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DISEASES OF THE BRONCHI. By Dr. F. A. Hoffmann, of Leipsic. Diseases of the Pleura. By Dr. O. Rosenbach, of Berlin. Pneumonia. By Dr. F. Aufrecht, of Magdeburg. Edited, with additions, by John H. Musser, M. D., Professor of Clinical Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. Handsome octavo volume of 1030 pages, illustrated, including 7 full-page colored lithographic plates. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Co., 1902. (Cloth, $5.00 net; Half Morocco, $6.00 net.)

This, the fourth volume to be issued of Saunders' American edition of Nothnagel's Practice, fulfils all expectations. The eminent authors of the valuable monographs which comprise this volume had, by their breadth of learning, their exhaustive research, and extensive practical experience, made their essays almost complete as originally written. Nevertheless, the author in the light of recent research, has made numerous valuable additions, so that the American edition represents the present state of our knowledge on the subjects under discussion. Among other things, these additions include new matter on the anatomy and physiology of the bronchi; on foreign bodies in the tubes; on the pathology, bacteriology and treatment of bronchitis, and the recent researches on bronchiectasis and on eosinophilia in asthma.

Much new matter has been incorporated into the section on pneumonia, including the recent work of Hutchinson and others on the blood and urine in that disease. In the pleurisy section will be found an account of the latest bacteriologic studies, and references to the work of Morse on the leucocytes in pleurisy, to that of Williams and others on Xray diagnosis, and to the Litten phenomenon. The work in every particular is thoroughly up-to-date, and no criticism is possible but praise.

"In view of the fact that pneumonia is today more fatal by a very large per cent than it was forty years ago this volume of the cyclopedia should receive the closest study and for the careful student there is here to be found a veritable gold mine of clinical and pathological information.' B.

A TEXT-BOOK OF SURGICAL DISEASES OF THE FACE, MOUTH AND JAWS. For Dental Students. By H. Horace Grant, A. M., M.D., Professor of Surgery and of Clinical Surgery in Hospital College of Medicine; Professor of Oral Surgery in the Louisville College of Dentistry, etc. Illustrated. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Co., 1902. While this text-book has been written primarily for the use of dental students it cannot fail to be of value to the doctor who seeks to do his whole duty toward his patients, especially in those matters relating to the anatomical elements here considered. The text is unusually clear and the illustrations, of which there are 60, really illustrate.

The rapid increase of our knowledge regarding the value of the X-ray as a curative agent in the treatment of cancer of the lip would perhaps modify the position taken in regard to the treatment of cancer involving

those parts to which the author exclusively gives attention. Physicians as a rule are not at all well informed regarding surgical diseases of the mouth, face and jaws, and it is in their study that we find the most apparently contradictory facts particularly in bacteriology to such apparent contradiction is very striking in several pathological processes. This textbook is sure to be of value to dental and medical students. B.

THE PHYSICIAN HIMSELF AND THINGS THAT CONCERN HIS REPUTATION AND SUCCESS. By D. W. Cathell, M. D. The Twentieth Century Edition. Being the Eleventh Edition. Revised and enlarged by the author and his son, William T. Cathell, A. M., M.D., Baltimore, Md. Philadelphia: F. A. Davis Company, Publishers, 1902.

For many years Dr. Cathell's book has been the first of its kind for the English reader, and thousands of physicians in every part of the world. have had occasion to be devoutly thankful that its pages ever came under their review. The volume has been a safe and in the main a very conservative counselor and guide. The present has been designated "The Twentieth Century Edition," and is a very complete revision of the previous editions.

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The author has called to his aid his son and who does not share with him the joy he must feel in having such an associate while equally sharing the love and reverence the younger writer must feel for his distinguished associate and father. It seems almost a sacrilege to one who has so often sought help from the pages of earlier, indeed the very earliest, edition, to criticize the present, but it does seem as if the book were marred by the crudeness exhibited in the use of staggered type where the picture is drawn of a drunken doctor and by the very severe arraignment of homeo. pathic physicians.

Taken in its entirety the work is so excellent that one wishes it might be in every physician's hand, its precepts in his heart.

The exalted moral plane assumed in all previous editions and so faithfully maintained in this cannot fail to be a cause for sincere gratitude on the part of the doctor who hopes unceasingly that the profession of medicine may rise to the noblest and best things known to our race and be found a power for that righteousness which exalts men and nations.

ATLAS AND EPITOME OF TRAUMATIC FRACTURES AND DISLOCATIONS.

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Professor Dr. H. Helferich, Professor of Surgery at the Royal University, Greifswald, Prussia. Edited, with additions, by Joseph C. Bloodgood, M.D., Associate in Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. From the fifth and enlarged German edition. With 216 colored illustration on 64 lithographic plates, 190 text-cuts, and 353 pages of text. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Co., 1902. (Cloth, $3.00 net.)

"This worthy addition to Saunders' Series of Hand-Atlases will be found of inestimable value in facilitating the student's introduction to the important department of fractures and dislocations, and as a ready reference book for the use of physicians in general practice.

This department of medicine being one in which, from lack of practical knowledge, much harm can be done, and in which in recent years great importance has obtained, a book, accurately portraying the anatomic relations of the fractured parts, together with the diagnosis and treatment of the condition, became an absolute necessity. The work before us fully meets all requirements. As complete a view as possible of each case has been presented, thus equipping the physician for the manifold appearances that he will meet with in practice.

"The author has brought together in this work a collection of illustrations unrivalled for accuracy and clearness of portrayal of the conditions represented, showing the visible external deformity, the X-ray shadow. the anatomic preparation, and the method of treatment. We have no doubt that the book will be received with the favor it demands, filling, as it does so admirably, a want long felt."

As usual the work is so well done as to almost prevent a review. The student who possesses this book and a reliable text-book on General Surgery, together with the classic work of Professor Stimson is equipped in a manner seldom if ever equalled and never surpassed in the domain of surgery. B. FINDLEY'S GYNECOLOGICAL DIAGNOSIS. The Diagnosis of Diseases of Women. A Treatise for Students and Practitioners. By Palmer Findley, M. D., Instructor in Obstetrics and Gynecology in Rush Medical College, in affiliation with the University of Chicago. In one octavo volume of 494 pages, richly illustrated with 210 engravings and 45 full-page plates in colors and monochrome. Philadelphia and New York: Lea Brothers & Co., Publishers. (Cloth, $4.50, net; leather, $5.50, net.)

It has been a matter for comment that such a book as Dr. Findley has given us was so long in making its appearance for English-speaking students. Just why diagnosis in almost every branch of medical study should be so sparingly considered by authors is a question worthy of consideration.

This work was needed by students of gynecology and its success is assured because it so aptly and excellently fills a place of need.

All the way through its pages the main fact, that it is a clinical manual is kept well in view.

B. PROGRESSIVE MEDICINE. Fifth Annual Volume. Volume I, March, 1903. A Quarterly Digest of Advances, Discoveries and Improvements in the Medical and Surgical Sciences. Edited by Hobart Amory Hare, M.D., Professor of Therapeutics and Materia Medica in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. Octavo, handsomely bound in cloth, 438 pages. Philadelphia and New York: Lea Brothers & Co., Publishers. (Per volume, $2.50, by express prepaid. Per annum, in four cloth-bound volumes, $10.00.)

One of the most noteworthy contributions to this volume is that on materia by Professor Henick, of Rush Medical College. The other articles in this volume are: Surgery of the Head, Neck and Chest; The Diseases of Children; Pathology; Laryngology and Rhinology, and Otology.

THE PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF THE ROENTGEN RAYS IN THERAPEUTICS AND DIAGNOSIS. By William Allen Pusey, A. M., M.D., Professor of Dermatology in the University of Illinois; and Eugene W. Caldwell, B.S., Director of the Edward N. Gibbs X-Ray Memorial Laboratory of the University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York. Handsome octavo volume of 591 pages, with 180 illustrations, nearly all clinical. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Co., 1903. (Cloth, $4.50, net; Sheep or Half Morocco, $5.00, net.)

"It has been the aim of the authors of this work to elucidate fully the practical aspects of the subject. It is evident that all the authentic literature which has developed since Roentgen's wonderful discovery has been carefully digested, this being supplemented by the extensive experience of the authors. The value of the X-rays in diagnosis has been discussed in a thoroughly practical manner, and their limitations in this field indicated. Particular attention has been devoted to the use of the X-rays in therapeutics. Nearly all the illustrations in this section represent actual clinical subjects, and show with unusual fidelity the condition before the use of the X-rays, at various stages of their application, and, finally, the therapeutic results obtained. Full details are also given as to the use and management of the apparatus necessary for X-ray work. All the methods with which the best results have been achieved have been carefully described in a comprehensive way. There are chapters on X-Ray Tubes, Induction Coils and Controlling Apparatus, Static Machines, Fluoroscopy, Radiograph, Photographic Materials Used in Radiograph, etc. This section is also fully illustrated with instructive photographs and drawings of the apparatus, including four beautiful full-paged colored plates of X-ray tubes. In fact, the work will be found of invaluable assistance, not only to the general practitioner, but also to the dermatologist, presenting, as it does, the very latest advances in X-ray therapeutics and diagnosis."

This volume will do three things: first it will meet the urgent requirements of those students of X-ray application who have worked alone and yet desire to know the work of others. Second it will put to silence those who because of lack of desire or inability to carefully investigate the actual value of this new agent, have assumed a position of arrogant superiority and ignorant ridicule. In the third place it will call a halt to an equally dangerous class of persons who having learned of merit exploit a given remedy as a cure-all. At this time the work is of measureless value. B.

THE NOSE AND THROAT IN MEDICAL HISTORY. By Jonathan Wright, M.D. St. Louis, Mo.: Lewis Mathews & Co., 2623 Olive street. The publisher of this volume should proceed to apologize to every scholar in medicine and students of its history for the cheap presentation of a work the like of which too seldom appears among the vast number of books made in these days.

One takes off his hat to a writer who could do the work here done. The real student of medicine possessed of a fair degree of scholarship will

find his heart warmed as he reads these pages and dwells upon the multitude of inquiries and speculations to which in a thoughtful mind they of necessity give birth. Would that the medical profession held within its ranks more men of Dr. Wright's type who for the love of work and the inspiration it kindles can labor so arduously and with such painstaking accuracy that this generation may not remain ignorant of work done by those who lived in ages past in different lands of different speech, yet gathering facts which were to mould the medical history of generations unborn, in lands of which they never dreamed among governments of which they had no likeness or conception Such work as Dr. Wright's will live in spite of penurious unappreciative book-makers. B.

ESSENTIALS OF HISTOLOGY. By Louis Lerry, B. S., M.D., Professor of Histology and Pathology, Vanderbilt University, Medical and Dental Departments; Pathologist to the Nashville City Hospital, etc. Second edition, thoroughly revised and greatly enlarged. 16mo volume of 2263 pages, with 92 beautiful illustrations. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Co., 1902. (Cloth $1.00 net.)

This valuable work has been designed not only as an aid to the beginner, but also to help the practitioner who, having graduated at a time when histology was not taught in all the colleges, desires to gain sufficient knowledge of the subject to facilitate his better understanding of pathology. Both these aims admirably fulfils, as is evidenced by the demand for a second edition in a so short a time.

In this edition a number of new original illustrations, most photomicrographs, have been inserted to better elucidate the text. The chapter on technic has been enlarged, a description of the appendix and rectal valves added, and the entire chapter, as, indeed, the entire book, thoroughly and carefully revised. As did the first edition, the work in its present form stands as a model of what a student's aid should be; and we unhesitatingly say that the practitioner as well would find a glance through the book of lasting benefit.

LEA'S SERIES OF POCKET TEXT-BOOKS.-DISEASES OF THE SKIN. By Joseph Grindon, Ph.D., M. D., Professor of Clinical Dermatology and Syphilis, Washington University, etc., St. Louis. Series edited by Bern B. Gallandet, M. D., Demonstrator of Anatomy and Instructor in Surgery, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York. Illustrated with 39 engravings. Philadelphia and New York: Lea Brothers & Co.

This is a well printed, well arranged book and for the purpose it seeks to fulfil there is none better. It is one of the very useful manuals belong ing to the pocket text-book series published by this well-known house. It is not so cumbersome as the regular text-books nor so small as the wellknown epitomes and quiz compends, occupying a very useful middle ground. It is certain to give satisfaction to those seeking information from its pages.

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