Electro-physiology and electro-therapeutics : showing the best methods for the medical uses of electricity / By Alfred C. Garratt.

presented it after a manner which deserves, and we believe will receive, the careful study of the profession. It is in works like this, which come directly out of the deep interest of the authors in their subjects, and from abundant experience concerning them, that a pro- fession gains useful and important light, which enables it to put them to the full test of practical uses. We close with quoting the last paragraph of this very interesting and val- uable work:— , " ' Medical Students : Our investigations in this intensely interesting field of medical lore must here draw to a close. Let us now congratulate ourselves and thank God for this day and opportunity of seeiug undcrstandingly so much of this new phase of our noble art. I said to you in the Preface, that we were rich in the materials for a systematic work of this kind, and now say again, that we feel still burdened with the untold matter that so interests ourselves, and which we desire you to know. But the original boundB of this work are already far exceeded ; I therefore only will remind you, with a parting emphasis, of the beautiful aphorism of Dr. Altheus, (who, by the way, has written well on this subject,) that " it is not electricity that cures diseases, but the physician who may cure disease by the means of electricity." In a word, it is the method and skill directing this agent that gives the success.' " From the Louisville Medical Journal. " There Is no similar work in the English language ; therefore this treatise by Dr. Garratt will Bupply an actual want heretofore felt by the profession." From the Chicago Medical Examiner. " From a careful examination of its contents, we are confident that the medical profession will be under lasting obligations to Dr. Garratt. The work is both scientific and practical i a book which shmdd be in the hands of every medical student: and no medical library will bo complete hereafter without it." From the New York Tribune. *'The special subject to which this volume is devoted is the medical and Burgical uses of Electricity. The author has given many years to the study of the Bubject, and in prepar- ing this work at the suggestion of many eminent medical men in different parts of the United States, he has combined the results of his own clinical experience with those of the highest practical authorities. The volume abounds in statements of the greatest interest and value to the student of physiology, as well as to the medical practitioner, and is founded on a strictly scientific basis." From the New York Independent. " We can commend without hesitation, to professional men, a portly octavo (now lying before us) on the ' Medical Uses of Electricity,' by Alfred C. Garratt, M. D. This thorough and learned work is designed for ' medical students ' — a phrase which designates a very large claBs, inasmuch as no good physician ceases to be a student in medicine till he retires from the practice of his learned and liberal profession. Dr. Garratt's book, if we mistake not, is the most comprehensive and systematic work on this subject in the English language." From the Philadelphia Enquirer. " Beyond all question, there is no work, British or American, on this subject, which, for exhaustiveness and logical acuteness of reasoning, can be compared with this large and valuable treatise. All our observation of late leads us to the conclusion that there is much importance in the subject which Dr. Garratt so learnedly discusses in this treatise." From the Cincinnati Journal of national Medicine. " The past month has been somewhat prolific in the productions of publications of interest to the profession; and among the most novel and important books, no one is likely to command more attention than a work on Electro-Physiology and Electro-Thera- peutics, by Alfred C. Garratt, M. D., of Boston. It is an elaborate and comprehensive pres-