This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1866 edition. Excerpt: ...report on the Cnrculio, by Prof. S. S. Rathvon, of Lancaster. The plan of publishing reports and essays is a good one, and should be continued and extended. We hope to avail ourselves of extracts from its pages in a future number. Books and New Medical Journals received: --Biographical sketches of distinguished living New York Surgeons. By Samuel W. Francis, A. M., M. D., Fellow of the New York Academy. Reprinted from the Philadelphia Med. and Surg. Reporter. New York, published by John Bradshaw, 1866, pp. 220 12mo. The Detroit Review of Medicine and Pharmacy, edited by Geo. P. Andrew, M.D., Samuel P. Duffield, Ph. D., and Edward W. Jenks, M. D. Vol. i. No. 1. April, 1866. T)te Savannah Journal of Medicine, edited by Uriah Harriss, M.D., J. B. Read, M. D., J. G. Thomas, M. D. Vol. v. Nos. 1 and 2. Bi-monthly, commencing Jan. 1, 1866. The Medical Reporter, a semi-monthly Record of Medicine and Surgery, edited by W. B. Alleyne, M. D., andO. F. Potter, M. D. St. Louis, March 15, 1866, rol. i. Nos. 2 and 3. The Medical Record, a semi-monthly Journal of Medicine and Svrgery. New York, March 15, 1866, vol. i. Nos. 1 and 2, pp. 24; edited by George F. Shrady, M. D. The New York Lancet, a family Medical Journal, vol. i. No. 5, March 1.x The Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions, Londou. The Chemist and Druggist, London. Chemical News. London. Medical Press. Dublin. VierteljahrBschrift fur praktlsche Pharraacie, Munich. By Or. G. C. Wittstein. Journal de Pharmacie. Paris. Journal de Chirnie Medicate. Paris. Repertoire de Pharmacie, Paris. The Druggist's Circular and Chemical Gazette. New York, L. V. New ton, M. D. American Journal of the Medical Sciences. Philadelphia. Journal of I Franklin Institute. Philadelphia. Proceedings ol the Aoademy of.