16 SEPTEMBER 1865, Page 24

Consumption. By Henry McCormac, M.D. Second edition. (Long- man.)—Dr. McCormac

in this work makes a passionate appeal to the profession and the public in general to open the bed-room windows of their consumptive patients at night. He is of opinion that tubarele is produced solely by re-breathing pre-breathed air. Ten years have elapsed since he first put forth this view, and all his experience since has tended to confirm it; and "if he had a stentor's voice, an angel's pm," he would employ them to impress it upon the world. The prac- tical conclusion he draws is, as we have said above, "open the windows' day and night. The Linden doctors seem to be at issue with him as to the novelty of his doctrine; most likely what is true in it is not new, and what is new is not true.