The subjoined scheme, drawn up by the writer eighteen months since, has been put to practical test at the West Riding Asylum during that time, and found to answer its purpose. Several practical suggestions made by Dr. C. H. Bond, Pathologist at Banstead Asylum, have been incorporated with it, and are here acknowledged. The corresponding scheme for the spinal cord it is proposed to give in a later number.

The “Year Book” of the Elmira Reformatory for 1892 is an admirably produced volume; it contains, also, a very large number of process illustrations from photographs, as well as 100 woodcut portraits of inmates with accompanying histories. Like last year's “Year Book,” it is the product of the intelligence, skill, and industry of inmates engaged on the institutional journal, “The Summary.”

At a recent medical meeting in Budapesth, Oct. 22, 1892, Dr. Schreiber combats the view that electrotherapy is suggestion-therapy, though he is obliged to admit the latter to be a potent factor in the use of electricity. Amongst other differences, he states that electricity is able to remove inflammatory products, to cause their absorption, whilst suggestion is unable to effect the same. We should be inclined to doubt the possibility of stating so definitely what suggestion cannot do, but at the same time we should be more than prepared to allow that electricity is able to do something, for good or for evil, on its own account. To deny this would be to affirm that an agent with very definite physical powers, to which motor structures and sensory nerves respond very readily, is without effect upon the organism as a whole. Surely electricity is something more than the hospital mistura flava; at least, we must hope so.—” Therap. Monatsh.,” Jan., 1893, p. 32.