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do much to narrow his view and restrict his reading, besidesleading him to think that medicine is a matter to be learnedby rote and not by observation.

The atarte7Lzl Journal of Microscopical Science. Edited byProfessors LANKESTER, BALFOUR, THISELTON DYER,and E. KLEIN. No. 86. April, 1882. J. and A. Churchill.THIS part contains seven original memoirs-1. Pringsheim’s

researches on Chlorophyll, translated and condensed byProfessor Bayley Balfour. 2. The development of ArticulatedLactiferous Vessels, by D. H. Scott. 3. On the LymphaticSystem, and on the minute structure of the Salivary Glandsand Pancreas, by E. Klein. 4. A renewed study of the Ger-minal Layers of the Chick, by F. M. Balfour and F. Deighton.5. On the origin and growth of the Eggs and Egg-strings inNephelis, with some observations on the Spiral Asters, byIsao Iijima. 6. A contribution to the Morphology of theAmphineura, by Dr. A. A. Hubrecht. 7. On the Chloro-phyll Corpuscles and Amyloid Deposits of Spongilla andHydra, by E. Ray Lankester.

manufacture. The beer now before us is evidently brewedby the German method, and very well brewed too. It has

high alcoholic strength, good body, and the peculiar and in.describable bouquet with which most persons are nowfamiliar,

KOUMISS, OR SPARKLING MILK WINE.(ARMBRECHT, NELSON, & Co., DUKE-STREET, GROSVENOR-SQUARE.)This now fashionable food or remedy is prepared from

cow’s milk by the process which has from time immemorialbeen applied by the Tartars to mare’s milk. Milk in fer.mentation is undoubtedly digested with remarkable ease,the lactic acid no doubt aiding the process. Messrs.Armbrecht’s preparation is in all respects satisfactory, andmost persons who try it for a short time will find it a pleasantas well as nutritious drink.

THE CONSTITUTIONAL SHERRY.

(JAS. PETTIT & CO., CANNON-STREET.)This is a wine of fairly good quality for its price. It has a

pleasant nutty flavour, and is not too dry for ordinary tastes,

Analytical Records.CORBYN’S LIQUORS.

(CORBYN, STACEY, & Co., HOLDORN.)A NUMBER of very concentrated liquors have been sub.

mitted to us for examination. Each requires only theaddition of simple syrup to yield the ordinary syrup ofthe Pharmacopoeia. We notice as particularly excellent-liq. ferri iodid., pale green and perfectly bright; liq. sennse,with the peculiar and delicate odour of the Alexandrianleaf; and liq. rhei; but all appear to be good. These

liquors are said to keep well, and are certainly extremelyconvenient, especially in country practice.

UMNEY’S FLUID EXTRACT OF CINCHONA.

(WRIGHT, LAYMAN, & UMNEY, SOUTHWARK-STREET.)This is an excellent extract, prepared, we believe, from

the red bark, C. succirubra. Of course it contains all thealkaloids of the bark, and is better than a home-made pre.paration, inasmuch as it is constant in composition.

NATURAL SPANISH WINES :

CAMPANILLA.

(WEBB, 14, MINCING-LANE.)This is a sound and good wine, which most persons would

take for claret.

VAL DE PENAS ; VIRGIN MONTILLA.(CADIZ WINE COMPANY, DIJKE-STREET, ST. JAMES’S.)

These are also good and cheap wines. The former hasthe Burgundy character. The latter is a light and pleasantnatural sherry, very dry. If such good light wines can beprocured from Spain, it is evident we need not be entirelyat the mercy of France.

AUSTRALIAN WINES.

(P. B. BURGOY-NE & CO., 50, OLD BROAD-STREET.)It is pleasant to find that steady improvement takes

place in the manufacture of Australian wine. We havereceived from the above firm samples of white and red

Kaludah, a wine which is new to us, but which we cansafely commend as excellent in flavour and moderate in price.It is always difficult to introduce a wine with a new name,but the sensible people who buy wine for its quality and notfor its label will be likely enough to patronise Kaludah.

GERMAN LAGER BEER.

(KNIGHTS, STOCKS, & CO., STOCKTON-ON-TjEES.)The increasing popularity in England of lager beer has

at last stimulated the English brewer to undertake its

New Inventions.SOUTHALL’S ANTISEPTIC ABSORBENT PADS.WE have received from Messrs. Southall of Birmingham

some new antiseptic absorbent pads prepared by them forMr. Sampson Gamgee. They are made of absorbent cottonenclosed in absorbent gauze, and the antiseptic with whichthey are impregnated is iodoform. Their chief merit consistsin the fact that, although this powerful and now popularantiseptic is present in quantity sufficient to render themthoroughly trustworthy as an antiseptic dressing, the power.ful and disagreeable odour of the iodoform is skilfully con.cealed, and the pads possess only a pleasant aromatic odour.The penetrating odour of iodoform is one of its few draw-backs as a surgical dressing, but this Messrs. Southall haveentirely overcome. They prepare iodoformised absorbent

bandages in the same way. Similar pads in which tenaxis used in place of the wool are also made, and are

especially recommended where the discharge from a woundis profuse. This firm is now preparing Gamgee’s dex.trinised millboard splints saturated with borax; they arethus made antiseptic, and are excellently adapted for

use in the treatment of compound fractures, &e.

"MEDICAL ADVERTISING IN THELAY PRESS."

To the Editor of THE LANCET.

SIR,-In THE LANCET for May 20th there is an article

condemnatory of advertising medical books in the lay press,specially drawing the attention of its readers to a remarkableinstance of this, which appeared in The Times of thellth inst.You do not mention the name of the firm that has trans.

gressed in this way, and it occurs to us that it might besupposed by your readers that, as we are the most extensivepublishers of medical books in this country, we were theguilty parties. Will you permit us to state that since theRoyal College of Physicians passed a resolution to the effectthat it was unbecoming on the part of its Fellows to permittheir works to be advertised in non-professional papers, wehave carefully abstained from inserting our announcementsin lay papers, and that we should on no account put suchan advertisement in The TÍ7nes newspaper as the one com-plained of by you. We entirely agree with the tenour ofyour article, that advertisements of strictly medical booksare out of place in a general newspaper, and we do notinsert them ourselves unless specially ordered to do so byour authors.

We are, Sir, your obedient servants,New Burlington.street, May 23rd, 1882. J. & A. CHURCHILL,J. & A. CHURCHILL.