"In preparing this edition, I have corrected some typographical and other errors, and have added various new articles. which will, I hope, improve the interest and value of the work. In this, as in all previous issues, the practical character of the work as a storehouse of facts relating to Materia Medica and Therapeutics has been served.

"I have not been unmindful of the present tendency of pharmacological literature. An increasing disposition is discernible to develop the physiological side, to enlarge the domain of experimental work, and to interpret conditions in man by hasty and sometimes crude observations on the inferior animals. On the other hand, empirical knowledge supported by careful clinical work and improved by sound induction, should continue to be an important element in the structure of any therapeutical system." This is an excellent standard work.

A TEXT-BOOK OF LEGAL MEDICINE AND TOXICOLOGY. Edited by FREDERICK PETERSON, M D., Chief of Clinic, Nervous Department of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York; and WALTER S. HAINES, M. D., Professor of Chemistry, Pharmacy and Toxicology, Rush Medical College, in affiliation with the University of Chicago. Two imperial octavo volumes of about 750 pages each, fully illustrated. Philadelphia, New York, London: W. B. Saunders & Company. 1903. Per volume, cloth, $5.00 net; sheep, or half morocco, $6.00 net.

This work presents to the medical and legal profession a comprehensive survey of forensic medicine and toxicology in moderate compass. For convenience of reference the treatise has been divided into two sections, Part I and Part II, the latter being devoted to Toxicology and all other portions of Legal Medicine in which laboratory investigation is an essential feature. Under “ Under "Expert Evidence" not only is advice given to medical experts, but suggestions are also made to attorneys as to the best methods of obtaining the desired information from the witness. The Bertillon and Greenleaf-Smart systems of identification are concisely and intelligently described, and the advantages of each stated. An interesting and important chapter is that on "The Destruction and Attempted Destruction of the Human Body by Fire and Chemicals;" for on the determination of the human or animal source of the remains frequently depends the legal conduct of a given case, and the guilt or innocence of the accused. A chapter not usually found in works on Legal Medicine,

though of far more than passing significance to both the medical expert and the attorney, is that on the medicolegal relations of the X-Rays. The responsibility of pharmacists in the compounding of prescriptions, in the selling of poisons, in substituting drugs other than those prescribed, etc., furnishes a chapter of the greatest interest to everyone concerned with questions of medical jurisprudence. Also included in the work is the enumeration of the laws of the various States relating to the commitment and retention of the insane. In fact, the entire work is overflowing with matters of the utmost importance, and expresses clearly, concisely and accurately, the very latest opinions on all branches of forensic medicine and toxicology.

AMERICAN EDITION OF NOTHNAGEL'S PRACTICE-DISEASES OF THE PANCREAS, DISEASES OF THE SUPRARenal CapsulES, AND DISEASES OF THE LIVER. By DR. L. OSER, of Vienna; DR. E. NEUSSER, of Vienna; and DRS. H. QUINCKE and G. HOPPE SEYLER, of Kiel. The entire volume edited, with additions, by FREDERICK A. PACKARD, M. D., late Physician to the Pennsylvania and to the Children's Hospitals, Philadelphia; and REGINALD H. FITZ, M. D., Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physic, Harvard University Medical School, Boston. Handsome octavo of 918 pages, illustrated. Philadelphia, New York, London: W. B. Saunders & Company. 1903. Cloth, $5.00 net; half morocco, $6.00 net. This book combines in one volume the sum of our knowledge concerning diseases of the Pancreas, the Suprarenal Capsules, and the Liver. Any contribution of these subjects is of great interest to the profession, and these monographs, proceeding from such distinguished investigators, will be found of unusual importance. In the sections on the Pancreas and the Suprarenals, the numerous experiments upon animals cited will be of the greatest value to the pathologist, the clinician, and the pathologic anatomist, affording an insight into the more deep-seated. processes, and offering an opportunity of comparing the disturbances of function produced by morbid conditions experimentally induced, with bedside and autopsy observations. In editing these sections the editor has availed himself of the writings of Korte and Mayo Robson, especially the latter's important treatise on the etiology and treatment of chronic pancreatitis. An editorial addition to the section on the Suprenal Capsules which seems especially noteworthy, is the investigations and discoveries

on the active principles and therapeutic properties of suprarenal extract. The excellent article on the Liver is as thorough and complete as those on the Pancreas and Suprarenals. Dr. Packard's careful clinical work, and his interest in the diseases of the Liver, mark him as the most suitable person to edit this article. A survey of this work shows numerous critical additions, embodying the very latest contributions, besides expressions of his own views regarding subjects under discussion. He has devoted special care to diagnosis and treatment, including the surgical procedures that have recently found their place in this field. With these numerous editorial additions the articles are brought fully up to date, and have no equal in our language.

UTERINE AND TUBAL GESTATION, A Study of the Embedding and Develop. ment of the Human Ovum, the Early Growth of the Embryo, and the Development of the Synctium and Placental Gland. By SAMUEL WYLLIS BANDLER, M. D., Instructor in Gynecology, New York Post-Graduate Medical School. Illustrated by ninety three drawings. William Wood Company, Publishers, New York,

An excellent little volume has just been received from the able pen of Dr. Samuel Wyllis Bandler, of New York PostGraduate Medical School, on Uterine and Tubal Gestation. The little work comprises 160 pages, fully illustrated, and carefully written. It is divided into three parts: FirstThe Essentials of Uterine Gestation. Second-The Essentials of Tubal Gestation. Third-Ovarian and Placental Secretion. The little work shows a great deal of careful study and investigation and should be read by all interested in the subject.

THE CARE OF THE BABY. A Manual for Mothers and Nurses containing Practical Directions for the Management of Infancy and Childhood in Health and in Disease. By J. P. CROZER GRIFFITH, M.D, Clinical Professor of Diseases of Children in the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania; Physician to the Children's Hospital, Philadelphia. Third edition, thoroughly revised. Handsome 12 mo. volume of 436 pages, fully illustrated. Philadelphia, New York, London: W. B. Saunders & Co. 1903. Cloth, $1.50 net.

Dr. Griffith's manual on the Care of the Baby is without question the best work on the subject we have seen. The fact of a third edition being called for within such a short time, is sufficient evidence of its popularity. In preparing this edition every part of the book has been carefully revised and brought fully in accord with the

latest advances in the subject. Several new recipes have been included in the appendix, making this excellent part of the work even more complete than before. A large number of new illustrations have been added, greatly increasing the value of the book to mothers and nurses. As we mentioned above, of the many works on this important subject that have come to our desk, this is, undoubtedly, the best, distinguished by soundness of advice, conciseness of expression, and clearness of style. Physicians could not perform a better service for their patients than the recommending of this excellent work to every mother. PRACTICAL POINTS IN NURSING. For Nurses in Private Practice. With an Appendix containing Rules for Feeding the Sick; Recipes for Invalid Food and Beverages; Weights and Measures; Dose List; and a full Glossary of Medical Terms and Nursing Treatment. By EMILY A. M. STONEY, late Superintendent of the Training School for Nurses, Carney Hospital, South Boston, Mass. Third edition, thoroughly revised. Handsome 12mo. of 458 pages, fully illustrated, including 8 colored and half tone plates. Philadelphia, New York, London: W. B. Saunders & Company. 1993. Cloth, $1.75 net.

The continued and increasing popularity of this little volume has placed the publishers under the obligation of keeping it abreast of the times, of making it reflect the latest advances in the progressive profession of nursing. The revision has been extensive, every page showing evidences of careful scrutiny. Considerable portions of the work have been either amended, modified, or amplified in accordance with the progressive spirit of medicine and its indispensable handmaid, nursing. The sections treating of certain diseases, especially the infectious diseases, as well as the treatment of the common poisonings, have been in large part recast and rewritten. By the extensive revision the usefulness of the book has been greatly extended, and its trustworthiness enhanced. There is no doubt that the work in its third revised form, will maintain the popularity justly won by the earlier edition.

PRACTICAL FIRST PRINCIPLES SIMPLIFYING THE STUDY OF NORMAL AND ABNORMAL STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION, AND AIDING DIAGNOSIS. Designed for the use of Students and Practitioners of Medicine, by A. H. P. Leuf, M. D., Associate Editor of The Medical Council, Philadelphia. The Medical Council. 1901.

An excellent little preparatory book has been written by A. H. P. Leuf, Associate Editor of The Medical Council of Philadelphia, on the principles of cellular biology, physi

ology and pathology. It is a book of special value to medical students on account of the simplicity with which the highly scientific matter is presented. The object of the work is to simplify the study of medicine for the beginner, as the author remarks, and we feel very sure he has fully accomplished what he set out to do. We cheerfully recommend the volume to our medical students.

PROGRESSIVE MEDICINE. FIFTH ANNUAL SERIES. 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, 450 pages, illustrated. Per volume, $2.50, by express prepaid. Per annum, in four cloth-bound volumes, $10.00. Lea Brothers & Co., Publishers, Phil. adelphia and New York.

This invaluble periodical publication differs very materially in its scope from the ordinary year-books and epitomes of medicine and surgery. As the title of Progressive Medicine indicates, its pages are devoted to the real advances of medical science. The editors of its different departments are all scientific men and teachers of experience, and its contents are not mere abstracts of articles appearing in current medical literature. It may be compared to an advanced text-book of medicine and surgery, kept abreast of the times by continual revision and addition. Its sections are so arranged as to cover every branch of professional work without interference or repetition.

OBSTETRICS. A Text book for the Use of Students and Practitioners by J. WHITRIDGE WILLIAMS. Professor of Obstetrics, Johns Hopkins Uni. versity; Obstetrician-in Chief to the Johns Hopkins Hospital; Gynecolo gist to the Union Protestant Infirmary, Baltimore. Md., with eight colored plates, and six hundred and thirty illustrations in the text. D. Appleton & Co., Pulishers, New York and London. 1903.

J. Whitridge Williams, of Johns Hopkins University, has given to the medical profession a valuable work on Obstetrics. It comprises some 950 pages, printed on excellent paper, with clear type, and fully and carefully illustrated. The illustrations are of superior character, many of them are colored plates representing the various physiologic developments from the impregnated ovum to the full-term child. The work has been carefully and conscientiously written, and contains the most recent thoughts and