and that if this is carefully collected and destroyed before it becomes dry, little danger is to be feared.

The expectoration should be received, if the patient is confined to the house, into cups containing carbolic acid (one part of the acid to twenty parts of water); or, if the patient is up and about, on pieces of cloth, which should be saved and burned at the first opportunity. This precaution is as necessary for the consumptive as for those about him, as many cases would get well if they would avoid reinfecting themselves.

Consumptives should not spit on the sidewalks or in public conveyances, or in places of public congregation. Cases of con'sumption should be reported to the Health Department, not with a view of quarantining or otherwise interfering with them, but that the department may place in their hands simple instructions to prevent their communicating the disease to those around them, and to assist in their own recovery.

They

Apartments which have been occupied by consumptives should not be occupied by others until they have been renovated. should be cleaned, scrubbed, whitewashed, papered, or painted, as the case may be, before they are again occupied.

Beddings, carpets, rugs, and clothing used by consumptives should be disinfected, preferably by the Health Department.

Z. TAYLOR EMERY, M. D.,

Commissioner of Health.

NEW BOOKS AND BOOK NOTICES.

All books received by the JOURNAL are deposited permanently in the Library of the Medical Society of the County of Kings.

THE YEAR-BOOK OF TREATMENT

FOR 1896.

Philadelphia: Lea

Brothers & Co., 1896. Pp. 476.

The Year-book," of which this is the twelfth issue, is too well known to need more than a mention. The departments of medicine are under the charge of experts, and the references are such as will prove of great value to the busy practitioner in difficult and obscure cases.

COCA AND ITS THERAPEUTIC APPLICATION. By Angelo Mariani, with illustrations. Third edition. New York: J. N. Jaros, 1896.

Pp. 77.

In this little book, M. Mariani has given a concise and most interesting acCount of coca, dividing the subject into five parts: (1) Its botany, its culture, and the methods employed in gathering it. (2) Its history, properties, and

uses. (3) The physiological researches made with it, a special chapter being devoted to cocaine. (4) Its therapeutic application. (5) General conclusions and explanations regarding the different preparations manufactured by M. Mariani, such as Vin Mariani, Elixir Mariani, Pâte Mariani, Thé Mariani, Pastilles Mariani, based on observations of American and European physicians. Numerous illustrations are given of the plant in all the stages of its growth, together with microscopical sections of its different parts.

WEIR'S INDEX TO THE MEDICAL PRESS. New York: Frank Weir & Co., Publishers, $3.00 per annum.

This journal will review monthly the entire medical press of the United States and Canada, including, in addition to the published transactions of the various national and State Medical Societies, the current number of every im. portant medical periodical published in the two countries. The result of its labors will be presented in the form of a monthly magazine of from 112 to 128 pages.

•The publishers of the Index will fill all orders for indexed publications or text-books, and the services of their staff may be availed of by physicians desiring to acquaint themselves with the bibliography of any particular subject

or case.

JANUS.-Janus is the title of a new journal, which is to be an Inter

tional Archives for the History of Medicine and Medical Geography. In the circular announcing this new journal, whose home is to be in Amsterdam, the editors speak of the necessity for the inauguration of this enterprise in the following words: While all branches of medical science have their organs in the principal civilized countries, there does not yet exist in the whole of Europe a review on the history and geography of medicine. It seems to us the time has come to remedy this state of things. It is to be hoped that those who apply themselves to the study of history are no longer obliged to leave it to chance to obtain a rare or interesting article. The history of medicine also has a right to a review of its own, but the undersigned are very well convinced that none of all the civilized countries alone would be able to feed historical archives of that kind and to make them of a first rate order. This is, however, as little desirable as necessary. The history of medicine is quite a particular study, and in the first place international and polyglot, as well as ethnography, which already possesses an international review of its own. With a view to found such a periodical, we ask for the History of Medicine the assistance and collaboration of the most eminent men of science in all civilized countries. We wish to found an international review in which each author can choose, at liberty, one of the most extensively used languages, as English, French, and German. A small country like Holland seems to us best qualified for this enterprise.

We are convinced that the idea of founding international archives for the history of medicine and medical geography will obtain the approbation of the most eminent scientific men all over the world. Therefore we beg you also to grant us your most valuable assistance, and we are bold enough to express the well-founded hope soon to place your esteemed name among the contributors of the new archives, to which we intend giving the well-known name

"Janus," International Archives for the History of Medicine and Medica Geography.

We beg you also to send us as soon as possible the title of the articles or memoirs which you wish to have inserted into “Janus,” that we may announce them in the same prospectus, and, if you can do so, also to send us as soon as possible a work which is fit to appear in one of the first editions.

The articles may be written in English, in French, or in German, and those in English, by preference, can be sent to Dr. R. C. Creighton, M.A., 32 Great Ormond street, W. E. London; Sir Jos. Fayrer, surgeon-general, Baronet K.C.S.I., M.D., F.R.S., 53 Wimpole street, London; Dr. J. F. Payne, F.R.C.P., 78 Wimpole street, W. London, or immediately to Dr. H. F. A. Peijpers, who will act as a secretary.

The editors are Dr. Ch. Creighton, M. A., and Sir Jos. Fayrer, London; Dr. George M. Sternberg, Surgeon-general of the Army U. S., Washington; Dr. Julius Petersen, Copenhagen, and others.

1896.

THE INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL ANNUAL AND PRACTITIONERS' INDEX FOR Edited by a corps of thirty-seven department editors -European and American-specialists in their several departments. 728 octavo pages. Illustrated. $2.75. E. B. Treat, Publisher, 5 Cooper Union, New York.

The Annual is now in its fourteenth year, and is an admirable recapitulation of the year's progress in medicine. It contains numerous illustrations, many being in colors. As its arrangement is alphabetical, and as it is thoroughly indexed, it is an excellent reference book.

Part I. comprises the new remedies, together with an extended review of the therapeutic progress of the year.

Part II. includes a number of recent articles by eminent authorities: "How to Determine the Parasite of Malaria"; "The Diagnosis of Toothache and Neuralgia"; "The Remedial Value of Cycling"; "Sensory Distribution of Spinal Nerve-roots"; "Angio Neurosis"; Life Insurance "; and "Röntgen's Method of Shadow Photography, illustrated."

Part III., comprising the major portion of the book, is given to the consideration of new treatment. It covers five hundred pages, and is a retrospect of the year's medical and surgical progress.

The fourth, and last part is made up of miscellaneous articles, such as "Recent Advances in Sanitary Science," "New Inventions in Instruments and Appliances"; Books of the Year," etc.

DIET IN SICKNESS AND IN HEALTH. By Mrs. Ernest Hart, author of The Micro-metric Measurements of the Blood Corpuscles," etc., with an Introduction by Sir Henry Thompson. London: The Scientific Press. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders, 1895. Pp. 219.

The author in this volume deals with foods and their digestion, and gives dietaries for various diseases, diabetes receiving special attention.