teresting little work, the first edition of which we were pleased to call the attention of our readers to some months ago. Those who have not seen it will never regret the investment of one dollar in so entertaining a volume. THE POCKET ANATOMIST. Founded upon Gray. By C. HENRI LEONARD, A. M., M.D., Professor of the Medical and Surgical Diseases of Women and Clinical Gynecology, in the Detroit College of Medicine. Fourteenth revised edition, containing Dissection Hints and Visceral Anatomy. Detroit, Mich., 1891. The Illustrated Medical Journal Co., Publishers. Cloth 297 pages, 193 Illustrations. Price, postpaid, $1.00. This book is issued on thin, though nicely glazed paper, and takes up but little room, though 300 pages in thickness. The plates introduced are photo-engraved from the English edition of Gray, and are therefore exact; most of them are full-paged, and where they are not, they are grouped together so as to save as much thumbing as possible. The useless "questions" are absent in this work, and their room given to needed illustrations or terse descriptions of the minor parts found in the several dissections made. The chapter given to "dissection hints" gives the lines of incision necessary to best expose the underlying organs, arteries, nerves or muscles. The chapter on "Gynecological Anatomy" can be found only in the more expensive work of Savage. The pronunciation of each anatomical term is given, be it artery, vein, nerve, muscle or bone. Over 100 pages are devoted to the anatomy of the special organs and viscera. The book has been honored by a re-printing in England after some three thousand copies had been sold over there by the American publishers. THE MOTHER'S HAND-Book: A Practical Treatise on the Management of Children in Health and Disease, with an Appendix on Diseases and Accidents that may suddenly happen to grown persons. By LEVIN J. WOOLEN, M. D. 8 vo., Cloth, pp. 419. Everett-Waddey Co., Publishers, Richmond, Va., 1891. The author who has had thirty years experience in town and country practice, has written this work with the hope that the information contained will be of use to mothers and others charged with the responsibility of children, and has endeavored to make it a useful guide, particularly to those who live in the country or small towns, where .medical advice cannot always be promptly attained. From his preface we quote the following: "While directions are given for the administration of medicines in simple cases, and when emergencies require prompt action, it has been the aim of the writer to discourage the mother from assuming the functions of the physician and undertaking to treat, by means of drugs, diseases of a serious or complicated character." We are glad to see that in his directions for treatment, the writer has confined himself to a few reliable remedies, rather than confusing by suggesting a large number. The important subject of infant feeding has been fully considered; and the suggestions in regard to accidents and emergencies in cases of adults cannot but prove of value. The work is excellently printed and handsomely bound, and contains much valuable and practical information. PRACTICAL INTESTINAL SURGERY, (Physician's Leisure Library). By FRED B. ROBINSON, B.S., M.D., Professor of Anatomy and Clinical Surgery, Toledo Medical College. Vol. II., 12 mo. Paper, pp. 206. Price, 25 cents. Geo. S. Davis, Publisher, Detroit, 1891. The second volume of this valuable addition to the Leisure Library Series fully justifies the favorable opinion formed of its predecessor as stated in our August number. Dr. Robinson is to be congratulated on so graphically elucidating the important points of intestinal surgery. SANDERS & SONS' Eucalypti Extract (Eucalyptol).-Apply to Dr. Sanders, Dillon, Iowa, for gratis supplied samples of Eucalyptol and reports on cures effected at the clinics of the Universities of Bonn and Griefswald. Meyer Bros.' Drug Co., St. Louis and Kansas City, Mo., Dallas, Texas, and New York, sole agents. Is Extirpation of the Cancerous Uterus a Justifiable Opera- tion. By John H. McIntyre, A.M., M.D. 388 Therapeutic Uses of Two Remedies. Creolin in Dysentery, Serous Diarrhoea and Summer Com- Selected Items 392 394 396 397 412 Nitrate of Amyl in Chloroform Anæsthesia. The Production of Diabetes Mellitus by Extirpation of the Pancreas . . The Treatment of Fissured Nipple THE SOUTHERN PRACTITIONER. AN INDEPENDENT MONTHLY JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO MEDICINE AND SURGERY SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR "A short way over the long route via opium, or one of its alkaloids," would, perhaps, be more in accordance with the sensational head-lines to which the secular press, in its diurnal appearance, is prone in this progressive age. The subject of acute opium poisoning, suggested by your Committee on Essays, is more than apropos at this time, if we take the mortality reports of the Health Department of this city as a guide, for by looking over the records for the current year we find that no less than eleven deaths have already occurred from poisoning by some form of opium, morphia sulphate having the predominance over the crude drug or its other alkaloids or preparations, thus giving us in our 76,369 inhabitants a death rate of 1.29 per 1,000 per annum. *A paper read at the Nashville Academy of Medicine September 24, 1891. Of all the many drugs that are embraced in any of our works on Materia Medica and Therapeutics, there is, perhaps, not one that is so universally used in each and all the branches, specialties and departments of medicine as opium or some of its preparations. Its sedative, anodyne, hypnotic, anti-spasmodic and astringent properties are so valuable, so marked and so potent, that there are but few pathological conditions in which it cannot at some time be used with advantage. In fact, it has only become too popular as a remedial agent, and is by far too indiscriminately used by both professional and non-professional citizens of this country. You can hardly find a country cross-roads store that does not order regularly and keep on its shelves one or more preparations of this important drug-so potent for evil as well as good; yes, quite as regularly and certainly is it to be found as the most staple articles of commerce. A few words of prophylaxis at the beginning of my remarks may not be untimely or out of place. Our law-makers should certainly see that opium or its preparations should only be sold on proper authority, and every person purchasing should be registered by the dealer. Dealers in the drug should always see that it is dispensed in such a vial, or receptacle, as would render mistakes next to impossible. The popularity of late years, and the almost universal use of its sister alkaloid, of great value, but of less harmful and lethal qualities, Quinia, the great resemblance in gross charactertistics of Sulphate of Morphia and Sulphate of Quinia, the dispensing of both in drachm vials of exactly similar shape and appearance, has occasioned a fatal mistake in more than one instance under my own personal observation. In the history of Toxicology we find that the root “tox" can be traced back to a very ancient word meaning "bow," or arrow;" or in its widest acceptation, some tool or implement used for slaying, hence it is by no means a far-fetched supposition that our first poison-lore was that of septic poisons. From Blyth's work on Poisons we learn "that the history of the poison-lehre, like all history, begins in the region of the myths; that there was a dark saga prevailing in Greece, that in the far North existed a land ruled by sorcerers-all children of |