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As to the duration of chronic ulcer compared with cancer, the former disease extends over a longer period. In cancer the duration may be from three to six or twelve months, or even two years; but in ulceration the disease will be found continuing three, four, or even seven years, with varied accessions of severe symptoms. Ulceration may heal, and a cicatrix be formed, and instances have occurred in which twenty years have intervened between the commencement of the symptoms and their fatal termination. The one is a curable disease; the other tends to increase with more or less rapid downward course till it terminates in death.

In the treatment of cancer of the stomach, the same remedies which have been mentioned in chronic ulceration may afford great comfort to the patient, although they are ineffectual for cure; but it will often be found, that life is prolonged and ease obtained by the administration of nutrient enemata. The distressing flatulence and fermentation and vomiting of food are thus avoided, and the sufferer is nourished by this imperfect means more than by ineffectual attempts to induce normal digestion.

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For facility of reference the works are arranged under the names of Authors, in alphabetical order, with an Index according to subject, on pages 31 and 32.

Professor AGASSIZ, of Neufchatel.

Bibliographia Zoologiæ et Geologiæ.

Edited by HUGH E. STRICKLAND, Esq., M.D., F.R.S.
Price £4. [Ray Society.]

Messrs. ALDER & HANCOCK.

Four vols. 8vo. 2255 pp.

A Monograph of the British Nudibranchiate Mollusca. With Coloured Drawings of every Species. Imperial 4to. Seven Parts, 82 plates. Price £9. 12s. [Ray Society.]

Professor ANSTED, M.A., F.R.S.

The Applications of Geology to the Arts and Manu factures.

SIX LECTURES DELIVERED BEFORE THE SOCIETY OF ARTS.

On the Formation of Natural Soils by Derivation from Rocks, and on the Improve ment of Soils by the admixture of Minerals.

On Natural and Artificial Springs, and on the various Sources of Water-Supply for Towns and Cities, in connection with the Geographical Structure of the Vicinity. On Mineral Materials used for the Purposes of Construction: Plastic and Incoherent Materials (Clays and Sands).

On Mineral Materials (continued): Building Stones and Slates, and their Relative Value under given Circumstances of Exposure, and on Methods of Quarrying.

On Stratified Deposits of Minerals, as Coal and Iron Ore, usually obtained by Mining Operations, and on Mining Methods for such Deposits.

On Metalliferous Veins for Lodes and their Contents, and on the Extraction of Metalliferous Minerals from Lodes.

Fcap. Svo. cloth, Illustrated, price 48.

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