fishermen, including Dr. John H. Oliver, of Indianapolis, who was a student of Dr. Jordon's in 1877 and with him seined many of the southern rivers of the United States; by Dr. Luther Waterman, Dr. Theodore Potter, Mr. Albert Johnson and Mr. R. Williams of Irvington, Attorney Elam and Mr. Joseph K. Lilly of Indianapolis. All of these gentlemen expressed their pleasure and satisfaction that such a work is accessible.

The present writer identified with this book a very young pickeral-esox luciusimmediately by simply noting that the cheeks are scaly all over, while in the young muskallunge-esox masquinongywhich the fishermen declared it to be, the cheeks are scaly only on their upper half. The life history of the eel only recently discovered is fully set forth. There has been very special attention given to the fishes of Indiana not only because there are so many kinds in our rivers, small lakes and in lakes Michigan and Erie, but because the authors have done more work in Indiana than elsewhere. President Jordon was a teacher in the Indianapolis High School, in Butler College and in the State University for fifteen years and is to-day the most eminent of educators and naturalists in the United States. Prof. Evermann is a native of Indiana, an accomplished ornithologist and for the last ten years has been the government ichthy ologist. Together these great students have compiled a monumental work-the synopsis of American fishes 4,000 pages and half as many species, and now they

have for the balance of their life work to complete our knowledge of the fishes of our island possessions. It is a pity they could not have stopped to write this popular work ten years ago. We heartily recommend this book to all lovers of fishes and of beautiful books.

A. W. B.

A Text-Book of Practical Therapeutics, with Special Reference to the Application of Remedial Measures to Disease and Their Employment upon a Rational Basis. By Hobart Amory Hare, M. D., Professor of Therapeutics and Materia Medica in the Jefferson Medical College. With Special Chapters by Drs. G. E. DeSchweinitz, Edward Martin and Barton C. Hirst. Ninth edition, enlarged, thor

oughly revised and largely rewritten. Illustrated with 105 engravings and four colored plates. Cloth. Price, $4.00. Philadelphia and New York: Lea Brothers & Co., 1902.

There is no need for critical comment on this well-known work that has reached a ninth edition and has been brought up to date. For the student or general practitioner we recommend it as one of the very best works on Therapeutics. The mistakes of the early editions have been corrected, the various articles have been enlarged, built up and modified until the work, as a whole, represents the practical therapeutics of the day in a very authorative manner. Altogether it is an instructive and very readable volume, and to us it seems to be the best work for popular instruction on this subject that we have seen.

A Text-Book of Anatomy. By American Authors. Edited by Frederic Henry Gerrish, M. D., Professor of Anatomy in the Medical School of Maine, Bowdoin College. Second edition, thoroughly revised and enlarged. In one imperial octavo volume of 943 pages, with 1003 engravings in black and colors. Cloth, $6.50, net. Leather, $7.50, net. Flexible water-proof binding, for use on the Lea Brothers & dissecting table, $7, net. Co., Publishers, Philadelphia and New York.

The success of Gerrish's Anatomy has not been won by chance. It is the most richly illustrated single-volume work extant, both in the number of its engravings and in the use of colors; that names of the parts are printed directly upon the engravings so that their position, extent and relations are manifest at a glance; its text is so clear that the most complex subjects on Anatomy are made plain and the price of the volume is so low as to bring it within the reach of all.

Two years have been sufficient to exhaust the very large first edition of this work, the intrinsic merits of which have led to its adoption in a large number of medical schools and to its extensive use by students and practitioners on both sides of the Atlantic. It is a noteworthy fact that although America has produced many world-famed anatomists, no

work on this subject emanating from this country has heretofore met with favor abroad.

Every word and every picture in the new edition has been carefully studied by authors and editor with a view to possible improvement, and such changes have been made as are rendered necessary by the progress of anatomical science. New matter has been added wherever desirable and consonant with the general scope of the work. Instead of the schematic device previously employed for showing the relations of the arteries, a series of horizontal sections at different levels has been prepared, the names of the parts being printed directly upon them wherever feasible. By this plan greater precision is attained, and the facts are presented in a manner especially promotive of prompt comprehension and enduring retention in the memory. word, to quote from a review, "Gerrish's Anatomy is the easiest book to teach from, as well as the easiest from which to learn," and we may fairly add, it is preeminently the anatomy for the surgeon or physician.

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Social, economic, and political topics largely dominate the Review of Reviews for November. The editor, in "The Progress of the World," gives an exhaustive review of the coal strike, while Mr. Walter Wellman contributes a graphic account of the settlement of the strike as viewed at Washington, and Mr. Frank J. Warne writes of "John Mitchell: the Labor Leader and the Man." Col. Carroll D. Wright, of President Roosevelt's arbitration commission, is the subject of a character sketch by Mr. H. T. Newcomb. Mr. Charles A. Conant writes on "The Growth of Trust Companies;" Prof. J. W. Jenks on "Self-Government in Oriental Dependencies;" and Arthur Wallace Dunn on "Government in the Philippines, 18981902." "Shall There Be a Two Years' College Course?" is made the subject of an interview with President Butler, of Columbia, whose recent discussion of this topic in his annual report has awakened. widespread interest. Dr. Albert Shaw gives a most interesting account of "A Successful Farm Colony in the Irrigation Country"-a Salvation Army enterprise.

Variety is given to the number by the inclusion of two "literary" articles-a study of "The Rise of the Nature Writers," by Francis W. Halsey, illustrated with portraits; and an unsigned paper on the late Emile Zola.

A Text-Book of Physical Diagnosis. For Students and Practitioners of Medicine. By Egbert Le Fevre, M. D., Professor of Clinical Medicine and Associate Professor of Therapeutics, University and Bellevue Medical College, Attending Physician to Bellevue and St. Luke's Hospitals, etc., New York. 12 mo, 440 pages, with 74 engravings and 12 plates. Cloth, $2.25, net. Lea Brothers & Co., Philadelphia and New York.

Dr. Le Fevre gives careful directions and instructions for Inspection, Palpation, Percussion, Auscultation, etc., in Diseases of the Respiratory and Circulatory systems and the Abdominal organs. The significance of these manipulations; respiratory and cardiac sounds, their production and modifications, both normal and pathological, receive very full explanation. Special chapters are devoted to Diseases of the Respiratory Tract, Heart, Pericardium, Blood-vessels, etc., and in an excellent section, illustrated with 12 full-page plates, the author covers the latest results in X-Ray Diagnosis. volume is moderate in size and in price but exceptionally large in practical value.

The

The Mattison Method in Morphinism, by Dr. J. B. Mattison, is a 40-page booklet, published for the author by E. B. Treat & Co., for $1. The author is the Medical Director for the Brooklyn Home for narcotic inmates, and has had thirty years' experience. The work gives the medical dietetic and moral features of treatment. treatment. The book is simple, rational, interesting, and has no taint of dogmatism, commercialism or charlantry.

Miscellaneous Reprints from Dr. Carl Beck, of New York. The author sends his customary budget, some twelve in number. Five of them are devoted to Radiotheraphy, and all are of interest. Any one using radiotherapy may have these papers by calling at the office of the JOURNAL.

Death and Sudden Death. By P. Brouardel, Professor of Medical Jurisprudence, Dean of Medical Faculty, Paris, and F. Lucas Benham, M. D., B. S. (Lond.), M. D. (Adelaide). Second edition. New York: William Wood & Co., 1902

It is fair to say that in its present shape the work is the most exhaustive of its kind, and contains an amount of material which cannot fail to be of value to the student of pathology in search of strange and interesting facts, and to the medicojurist who is anxious to explain the many problems connected with all the varied forms of sudden death under suspicious circumstances. A remarkable feature of the book is the great number of facts collected bearing upon all forms of unexpected death. But best of all are the lucid pathological explanations for the different phenomena. In the discussion of the latter the reader cannot fail to be instructed and edified, as he will be surprised to learn that certain theories which he has believed to be entirely tenable are without foundation, and certain facts, which he had accepted unqualifiedly, are without substantiation. He will discover that sudden death cannot always be accounted for by post-mortem lesions, and that the exact moment of dissolution may often be a matter of grave doubt. The first chapter deals with this subject, and is a fitting introduction for what is to follow.

"We cannot admit in forensic medicine," says the author, "that stoppage of the heart is a certain sign of death," and then follows the argument to prove his position. Exception is also taken to the term "death by syncope," the author adopting the view of Brown-Sequard that life becomes extinct by inhibition of one or other of the primary nerve-centers. The illustrations in point are fatal blows upon the episgastrium, larynx, nostrils, and genital organs. The author is not willing to admit that any single sign of death is absolute under all circumstances, but prefers to take into account a series of phenomena as cumulative proof. It is comforting to learn, however, that there is no real danger of premature burial when a physician can be obtained to certify to the death of the individual. The cases given of apparent death are extremely in

teresting, and dispose very effectually of some of the pretensions of those fakirs, who have so long deceived the believers in miracles. The enumeration of the usual causes of sudden death occupy the major part of the treatise, and are grouped under lesions of the heart, circulatory, cercbro-spinal, respiratory, digestive, and genito-urinary systems, and those occurring in fevers, hæmophilia, diabetes, uræmia, and alcoholism. The description of these varied pathological conditions is in the highest degree satisfactory, giving the student and practitioner a mass of practical information which we do not remember having seen collected in such form in any work on morbid anatomy. Not the least interesting part of the book is that which follows the body from the moment of death until final dissolution, describing all the different phases of decomposition from the commencement of cadaveric rigidity until "dust to dust" ends the lesson of mortality.

The JOURNAL has not received this book but the above review of it from the Medical Record of October 4th, indicates its high value in medico-legal literature.

Practical Obstetrics. A Text-Book for Practitioners and Students. By Edward Reynolds, M. D., Visiting Surgeon to the Hospital for Women, etc.; and Franklin S. Newell, M. D., Assistant in Obstetrics and Gynecology in Harvard University, etc. Illustrated with 252 engravings and three colored plates. Philadelphia and New York, Lea Brothers & Co., 1902. Pages XI-17 to 553. Price, $3.75.

This volume of over 550 pages, while essentially an elementary text-book, aims to present more of the practical side of this study than the theoretical. It is divided into six parts: pregnancy, natural labor, obstetrical surgery, abnormal labor, pathology of labor and the pueperium. The book is excellently printed and well bound. It excels in illustrations; these alone would make it valuable and a book worth having. The illustrations are many of them taken from standard authors as Davis, Jewett, Playfair, Edgar, etc.

The work is founded upon an extended experience in clinical teaching and expresses the belief of the authors that the

general principles of a subject are rendered more intelligent to the student. when presented in connection with the practical details of bedside work.

There has been a tendency in recent years among some obstetricians connected with hospitals to advocate the Cæsarean Section for Placenta Previa. With proper treatment for this deplorable condition in a pregnant woman, the mortality has been reduced to about 12 per cent. and the danger of advocating or starting precedent for a much more dangerous and complicated operation on a perhaps exsauquinated woman is carefully commented on. It is hardly necessary to say that the wide spread dissemunation or approval of any such innovation in treatment is deplored by the writer of the article. So serious an operation should only be attempted in a few select cases and these only in hospitals where every attention and detail of asepses may be employed.

In England, Havelock Ellis, a scientific investigator of sexual neuropathy, was arrested and imprisoned for publishing histories of cases and his deductions from their study. In the United States her little world applauds a half-educated young woman who defies conventionality and scorns decency, putting into print as suitable for general reading her irritable protest against life as she finds it, couched in words of such nature that he who knows may read between the lines that she is suffering from ungratified sexual desire. Circles in Chicago that are labeled "literary" welcome her as a lioness. "Literary" people even hail her as a genius; for has she not said that she is? Columns in newspapers and periodicals are devoted to notices of and extracts from her book. Even a staid, proper and undoubtedly litcrary old maid, of a well-known literary family, reviews the book at length in a prominent daily newspaper, quoting freely from it to show how shocking it is, and how absolutely unsuitable it is for the young person. This young person is the very one, by the way, whose appetite will be whetted for a perusal of this forbidden book, after reading the expressions of

shock experienced by the spinster-reviewer. The space filled by the review must have brought in at least $15 to the blushing spinster. Thank Heaven, something --perhaps it was the blue pencil-prevented her from filling five dollars' worth more of space with further quotations of scarlet passages.

Literary humbug, imitation-inspiration, crude diction, repulsive sensuality and abundant egotism are among Miss McLane's gifts. Prophylactic measures are now too late for her. But no one can doubt that her present condition would never have been reached if she had been judiciously treated in her youth with frequent spanking and cold baths.-A. W. F., in "The Medical Critic."

Progressive Medicine, Vol. III, September, 1902. 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, 421 pages, 26 illustrations. Per volume, $2.50, by express prepaid to address. Per annum, in four cloth-bound volumes, $10. Lea Brothers & Co., Publishers, Philadelphia and New York.

In this volume the first article covers the Diseases of the Thorax and its Viscera, including the Heart, Lungs and Blood-vessels by that most charming of English medical writers and specialists. William Ewart, of London.

Dermatology and Syphilis are treated. by William S. Gottheil, Professor of Dermatology and Syphilography in the New York School of Clinical Medicine, in a clear, lucid style so easy of understanding, and so acceptable to the practitioner who will find not only material for thought but information that will be found of infinite use in the treatment of this troublesome class of diseases that he meets daily in his practice.

Diseases of the Nervous System from the pen of William G. Spiller, of the University of Pennsylvania, will be found not only of interest to the specialist but to all who have this class of patients come before them.

The fourth article in the volume is

prepared by Richard C. Norris, of the University of Pennsylvania. The entire ground of Obstetrics, covering Pregnancy, the Management of Labor, Obstetrical Surgery, Tumors Complicating Pregnaney, Labor Obstructed by Pelvic Deformity, Placenta Previa, Postpartum Hemorrhage, the management of Puerperium and the care of the New-born Infant have been gone over in a painstaking way that insures the reader of a complete resume of all that is new in these important branches of the subject.

Genito-Urinary and Venereal Diseases. A Manual for Students and Practitioners. By Louis E. Schmidt, M. Sc., M. D. Associate Professor of Genito to Urinary Diseases, Chicago Polyclinic; Attending Genito-Urinary Surgeon and Dermatologist, Alexian Brothers' Hospital, Chicago. Twenty-one engravings. Lea Brothers & Co., Philadelphia and New York.

The present volume endeavors to cover the subject of Genito-Urinary and Veneral Diseases briefly and clearly and give a comprehensive survey within a compact space. The modern instruments and their methods of use are given complete consideration and special attention is given to diagnosis and treatment. dents of Genito-Urinary diseases will find the work a valuable acquisition as the essentials of this branch of medical science are excellently presented.

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A Text-Book on Disease of Infancy and Childhood. For the use of Students and Practitioners. By Henry Koplik, M. D., attending Pediatrist to Mt. Sina Hospital, New York; Ex-President of American Pediatric Society, etc. Octavo, 675 pages, 166 engravings and 30 plates in colors and monachrome. Cloth, $5, net. Leather, $6, net. Lea Brothers & Co., Philadelphia.

During the past decade scientific research in medicine has been especially active in the domaine of pediatrics. The literature of the subject has grown luxuriantly on both sides of the Atlantic. Much of it exists in monographs and special-papers, and is thus scattered and inaccessible by those conversant with the English language alone. The time, therefore, seems opportune for work

which should endeavor to gather and unify the world's best practice in a systematic and convenient volume.

This volume is, however, not in any sense a compilation. It is based upon the author's individual experience and his careful judgment regarding the work of other pediatrists.

He has long been known to practitioners, having the credit for the discovery of a pathognomonic sign of measles generalThese ly known as "Koplik's Spots." are well illustrated in the book, although the clinical establishment of their existence has not been clearly demonstrated to many physicians. He has endeavored in this volume to state in a clear and concise way the clinical and practical points of pediatrics and his work would make a valuable addition to the physician's library.

International Clinics. Vol. II, 12th Series. J. B. Lippincott & Co. Philadelphia, 1902.

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This volume is especially valuable in that it contains some very interesting and able articles. There are articles on Diabetes Mellitus, by Professors Lepine and Carstairs Douglas, which are eminently Romme writes an interesting practical. article on "Gersuny's Method of Prothesis by Injections of Vaseline." One of the greatest living authorities on gonorrhea, Professor Ernest Finger, contributes an article on the "Treatment of Acute Urethritis." Professor Lucas-Championniere defends his ambulatory treatment of fractures by means of passive movements and massage in a readable essay. fessor Thomas Jonnesco writes a very interesting article on "Resection of the Cervical Sympathetic," the operation so ably advocated by him for diseases attended with disturbed cranial circulation; this article is well illustrated. Dr. Charles Gibbs contributes some extremely interesting cases of "Perforating Bullet Wounds of the Central Nervous System." Clinics are contributed by Senn and Howard Kelly. The volume contains also a picture and sketch of the best advertised surgeon in the world, John B. Murphy. The Volume closes with three special articles, the last of which on "The Function of the Digestive Glands," from the laboratory of Professor Pavlof is an important contri