-Take a pint of milk and water, the juice of two lemons, and let the mixture boil for five minutes; strain and add sugar to taste; or One pint of boiling milk, half a pint of lemon juice, sugar to taste. Mix and strain.

LEMON SHRUB.-The juice of twelve lemons, the thin rind of two, one pound of sugar, the whites of two eggs, well whisked, one pint of water, half a pint of rum, and half a pint of good Brandy. Mix and strain.

MILK LEMONADE.-Loaf sugar, one and a half pounds, dissolved in a quart of boiling water, with half a pint of lemon juice, and one and a half pints of milk; this makes a capital summer beverage. A half pint of good Sherry added is a great improvement.

STILL LEMONADE. -The juice of three lemons, the peel of one, quarter of a pound of lump sugar, and a quart of cold water. Mix, digest for five hours and strain.

down the temperature and to relieve the local irritation.

4. The first indication can be met by the exhibition of antifebrine in proper doses; the second by the frequent application of bicarbonate of sodium, either in powder or in solution, to the surface of the tonsil.

5. This plan, properly followed, will generally limit the disease from one to three days.

Class-Room Notes.

-Consumption does not result from nasal

catarrh.

-In one case in six of sterility the husband is at fault. (Gross.)

-Inertia of the uterus is often the cause of post-partum hemorrhage. (Parvin.)

-Prof. Gross states that medical means are of no avail in hyperesthesia of the urethra. -No effect is more certain than the power of galvanism to relieve pain. (Bartholow.)

-Any deformity of the pelvis in early life. is almost invariably due to rickets. (Prof. Parvin.)

-Prof. Gross recently cured a large hydrocele of the neck of an infant by the injection of crude carbolic acid.

-Prof. Bartholow prescribed three-grain doses of acetanilide for a small girl suffering from chorea, all the muscles being the seat of jactitation.

-Anteversion in latter part of pregnancy should be treated by abdominal bandages. Treatment in first part of pregnancy is unnecessary. (Parvin.)

-Pruritus ani, when due to engorgement of portal circulation and accompanied by heat of the anal region, may sometimes be cured by leeching the parts affected.

-Pulmonary hemorrhage, when due to acute congestion of the lungs and the general condition of plethora, is usually promptly arrested by opening a vein in the arm.

-When operating for hernia, pass the knife under the stricture and cut upward; do not cut inward or outward, as there is no certainty as to the location of the artery. (Brinton.)

-A case of acute pleurisy was successfully treated by giving, each morning, 1 ounce of sodii et potassii tartras and 1⁄2 ounce of Basham's mixture, three times a day, and withdrawing all fluid diet.

-For incontinence of urine in a boy six years of age, Prof. Parvin prescribed onetwelfth of a grain of alcoholic extract of belladonna three times a day, which was followed by very gratifying results.

-The favorite treatment of pneumonia in the Pennsylvania Hospital is by the administration of quinine, ten or twelve grains daily, in combination with tincture of digitalis, nitrate of potassium and whisky.

-The best way of promoting anterior rotation of the chin in face presentation, should intervention be necessary, is to resist the descent of that part of the face which is opposite, that is the forehead. (Parvin.)

-Dr. Sajous says that nasal douches should be rarely used for catarrh, but when used the Eustachian tube should be closed so as to prevent the fluid from passing into the middle ear and causing severe aural trouble.

-For specific vaginitis application of solution of corrosive sublimate, followed by tampons of alum and glycerine, or, if very severe, powdered alum alone upon tampon, and daily cleansing, is the treatment of Prof. Parvin.

-Dr. Hearn recently prescribed the following for a case of tinea versicolor, at Jefferson College Hospital .—

Veratrine ointment to be rubbed in along the course of the nerve.

-For a girl suffering from ascites, swollen abdomen, pain, persistent fever and secondary pruritus which had traveled by continuity, Prof. Bartholow prescribed one-twelfth grain hydrochlorate of pilocarpine morning and evening, warm applications to abdomen, hypophosphite of sodium, to be followed afterward by syrup of iodide of iron.

-The best method for curing fistula in ano without the use of the knife is by passing a silk or gum-elastic cord through the fistulous tract and bringing it out of the rectum, tie it. This will excite inflammation, and the cord will gradually cut its way out, followed by granulation. By this method the patient can be cured while following his ordinary occupation. (Prof. Brinton.)

-For a patient who had lead poisoning and presented the following symptoms: severe abdominal cramps, constipation, anæmia, constant headache, pale tongue showing marks of teeth, and had two convulsions, Prof. Da Costa prescribed fifteen-grain doses of iodide of potassium and half-drachm doses of syrup of iodide of iron. For the constipation a drachm of compound licorice powder at night.

-Oliver's test for bile in urine is efficient, and is performed as follows:-Make a solution containing thirty grains of pulverized peptone (Savory and Moore), four grains salicylic acid, thirty minims acetic acid and eight ounces of distilled water. Secure perfect transparency by repeated filtration. Pour twenty minims of urine into one drachm of the test solution, and if bile is present an opalescence appears proportionate to the amount present.

A survey of the columns of our present issue devoted to recent medical publications | will induce varied reflections on the part of the reader, according to his temperament and methods of thought. It will seem to many, perhaps, that on some subjects an unnecessary and superfluous number of medical treatises has recently been issued, and the wonder will arise within them as to the probabilities of a remunerative return for so much expenditure. Others will feel a cheerful patriotism that American medical literature is being enriched by such valuable additions. Gynæcology, in its broadest acceptation as the description and treatment of diseases of women, not in its restriction as a specialty, seems to be the fertile field for the modern writer, and this is due, not only to the profound and universal sense of the importance of administering the best therapeutic and surgical relief to a suffering sex, but also to the inclination and admiration that so many medical men have for the invention and adoption of mechanical measures and appliances. This tendency has doubtless led many a young man to study medicine, and eventually to cultivate the manipulations of operative surgery. Sims, without the practical ingenuity and inventiveness that characterized the transition from the dull routine of his struggling professional life, might have remained obscure and unknown; and Emmet, from his youth, had a prominently developed spot in his cere

mind and a skill in mechanical appliances.

It will be observed that the great mass of new medical books is of a practical character; even chemistry, with its minutia of detail, seeking out channels in which it may subserve the purposes of the practicing physician. The medical world welcomes all these contributions and aids to its pleasure, its progress and its pecuniary profit, and chooses for itself those which offer to it the greatest amount of assistance in its battle for the prevention and relief of human suffering. The interests of publishers are intimately blended with their judgment as to the intrinsic value and commercial prospects of their productions, so that it seldom happens that books characterized by inferiority, or even mediocrity, are allowed to present themselves before a discriminating public. In the mass of current practical matter that the progress of the age is perpetually bringing to the surface, the critic of the present day is fortunately deprived of an opportunity of devoting a dozen pages or more, as in the old days of the quarterlies, to a complacent ventilation of his own self-satisfied views of the contents of a medical book. Few books are published nowadays that deserve so severe a punishment. Almost all medical works of these modern times, emanating from the press of reputable publishers, deserve laudation rather than castigation.

Our Library Table.

[All new publications noticed in this department, and all other medical works, except subscription books, may be procured, at a discount, by addressing WM. F. FELL & Co., 1220-1224 Sansom St., Philadelphia.]

ATLAS OF VENEREAL ANd Skin Diseases. By Prince A. Morrow, M.D. Fasciculi IV and V. Wm. Wood & Co., New York. This beautiful work will doubtless command, if it has not already commanded, the

enthusiastic appreciation of the whole medical profession. The skill of the artist, earnestness and ability of the editor, and enterprise and good taste of the publishers, have culminated in the issue of an Atlas of life-like portraitures of disease, as striking as they are true, at once studies of art and of nature. THE UNIVERSAL MEDICAL SCIENCES. A Yearly Report of the Progress of the General Sanitary Sciences throughout the World. Edited by Charles E. Sajous, M.D., and 70 associate editors. 5 vols. 8vo. F. A. Davis, Philadelphia. 1888.

ANNUAL OF

Dr. Sajous may be congratulated, as editorin-chief of this novel and important work, on the satisfactory completion of his first year's labors. The editor's pathway is not strewn with roses, under the very best dispensation, and his course, like that of true love, is never smooth; but few who are not familiar with the exigencies of the occasion are aware of the difficulties that beset him even when he has, in addition to the printer, only a few associates, correspondents and contributors to keep in regulation marching order. The punctual and simultaneous appearance of the whole five volumes of this remarkable enterprise, depending on the peǹs, punctuality and perseverance of so many contributors that their names and single official titles fill fourteen octavo columns of type, is, therefore, worthy of special mention. The object of the Annual is the collection of the progressive features of medical literature at large, and clinical data from countries in which no literature exists, and to present the whole once a year in a continued form, prepared by writers of known ability. The work is in every way a success. THE LANGUAGE OF MEDICINE. A Manual giving the Origin, Etymology, Pronunciation and Meaning of the Technical Terms found in Medical Literature. By F. R. Campbell, A.M., M.D. 8vo. 318 pages. D. Appleton & Co., New York.

We welcome with much gratification a volume which forms such pleasant reading for the physician who may desire to know something of the grammar and orthography of the medical portion of the English language, if

we may so term it. It is a sort of guide or introduction to the dictionary, showing him why the words exist, or rather the foundation of their existence. The mere practitioner will not find in such chapters as the Origin of Words, The Life and Death of Words, Nomenclature, etc., anything available for him in the next case of gastric fever or diphtheria he may be called upon to attend, but Dr. Campbell has given much food for reflection to the earnest, thoughtful student of his profession.

A REFERENCE HANDBOOK OF THE MEDICAL SCIENCES. Edited by Albert H. Buck, M.D. Vol. VI. William Wood & Co., New York. 1888.

Vol. VI of this voluminous work embraces

the subjects included between Prairie Itch and Teplitz Schönau. The variety of topics may be more intelligently presented to the reader when we state that Pregnancy, Prostate, Prurigo and Psoriasis, Ptomaines, Puberty, Puerperal Condition, Pulse, Purgatives, Quarantine, Rabies, Resection, Respiration, Rhubarb, Sewage, Splints, Syphilis, and a host of kindred matters are fully and ably discussed in all their therapeutic, hygienic, pathological and other relations. We can truly say of this excellent cyclopædia, at the risk of being charged with the employment of a venerable and antique sentence, that this work should be in the hands of every practitioner.

THE PATHOLOGY, DIAGNOSIS AND TREATment of the Diseases of WOMEN. By Grailly Hewitt, M.D., etc. Edited, with Notes and Additions, by H. Marion Sims, M.D. 3 vols. 8vo. Cloth, $2.75 per vol. E. B. Treat, New York. 1887.

This is a new American edition from the fourth revised and enlarged English one. Its author is one of the most distinguished gynaecologists in the world, whose views are always worthy of the most respectful consideration. Dr. Sims, whose notes give additional value to the text, claims as peculiar points of interest in the book, that it insists on better nutrition, advocates the view that pathological changes are produced by mechanical

causes, that the nausea of pregnancy is a neurosis produced by uterine distortion, and that hysteria is a uterine, not ovarian, reflex symptom, dependent always on flexion or malposition.

A TREATISE ON FRACTURES AND DISLOCATIONS. Vol. II. Dislocations. By Lewis Dislocations. By Lewis A. Stinson, B.A., M.D. 8vo. 541 pages.

163 illustrations. (Vol. I. Fractures.) Price $3.00 per vol., cloth; $4.00, leather; or $5.50, cloth, for the two; $7.50, leather. Lea Bros. & Co., Philadelphia.

This volume is complete in itself, being devoted to the subject designated in the second half of the title. As stated in the publishers' announcement, the appearance of this volume marks the completion of the author's original plan of preparing a work which should present in the fullest manner all that is known on the cognate subjects of Fractures and Dislocations. The volume on Fractures, which appeared a few years since, assumed at once the position of authority on the subject, and its companion on Dislocations will doubtless be similarly received.

A MANUAL OF THE MINOR GYNECOLOGICAL OPERATIONS. By J. Halliday Croom, M.D. Revised and enlarged by Lewis S. McMurtry, A.M., M.D. 228 pages. 12mo. Records, McMullin & Co., Limited, Philadelphia. 1888.

This useful and reliable little work is intended to furnish the student and practitioner a brief and simple account of the more common gynæcological operations, for, as stated by the American editor, the manipulative part of gynecic surgery has grown so much in extent and importance as to render a work of details of procedure like this especially useful. It has gone through two Edinburgh editions, and with the important practical additions made to it by the accomplished editor, will doubtless become an exceedingly popular contribution to medical literature.

THE APPLIED ANATOMY OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM. By Ambrose L. Ranney, A.M., M.D. Second Edition. 8vo. 791 pages. D. Appleton & Co., New York. 1888. When Professor Ranney's interesting and picturesque work first appeared, it became

our pleasant duty to refer to it in the terms. of commendation it so well deserved. It is a study of the nervous system from the standpoint of its general interest and practical utility in diagnosis. The work has been rewritten, enlarged and profusely illustrated with attractive woodcuts, and the latest discoveries in anatomy and physiology are conspicuous through its pages. It occupies a field that is peculiarly its own, and in which it has no rival. The typographical and other mechanical work is of the very best kind. THE SURGICAL DISEASES OF THE GENITOURINARY ORGANS, INCLUDING SYPHILIS. By E. L. Keyes, A. M., M. D. 8vo. 704 pages. Cloth, $5.00. D. Appleton & Co., New York.

Prof. Keyes has done the profession good service in this thorough revision of the original work which Prof. Van Buren and himself

prepared, now many years ago. As the latter birth since that date, the surgery of the kidney states in his preface, litholapaxy has had its has been constructed anew, and very different views are entertained as to the pathology and treatment of many of the abnormal conditions of the genito-urinary system. Thoroughly modernized as Dr. Keyes' important work now is, it will long remain a monument of the skill, originality and tact of its talented author. A COMPEND OF HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY. By Albert P. Brubaker, M.D. Fourth Edition. Price $1.00. P. Blakiston, Son & Co., Philadelphia, 1888.

12mo.

This is a new edition, still further modernized, of an excellent work and an excellent and popular series.

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE STUDY OF THE HEART AND LUNGS. By James R. Leaming, M. D. 8vo. 300 pages. Price $2.75E. B. Treat & Co., New York.

These interesting and important monographs have appeared at different times in medical journals and in Transactions of State societies. They embrace many of the most important pathological conditions to which heart and lungs are subject, and the views entertained by the author were wholly original, when first advanced, so that they were