RECENT LITERATURE.

REVIEWS.

SEXUAL IMPOTENCE.

THE profession are already well acquainted with this work, and the fact that a third edition has been demanded indicates to a degree their estimation of it. The author treats the subject in a straightforward, enthusiastic, logical manner.

*By Victor G. Vecki, M. D. W. B. Saunders & Company, Philadelphia.

GENITOURINARY DISEASES AND SYPHILIS.*

THE author very properly refers, in the preface, to the progress made during recent years in genitourinary surgery. That in itself is a sufficeint excuse for all good works on this subject. This volume is one of them. The writer systematicly and comprehensively covers the ground, eliminating the useless, retaining the useful, though old, and contributing from his own knowledge and experience. This book will make friends.

*By Henry H. Morton, M. D., Clinical Professor of Genitourinary Diseases in the Long Island College Hospital; Genitourinary Surgeon to the Long Island College and Kings County Hospitals, and to the Polhemus Memorial Clinic, et cetera. Illustrated with half-tones and full-page color plates. Pages xii-372. Size, 91⁄2 by 7 inches. Price, extra cloth, $3.00 net, delivered. Philadelphia: F. A. Davis Company, Publishers, 1914-16 Cherry Street.

INTERNATIONAL CLINICS.*

BIOGRAPHIC Sketches and portraits of Dr. S. Weir Mitchell and John A. Wyeth open this volume. Habitual constipation, thyroid poisoning, dilatation of the stomach, gastrointestinal autointoxication and the question of symphyseotomy versus Caesarean section are titles of some of the practical articles. This volume is unusually well illustrated. Of great value also is the review of the progress of medicine during the year 1901.

*Edited by Henry W. Cattell, A. M., M. D., Philadelphia, U. S. A., with the Collaboration of John B. Murphy, M. D., Chicago; Alexander D. Blackader, M. D., Montreal; H. C. Wood, M. D., Philadelphia; T. M. Rotch, M. D., Boston; E. Landolt, M. D., Paris; Thomas G. Morton, M. D., Philadelphia; James J. Walsh, M. D., New York; J. W. Ballantyne, M. D., Edinburgh, and John Harold, M. D., London, with Regular Correspondents in Montreal, London, Paris, Leipsic and Vienna. J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia and London. Cloth, $2.00. Volume I, twelfth series, eighty-four illustrations, three colored plates.

A NURSES' GUIDE.*

THIS small work consists largely of abstracts of lectures delivered by the author before a class of nurses. They apply almost entirely to the nurses' side of operative work. As such they are of the highest order.

*By Nicholas Senn, M. D., Ph. D., LL. D., C. M., Chicago. W. T. Keener & Company, Chicago.

SAUNDERS' MEDICAL HAND-ATLASES: AN ATLAS OF OPERATIVE SURGERY.*

IN a former review we called attention to the excellent and practic character of this work. In this revised form the editor and publisher have included new descriptions and added a great many lithographic plates and text-figures, thereby enhancing the value of the book.

*By Doctor Otto Zuckerkandl, Privatdocent in the University of Vienna. Edited, with additions, by J. Chalmers DaCosta, M. D., Professor of the Principles of Surgery and of Clinical Surgery, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, et cetera. Cloth, $3.50 net. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Company, 1902.

APPLIED SURGICAL ANATOMY.*

THE author remarks in the preface that an original work on anatomy can no longer be written. It is possible, however, for a great variety in arrangement according to the end in view. He has a marked appreciation of the subject from a practic standpoint and has furnished us with a valuable text-book. The body is studied regionally and yet the essentials of each organ are duly presented.

*By George Woolsey, A. B. M. D., Professor of Anatomy and Clinical Surgery in the Cornell University Medical College; Surgeon to Bellevue Hospital, et cetera. Octavo, 511 pages, with 125 illustrations, including 59 full-page inset plates in black and colors. Cloth, $5.00 net; leather, $6.00 net. Lea Brothers & Company, Philadelphia and New York, 1902.

PHARMACOLOGY AND THERAPEUTICS; OR THE ACTION OF DRUGS.

SINCE the first edition of this work it has been standard of its kind. This revision, the second, is more perfect than the original. The author is one of those patient, painstaking investigators who enters personally into his subject and makes his knowledge first hand. It is especially valuable to the scientific student and worker.

*By Arthur R. Cushny, A. M., M. D., Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the University of Michigan, Department of Medicine and Surgery, Ann Arbor, Michigan. Third edition, revised and enlarged. In one handsome octavo volume of 750 pages, with 52 engravings. Cloth, $3.75, net; leather, $4.75, net. Lea Brothers & Company, Publishers, Philadelphia and New York, 1903.

PRACTICAL MEDICINE SERIES: VOLUME II.

THIS Volume covers a broad field, reviewing all surgical subjects in which material progress has been made or changed views of a decided character held.

*Edited by John B. Murphy, M. D. The Year Book Publishers, Chicago.

SAUNDERS' MEDICAL HAND-ATLASES: AN ATLAS AND EPITOME OF OTOLOGY.*

THIS work considers the anatomy and physiology of the organs of hearing,―examination, pathology and treatment. It is a most instructive volume on these subjects.

*By Gustav Bruhl, M. D., Berlin, with the collaboration of Doctor A. Politzer, of Vienna. Edited, with additions, by S. MacCuen Smith, M. D., Clinical Professor of Otology in the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. With 244 colored figures on 39 lithographic plates, 99 text illustrations, and 292 pages of text. Cloth, $3.00 net. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Company, 1902.

SURGERY OF THE HEAD.*

THIS is the first of a series of books on everyday surgery. Particular attention is given to those conditions which one most frequently meets in surgical practice, while the rare and less important are not so fully considered. An effort has been made by the author to place his views before the reader in such a manner as not only to be understood but to make a lasting impression as well. The reference at the end of each chapter, to the important literature of the subject presented, is a desirable feature, and renders the book valuable for practicians and students alike. It is a handy and well written volume.

*By Bayard Holmes, M. D., Chicago. Published by D. Appleton & Company, New York.

INTERNATIONAL CLINICS: VOLUME III, TWELFTH

SERIES.*

THIS Volume contains seven articles on therapeutics, seven on medicine, seven on surgery, two on obstetrics and gynecology, four on diseases of the eye, ear and throat and two on special subjects. All are of a truly practic character and constitute a valuable book.

*Edited by Henry W. Cattell, A. M., M. D., Philadelphia, with the Collaboration of John B. Murphy, M. D., Chicago; Alexander D. Blackader, M. D., Montreal; H. C. Wood, M. D., Philadelphia; T. M. Rotch, M. D., Boston; E. Landolt, M. D., Paris; Thomas G. Morton, M. D., Philadelphia; James J. Walsh, M. D., New York; J. W. Ballantyne, M. D., Edinburgh, and John Harold, M. D., London, with Regular Correspondents in Montreal, London, Paris, Leipsic, and Vienna. Cloth, $2.00. J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia and London.

THE MATTISON METHOD IN MORPHINISM.*

THE profession are naturally suspicious of any or all claims concerning habit cures and those who vaunt them. We have no personal knowledge of this method, but, from a perusal of this short monograph, feel warranted in recommending it to a wider circle of readers. The author modestly but confidently outlines a rational mode of treatment. *By J. B. Mattison, M. D., E. B. Treat & Company, New York, 1902.

STAMMERING AND STUTTERING.*

THOSE of us who suffer no appreciable defects in body or mind are apt to overlook their importance in others who show them. Persons with notably defective speech may seem to be few in number, but according to some writers they number in the hundreds of thousands in this country alone. To them this book, by two workers in their special fields, will be a great boon. Particular emphasis is laid upon the treatment of these conditions.

*By George Andrew Lewis and George B. Hynson, M. A. Illustrated. Published by George Andrew Lewis, Detroit, 1902.

LIBERTINISM AND MARRIAGE.*

ALTHOUGH blennorrhea is the main topic discussed in this work, the author has by no means made it a text-book in the usual sense. He has rather treated the subject from a sociologic standpoint, and in a manner at which no one could take offense. The fact of its translation speaks well of the favor with which it has been received.

*By Doctor Louis Jullien, of Paris, Surgeon to Saint-Lazare Prison; Laureate of the Institute, of the Academy of Medicine, and of the Faculty of Medicine of Paris. Translated by R. B. Douglas. Size of page, 52 by 71⁄2 inches. Pages v-169. Extra cloth, $1.00 net, delivered. Philadelphia: F. A. Davis Company, Publishers, 1914-16 Cherry Street.

DISEASES OF THE EYE.*

THIS is the most comprehensive treatise on this subject by a single American author. The fact that a fourth edition is demanded only eleven years after the appearance of the first speaks of its favorable. reception. In this revised edition may be noted marked changes and additions in both text and illustrations. The author has won a substantial place among the writers and readers of the profession.

*By G. E. deSchweinitz. A. M., M. D., Professor of Ophthalmology in the University of Pennsylvania, et cetera. Fourth edition revised, enlarged, and entirely reset. Octavo volume of 773 pages, with 280 text-illustrations and 6 chromolithographic plates. Cloth, $5.00 net; sheep or half Morocco, $6.00 net. W. B .Saunders & Company, Philadelphia and New York.

PRACTICAL MEDICINE SERIES: VOLUME X.*

THE reviews herein contained relate to skin and venereal diseases, and nervous and mental diseases. They are truly practic and will be found of decided help to the general practician.

*Edited by W. L. Baum, M. D., and Hugh T. Patrick, M. D. The Year Book Publishers, Chicago, 1902.

PROMPT AID TO THE INJURED.

THE author intimates in the preface to this small work that it was prepared with particular reference to nonmedical persons. Such will find it of the greatest value. Many in the profession also will doubtles find it instructive.

*By Alvah H. Doty, M. D., New York. D. Appleton & Company, New York, 1902.

THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF BANDAGING.*

It would seem that there were scarcely room for another separate text on this subject, and yet the author has treated it with such simplicity and fullness at the same time that it must appeal to both students and practicians.

*By Gwilym G. Davis, M. D., Philadelphia. Illustrated from original drawings by the author. Price, $1.00. P. Blakiston's Son & Company, Philadelphia, 1902.

INTERNATIONAL CLINICS.*

THE first volume of the thirteenth series of this important work has appeared. It is an excellent volume and will appeal both to the general practician and to the specialist. A change has been made in the editorial corps. The list of editors and collaborators is such an illustrious one as to insure a high-grade publication. The editor is Aloysius O. J. Kelly, of Philadelphia. The collaborators are William Osler, Baltimore; John H. Musser, Philadelphia; James Stewart, Montreal; John B. Murphy, Chicago; Thomas M. Rotch, Boston; John G. Clark, Philadelphia; James J. Walsh, New York; J. W. Ballantyne, Edinburgh; John Harold, London; Edmund Landolt, Paris; and Richard Kretz, Vienna. It is a quarterly of illustrated clinical lectures and especially prepared original articles on treatment, medicine, surgery, neurology, pediatrics, obsetrics, gynecology, orthopedics, pathology, dermatology, ophthalmology, otology, rhinology, laryngology, hygiene and other topics of interest to students and physicians. A chapter on the progress of medicine by E. W. Watson and. H. W. Cattell is interesting and instructive reading, giving in a nutshell a review of the leading events in the history of medicine and surgery during the past year. The various articles are well chosen, well written, and well illustrated.

*J. B. Lippincott Company, Publishers.