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1493 colour-printing, both incorporated with the text and in full- to it before we printed Dr. Collins’ interesting case,’- otherwise it might be conceived that the present idea was an adappage plates, as supplements suitable for being framed. The Picture Magazine (George Newnes and Co., South- tation of Dr. Collins’ method. The eye submitted to us by ampton-street, Strand), in addition to abundant illustration Mr. T. Partridge Salt, of Corporation-street, Birmingham, is of modern subjects, has a specialty of old prints and pictures, held in position by attachment to a pair of spectacles, and lightly against the lids, having flesh-coloured eyelids many of which are very quaint and comic. A page of Isaac Watts’ manuscript in facsimile will interest readers of his " Hymns. " The same firm publishes a weekly called The Million, and books of nursery rhymes, all crowded with coloured pictures.

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DIARIES. Messrs. CASSELL and Co. send us Letts’s Office Diary and carefully moulded around the glass portion of shape and tint Almanac for 1895. This is a substantial quarto volume, to accord precisely with the requirements of each individual having each page headed for one day of the year. Prefixed case. It is made entirely of non-corrosive material, and is in no way acted upon by the tears or secretions of the eyeare about fifty pages of general information-such as lists of official personages of all classes, a copious directory of lids. We can understand the invention to be very useful in foreign, colonial, and country banks, life insurance com- removing from a not very rare class of patients a distressing Medical Diary for 1895 maintains its sense of nnsisrhtliness. panies, &c.-Letts’ reputation for portability and convenience of reference. Each fourth page shows the seven days of each week of the "RESPIRO-REGENERATOR, OR PERFECT INHALER." WE have received a specimen of the " Respiro-regenerator, year, the intervening pages being suitably ruled for the insertion of patients’ names. The oblong shape is con- or Perfect Inhaler." It is a cylindrical metal vessel, between venient for the pocket. one and two pints in capacity, with a handle at the side and close - fitting, perforated Messrs. CHARLES LETTS and Co., 3, Royal Exchange, E.C., from the middle of lid, send us a large selection of their well-known Diaries, Visiting which rises a long caoutand Calendars and Lists, Calendars, Blotting-pads combined, chouc mouth-piece. Within other useful memorandum books. Their Improved Office Diary the vessel is a recess which and Note-Book appears in several sizes and bindings, with or receives a wide - mouthed without blotting interleaves, and contains a large amount glass bottle for the medicament to be inhaled. Ob6%tts’s Hospital Nurses’ Diary venient and free. When the and Handbook for 1895 is tastefully bound in scarlet cloth inhalation is concluded the with gilt lettering, and provides six or seven lines for bottle is stoppered, and the contents are in readiness memoranda for each day of the year. It contains tabular information useful to nurses and an interesting sketch of the for the next occasion. The inventors and manufacturers are Messrs. J. G. Ingram and Son, London Indiarubber Works, rise and progress of trained nursing. Hackney Wick. Messrs. WIFLIAIVI COLLINS, SONS and Co. (London and Glasgow) provide a varied assortment of convenient diaries, THE " MOVILLETTE " GLASSES. suitable both for the office and for the pocket. Their large WE have had brought to our notice certain eyeglasses Scribbling Diary, interleaved with blotting-paper, shows at made in the pince-nez shape for which, among others, a great each opening all the days of a week separately dated. The is claimed. They are said always to maintain advantage Commercial and Octavo Diaries are similar in arrangement, their horizontal position; and we have tested the assertion but smaller. Of their Pocket Diaries there are about half a and find that under all ordinary circumstances they do so. dozen different patterns and varieties, well bound and gilt-

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New Inventions. A NEW ARTIFICIAL EYE.

WE have had submitted to us for our opinion an artificial eye of a novel character. It is well known that a not inconsiderable number of those who have undergone removal of the for

eyeball are from one cause or another (contracted socket, The security of immovable foci in the pince-nez shape for example) unable to wear the ordinary artificial eye. astigmatic patients is, we believe, a distinct novelty, though Indeed, it is not uncommon for considerable irritation and it has been The bridge secured by very simple means. soreness to be set up, so that, for sympathetic reasons, the between the lenses is rigid, and the nose is grasped, but with medical attendant is obliged to forbid the use of the familiar no uncomfortable tightness, by little plaquets obtaining their glass eye. We have described in our columns the method from separate springs. The IMovillette" glasses may adopted by Dr. W. J. Collins to conceal the deformity resulting pressure be obtained from the inventors, Messrs. J. Raphael and Co., after a successful removal of an extensive

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sarcoma, and think it is due to the inventor of the apparatus we are now noticing to say that we had our attention drawn

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