Literary Department.

Under the charge of WINSLOW ANDERSON, A.M., M.D., M.R.C.P.London; M.R.C.S.England; L.S. A. London, etc., Professor of Gynecology and Abdominal Surgery in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of San Francisco.

THE MEDICAL RECORD VISITING LIST OR PHYSICIANS' DIARY FOR 1904. New revised edition. William Wood & Co., Medical Publishers, New York. Price, $1.25.

The Medical Record Visiting List for 1904 comes to us as usual filled with the very latest information, greatly condensed and ready for immediate reference. The obstetric calendar is quite a feature of this Visiting List. The doses of remedies, solubility, poisons and their antidotes, are all carefully prepared and of great value to the busy practitioner.

THE PHYSICIANS' VISITING LIST.

Lindsay & Blakiston's, for 1904. Fiftythird year of its publication. P. Blakiston's Son & Co., (successors to Lindsay & Blakiston), 1012 Walnut street, Philadelphia. Sold by all boksellers and druggists. Price, $1.00.

This splendid little Visiting List is now in its fifty-third year. For more than half a century it has stood the test and has not been found wanting. It contains much valuable information as to the dosage of drugs, incompatibility, antidotes, etc. It is gotten up on good paper with the usual first-class binding.

THE MEDICAL NEWS" VISITING LIST FOR 1904. Issued in four styles: Weekly, Monthly, Perpetual, 60-Patients. Lea Brothers & Co., Publishers, Philadelphia and New York.

Being in its eighteenth year of existence, The Medical News Visiting List embodies the result of long experience and study devoted to its development aud perfection. The text portion of The Visiting List for 1904 has been thoroughly revised and brought up to date. It contains among other valuable things, a scheme of dentition; tables of weights and measures and comparative scales; instructions for examining the urine; table of eruptive fevers; incompatibles, poisons and antidotes; directions for effecting artificial respiration; extensive tables of doses; an alphabetical table of diseases and their remedies, and directions for ligation of arteries. Printed on fine, tough paper, suitable for either pen or pencil, and bound with the utmost strength in handsome grained leather.

MODERN SURGERY: GENERAL AND OPERATIVE. By JOHN CHALMERS DACOSTA, M. D., Professor of the Principles of Surgery and of Clinical Surgery in the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Handsome octavo volume of 1099 pages, with over 700 illustrations, some in colors. Philadelphia, New York, London: W. B. Saunders & Company. 1903. Cloth, $5.00, net; sheep or half morocco, $6.00, net.

This work presents in a concise form the fundamental principles and the accepted methods of modern surgery. Obsolete and unessential methods have been excluded in favor of the living and the essential. The author's extensive experience as a teacher is evident throughout the entire work, the statements being clear and to the point. The progress of surgery in every department is one of the most noted phenomena of the present day. So many improvements, discoveries and observations have been made since the appearance of the last edition of this work that the author found it necessary to rewrite it entirely. In this fourth edition the book shows evidence of a thorough and careful revision, and there has been added much new matter. There have also been added over two hundred excellent and practical illustrations, greatly increasing the value of the work. Because of the great amount of new matter it has been deemed advisable in this present edition to adopt a larger type page. This is a great improvement, rendering, as it does, the work less cumbersome. The book will be found to express the latest advances in the art and science of surgery. We certainly recommend it.

A MANUAL OF THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE. By A. A. STEVENS, A.M., M.D., Professor of Pathology in the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania; Lecturer on Physical Diagnosis in the University of Pennsylvania; Physician to the Episcopal Ho pital and to St. Agnes' Hospital; Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, etc. Sixth edition, thoroughly revised, enlarged, and reset. Handsome post-octavo of 556 pages, illustrated. Philadelphia, New York, London: W. B. Saunders & Company. 1903. Flexible leather, $2.25, net.

The popularity of this manual on the practice of medicine can be attested for by its numerous editions. The work covers completely the ground gone over by the student, especial stress being laid on diagnosis, differential diagnosis, and treatment. Each disease is treated in a concise, clear, and scientific manner, and the reader can not fail to grasp the author's meaning. The sixth edition has been entirely reset and greatly enlarged, without changing, however, the original style of the work. Many articles, notably

those on diseases of the digestive system, diseases of the myocardium, malaria, diseases of the blood, gout, diseases of the spinal cord and larynx, have been entirely rewritten, thus bringing the work absolutely abreast of the times. After a careful examination, we can unhesitatingly recommend this book to students.

PRACTICAL GYNECOLOGY. A Comprehensive Text-Book for students and physicians. By E. E. MONTGOMERY, M. D., LL.D., Professor of Gynecology, Jefferson Medical College; Gynecologist to the Jefferson Medical College and St. Joseph's Hospitals; Consulting Gynecologist to the Philadelphia Lying-In Charity and the Kensington Hospital for Women. Second revised edition, with 539 illustrations, the greater number of which have been drawn and engraved especially for this work, for the most part from original sources. P. Blakiston's Son & Co., Publishers, 1012 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. Price, cloth, $5.00.

Professor Montgomery, of Jefferson Medical College, has published the second edition of his excellent text-book on gynecology. Many changes have been made in the second edition. Malformations are confined to congenital conditions and lesions of parturition are treated under the designation of traumatisms. The diseases of the ovaries and fallopian tubes are treated under inflammation of these organs, etc. By these and many other changes the usefulness of the work has been materially enhanced. Many new illustrations have been added. The work is excellently gotten up by the enterprising publishers and is one of the standard text-books of to-day.

THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE. A Text-Book for Practitioners and Students, with Special Reference to Diagnosis and Treatment. By JAMES TYSON, M. D., Professor of Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania and Physician to the Hospital of the University; Physician to the Pennsylvania Hospital; Fellow of the College of Physicians, of Philadelphia; Member of the Association of American Physicians, etc. Third edition. Thoroughly revised, and in parts rewritten, with 134 illustrations, including colored plates. P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1012 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa. 1903. Price, Cloth, $5.50.

Professor James Tyson, of the University of Pennsylvania, has thoroughly revised and in part rewritten his work on the practice of medicine in the third edition just issued. He has made its contents represent, as far as possible, the present state of modern medicine. Many additions and changes have been made, especially so in the sections treating of infectious diseases, as the knowledge of

these is undergoing more modifications, perhaps, than any other. The work is lucidly written, fully illustrated and well printed in good, clear type.

PHYSICAL DIAGNOSIS OF DISEASES OF THE CHEST. BY RICHARD C. CABOT, M. D., Physician to Out-Patients, Massachusetts General Hospital; Assistant in Clinical Medicine, Harvard Medical School. Second revised edition, with 147 illustrations. William Wood & Co., Publishers, New York Price, musl n, $2.50.

A second revised edition of this excellent little volume has been issued. It is fully illustrated, carefully revised and thoroughly up to date.

LESSONS ON THE EYE. For the Use of Undergraduate Students. By FRANK L. HENDERSON, M. D. Ophthalmic Surgeon to St. Mary's Infirmary and the Christian Orphans' Home; Consulting Oculist to the St. Louis City Hospital, the Wabash Railway, and to the Terminal Railway Association; Member of the American Medical Association; Member of the Missouri State Medical Association; Member of the St. Louis Medical Society, and Trustee of the Medical Library Association. Third edition. P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1012 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Penn. Dr. Frank L. Henderson has written a concise little volume on the practical side of the eye for undergraduates. In his preface, he says: "The only claim to originality made for this work lies in its omissions." * * * The author believes that minute anatomy, fitting of glasses, etc., belong to post-graduate instruction. The book is of special interest to junior and senior students.

THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF HYDROTHERAPY. A Guide to the Application of Water in Disease. For Students and Practitioners of Medicine. By SIMON BARUCH, M. D., Professor of Hydrotherapeutics in the New York Post Graduate Medical School and Hospital; Visiting Physician to the J. Hood Wright Memorial (formerly Manhattan General) Hospital; Consulting Physician to the Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids; Member of the New York Academy of Medicine; formerly Gynecologist to the Northeastern Dispensary; Physician for Eye, Ear and Throat to the Northwestern Dispensary, of New York City; Physician and Surgeon to the New York Juvenile Asylum, and Chief of the Medical Staff of the Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids. Second edition. Revised and enlarged, with numerous illustrations. William Wood & Co., publishers. New York. 1903.

Hydrotherapy is becoming of more and more importance every day. Up-to-date physicians avail themselves of all the adjuncts found useful in the treatment of disease. Hydrotherapy has proved itself of more than ordinary value as an adjunct in the treatment of many diseases. The author is to be congratulated upon the fact that a second

edition has been called for in so short a time. We recommend the work to the profession.

INTERNATIONAL CLINICS. A Quarterly of Illustrated Clinical Lectures and Especially Prepared Original Articles on Treatment, Medicine, Surgery, Neurology, Pediatrics, Obstetrics, Gynecology, Orthopedics, Pathology, Dermatology, Ophthalmology, Otology, Rhinology, Laryngology, Hy. giene, and Other Topics of Interest to Students and Practitioners. By Leading Members of the Medical Profession throughout the World. Edited by O. J. KELLY, A. M., M. D., Philadelphia, with the collaboration of William Osler, M. D., Baltimore; John H. Musser, M. D., Philadelphia; Jas. Stewart, M. D., Montreal; J. B. Murphy, M. D., Chicago; A. McPhedron, M. D., Toronto; Thos. M. Rotch, M. D., Boston; John G. Clark, M. D., Philadelphia; James J. Walsh, M. D., New York; J. W Ballantyre, M. D., Ecinburgh; John Harold, M. D., London; Edmund Landolt, M. D., Paris; Richard Kretz, M. D., Vienna, with regular correspondents in Montreal, London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Leipsic, Brussels and Carlsbad. Volume III, Thirteenth Series. 1903. J. B. Lippincott Company, publishers, Philadelphia.

The third volume of the thirteenth series contains excellent articles on the diseases of the gall-bladder and gall ducts by well known medical and surgical authorities. Pneumonia, gastric cancer, rectal diseases, the serum treatment of typhoid fever, malarial infection, local and general anesthesia, asepsis and antisepsis are among some of the most important articles published in this desirable volume.

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A LABORATORY GUIDE IN URINALYSIS AND TOXICOLOGY. By R. A. WITTHAUS, A. M., M. D., Professor of Chemistry, Physics and Toxicology in the Medical Department, Cornell University; Member of the American Chemical Society, and of the Chemical Societies of Paris and Berlin, etc. Fifth édition. William Wood & Co., pul lishers, New York. Professor Witthaus has long chemical and toxicological work. its fifth edition, is, perhaps, the most valuable book of its kind we have. It is practical, concise and authoritative. THE PRACTICE OF OBSTETRICS. Designed for the Use of Students and Practitioners of Medicine. By J. CLIFTON EDGAR, Professor of Obstetrics and Clinical Midwifery in Cornell University Medical College Attending Obstetrician to the New York Maternity Hospital. With 1221 illustrations, many of which are printed in colors. P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1012 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. 1903. Cloth, $6.00; sheep or half morocco, $7.00, net.

Edgar's Obstetrics is a new text-book designed for the use of students and practitioners of medicine. The text has been prepared with great care. The author's extensive experience in hospital and private practice and as a teacher,