Brooklyn medical journal. . rder and nature ofthe disease, and the particular tissues, etc., affected. Some criticism might be passed on some portions of the text, as on thedescription of the lichens, the treatment of hypertrichosis, etc., by electroly-sis, in which it is evident the doctor is still an enthusiast, but on the wholethe various affections of the skin are discussed, as far as the space goes, intelli-gently and well, and reflects fairly the consensus of opinion of American der-matologists. The doctor was for some years a member of the American DermatologicalAssociation, and he will
Brooklyn medical journal. . rder and nature ofthe disease, and the particular tissues, etc., affected. Some criticism might be passed on some portions of the text, as on thedescription of the lichens, the treatment of hypertrichosis, etc., by electroly-sis, in which it is evident the doctor is still an enthusiast, but on the wholethe various affections of the skin are discussed, as far as the space goes, intelli-gently and well, and reflects fairly the consensus of opinion of American der-matologists. The doctor was for some years a member of the American DermatologicalAssociation, and he will excuse our saying that he ought to re-affiliate. Samuel Sherwell. Outlines of Zoology. By J. Arthur Thomson, , F. , Lec-turer on Zoology in the School of Medicine, Edinburgh, 32 full-page illustrations. Pp. 641. New York, 1892 :D. Appleton & Co. An admirably arranged, illustrated and printed book, well adapted to serve asa manual for students of zoology in the lecture-room, museum and laboratory. t \. 4 WILLIAM CULLEN Was born in 1712, in Lanarkshire, Scotland. After serving an apprenticeship to a surgeon-apothecary in Glasgow, he becamesurgeon to a merchant vessel, trading between London and the West Indies. He soon, however, returned to his own districtand practiced among the rustic inhabitants of the parish of Schotts—a region proverbial even in Scotland for bleakness and pov-erty. Here he accidentally attracted the favorable notice of the Duke of Argyle, who was visiting in the neighborhood, and byhis invitation removed to Hamilton, where he became chief magistrate and was a general practitioner, surrounded by apprenticesin his pharmacy, and the trusted physician to the duke. William Hunter was a native of the same part of the country, and these kindred spirits entered into the singular partner-ship, which gave each of the young men the opportunity to attend courses of lectures at the metropolitan schools which theirpoverty denied to them individually.
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