consists of two small rooms. In that nearest the lecture-room are some small furnaces, and sundry glass cases, containing the larger instruments required for the experiments. In the centre of this room is a strong, solid table about five feet by three, perforated in sundry places, so as to permit cords to pass through it, to control the movements of the animals subjected to vivisection. The other room resembles a chemist's shop. In it are kept all the chemical and medicinal agents, as well as the smaller instruments. In one corner is a sand-bath, intended for experiments on cold-blooded animals. Beneath these apartments, and connected with them by a stone staircase, are a series of cellars, dark and dismal enough, in which are kept animals of every description-dogs, rabbits, guinea-pigs, etc., etc., with here and there huge basins and troughs, filled with frogs and other cold-blooded animals—all intended in their turn to be sacrificed and offered up on the altar of science. Although that part of the College of France in which M. Bernard lectures is modern, as compared with the rest of the building, still it leaves much to be desired. The laboratory is far too small; and it is a matter of wonder to those who visit it, how the professor, his immediate assistants, and his numerous private pupils, can move about in the pursuit of their studies. It is to be hoped that an amelioration, in this respect, may, erelong, be effected.

Beviews and Notices.

A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON FRACTURES AND DISLOCATIONS. By FRANK HASTINGS HAMILTON, M.D., Professor of Surgery in the University of Buffalo; Surgeon to the Buffalo Hospital of the Sisters of Charity, etc. Illustrated with two hundred and eighty-nine woodcuts. Philadelphia: Blanchard & Lea, 1860.

All of our readers are well acquainted with the writings of Professor Hamilton, on fractures and dislocations, as they have appeared in the journals and in his reports to the American Medical Association. The present work contains much, if not all, which has appeared previously in separate papers. The book is divided into two parts.

Part First is devoted to the consideration of fractures; and

Part Second, to that of dislocations. It is a fine volume of seven hundred and forty-nine pages, printed on fine paper, and beautifully illustrated. It is rare to find an American medical work so finely executed. Professor Hamilton is eminently a truthful and practical man, and, as such, his book will be regarded by every practitioner. The labor of writing and hunting up statistics and papers, in the various journals of the country, published during the last thirty years, has been very great. The style of the author is captivating, being plain and clear, and indicates what the author truly is a sound pathologist and a judicious, safe surgeon. No practitioner should be without this book. It should be his vade mecum, whenever he is called on to treat a fracture or reduce a dislocation.

Professor Hamilton has done a great work for this special department of American surgery. Foreign surgeons, who have little knowledge of the treatment of fractures and dislocations in our country, will learn, from this book, that we are by no means behind them.

For sale by George Blanchard, at $4.25.

A GUIDE TO THE PRACTICAL STUDY OF THE DISEASES OF THE EYE: With an Outline of their Medical and Operative Treatment. By JAMES DIXON, F. R. C. S., Surgeon to the Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields, etc., etc. From the Second London Edition. Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston. Pp. 860.

Some of our readers, no doubt, have read the first American edition of this work with great pleasure and profit. This second edition is an improvement on the first. The design of the author, in this edition, has been "to correct and improve, rather than to amplify; the number of pages, however, will show that the present volume contains considerably more than the former one. Some of the chapters have been reärranged, and the section on the ophthalmoscopic appearances of the retina and choroid has been re-written."

The author apologises for not giving drawings and plates of the ophthalmoscopic appearances, as it would have entirely changed the scope and character of the book. It is divided into seventeen chapters, with an appendix. The first chapter is devoted to an examination of the eye. The author gives plain and VOL. III., No. 5.-20.

practical directions for the examination of the eye, such as the practitioner will not find in more elaborate treatises.

While it is important, and absolutely necessary, to examine the eye carefully in all cases, the author fails to tell us of the bad results occasioned by frequent examinations of the eyes of children suffering from scrofulous ophthalmia. We heard Mr. Wilde, of Dublin, on more than one occasion, strongly condemn the practice of forcing open the lids of the little patients suffering with this disease. He said the operation did no good, and that the state of the eye could not be changed until general constitutional treatment had been instituted for some time. The student and practitioner will, however, find much that is instructive in the first chapter. Simple as the operation is, of opening the lids, every one finds it troublesome on the first trial.

Chapter 2, We have the healthy appearances of the conjunctiva, and its various diseases, discussed. In this chapter, we have the treatment of purulent and gonorrhoeal ophthalmia given. We are glad to find such judicious treatment laid down. Our author is opposed to the excessive bleedings, in these diseases, as recommended by older authors, particularly by the military surgeons. We can not pass on without giving his language. He says: "If the treatment of purulent ophthalmia, by excessive depletion, be judged by its results, the only sure test, we shall, I think, be forced to confess that there was ample cause for trying some less violent means of cure. As far as my experience, at a large metropolitan hospital, enables me to form an opinion as to the general condition of my patients suffering under purulent ophthalmia, I should say that they are uniformly more or less depressed, with a pulse more feeble than natural, and in a state which, in every way, contraïndicates bleeding, and calls for the administration of tonics. There is usually a coated tongue, with loss of appetite, and a purgative is needed at the very outset of treatment; afterward, either bark and ammonia, or quinine should be given, and hyoscyamus if the patient be restless."

Chapter 3 is devoted to abnormal states of sub-conjunctival tissue; Chapter 4, The cornea; Chapter 5, The sclerotic; Chapter 6, The iris; Chapter 7, The choroid and retina; Chapter 8, The vitreous body; Chapter 9, The lens and capsule; Chapter 10, Diseases which involve all the tissues of the eyeball; Chapter 11,

Diseases of uncertain seat; Chapter 12, The lachrymal apparatus ; Chapter 13, The eyelids; Chapter 14, The orbit; Chapter 15, Operations for cataract; Chapter 16, Operations for artificial pupil; Chapter 17, Operations for staphyloma, strabismus, etc. This book is all that it pretends to be-a guide to the practical study of diseases of the eye, and, as such, our readers will not be disappointed with it.

For sale by Rickey, Mallory & Co., at $1.50.

CLINICAL LECTURES ON THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF MEDICINE. BY JOHN HUGHES BENNETT, M.D., F.R.S.E., Professor of the Institutes of Medicine, and Senior Professor of Clinical Medicine in the University of Edinburgh, etc., etc., etc. From the last Edinburgh edition. With five hundred illustrations on wood. New York: Samuel S. & Wm. Wood. 1860.

A new edition of this valuable work has been on our table for some time, its notice delayed from month to month, in the expectation that a friend, especially fitted for the task, would prepare a careful, analytical review of the book. The lengthy communication of Dr. Hibberd, last month, and the communication of Prof. Lawson, in the present issue, indirectly places before the profession very sufficient criticisms of the peculiar views taught by the Edinburgh Professor in his work. We therefore feel that little more is now necessary than to present a brief bibliographical notice of this a new edition.

We can not, however, resist the desire to express, in this connection, our conviction that, aside from any peculiar teachings of the author, he has presented one of the most attractive and really useful books on clinical medicine of the day. Take, for instance, the first section of the work- the Examination of the Patient-how systematic is the arrangement! and how gradually and progressively the reader is conducted through the various steps Inspection - Palpation - Percussion - AuscultationThe Use of the Microscope- Chemical Tests and then, as you progress in this nicely arranged study, how beautifully the illustrations demonstrate the teachings of the context!

The work meets with a rapid sale, and has already commanded a large share of the attention of the profession. Prof. Bennett is an earnest, arduous worker in the profession; and with his long clinical experience, his opinions are certainly worthy of

confidence and respect. He is amongst the men who have been real contributors to medical science during the past quarter of a century. We commend this work to our readers: they will find in it very much that is suggestive- very much that is positively practical and directly available.

For sale by Rickey, Mallory & Co. Price $5.50.

CLINICAL LECTURES ON THE DISEASES OF WOMEN AND CHILDREN. BY GUNNING S. BEDFORD, A.M., M.D., Professor of Obstetrics, the Diseases of Women and Children, and Clinical Midwifery, in the University of New York. "Medicus curat morbos, natura sanat."-HIPPOCRATES. Sixth edition, carefully revised and enlarged. New York: S. S. & W. Wood. 1860.

Dr. Bedford's book on Diseases of Women and Children has only been before the profession about five years, and yet in that time it has met with so rapid a sale as to demand now this sixth edition, a result which must be exceedingly gratifying both to author and publisher. From time to time, these several editions have been fully noticed in this journal, and we have therefore little to add beyond the announcement of this sixth edition. Some new matter in the revise is given, and one or two additional lectures not heretofore incorporated. To such of our readers as have not had their attention drawn to these Clinical Lectures, we will only say that the volume contains a large amount of valuable matter, and is well worth a place in the library. For sale by Robert E. Clarke & Co. Price $3.25.

Editor's Table.

Death of Prof. Charles Frick, of Baltimore.-It is now just about one year since a friend, who is an occasional and very acceptable correspondent of this journal, visited the city of Baltimore, and, as our readers may remember, addressed us a letter upon some of the more prominent medical matters and medioal men of that city. Incidentally the name of Dr. Charles Frick was mentioned, in a more than ordinary and passing compliment, and spoken of as one of the professional attractions of Baltimore. We deeply regret to be compelled to announce the death of this