Third Editiom, revised and enlarged, with Illustrations. 1 vol. pp . 704. Philadelphia : Henry C. Lea. 1870. THE origin of syphilis is unknown. No theory has been adequate to account for its appearance about the end of the fifteenth century; nor, indeed, has it been proved to the satisfaction of everybody that syphilis had not been mn existence long before. The obscurity that attaches t.o the disease in this respect seems as if it were destined to extend to it in others also. The question of

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... duality or most of the venereal virus can scarcely yet be said to be defimitely settled. Contemporaneously with the appearance oE this new edition of Dr. Bumstead's work, we have Mr. John Morgan introducing the subject to the Surgical Sociesty of Ireland for discussion. Mr. Morgan has shown, as tIle result of his observations and inoculations, that soft more, followed by constitutional symptoms, are very coro.mon, and that the inoculation of the vaginal discharge from a female constitutionally infected, where no abrasion of the surface or intra-vaginal or uterine sore existed, is ca...pable of producing in a syphilitic subject effects identicaH with those obtained by the inoculation of pus from a chan croid. We do not think that it would be difficult to show that these facts are not inconsistent with the views put foirward by the dualists; but we allude to them in order to indicate the seemingly shifting basis of modern syphilitic doctrines. Virulent properties have been ascribed by more tha. one writer to the uterine and vaginal discharges of a female constitutionally syphilitic. We have on several occasions called attention t.o Dr. Bumstead's work, of which this is the third edition, "revised and enlarged." It is the most complete book with which we are acquainted in the language. The latest views of the best authorities are put forward, and the inforrmatioB is well arranged-a great point for the student, and still more for the practitioner. The subjects of visceral syphilis. syphilitic affections of the eyes, and the treatment oj syphilis by repeated inoculations, are very fully disc-ussed A patient, if shown the plate at p. 521 to illustrate thoe last would not, we suspect, be prepossessed with this plan oj treatment. Lectures 2yon, Diseases of the Rectum. Delivered 21t th!