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1509 hospital between 1884 and 1894, inclusive, and the authors is only just extricated under the mercy of heaven. We cannot there- ifore contemplate an indulgence of your Majesty’s wishes without conclude that this complication has become more commonabsolutea dismay, seeing the probability of a relapse in consequence of now than in former times. Dr. John Fawcett has made thet exposure of your Majesty’s person to the night air in a cathedral, under that anguish of mind which your Majesty was observed by a series of experiments with regard to the Efficiency of everybodye so painfully to suffer at the performance of the same sad in the Treatment of Gout, and does not think the ceremonyc last year. Piperazin And we humbly entreat your Majesty to yield not to our wishes only drug so useful as many have supposed. Mr. F. Newland- tbut to those of the whole nation, which would be expressed, we tt-e if it were known that meditated this writes two one is on the Treatment of persuaded, generally your Majesty Pedley papers; Sup- dangerousc effort of respect and piety. HENRY HALFORD. puration of the Maxillary Antrum, and the other on the WILLIAM KNIGHTON. Treatment of Congenital Cleft Palate. Dr. Theodore Fisher It seems unkind to remind a son of the satisfaction to his gives an account of Some Researches into the Pathology of fFeelings at burying his father, and as the son was observed Hypertrophy of the Heart without Gross Organic Lesion. to suffer " anguish of mind at the same sad ceremony last Mr. G. B. Smith discusses the question of Amputation in3year" we cannot see why he was so anxious to bury his Senile Gangrene. Dr. Turner writes on Scarlatinal Nephritis ffather again. Well, well, "Sir George Catacomb had the and Dr. Silk on the Administration of Gas and Ether. c)onfidence of his sovereign, sir," as Mrs. Frank Berry Dr. Pye-Smith reports a case of Bilateral Paralysis of Facial r- emarked upon a memorable occasion. With all his and Auditory Nerves. A list of specimens lately added to f’aults-and Dr. Munk does not disguise them-Sir the museum and the names of students who have passed ISenry Halford seems to have been a capable physician, examinations or received appointments end the volume, aand, above all, a master of what perhaps we are which is from first to last very interesting. tioo prone to forget now-the art of giving a patient ease and comfort as well as of treating the disease itself. I3erhaps this book will take the place of that inscription in The Life of Sir Henry Halford. By WILLIAM MUNK, M.D. t,he Library of the Royal College of Physicians which that Leyden, F.R.C.P. Lond. London: Longmans and Co. t)ody unanimously decided in 1844 to put up, but for which 1895. t,he Library walls still sigh. THE scholarly and accomplished librarian of the Royal College of Physicians of London has in this book set forth, at the express desire of the above-mentioned body, the life of one LIBRARY TABLE. of the most celebrated of its members. Henry Vaughan, The Art of Horse-shoeing: a Manual for Farriers. By afterwards Halford, was the second son of James Vaughan, W. HuKTiNS, F.R.C.V.S. London: H. and W. Brown. 1895- M.D., of Leicester, and was born in 1766. He was Price 3s. 6d.—IF horses are not properly shod it cannot be educated at Rugby and Christ Church, and from 1786 to because of any lack of directions as to how this necessary act 1789 studied medicine at Edinburgh. In 1792 he com- should be performed, as the literature of the subject may now menced practice at Scarborough, but at the end of be described as superabundant. In this addition to it, which that year started in London on a capital of £1000 is professedly written for farriers-horse-shoers, it may be borrowed from Lady Apreece, a friend and patient. presumed, are meant, for veterinary surgeons are very com- In 1793 he was appointed physician to the Middlesex monly designated farriers, particularly so in rural districts- Hospital, and probably owing to his Oxford connexions, the old ground is gone over, and we find a réchauffé of the his classical attainments, and his pleasing manners," was descriptions and directions which have been so often served sworn physician extraordinary to the King before he was up, perhaps with the view of making them more palatable twenty-seven. In 1806 he gained great reputation by each time. They are good so far as they go, because they correctly diagnosing the disease from which the Duchess of are founded on common-sense notions of what is necessary Devonshire—Gainsborough’s Duchess-was suffering, main- to keep the horse’s foot healthy and render the services of taining, in opposition to the whole of his colleagues, that the animal more efficient and durable, and also because they she had hepatic abscess, and the accuracy of his diagnosis have the results of a great many years’ experience-some of was proved by post-mortem examination. In 1809 lie them more than a century old-as evidence of their utility, assumed the name of Halford on succeeding to the estate of although they have only too frequently been overlooked or Wistow and was created a baronet. In 1820 he was elected ignored. President of the Royal College of Physicians of London, a Elements of Human Physiology. By ERVEST H. STARLING, post he held until his death in 1844. We cannot here enter M.D. Lond. Second edition. Pp. 454. London: J. & A. into all the details of his long career, of his close association Churchill. 1895. Price 7s. 6d.-This edition of Dr. Starling’s with Royalty-he was physician to George III., George IV., useful little manual for the student of physiology has been William IV., and her present Most Gracious Majesty-of carefully revised. The author has been prudent in not his services to the Royal College of Physicians, a body in materially augmenting the size of tile volume. What the which he took a most sincere interest : for all these the beginner requires is not so much the newest theories but old reader must refer to the pages of Dr. Munk’s most interest- and well ascertained facts arranged in due sequence and clearly ing book. explained. This work is one of the best of those which aim As a picture of the manners of a bygone age the book is only at giving the student such a groundwork of physio- singularly faithful. Take the letter of the Royal College logical knowledge as will fit him to understand and guide of Physicians in answer to the King’s (George IV.) letter him in the practice of medicine, without compelling him to stating that the President of the College for the time being wade through much irrelevant matter which would, perhaps, should always hold the omce of physician in ordinary to the be serviceable to him if he were qualifying for a professor sovereign (pp. 104-5). We should have much liked to ship. hear of it. take the letter of Sir Thackeray’s opinion Again, London Temperance Hospital : Report on Surgical and Henry Halford and Sir William Knighton to George IV. Ophthalmic Cases for 1894. London : J. Vincent and Son. him from the funeral of his father dissuading attending L895.-This report i’s edited by Dr. Leonard Wilde and con- (pp.175-6). tains tabulated lists of the various cases which were treated Sire,-We your Majesty’s physicians venture humbly to approach Ln the hospital. The total number of cases admitted your Majesty to implore your Majesty to forego that satisfaction to surgical your feelings which your Majesty attaches to a performance of the .n 1894 was 572, of which 95 were ophthalmic cases. last act of filial to the late father. We are piety King your Majesty’s Particul&rs of more are as well scarcely yet relieved from that state of anxiety and alarm which your important operations given Majesty’s dangerolls illness gave rise to and from which your Majesty is abstracts of the pathological conditions in fatal cases. 1510 There is also a full report of all the operations on the eye, with But the advance of neurology led to a remarkable disin- details of operations for extraction of hard cataract, from tegration of the affections included under the common term, 1888 to 1894, inclusive. In the appendix it is stated that and no work did more to this purpose than the demonstration alcohol was not administered to any patient during 1894. by Professor Charcot himself of the fact that many a case Cuttaneous Medi.cine. Part 1. By Loms A. DUHRING, was really due to secondary involvement of the grey matter M.D. Philadelphia and London : J. P. Lippincott Company. in a sclerosis originating in the lateral columns. The study of neuritis, of and of 1895.-This is a systematic work on Diseases of the Skin, multiple syringomyelia, primary still further the which is intended to take the place of the author’s myopathic atrophies reduced domain of chronic anterior so that not a few of the most "Practical Treatise on Diseases of the Skin," which is now poliomyelitis, declared that it had no out of print. An attempt is made in this new work distinguished neurologists openly existence. Even Professor Charcot to show the broad relations which the functions and diseases independent himself, his son informs was somewhat shaken in his belief of the skin bear to the functions and diseases of the other us, in the existence of a protopathic spinal amyotrophy systems of the body, and in so doing to give due attention to by finding in later years that cases which he had general diseases when local manifestations are the prominent previously considered to be of this order were really symptoms.