sample of the useful and interesting matter forming this volume. The diet of sick and well is a subject which is receiving more and more attention from practical physicians.

Modern War Wounds. This article of 20 pages, by Dr. Frank W. Foxworthy, of Indianapolis, late Captain and Assistant Surgeon, Twenty-fourth U. S. Infantry, was read before the Marion County Medical Society, and, in brief, owing to the press of many papers, before the Indiana State Medical Society at the Evansville meeting, May 22, 1902. It was printed in the June issue of the Fort Wayne Medical Journal Magazine, and will appear in the Transactions of the State Society by the time "the frost is on the punkin and the fodder in the shock."

A careful reading of the paper shows it to be the best general discussion of the subject of modern war wounds, and incidentally of allied wounds in general practice, that has come to our notice in current serial medical literature. Liberal and very intelligent use has been made by Dr. Foxworthy of the literature of the Civil War (Otis), the works of Senn (Practical Surgery, Letters and Notes, American Medical Association Journal, '98-99), Treves on the Boer War, Noncrede, Nunez, MacCormac and a score of other authors on the subject, both in the Spanish-American and the South African

War.

Any effort to make selections of this paper has proved futile, as the editor finds. he has marked by paragraph the entire article.

Dr. Foxworthy would have been justified, in the light of his experience and research, in extending his paper into a treatise. Printed in the Transactions, the paper will be a part of the general and accessible literature of the effect of modern guns upon the great cavities of the body and the bony skeleton. The paper should have been taken by its author to the Saratoga meeting of the A. M. A. The author is a graduate of the Medical College of Indiana in 1897, and received his surgical training at the hands of the late Dr. Joseph W. Marsee, Drs. John H. Oliver, William M. Wright, L. H. Dun

ning, O. G. Pfaff and others of this notable school.

Vaughan and Nory on Cellular Toxins. A treatise on Cellular Toxins, or the Chemical Factors in the Causation of Disease. By Victor C. Vaughan, Ph. D., M. D., Professor of Hygiene and Physiological Chemistry, and Frederick G. Novy, M. D., Junior Professor of Hygiene and Physiological Chemistry in the University of Michigan. New (4th) edition, revised and enlarged. In one Svo volume of 480 pages, with 6 illustrations. Cloth, $3 net. Lea Brothers & Co., publishers, Philadelphia and New York, 1902.

This edition presents a new work rather than a revision. The knowledge of the chemistry of the infectious diseases has changed and developed so much during the past few years that not only was it necessary completely to re-write this book, but its title had to be changed to conform more appropriately to the accepted facts of to-day.

Cell-poisoning is now recognized as the starting point of the infectious diseases, and into this class modern investigation is bringing the majority of human ills. It is now proved that micro-organisms act not directly, but by the synthetic substances formed within their own cells. The importance of a knowledge of these facts in the cure and prevention of disease is obvious, and the intelligent interest shown in the subject is indicated by the demand for a fourth edition of this unique work-the standard authority.

This work, in connection with Dr. Charles Simon's recent work on Physiological Chemistry and Dr. Herter's volume on Chemical Pathology, furnishes a complete and satisfactory library of present-day knowledge of medical chemistry.

Fort Wayne College of Medicine, of Fort Wayne, Indiana. Twenty-fourth Annual Announcement, July 20, 1902. Term opens September 10th, closes April 22d. Faculty of 33 professors, lecturers and assistants, including the leading physicians of Fort Wayne. Four separate sessions of seven months each, graded courses, clinics in the college, in the two

City Hospitals, in the School for FeebleMinded and in the college building; member of the Association of American Medical Colleges. The school has 225 graduates, nine in the class of last year.

The Faculty includes such active workers in the State and National Associations as Miles F. Porter, George W. McCaskey, K. K. Wheelock, B. Van Sweringen, H. A. Duemling, A. E. Bulson, Jr., L. P. Draver, M. L. Rosenthal, W. H. Myers, C. B. Stemen, W. W. Barnett, S. H. Hanice, William P. Wherry and others. The college building is complete in its appointments, the Faculty is harmonious and the school independent and progressive.

The Review of Reviews for August continues its series of invaluable portraitures of men prominent in public life throughout the world. The Rt. Hon. Arthur J. Balfour, just called to the premiership of the British Empire, is the subject of an admirable character sketch by Mr. A. Maurice Low, a writer whose acquaintance with British politics and politicians attests the value of an article from his pen on such a subject. Mr. W. T. Stead relates a most interesting interview recently held with Mr. George Frederick Watts, A. R. A., the only British artist deemed worthy by King Edward of a membership in the new Order of Merit, just established. Mr. Walter Wellman, in an article on "Spooner of Wisconsin," writes in an appreciative vein of the man who by common consent ranks to-day as the leader of the United States Senate, so far as that body may be said to have a leader. Each of these three men, whose careers are described in the August Review, is at this moment very decidedly "in the public eve." The Review prints these sketches of them at just the right time.

The Perverts. By William Lee Howard, M. D. Duodecimo; pages, 388. New York: G. W. Dillingham Company, 1902. Price, $1.50.

The Perverts is a unique book, in which the author has attempted to portray his views on heredity and explain some of the peculiar features of dipsomania, inebriety and perversion of moral instinct. It describes the life of a young scientist who

tries to overcome his disease of inebriety on physiological principles without the aid of drugs, and also the wretched condition of his sisters, who are also the victims of heredity and various manias.

The book is presented in a popular and attractive form, and yet, while it has a vein of thought in it which may appeal strongly to the student of sociology, it were far better that it be read only by those of a trained scientific mind than by the people at large.

The Practical Medicine Series of Year Books. Comprising ten volumes on the Year's Progress in Medicine and Surgery. Issued monthly under the general editorial charge of Gustavus P. Head, M. D., Professor of Laryngology and Otology, Chicago Post-Graduate Medical College. The Year Book Publishers, Chicago.

Vol. VI., General Medicine, Diseases of the Alimentary Tract and Allied Organs and the Summer Diseases. Edited by Dr. Frank Billings, President of the

American Medical Association.

These volumes are published primarily for the general practitioner, the arrangement in several volumes being of special value to him.

The present volume practically finishes the subject of general medicine, and, with Vol. I., gives a general resume of medical progress in recent years. In the main it treats of the infectious diseases, typhoid fever being especially emphasized. The diseases of the liver, pancreas and digestive tract are also reviewed in a very satisfactory manner.

A Brief Resume of the Treatment of Tuberculosis. Read before the Academy of Medicine, Cincinnati, May 12, 1902. By George E. Malsbary, M. D., Cincinnati.

With much labor and accurate attention to details Dr. Malsbary has prepared a summary of the various drugs and other agents which have been used in the treatment of tuberculosis, together with brief statements of the manner of their use. Convenient and useful for reference and for checking off the things which float through the periodical medical press. T. P.