were made by law, fewer persons would escape from justice through the wards of an insane hospital or the much abused plea of insanity in criminal proceedings."

"INEBRIATES.-The State should regard every person who has not sufficient moral inclination or will power to refrain from habitual intoxication, as of unsound mind, and should assume guardianship of such persons under proper restrictions and limitations, with a view to

First. The restoration of the citizen.
Second. The protection of society.

Third.

The self sustenance of the individual.

With this end in view an asylum for inebriates should be founded, combining the features of a hospital with those of a manual labor school.

"An Inebriate Asylum should be deprived of all features having a punitive appearance. The law of commitment should be drawn with great care. The provision of such a foundation should be broad, generous and open in every particular, yet positive and certain in all features of administration."

MARKOE ON BONES-A TREATISE ON DISEASES OF THE Bones, by Thomas M. Markoe, M. D., Professor of Surgery in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, etc. With numerous illustrations. 1 vol. 8vo, cloth, $4.50. D. Appleton & Co., New York. For sale by Cathcart & Cleland, Indianapolis.

This valuable work is a treatise on Diseases of the Bones, embracing their structural changes as affected by disease, their clinical history and treatment, including also an account of the various tumors which grow in or upon them. None of the injuries of bone are included in its scope, and no joint diseases, excepting where the condition of the bone is a prime factor in the problem of disease. As the work of an eminent surgeon of large and varied experience, it may be regarded as the best on the subject, and a valuable contribution to medical literature.

"The book which I now offer to my professional

brethren contains the substance of the lectures which I have delivered during the past twelve years at the college. * * I have followed the leadings of my own studies and observations, dwelling more on those branches where I had seen and studied most, and perhaps too much neglecting others where my own experience was more barren, and therefore to me less interesting. I have endeavored, however, to make up the deficiencies of my own knowledge by the free use of the materials scattered so richly through our periodical literature, which scattered leaves it is the right and the duty of the systematic writer to collect and embody in any account he may offer of the state of science at any given period.”— Extract from Author's Preface.

Editorial.

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"Dissections are at last legalized in this State. The Anatomy Bill introduced in the Senate at the request of

the chairman of the special committee appointed for that purpose has passed both houses by an overwhelming majority, and received the signature of the Governor."

So says the Northwestern Medical and Surgical Journal: Our tender Legislature could not do such a thing. What! mangle the dead? Oh, no! that were too bad, especially before forgiveness was obtained of their many sins to the living. Indiana is still behind, not yet emerged from semi-barbarism.

Here is the bill as Minnesota has it, which we would commend to the attention of the heathen:

A BILL TO PROMOTE THE SCIENCE OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY IN THE STATE OF MINNESOTA.

SECTION 1. It shall be lawful in cities and counties whose population equals or exceeds ten thousond inhabitants, for superintendents of penitentiaries, wardens of poor houses, coroners and city undertakers to deliver to the phycians, professors and teachers in Medical Colleges and Schools in the State and for physicians, professors and teachers to receive the remains or body of any deceased person, for purposes of medical and surgi cal study; Provided, that said remains shall not have been regularly interred, and shall not have been desired for interment by any relative,or friend of said deceased, within twenty-four hours after death; provided, also, that the remains of no person who may be known to have relatives or friends, shall be so delivered or received without the consent of said relatives or friends; and provided, that the remains of no person detained for debt, or as a witness, or on a suspicion of crime, or of any traveler, or of any person who shall have expressed a desire in his or her last sickness, that his or her body may be interred, shall be delivered or received as aforesaid, but shall be buried in the usual manner; and provided, also, that in case the remains of any person so delivered or received shall be subsequently claimed by any surviving

relative or friend, they shall be given up to said relative or friend for interment.

SEC. 2. And it shall be the bounden duty of said physicians, professors or teachers, decently to bury in some public cemetery, the remains of all bodies after they shall have answered the purposes of study aforesaid, and for any neglect or violation of the provision of this act, the party so neglecting shall forfeit and pay a penalty of not less than $25 nor more than $50, to be saved by the Health Officers of said cities or other places for the benefit of their department.

SEC. 3. The remains and bodies of said persons as may be so received by the physicians, professors and teachers aforesaid, shall be used for the purposes of medical and surgical study alone; and in this State only; and whoever shall use such remains for any other purpose or shall remove such remains beyond the limits of this State, or in any manner traffic in the same, shall be deemed guilty of misdemeanor, and shall on conviction, be imprisoned for a term not exceeding one year in the county jail, or pay a penalty of not less than $300 nor more than $1,000.

SEC. 4. Every person who shall deliver up the remains of any deceased person, in violation of or contrary to any or all the provisions contained in the first section of this act, and every person who shall receive said remains knowing the same to have been delivered contrary to any of the provisions of said section, shall each, and every one of them be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction be imprisoned for a term not exceeding two years in a county jail, or shall pay a penalty of not more than $1,000.

SEC. 5. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.

BEHOLD the old becometh new and the discarded and tabooed are received with favor. Cold water is now the

thing in hyperpyrexia-the treatment of Currie that was for some time under a cloud has been brought forth and rebaptised as a new born babe by Dr. Wilson Fox, Wünderlich and others standing as God Fathers. Well do we remember" when we were a boy," and suffering from fever of what kind we know not, for we had no doctor, that we horrified all the good people by following our own instinct and the teaching of our boyish experience by delluging our burning head by a pan-full of cold water. We had no thermometer, so can not tell the degree of heat involved, but the past experience with semi-sun strokes in our youthfull gambols taught us that cold water was good to not only allay the present ill feeling, but the ulterior bad effect of heat upon the human body.

When Currie by large experience enunciated the doctrine in and urged the practice upon the medical world, some caught at the common sense treatment and used it properly and with success. Others carried it to extremes and with them it fell into discredit, and by their hands its good effect was doubted. Others openly opposed it without experience, and having some non-sensical reasons for such a course. Their action was similar in fact to the good but ignorant neighbors of whom we spoke before; this is but a repetition of what goes on with reference to any doctrine proposed-of any remedy introduced. First, a sovereign balms with some of no account with others-with a few is understood, then disuse and forgetfulness come-to be followed again by a frothing to the surface. Trial 'tis said, substanciates the good and banishes the poor. This may be taking the years or century into account, but certain the "slough of despond" has to be put through by all alike.

In many cases it is the indiscrete use by the ignorant that brings into disrepute, as to the cold water treatment itself we certainly approve of, and sanction it if used discretely as to quantity and kind of cases, but that there is danger in it if pushed to extremes, even in favorable