Journal is "the largest medical monthly in America." It is competing with wealthy publishers, but if its subscribers will discharge their obligations and continue their generous aid, the editor will make his work still more worthy of their support.

APHASIA. A series of papers on this interesting subJect has been contributed by Profs. Bemiss and Chaillé, of New Orleans. The clinical facts were given by Prof. Bemiss in the January number of this Journal. The pathology of the disease is given by the same writer, in this number. The interesting incidental question of the physiology of the cerebral circulation is elaborately discussed by Prof. Chaillé in this number also. The necropsy of the case will be given in the March issue. As these papers, if published in the same issue, would have excluded several of the departments of the Journal and as they are fully as interesting and intelligible separately presented, this course has been adopted.

THE editor acknowledges the receipt of a handsome copy of "The Physician's Pocket Record," from its author, Dr. S. W. Butler, of Philadelphia. It is very complete and admirable in all respects. The price is only $1.50, and every physician should have a copy of this useful companion.

ERRATA--VOL. VI.-Page 591, for permit read prevent; on page 593, for successary read necessary; on page 599, for deglution read deglutition; on page 600, for asthma read asthenia.

THE LATE DR. PETICOLAS-MEMORIAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE FACULTY OF THE MEDICAL COLLEGE.-MEDICAL COLLege of Virginia, December 1, 1868-At a meeting of the faculty, held this day, the following preamble and resolutions were unanimously adopted:

The faculty receive with deep regret the intelligence of the untimely and melancholy death of Dr. Arthur E. Peticolas, late Superintendent of the Eastern Lunatic Asylum, and formerly Professor of Anatomy in this institution; and, while the deceased was not connected in any manner with the college at the time of his death, yet as his active relations to it, in the several capacities of student, preceptor and professor, continued unbroken for a period of nineteen consecutive years, the faculty feel that it is peculiarly incumbent on them, as the representatives of the institution in which he laid his first offerings on the altar of sci

ence-to the service of which the energies and the enthusiasm of the best years of his life were devoted, and in connection with which he mainly achieved his well-earned distinction-to place on record their estimation of his services aud his merits, and their sorrow at the melancholy termination of his career; therefore,

Resolved, That in the death of Dr. Peticolas, we mourn the loss of one of the most distinguished alumni of this college, whose services, first as Demonstrator and Lecturer and subsequently (for eleven years) as Professor of Anatomy, made ample return to his Alma Mater for the nurture which she had bestowed upon him, and won for himself that distinction which is the sure reward of talent, industry and faithful devotion to duty.

Resolved, That it affords us a sad pleasure to express our sense of the high intellectual endowments of Dr. Peticolas, his extensive and varied professional learning, his practical aptitude and skill--especially in the department of surgery-his accomplishments in the domains of literature and art, the heroic fortitude with which he braved the assaults of a relentless malady, and the courage with which he buffeted the waves of adverse fortune.

Resolved, That we offer to the family of the deceased the assurances of our warmest sympathy, in the bereavement which has suddenly fallen upon them.

Resolved, That the faculty will attend the funeral of the deceased in a body and invite the students of the college to unite with them in paying the last honors to his memory.

Resolved, That these proceedings be entered upon the records of the faculty, and published in the Richmond and Louisville Medical Journal and the daily papers of the city of Richmond, and that a copy of the same be transmitted by the Dean to the widow of the deceased. DAVID H. TUCKER, M,D., Chairman.

L. S. JOYNES, M.D., Dean.

BOOKS AND JOURNALS RECEIVED.

Eve's Surgical Cases. By Paul F. Eve, M.D., Professor, etc. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott & Co. From the author.

Practical Observations on the Etiology, Pathology, Diagnosis and Treatment of Anal Fissure. By W. Bodenhamer, A.M., M.D. New York: W. Wood & Co., 1868. From the author.

A Treatise on the Etiology, Pathology, Diagnosis and Treatment of Congenital Malformations of the Rectum and Auus. By W. Bodenhamer, A.M., M.D. New York: W. Wood & Co. From the author. Watson on Cod Liver Oil. Caswell, Hazard & Co., New York. From the publishers.

Chapman on Pyrophosphate of Iron. Caswell, Hazard & Co., New York. From the publishers.

Progressive Locomotor Ataxia. By Roberts Bartholow, A.M., M.D. Cincinnati, Ohio.

Annual Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture, 1868. From Dr. Toner, Washington, D. C.

Sclerose en Plaques Disseminee. Paris, 1868.

Scirrhus of the Rectum. By Alden March, M.D., Albany, New York.

Report of Seven Operations for Stone. By Paul F. Eve, M.D. From the author.

Physician's Pocket Record. From Dr. S. W. Butler.

A New Operation for Artificial Hip-joint in Bony Anchylosis. Illustrated. By L. A. Sayre, M.D. From the author.

Introductory Address, National Medical College, 1868-69. By Alexander Y. P. Garnett, M.D., Washington, D. C. From the author.

The Women's Hospital. Anniversary Address. By J. Marion Sims, M.D., 1868. From the author.

ART. I.-EXPERIMENTS DESIGNED TO TEST THE VALUE OF MEDICAL PEPSINE AS AN AID TO ENFEEBLED DIGESTION AND TO DETERMINE THE PROPER MODE OF ITS ADMINISTRATION. By L. S. JOYNES, M.D., Professor of Physiology and Medical Jurisprudence in the Medical College of Virginia.

The employment of pepsine as a remedy for slow and imperfect digestion, which is now becoming so general, affords an interesting example of the application of the results of physiological investigation to the improvement of practical medicine. The physiologist having ascertained that the gastric juice contains a small portion of an animal principle that is essential to the digestive action which it exerts upon the most important nutritive constituents of the food-that this principle can be isolated by proper chemical means, and can also be extracted from the gastric mucous membrane of an animal recently killed the idea naturally suggested itself that this substance might be administered with advantage as a remedy