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against animal poisons by repeated inoculations,"* by the same writer ; also a contribution on the value of veratrum and veratria as parasiticides, f by Dr. Peugnet, and the first annual report of the New York Dispensary for Skin Diseases, | by Dr. Piffard.

Finally, with the close of this year must be chronicled the loss of Dr. George D. Blackman, of Cincinnati, at the age of fifty-one, who was most favorably known throughout the country as a surgeon, and as the translator of Vidal de Cassis on venereal diseases.

Early in 1872 the Boston Dispensary for Skin Diseases, at 241 Harrison Avenue, was established, in charge of Dr. Edward Wig- glesworth, with Drs. G. H. Rohe and W. P. Bolles as assistants, under whose efficient management the institution continued its career until 1877. During the five years of its existence, according to the annual reports, over three thousand cases were recorded. In the fol- lowing year a department for skin and venereal diseases was inaugu- rated at the old Boston Dispensary, with Dr. F. B. Greenough as physician, which has since proved to be one of the largest clinics for these diseases in the country, not less than between nine and ten thousand cases having been registered here during the past eight years. In connection with the subject of dispensaries may be men- tioned an analysis of the cases treated during the previous year at the Dispensary for Skin Diseases, Philadelphia, by the writer. §

We have also to record the publication of a small volume, entitled " the animal and vegetable parasites of the human skin and hair,"|| by Dr. B. Joy Jeffries, of Boston. It was pleasantly written, in a semi-popular style, and gave a good deal of accurate information valuable alike to the student and general reader. In the October number of the American Journal of Syphilography and Dermatology there appeared a Boylston prize essay on "recent advances in the pathology of diseases of the skin," also by Dr. Jeffries. The work was a succinct and clear exposition of the existing knowledge on the subject, giving especial prominence to the recent labors of the Ger- man school.

Dr. J. Collins Warren's monograph on the anatomy and develop- ment of rodent ulcer, also a Boylston prize essay, was published^ this year, and is entitled to more than this brief notice, being a sterling contribution to medical science. The conclusion arrived at by the author was that the disease was a form of cancer representing its mildest type, — a view which has since been very generally adopted. Certain diseases were now described for the first time, namely, neuroma cutis** and pruritus hiemalis,f f both by the writer, as well as rare well-known diseases, as the prurigo of Hebra,|| by Dr.

t Amer. Jour, of Syph. and Derm. | Med. Gaz., Feb. II, 187 1. I Phila. Med. Times, vol. ii., 1871-72. II Boston, 1872. Boston. tt Phila. Med. Times, Jan. 10, 1874. X Amer. Jour, of Syph. and Derm., Jan. 1873.
 * Boston Med. and Surg. Jour., Nov. 9, 187 1.
 * Amer. Jour, of the Med. Sci., Oct. 1873.