Dr. Simon has here treated Physiological Chemistry in a manner adapting his work to the wants of the medical student, and of the physician who has previously been unable to devote to the subject the attention which it merits. It deals with foods, their origin, classed and decomposition products, their digestion, resorption and excretion, the chemistry of the tissues and organs of the body, the substances resulting from their activity and their relation to physiological function. The early call for a new edition has enabled the author to include the results of the very active research in this field to date. The chapters on the Albumins, Nitrogenous, Katabolism, and Gastric and Tryptic Digestion have been rewritten. To render the work still more useful both to students and teachers, laboratory exercises have been added. The methods have been described in such detail that the student should find no difficulty in performing the experiments.

THE MEDICAL NEWS VISITING-LIST. 1905. Philadelphia and New York. Lea Brothers & Co.

The Medical News Visiting Lists for 1905 are made of good paper, neatly bound and contain much valuable information. Besides the daily record for the year, it also contains several pages devoted to each of the following subjects: General Memoranda, Obstetric Engagemnts and Practice, Vaccinations, Death Register, Addresses of Patients, Addresses of Nurses, Cash Account.

A TEXT-BOOK OF MATERIA MEDICA: Including Laboratory Exercises in the Histologic and Chemic Examinattions of Drugs. For Pharmaceutic and Medical Schools, and for Home Study. By Robert A. Hatcher, Ph. G., M. D., Instructor in Pharmacology in Cornell University Medical School of New York City; and Torald Sollmann, M. D., Assistant Professor in Pharmacology and Materia Medica in the Medical Department of the Western Reserve University of Cleveland. 12mo volume of about 400 pages, illustrated. Philadelphia, New York, London: W. B. Saunders & Co., 1904. Flexible leather, $2.00 net.

Students of medicine, as well as pharmacy students, will undoubtedly welcome this work on Materia Medica. Part I comprises a guide to the study of crude drugs, both official and

unofficial; while in Parts II. and III. the histologic and chemic examinations of drugs are considered in a scientific, yet clear and simple manner. All the histologic descriptions are supplemented by laboratory exercises of important drugs, so that the student becomes insensibly acquainted with their construction. Throughout the entire work general stress is laid on the recognition of adulterations. We can strongly recommend this work as reliable, practical, and excellent in every way.

THE PERPETUAL VISITING AND POCKET REFERENCE BOOK, Including information in emergencies from standard authors. St. Louis, Mo. Dios Chemical Company, Publishers. 1904.

This convenient weekly calling list is of small size, neatly bound in flexible cover and containing the usual record blanks together with complete calendars for 1904 and 1905.

THE PHYSICIAN'S VISITING LIST. Lindsay & Blakiston's, for 1905. Fifty-fourth Year of its Publication. The DoseTable herein has been revised in accordance with the new U. S. Pharmacopæia (1900). Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Sons & Co. (Successors to Lindsay & Blakiston), 1012 Walnut Street.

We take pleasure in recommending the above visiting list as one of the most convenient of its kind.

ESSENTIALS OF NERVOUS DISEASES AND INSANITY: their Symptoms and Treatment. By John C. Shaw, M. D., late Clinical Professor of Diseases of the Mind and Nervous System, Long Island College Hospital Medical School. Fourth Edition, Thoroughly Revised. By Smith Ely Jelliffe, Ph. G., M. D., Clinical Assistant, Columbia University, Department of Neur-ology; Visiting Neurologist, City Hospital, New York. 12mo volume of 196 pages, fully illustrated. Philadelphia, New York, London: W. B. Saunders & Company, 1904. Cloth, $1.00 net.

Of the progress made in every branch of medicine during the last few years, none has been more prominent than that considering diseases of the nervous system and of the mind. Quite a commendable change in arrangement from the 3d edition is the grouping of subjects in such a way as to bring out the natural relations of affiliated nervous disorders. This will be found of great service to the student. In the section on

disorders of the mind, the general views of such leading psychologists as Ziehen, Weygandt, Kaepelin, Berkeley and Peterson have been carefully weighed. This new fourth edition is well worthy our recommendation, and we give it most heartily.

DAVIS' OBSTETRICS. New (2d) Edition. A Treatise on Obstetrics. For Students and Practitioners. By Edward P. Davis, A. M., M. D., Professor of Obstetrics in Jefferson Medical College; Professor of Obstetrics and Pediatrics in the Philadelphia Polyclinic, etc. New (2d) edition, thoroughly revised and much enlarged. Octavo, 800 pages, with 274 engravings and 39 full-page plates in colors and monochrome. Cloth, $5.00, net; leather, $6.00, net.

From a practical standpoint this work is all that could be desired. Dr. Davis has furnished a thoroughly scientific and brilliant treatise on Obstetrics. His method is original and comprehensive, and the scope of the work includes cognate subjects of great importance which are not met in other books. on the subject. In preparing this new edition, Professor Davis has subjected it to a complete rewriting throughout, resulting in an enlafgement of about two hundred and fifty pages. Together with the established principles and practice of Obstetrics he has incorporated the latest additions to our knowledge of the subject, which promise to be of permanent value. In its new farm it accordingly represents the science and art of Obstetrics to the date of issue. The work has always been notable for the abudance and instructiveness of its illustrations. The series has been revised equally with the text, and any engravings or plates susceptible of improvement have been replaced.

HOW TO COOK FOR THE SICK AND CONVALESCENT. Arranged for the physician, trained nurse and home use by Helena V. Sachse, second edition, revised and enlarged. Publishers, J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, Pa. 1904.

The careful preparation of food is now recognized to be of vital importance to an invalid and a valuable assistance, in many cases, to the physician in hastening the recovery of a patient. Scientific information along this line will be welcomed. by the profession. The author has given in this little book many practical hints and a number of valuable recipes. We can heartily recommend the book to nurses and physicians.

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. Year Book Publishers, 40 Dearborn Street, Chicago, Ill. Vols. VIII, IX and X.

Vol. VIII. July number is on Therapeutics, preventive medicine, Climatology and Forensic Medicine.

Vol. IX. August number is devoted to Physiology, Pathology and Bacteriology, by Evans and Gehrman.

Vol. X. September number gives the regime of skin and venereal diseases and nervous and mental diseases. The first written by Baum, the second by Patrick.

DUDLEY'S GYNECOLOGY. New (4th) Edition. A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of Geecology. By E. C. Dudley, A. M., M. D., Professor of Gynecology in the Northwestera University Medical School, Chicago. New (4th) edition. Revised and enlarged. Octavo, 771 pages, with 401 illustrations, of which 50 are in colors, and 18 full-page colored plates. Cloth, $5.00, net; leather, $6.00, net; half morocco, $6.50, net.

The author states that in accordance with the original plan of this book he has arranged the subjects so far as practical in pathological and etiological sequence. For example, infections and inflammations are brought together so that vulvovaginitis. metritis, salpingitis, ovaritis, peritonitis and cellulitis may be studeide in combined forms which they ordinarily assume. In like manner, tumors are treated in another part, traumatisms in another and displacements in another. The arrangement seems logical and practicable. Under this plan the reader has constantly before him the physiological and pathological unity of the reproductive system. A thorough going revision has been made including recent advances in Gynecology. This has necessitated rewriting and rearranging many chapters.

One of the most notable features is the introduction of more than 300 new illustrations all reproduced from drawings especially made for the book. Another notable feature and one that is very important to the reader, all minor and major manipulations and operations have been illustrated to show the several proceedures as they take place step by step, each operation being set forth in a series of drawings. For the student of gynecology this is a most practical work.

THE COLUMBUS MEDICAL JOURNAL.

VOL. XXIX.

MARCH, 1905.

No. 3.

THE TREATMENT OF ACUTE NON-SUPPURATIVE OTITIS MEDIA.*

BY EDWIN PYNCHON, M. D., CHICAGO,

Professor of Rhino-Laryngology and Otology, Chicago Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat College.

Under the title given may be included the several acute inflammatory manifestations of the middle ear structures which have been described by various authors as respectively: acute myringitis, tubal salpingitis, acute catarrhal otitis, otitis media. acute, etc., all being closely related, and in fact rapidly merging one into the other, so the chief consideration in treatment is as to stage or degree.

Owing to the frequency with which acute or catarrhal otitis media occurs, particularly during child life, being usually described as "earache," and so often due to adenoids (1), its. prompt and correct treatment is of the greatest importance in order not only to relieve the annoying symptom of pain, but also in order to avoid those more serious sequela which may otherwise follow.

Certain patients are prone to attacks of acute ear trouble,. while others are never thus afflicted. As all are alike subjected to practically the same exposures or climatic conditions, it becomes apparent that such susceptibility must, in a great measure, be due to local troubles present in those patients thus afflicted.

Chronic inflammation of the Schneiderian membrane, extending through continuity of tissue to the eustachian tube, is an important etiological factor to be considered and, in a

Read before the American Academy of Ophthalmology and Oto-Laryngology at Denver, August 24-26, 1904.