Time forbids further details. I will simply say the book is a good one, and will well repay careful study. Arrangements have been made with the author and his publishers to translate the work into English.
W. T. Corlett.
“Official Formulæ of American Hospitals” is the title of a 16-mo manual of 238 pages, published by the Medical World of Philadelphia. It contains the formulæ of some twenty-nine American hospitals, collected and arranged by C. F. Taylor, M. D. Price $1.00.
“Organic Materia Medica and Therapeutics,” in accordance with the sixth revision of the United States Pharmacopœia. By James Young Simpson, M. D., of Orange, New Jersey. Book of 337 pages, well printed and very neatly bound. Published by J. H. Vail & Co., New York.
THE ASTRONOMIC DOCTOR.
By request we take pleasure in reprinting this poem from the Cleveland Medical Gazette of April, 1860. A modest country practitioner discovered a planet. The medical and scientific world prepared to give him a public dinner at the “Hotel du Louvre.” But word was sent from the modest doctor he would rather “stay at home in his wooden shoes” (it is his own expression).
I.
To grace the brow of savans