EFFICIENT SEDATIVE COUGH MIXTURE.-When Dr. H. C. Wood recommends any thing, it is a guarantee of its merit; hence we take the following from the Therapeutic Gazette: B. Potassi citratis..... Succi limonis... Syr. ipecac..... Syr. simplicis, q. s.......... 3j. ..3ij. .38s. .......ad. 3 vj. M. Sig. A tablespoonful from four to six times a day. When there is much cough or irritability of the bowels, paregoric may be added. THE AMERICAN RHINOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION will hold its Fourth Annual Meeting in St. Louis, Mo., October 5th, 6th, and 7th inst. The following is the list of active officers of the Association President, A. DeVilbiss, M.D., Toledo, Ohio; First Vice-President, J. A. Stucky, M.D., Lexington, Ky.; Second Vice-President, Carl H. Von Klein, M.D., Dayton, Ohio; Recording Secretary and Treasurer, P. W. Logan, M.D., Knoxville, Tenn. From the programme before us a most interesting meeting may be expected, and the hospitalities of the good city of St. Louis, the enterprise, energy, and courtesy of her medical men, will make this an attractive, interesting, and successful meeting. PROF. BARTHOLOW recommends salicylic acid for removal of bile pigment from the blood, says the American Medical Digest, after the cause of the jaundice has been removed. Its action is prompt and satisfactory.-N. C. Med. Jour. CONVULSIONS may frequently be cut short like magic by turning the patient on his left side. The nausea as an after effect of chloroform or ether narcosis may be generally controlled in the same manner.-St. Louis Med, and Surg. Journal. Reviews and Book Notices INDEX CATALOGUE OF THE SURGEON GENERAL'S OFFICE, U. S. A. Authors and subjects. Volume VII. Insignares Leghorn. Pp. 959. Cloth. Government Printing House, Washington, 1886. The seventh volume of this magnificient and very important publication issued for the War Department by the United States Government, is quite in keeping with its predecessors. The importance of this great work becomes more and more apparent as each succeding volume is issued, and as each successive year is added to year the gratitude of the medical profession, and through them the debt of the world at large, to its originators and those instrumental in its publication, materially increases. The vast scope of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, and its completeness, being one of the largest and most complete in the world, makes its index catalogue as full an index as it is likely will even be needed by any one interested in what has been written or published in medicine and surgery. The seventh volume, beginning Insignares, extends to the word Leghorn, and includes 14,688 author titles, representing 5,987 volumes and 12, 372 pamphlets. It also includes 6, 731 subject titles of separate books and pamphlets, and 34,903 titles of articles in periodicals. The entire seven volumes now issued and in the hands of medical men, embraces 73,574 titles, 39,252 volumes, 59,697 pamphlets, 70,513 book-titles, 254,057 journal articles, and 4,335 portraits, showing an immense amount of labor on the part of those engaged in its preparation. Verily can Dr. Billings say that he has not lived in vain. This list of the abbreviations of titles of periodicals and collective works used in indexing, which is prefixed to the seventh volume, is a consolidated list of all the abbreviations ussed in the first seven volumes of the catalogue. This has been prepared to obviate the necessity of consulting in some case, several volumes in order to determine the precise scope of a given abbrevation. TRANSACTIONS OF THE MEDICAL SOCIETY OF THE STATE OF Tennessee, 1886. Fifty-third Annual Meeting. 8 vo., paper, pp. 176. Printed by the Society. Hasslock & Ambrose, printers. The fifty-third annual volume in addition to the report of the proceedings of the last meeting, held at Memphis, April 6th, and 7th, 1886, contains the address of the President on the subject of Therapeutics, as well as essays on Typho-malarial Fever, by Drs. R. B. Maury, of Memphis; Deering J. Roberts, of Nashville, and T. J. Happel, of Trenton; Abdominial Pregnancy by Dr. J. B. Murfree, of Murfreesboro; Rapid Administration of Ether, by Dr. G. C. Savage, of Nashville; Fracture of Right Parietal Bone, by Dr. J. C. P. Walker, of Dyersburg; Iritis, by Dr. A. G. Sinclair, of Memphis; Diseases of the Eye of Malarial Orign by Dr. J. L. Minor, of Memphis; Intussusception by Dr. S. T. Armstrong, of Memphis; Supra-pubic AsĮ iration by Dr. J. W. Maddin, Jr., of Nashville; Gun-shot wound of the Eye, by Dr. T. R. Meux, of Stanton; Cases in Gynecological Practice, by Dr. T. J. Crofford, of Memphis; Epi-scleral Abscess, by Dr. T. J. Happel, of Trenton; Exophthalmic Goitre, by Dr. T. L. Maddin, of Nashville; Fibris Puerperalis by Dr. Jacob Deutsch, of Memphis; Carbuncle, by Dr. G. C. Savage, of Nashville; Traumattc Aneurism, by Dr. J. T. Faucett, of Idaville; Plastic Operation on Eye-lid, by Dr. J. L. Minor, and Consultations, by Dr. Thad. Donohue, of Memphis. In addition is the Code of Ethics, the Constitution and By-laws of the society, and a list of diseased and living members of the society. The volume, in its subject matter, is quite up with those that have preceded it; the paper, press-work, and mechanical execution are excellent. It was, however, rather later in putting in appearance than should have been. There is no reason why the Transactions should not be ready for distribution within sixty days or less after the meeting. its ELECTROLYSIS, ITS THEORETICAL CONSIDERATION, AND ITS THERAPEUTICAL AND SURGICAL APPLICATIONS. BY ROBERT AMORY, A. M., M.D., Member of the Massachusetts Medical Society, Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow of the American Academy of Medicine, etc. Octavo, pp. 314. Illustrated by nearly one hundred fine wood engravings. Supplied only to subscribers for "Wood's Library of Standard Medical Authors" for 1886 (12 vols., price, $15), of which this is Vol. VIII. New York: William Wood & Company. In presenting this short treatise on electrolysis, the author is well aware that the subject is by no means discussed with a view to the final determination of the causes under which this display of electrical energy performs its operations. Yet he believes that many new facts and explanations of those previously recorded are not at variance. It is difficult to understand the action of electricity in biological and physiological relations without first properly understanding the principles of chemistry and physics, which control the manifestations of this great physical force. Neither can we expect to grasp the great truths which underlie the action of electricity upon living tissue unless a comprehensive view be presented of the natural laws which affect the construction and destruction of these living tissues. It is hoped that the limits of therapeutical application are suggested in its pages, so that the physician may know how to apply electricity to the human structures in a rational way, with the expectation that the results of this application shall not be entirely empirical, and to withhold its application in those cases of diseased tissues which are not amenable to its favorable action. In consequence of this view of the subject of the so-called action of electrolysis upon living tissues, it was deemed wise to begin the treatment of the subject with a statement of the principles of physics as applicable to electrolysis, and afterward to present these applications in the treatment of diseases. On this account much elementary matter is brought forward, which, it is hoped, will enable the reader to follow more clearly the train of thought as presented by the writer. We are well aware that very many of the principles of electricity have been omitted, but with the more general knowledge held by physicians of the modern day, it would be wearisome and useless to repeat those which are more clearly presented in many of the well-known treatises on this subject. DISEASES OF Digestive, URINARY, AND GENERATIVE ORGANS. Illustrated by one hundred and six fine wood engravings. Being Volume II. of the Handbook of Practical Medicine. By DR. HerMANN EICHHORST, Professor of Special Pathology and Therapeutics, and Director of the University Medical Clinic in Zurich. This is Vol. II. of Wood's Library for 1886. New York: William Wood & Co. The June number of Wood's Standard Library, we know, will be highly appreciated by those who are fortunate enough to secure a copy. It is fully in keeping with the valuable numbers that have preceded it. The following subjects are very fully and most satisfactorily considered: Part I. Diseases of the Buccal Cavity and Salivary Glands, the Soft Palate, and the Pharynx ; II. Diseases of the Esophagus; III. Diseases of the Stomach; IV. Diseases of the Intestines; V. Diseases of the Liver; VI. Diseases of the Pancreas; VII. Diseases of the Peritoneum. The second edition contains: Part I. Symptomatically Important Changes of the Urine; II. Diseases of the Renal Parenchyma; III. Diseases of the Renal Pelvis and the Ureters; IV. Diseases of the Bladder; and V. Diseases of the Male Sexual Apparatus. The work is excellently illustrated, and is completed by a very full index. MANUAL OF DIFFERENTIAL MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS. BY CONDICT W. CUTLER, M.S., M.D., Physician to the New York Dispensary; In this excellent little manual the author contrasts the symptoms of diseases that are most likely to be confounded one with |