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. 1876 edition. Excerpt: .C., and Reports by Drs.

T. R. Brown, on Surgery; W. T. Howard, on Obstetrics and Gynaecology; Richard McSherry, on Materia Medica and Therapeutics; W. C. Kloman, on Anatomy and Physiology; G. H.

Boyland, on Surgical cases in Foreign Hospitals; J. E. Atkinson, on Contagious Fevers; Saml. Theobald, on Tinnitus Aurinm; W. Gleitsmann, on Pulmonary Phthisis; F. T. Miles, on Galvanic Current in Electro Therapeutics; S. C.

Chew, on Digitalis in Cardiac Disease; J. Van Bibber, on Treatment of Paralyzed Muscles by Elastic Relaxation; and business of the Society. MONTHLY SUMMARY. Dispensing with Rain.--As calcium chlorid possesses the property of attracting moisture, and that an object wetted with its aqueous solution will not dry, it has been proposed to water our streets with such a solution in order to avoid dust in summer. Prof Paraf proposes to extend its use to agriculture, and to moisten all kinds of soil with it in dry regions where rain in deficient. He says that its application produces irritation more cheaply than any other method. He found that a piece of land where this is applied will retain its moisture for three days, while a similar piece of land next to it, irrigated with water alone, will dry in a single hour.

He claims that this will not only make two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, but render to sandy and desert wastes a luxuriant vegetation, and consequent prosperity. It will have to be found out in how far the presence of an excess of calcium chlorid is beneficial to some plants and injurious to others. We fear the latter, as the presence of sea-water, in which calcium and sodium chlorids are the main ingredients, is injurious to most plants. Thus the low lands in Holland (of which from time to time some are.