Our collection to-day is " most miscel-Inneous one, quite incapable of being sorted into classes The books have by, Kelly Walsh; and in aheap we are obliged to notice them, Hay Fever is, we believe, of very rare occurrence in Chi there may be sufferers, and for such, not for professional readers, this book is written, Dr. Beard ascribes the painful attacks of catarrh and sneezing which characterise the disease, to functional nervous derangement excited by various irritants, the particular immediate cause which affects doing often inoperative on anot) consolatory to learn that although no definite line of treatment can be laid down, there la w remedy for alma indi vidual case. Some persons will b at sea, or by the sea side, other famous regions or in high latitude again will escape the enemy by ki ghiet in cvol, closed, darkened rooms, while tonics of dit t ki quinine will meet the requirements of those who cannot change their resid or mode of living. It may b 4 faction to those who like to be ill in good company, to learn that ''hay-fever is a disease of the fashionable and the thoughtful—the price of wealth and culture, part of the penalty of a five organisation and an indoor life."
Anauat Record of Science ant Indiatry for i815." Rated "by Spencer F. Bsinp. New York frpers, 1876, Thi in the fifth volume of the series.
prove of the greatest value to all who have neither the time nor money oded for the pursuit of contemporary scientific discoveries through current magazine literature. Here within 600 pages will be found brief but clearly intolligible abstracts of the moat import papers which have appeared dui year in American and European jou:
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