98 REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS.-NEW INVENTIONS.

resorts would prove of immense value to medical men in all

parts of the kingdom.The Cyclist’s Pocket Book and Tlseftcl Memoranda, 1897.

London: Archibald Constable & Co., Whitehall-gardens.—This is a little book for cyclists that will go into the breastpocket, containing useful information and memoranda, witha cyclist’s almanack and telegraph code and an abstract of thelaw relating to horseless carriages. A few short pages aredevoted to medical hints for purposes of first aid, which willbe found useful in cases of slight accident or ailment. Forthe more severe forms, and for general instructions as to thesafe and sensible use of the bicycle, riders should be guidedsolely by their medical advisers.

JOURNALS AND REVIEWS.

In the medical reports published by order of the Inspector-General of Customs in China for the half-year endedMarch 31st, 1896, are several important papers, besides thatby Dr. J. Matignon on Typhus Fever, which we reserve fornotice at greater length. In his report on the Healthof Hankow Dr. J. D. Thomson reports two cases of deathfrom heatstroke which occurred to workers in some iron-works. During 1894-Dr. Thomson’s report is for the nineteenmonths ended Sept. 30th, 1895-enteric fever of a severetype prevailed during the summer and autumn. Out of six-

teen cases treated in hospital there was one death. A hospitalsister, aged sixty-seven years, was seized with acute choleraand only saved by saline injections into the cellular tissue.Dr. H. M. McCandliss, in his report on the Health of

Hoihow for the year ending March 31st, 1896, mentions

that in five months there were 3000 deaths from plague, themortality being from 70 to 75 per cent.The Practitioner for July, apart from the scientific

interest of its contents, has a special value for ourselvesbecause the " Hero of Medicine " for the month is Thomas

Wakley, the Founder of THE LANCET, while a well-informedpaper upon the duties of the medical man to the Statetakes as its text the Parliamentary achievement of the samereformer. Both articles to some extent owe their inspirationto Dr. Sprigge’s recent volume, "The Life and Times ofThomas Wakley," concerning which book terms of compli-ment are used that cannot fail to be highly pleasing to theauthor, a,s they are to ourselves, under whose editorial

supervision the work was issued serially. We have been much

gratified by the generous appreciation of Thomas Wakley’sservices that has been manifested by the press and thepublic recently; and the straightforward testimony to thevalue of those services contained in the current Practitionerhas touched us nearly because of its obvious emanation fromwell-informed pens. Mr. W. Rose has a paper in this issueon Early Colotomy in Malignant Disease of the Rectum inwhich he favours the iliac incision and complete division ofthe bowel. Dr. Litteljohn’s instructive paper on ContagiousDisease in a Poor-law School we notice at length in anothercolumn. There is also an amusing paper by a ship’s surgeonupon the eccentricities of Quarantine before to the late

Venice Conference.

The Medical Magazine for June has two exhaustive articleson the Progress of Medicine and Surgery during the pastsixty years, the fifth instalment of Dr. W. Bruce’s articles onMedical Reform, and a very admirable and practical paperby Mr. H. E. Counsell, F R.C.S. Eng., upon Aseptic Surgery.

In the Scottish Medical and Surgical Journal for July oneof the most interesting articles is a case of Simple DuodenalUlcer, in which the symptoms pointed rather to its being acase of appendicitis ; death followed in nineteen hours. Thecase occurred in the practice of Dr. G. M. Cullen. Anotherinteresting paper is a digest of the details of some 300 cases

of duodenal ulcer collected by the same practitioner. Dr.Graham Brown describes an ingenious modification of thepantograph for taking tracings of curved surfaces such as thethorax or cranium.

In the Edinburgh Medical Journal for July Dr. ByromBramwell commences a series of lectures on Aphasia,founded on the cases the details of which have recentlyappeared in our columns. Dr. Alexander Robertson givessome interesting examples of the use of Hydropathy inPractice, and Dr. Kanthack and Dr. H. M. Tickell con.

tribute a paper upon the Etiology of Infective Endocarditis,which paper they modestly call "brief notes." As, however,it contains a fairly exhaustive analysis of eighty-four caseswe think it deserves a larger’name.

In the current number of the Cornhill Magazine Dr. E. T.Withington gives some curious details of mediaeval trials ofanimals, insects, &c. The animal most frequently arraignedwas the sow for the crime of eating babies, but as late as theeighteenth century a colony of ants was successfullyexorcised as an alternative to legal proceedings in SouthAmerica.

, In the Westminster Review is a curious paper by Mr. H. J.Keene drawing a parallel between Byron and Napoleon.There have been many views of Waterloo, but to learn thatit was not a battle is certainly the most startling theory wehave come across.

The Contemporary Review contains a paper by Mr. R. H.Heath upon the similitude between Bunyan’s " Holy War "and that orgie of mysticism the Anabaptist movement inMunster. Mysticism is a frame of mind always liableto excess, but mysticism unrestrained by authority or

tradition is simple mania.

The current number of the Leisure Hour is full of

interesting reading. "Puffs and Drugs" is an amusingarticle on the ways of the nostrum vendor, by PrebendaryHarry Jones, and exposes some of the tricks of trade whichare resorted to by a class of people who make a living out ofthe gullible public.

Sunday Hours still continues to maintain the standard ofexcellence with which it started a few months ago, and nomore healthy and instructive magazine could be placed inthe hands of girls and boys for Sunday reading.The Girls’ Orvn Paper and the Sunday at Home are

also magazines which maintain their high tone of excel-lence.

New Inventions.A WATER ANALYSIS CASE.

IN THE LANCET of Jan. 23rd, 1897, reference was madeto a simple method of water analysis so devised that

analytical operations could be carried out with a fair degreeof accuracy upon the spot or at home without the need ofspecial or complicated apparatus. This departure was dueto Dr. Thresh, the medical officer of health of the countyof Essex, and recent experimental trials in THE LANCET

Laboratory enable us to say that the method placeswithin the reach of medical officers of health, water

engineers, and others a convenient, easy, and tolerablyaccurate means of sorting good waters from bad. All the

apparatus and reagents required are contained in a

mahogany case measuring ten by twelve inches and five

inches deep. The case is now supplied complete, withprinted forms for filling up the ascertained results, byMessrs, Burroughs, Wellcome and Co., Snow-hill-buildings,