noteworthy:-1st. That tho physician's prescription of opium for pain is the most frequent stinting point of the pernicious habit; 2d. That while restrictive and prohibitory laws are enforced, as regards alcohol, at those very times is the market consumption of opium the largest. That this was the case in Massachusetts, we learn from ono of our largest drug dealers. The autobiography of opium eaters is always of varying interest, according to the originality and talent of the victim. To this

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... the present volume is not an exception. The mode of cure proposed at Ford Island, New York, combines the use of other narcotics, and of daily diminishing doses of opium-for a sudden abandonment of the drug is not advocated-with the Russian bath, the condensed air-chamber, and the use of galvanism, of tonics, exercise and food. We commend the volume to all interested in such asubjeet-and their name is legion. Medi c al and Su r g i c a l J o u r n a l .