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From. Hospital-Ward to Consulting-Room. By a Graduate of the London

University. (H. R. Lewis.)—This "medical autobio- graphy" is a candid and instructive book. The writer began as an apprentice to a member of the Society of Apothecaries, passed through many vicissitudes of fortune and position—one of them was following for some years the occupation of chemist and druggist—and finally took a London degree,—a proof, as every one knows, of superior medical knowledge. (It seems humorous, by the way, to call the London University an alma mater.) Interest- ing instructions and judicious advice go to make up a volume which the student or young practitioner may road with profit.