TO CORRESPONDENTS.-We have on hand a valuable accumulation of accepted matter, and we trust our good friends will be patient with us; we shall use it as rapidly as we can find the place consistent with due variety. In the meantime we trust our Correspondents will continue to crowd us with condensed practical articles.

THE LONDON LANCET.-The great success of the American edition of this old and favorite Journal, has stimulated the English publishers to prepare an edition for American circulation specially. The number for January 2d, 1869, is before us with thirty-four pages well filled, and same size and style as the American issue, making one hundred and thirty-six pages monthly. It is proposed to afford this original London edition, weekly, to American subscribers for $12.00 a year. Mr. Robert Clarke is the Cincinnati Agent, and those interested will address him.

Those, however, who are contented with the well known and very excellent American re-print, can secure it in connection with the Lancet and Observer for $4.00; i. e. Lancet and Observer and London Lancet for $7.00.

GORDON'S GLYCERINE.-Some time ago our friend, W. J. M. Gordon, of this city, was burned out, but we are pleased to see that he is re-built, and thoroughly equipped for making almost every sort of chemicals. We have before us a specimen of his Glycerine, that to all common taste, smell and sight, is equal to any we have ever seen.

ARCHIVES OF OPTHALMOLOGY AND OTOLOGY.-Wm. Wood & Co., of New York, propose to publish, simultaneously in New York, with the German edition, in Carlsruhe, the above semi-annual Archives, each half yearly part will contain two hundred and fifty to three hundred pages, and be handsomely and fully illustrated. The first number will be issued about the first of

May next. The subscription price will be $7.00 per anum. Address the publishers as above.

THE METHODIST ALMANAC FOR 1869 is laid on our table. It contains a great deal of information and a variety of attractive matter. There are some valuable quack advertisements, inseperable, we suppose from any church publication. Any one desiring this little manual can obtain it from any Methodist clergyman.

FLORIDA; its Climate, Soil and Productions is the title of a pamphlet Mr. Treasurer Dr. Conover has sent us. It is intended to provoke emigration to this tropical clime. Mr. DeSoto spent a valuable lifetime in that region searching for the fountain of youth, and up to the present time we only hear of him and his suceessors becoming familiar with alligators and sand bars. We prefer Ohio.

E. FOUGERA, of New York. has added to his preparations; Fl. Ext. Ricinis Commanis, Boudalt's Pepsine and other valuable pharmaceutical products.

SUMMER MEDICAL INSTRUCTION.-The time is at hand when the thorough physicians will also be the successful ones. While the country was still new, unsettled in all respects, there was a necessity, to some extent, for hastily educated medical men. However much that may have been true in the past, it has ceased to be true now, and neither students who knock with undue haste at the portals of the profession, nor schools who leniently crowd their illy-feathered fledgelings upon the public victim, will be regarded with favor. Thoroughness, therefore, antagonistic to haste, is the order of the day, and those schools must ultimately become the successful and honored temples of our art, where every possible facility is afforded to the student to acquire the With that view, we largest amount of practical instruction. understand spring and summer schools to be organized, not so much as repetitions of the winter course, as rather supplimental.

In the last number of this journal we gave the organization and plan of a course of teachings of this kind, which, as usual, will be given at the Miami College of this city. Students will find this a valuable aid to their study, and we advise all, who can do so conveniently, to attend the conrse, bearing in mind what we have already said, that this course is supplimental, not a repetition, and is not to be regarded as an equivalent for a course for graduation, any more than careful office study is. The advertisement may be found elsewhere in this journal.

We are also pleased to see that a number of the gentlemen of the Ohio College have organized, and announced to give a similar course of instruction, commencing at the same time, the 10th of March, and continuing three months. Their advertisement will also be found in this number of the Lancet and Observer.

BOSTON MEDICAL JOURNAL.-With February, inst., this vener able journal, one of the oldest in America, enters upon its 80tl. volume, and, therewith, the present excellent editors give way on account of other engagements, and are succeeded by Drs. Parks and Lincoln. Dr. Parks enters upon the charge of the journal with experience, and will doubtless sustain the present well earned repute of this representative of New England.

THE PHYSICIAN'S DAILY POCKET RECORD.-We have received the new edition of Dr. Butler's neat and convenient Pocket Record. It has some peculiarities, as compared with previous books of this kind, which will doubtless commend it to practitioners. For our own part, we should prefer the half of it cut out, and trust the day will come in our time of practice, when some publisher will consent to give us a visiting list simply, free from a small pocket library of reminders in materia medica, toxicology, pharmacy, etc., that not one doctor in ten thousand ever looks at, or ought to. Price of Butler's Record $1.50, and for better rates on the publications of that office, see the advertisement.

AMPUTATION OF THE UVULA.-With a view to prevent, in great measure, the painful sensation arising from the passage of a bolus of food across the raw stump of a previously elongated uvula, Mr. Maunder proposes to amputate this organ by the double flap method. These fall together, and their cut surfaces being in contact, no raw surface is exposed to irritation. He recently adopted this plan with a highly satisfactory result, introducing a small suture to maintain coaptation of the flaps.-London Lancet.

WATER-PROOF PAPER, which may be used with excellent effect in packing goods likely to be exposed to damp or rain, may be prepared by treating strong unglazed paper with a mixture of equal parts copal varnish and linseed oil, with a little litharge to promote drying. The paper may either be painted alternately on either side with this mixture, or better, be immersed in a shallow pan containing it, and drawn out over a wire stretched across near on end.-Journal Franklin Institute.

Business Notices and Acknowledgments.

NEW BOOKS.

GREENHOW-Chronic Bronchitis. Lindsay & Blakiston.
BODENHAMER-Anal Fissure. Wm. Wood & Co.

KLOB-Pathology Female Sexual Organs. Wm. Wood & Co.
THOMPSON-Urinary Organs-Diseases. H. C. Lea.
MACKENZIE On the Laryngoscope. Lindsay & Blakiston.
CLEVELAND'S Medical Dictionary.

WYTHE'S Dose and Symptom Book.

NOTE. The crowded state of our number forbids us any attempt at a bibliographical notice of any of these and other new books. on our table. We shall do so, however, at an early date.

LITERARY.-The magazines start off the new year with elegant style. The periodicals of Fields & Osgood, the Atlantic, Our Young Folks, and Every Saturday, are promptly on our table, and fully sustain their well deserved reputation.

Oliver Optic's Magazine for the children, issued every week, is certainly the best thing of the kind in this country. The only fault we have is, that we fail to receive it at least half the time, which is very vexatious to the little chaps who come in to the sanctum, toward the end of each week, and inquire if "Oliver has come?"

Godey, old reliable Godey, starts off the year like a young horse from green pastures.

Braithwaite's Retrospect.-Part 58, January, 1869, is received just as we go to press, and we look over it in haste only to see that it keeps up its ancient excellence; and already many thousand physicians in the United States regard it as among their indispensables. We presume our friends who subscribe through this office will be promptly supplied. Lancet and Observer and Braithwaite, $5.

PALMER'S LEG.-We still hold an order for sale, and trust some of our friends will be interested enough to send us a purchaser. We can make it an object for some one leg man.

TO PHYSICIANS.-A Location for Sale. In a pleasant village, surrounded by a beautiful, rich country. Improvements: A two-story house, good well of water, stable, buggy shed, corn crib, lot well set in all kinds of fruit, etc.

Address,

W. K. WILSON,

Mutual, Champaign Co., Ohio.

Obituary.

THE LATE DR. F. SCHUERMANN.-At a meeting of the medical profession, held at the Dental College, Monday evening, January 11, 1869, for the purpose of testifying their respect for the memory of the late Dr. Francis Scheurmann, Dr. Dawson was called to the chair, and the following resolutions were unanimously adopted:

WHEREAS, God in His allwise providence removed, after a lingering illness, our friend and colleague, Dr. Francis Schuermann, one of our oldest members, who died on the 1st of January, after a long life of professional usefulness, in this city.

Resolved, That we have received the intelligence of the death of Dr. F. Schuermann with the deepest sorrow.

Resolved, That we deplore the loss which our profession has met with through his decease.

Resolved, That these proceedings be published in the daily papers and medical journals of this city, and that a copy of these resolutions be sent to the family of the deceased.

DR. F. BRUNNING, Secretary.

DR. A. ROSENFELD,

66

WM. CARSON,
"C. S. MUSCROFT,

"J. P. WALKER,
"J. S. UNZICKER,

Committee.

DIED, in Providence, R. I., December 19, 1868, aged eighty years, Usher Parsons, M. D. Doctor P. was the last survivor of Commodore Perry's officers at the battle of Lake Erie. He was one of the founders of the American Medical Association, and during its early years a constant attendant at its meetings. He was the author of several medical works, and a contributor to various medical journals.