necessary to say anything in commendation of any publication from his pen. He stands before the world as a master in his art. His authority is the highest on all the questions to which he devoted the energies of his active life. His treatise has become a classic in our profession, and we cordially hail this translation which will place it in the hands of so many of our brethren. Y. NEW WORKS. Professor Gross is now in Philadelphia, superintending the publi cation of a new edition of his Elements of Pathological Anatomy, which will be issued in a single volume during the summer. The new edition will embrace whatever has been furnished to the author by his reading or observation in the last five years, not contained in the present edition, and will make an addition to the work of nearly three hundred pages. Many portions have been re-written, a number of new chapters have been introduced, and the illustra. tions by woodcuts multiplied to an extent which must very materially enhance the value of the treatise to students of medicine. Professor Gross has also been engaged upon a new edition of Liston's Elements of Surgery, which will be ready for press early in the autumn. Y. A NEW MEDICAL JOURNAL. We have received the first number of a monthly journal of medicine, issued at St. Louis, by the Medical Faculty of Kemper College. Among other papers, this number contains communications from Professors Barbour and McDowell on practical subjects, and evinces a full share of spirit. The medical schools of St. Louis have, now, each a journal and organ, and we may expect to see an animated contest between them for the largest amount of public favor. E collisione scintilla is an old maxim, the truth of which, we have no doubt, our St. Louis contemporaries will confirm. Y. DICTIONARY OF PRACTICAL MEDICINE. This valuable work, we are glad to perceive, has reached its sixth monthly part, and is going on steadily to its completion. No publication of the times has commanded more universal or higher admiration than Copland's Dictionary, and this sentiment of the press, we are persuaded, will be warmly responded to by the profession all over the country. We are obliged to improve, as a profession, with such works as the Cyclopædia, and the Dictionary of Practical Med. icine, in general circulation. As works of reference they are invaluable. No physician who has had an opportunity of consulting them will feel that he can get along without one or the other of them, and all who are able will enrich their libraries with both. Y. WORCESTER LUNATIC ASYLUM. Dr. Edward Jarvis, who has for many years taken the liveliest interest in everything that relates to the insane, and to whom the profession owes some valuable papers on the Lunatic Asylums of the United States, has forwarded us the twelfth annual "Report of the Trustees of the State Lunatic Hospital, at Worcester," a document of great interest from which we shall make extracts for a future number. The institution for the insane, at Worcester, is one of the ornaments of our country and of the age. By the way, will not some friend at Lexington inform the public through our Journal what is the present condition of the Lunatic Asylum at that place? Frequent inquiries are made of us respecting its advantages, which we are not able to answer as definitely as we could desire. Y. INDEX TO VOL. III. [NEW SERIES.] A Abercrombie, death of, 175. Adhesive plaster, 82. Bartlett on philosophy of medical Belgium, treatment of itch in, 357. Administering medicines, most effi- Bell's lectures, 59. Belladonna in hooping-cough, 446. 276. Blisters, improved mode of man- Boardman's discourse, 47. Botany, study of, by young physi- Breasts, enlargement of, in a male, 452. Brigham on mental cultivation, 314 Bronchocele, 83. Buck on diseases of the chest, 277, Buck on physical diagnosis, 369. C Calculation, organ of, 81. Campbell on Gonorrhoea, 153. 379. Castor seeds, 82. Catheterism, best method of per- Chancre, prognosis of, 448. Chapman's list of Florida plants, | Elements of materia medica, by Cincinnati Journal of Health, 273. Color of the blood, 433. Cold affusions in typhus fever, 161. Cooper on the testis, 275. Croton oil in cure of nævi, 172. Cyclopædia of practical medicine, 58. D Dawson's account of putrid sore Death of Dr. Abercrombie, 175. Dictionary of practical medicine, 548. Digestive properties of gastric fluid, Disease of ovaries, 83. Diseases of women, Ashwell's trea- Diseases of the chest, lectures on, Hamburg, Jewish physicians in, 277, 484. Diseased kidney, case of, 383. Daniell, Professor, death of, 532. Early puberty in Greece, 81. 451. Harris' case of Emphysema, 11. 527. Hernia, 530. Homœopathic services, charge for, 168. Hooping-cough, treatment and ef- Horner's medical topography, 201. Improved mode of managing blis- Importance of health in clergymen, 283. Intermittent fever, 179. Insane, Bloomingdale asylum for, Influence of mental cultivation on Insane, proportion of, 445. Institute, medical, Louisville, 83. 175. Iodide of potassium in asthma, 260 M Man, physical position of, in cre- Malpractice, 65. Materia medica and therapeutics, Medical men, claims of religion up- 258. Mesmerism, 263, 362. Medicine, dictionary of, 548. 87. Medical Society of Tennessee, 545. 276. Medical jurisprudence, Guy's 519. Medical campaigne, 349. Medicine, Louisville summer school Medical and surgical journal, St. Mercury in southern fevers, 379. Midwifery, malpractice in, 529. Nævi, cure of, by croton oil, 172. New medical journal, 547. Ohio lunatic asylum, 163. Ovarian disease, 83. Р Paine's introductory lecture, 366. |