Memoir of Edward Hare. By E. E. Hare. (Grant Richards.
Ss.)—Mr. Hare qualified for the medical profession in 1837, went out to India in 1839—it took him six months to reach Calcutta— and joined the Army of the Indus early in the following year. He saw much service, and finally left India in 1867, settling in Bath, where he lived for thirty years, reaching the age of eighty- five, by help—at least so he believed—of a vegetarian and non- alcoholic diet. His great contribution to medical science was the use of quinine in cases of fever. This cure dispossessed the old bleeding method, not a little to the advantage of the patient. Here is a short statement of the treatment of a ease (as recent as July, 1864) :—" July 91h.-2 lb. of blood taken at 9 a.m. ; 2 lb. at 2 p.m., enema of salt-oil. Tepid bath, half-hour; scruple of calomel. 9 p.m. 15 gr. calomel, 1 gr. opium, 15 gr. colocynth. July 10th.-1 oz. castor oil; 1 lb. of blood taken (7 a.m.); anti- monial wine in camphor ; at noon 18 leeches; 9 p.m. blister on epigastrium. July 11th—Noon, patient died. (All the organs found pallid and blanched)." A very readable book this, largely autobiographical.
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