IIerr Virchow publishes a Lecture on Famine Fever (Williams and
Norgate). which his knowledge of authorities and his own experience enable him to make very interesting. His moral is 'fever is almost always preventible,' his cry is for good government. And he cites the instance of the plague, the worst form of typhus, in Egypt, never known there "as long as a good police and a certain continuity of culture existed," and now banished once more, since a "species of national government has again been established." The translation is apparently not executed by an Englishman (it speaks, for instance, of the "bank" of Judges), and does not always make the author's meaning very clear. We may notice in the same connection of sanitary subjects a useful treatise on Water Analysis, by J. A. Wanklyn and E. T. Chapman (Triibner).
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