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Medical. we are free to confeas, though submitting our children to the operation, that for years we have had doubts as to whether it was right to do so. Small-pox is to be dreaded, but Swe can only purchase immunity from it by subjecting the rising generation to the danger of being impregnated with worse diseases, we shall scarcely hesitate which evil to choose. We should like to see this chapter of Mr Beaney's book reprinted by itself, and a copy of it in the hands of every father of a family. We cannot conclude without a special commendation of the manner in which this work is got up, It is printed and bound in a style equal to anything of its class that could be turned out of London, while the illustrative plates, of which there are fifteen, are, though repulsive in themselves, beautiful specimens of chromo-lithographic art. Mount Alexander Mail, Castlemaine, February 22nd; 1870. A work, foundered on the practical experienoe of years, on the subject of a disease unfortunately too well known. Highly valuable from a sicientific point of view and interesting to professional men. It is an enquiry which can only be approached by laymen in a limited degree, but it is almost the duty of the medical profession to make some effort towards discovering whether or no Dr. Beaney is right in his theory, and if ao, whether any means can be found of avoiding the danger he points out. Gipps Land Times, February 22nd, 1870. A valuable medical work, by J. G. Beanev, surgeon, of Collins street, has recently been published by George Robertson, of Melbourne. It treats in a popular form of the nature and diffusion of a frightful disease, unhappily only too well known, and more or less always prevalent among a largo population. The book is designed to direct public attention to the wide-spread but quite unfounded belief that the medical profession generally avoid cultivating practice in the particular class of diseases therein dealt with ; and that therefore the regular practitioner — who does not happen to belong to the class of professional advertisers, who play upon the fears of their unfortunate patients— is but imperfectly acquainted with the best methods of treatment. Many eminent men in France and England have given years of patient study and careful attention to the disease which is styled '' The greatest physical scourge of our race." " And," says Dr. Beaney, "it is equally the duty of the physicians and surgeons of these colonies to correct the errors of the people here, and to take measures to show them that they are not without ample resources within the profession as a body, and that the leading medical men of this colony are not less prepared than their confreres of the northern hemisphere to maintain public confidence, if placed in them, in reference to the treatment of this particular disease, and to address themselves earnestly to its eradication." The volume is an octavo of 320 pages, illustrated j | with fifteen chromo-lithographs, and is altogether well designed to become a work of much public utility, and to find an extensive circulation, not only in the ranks of the medical profession, but among society at large. The subjects are dealt with in popular dress, and generally explained in such language as to be quite as plain to the intelligent layman as to the ordinary practitioner Ararat and Pleasant Creek Advertiser, March 12th, 1870. A book has recently issued from the Melbourne preßS, emanating from the pen of Dr [ Beaney, which treats of several terrible diseases in a popular manner, and illustrates the superficial appearance of the body, while subject to their influence, by a number of elaborately executed and skilfully coloured engravings. We should imagine that this volume will be very useful to medical men ; but one subject to which Dr. Beaney devotes a portion of the work should be carefully considered by all — it is that of vaccination. The arguments he adduces to show that fearful hereditary diseases are communicated to children by vaccination are numerous. The lymph used for inoculating purposes should, he avers, be taken direct from the animal. If such is really the fact, and Dr. Beaney's arguments go to prove it, medical men and parents ought to be particularly careful Jamieson and WoocFs Point Chronicle, February \2th, 1870. Dr. Beaney, of Melbourne, has lately published a medical work, which is, we believe, the first of its kind in this colony, being specially devoted to a class of diseases, the discussion of which, except amongst the faculty, has been avoided. The work now before us shows that its author has made this branch of the medical profession his particular study, and the experience and deductions of a number of years' careful study of numerous cases is collected in its pages, in a condensed and easily accessible form. Ovens and Murray Advertiser, March 3rd. 1870. MEDICAIi.— Mr George Robertson, of Melbourne, has just published a valuable work on " Syphilis : Its Nature and Diffusion, popularly considered," by Mr James George Beaney, F. K.C.S. The nature of the subject' selected by the author prevents lengthened criticism in a public journal, but the high position attained by Mr Beaney in the profession should be sufficient pledge of the ability displayed in treating of this most important subject. The work is dedicated to "P. Ricord,M.D., the great and distinguished syphilographer, who had the boldness and skill to first open up an untrodden, but to humanity a most important, path of medical investigation." Fifteen splendidly executed plates are contained in the volume. Alexandra Times, February 25th, 1870. It will be seen by advertisement in another column, that Dr. Beaney, of Collins street, Melbourne, has published a valuable work on the treatment of diseases that strike at the root of the human system, which, by slow and imperceptible degrees, destroy the vital organs, and bring thousands every year to an early grave. The book is calculated to confer immense benefit on mankind. Portland Guardian, February 24th, 1870. Syphilis.— We have to acknowledge receipt of Dr. Beaney's book published recently on this subject, embodying the practical experience of years. The work will be found a valuable contribution, from a scientific point of view, to professional men. The theory discussed in the 12th chapter, of the danger to be apprehended in the vaccination of children with the lymph taken from the bodies of other children suffering from hereditary syphilitic or other ; eases, involves