Recent Medical Books.

A HAND-BOOK OF SURGERY. For students and practitioners. By Frederic R. Griffith, M. D., Surgeon to the Bellevue Dispensary, New York City; Assistant Surgeon at the New York Polyclinic School and Hospital. 12mo volume of 579 pages, containing 417 illustrations. Philadelphia, New York, London: W. B. Saunders & Co., 1904. Flexible leather, $2.00 net. Dr. Griffith has given us a little work of great merit. It is a brief outline of the principles and practice of surgery, written as concisely as is possible with clearness. We are sure it will be valuable alike to the student and the practitioner, because the entire subject of surgery is covered, including all the specialties, as Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat; Genito-Urinary Diseases; Diseases of Women, etc. There are also articles on Life Insurance, Rape, Sexual Perversions, Microscopy, and on many other subjects of great importance to the practising surgeon. There are 417 illustrations, selected for their clearness, accuracy, and general usefulness. We predict that Dr. Griffith's work will be to surgery what Dr. Steven's manual is to medicine. and take pleasure in recommending it to the profession.

HOW TO STUDY LITERATURE. A guide to the intensive study of literary masterpieces by Benjamin A. Heydrick, A. A., (Harv.), Professor of English Literature, State Normal School, Millersburg, Pa. Third edition, revised and enlarged. Hinds, Noble & Eldredge, publishers, 31-33-35 West 15th street, New York City.

This little book is a guide to the study of literary productions. Taking up poetry first, an outline is given, in the form of questions, which will lead the student to comprehend the subject matter, to analyze the structure, to study the characters, the de

scriptions, thought, the mood, the style, and the metre-of such a work for example as Tennyson's "Princess" or Coleridge's "Ancient Mariner," and suggestions for comparative study and collateral reading. In a similar way the drama, the essay, the oration and the novel are taken up, and questions given which will lead to a full comprehension of the work studied.

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 Rhinology, Chicago Post Graduate Medical School. Volume 11, General Surgery, edited by John B. Murphy, M. D., Professor of Surgery, Northwestern University Medical School. November, 1903. Chicago, The Year Book Publishers, 40 Dearborn street.

This volume is unusually well illustrated and contains a brief description of all the important dissections, operations, and new methods of treatment brought forward in the literature of the year. The articles on Anesthesia, Operative Technique, Wound Healing, Tumors, Acute Infections, Diseases of the Thorax, Stomach and Intestines, are all luminous and exhaustive.

PRACTICAL PEDIATRICS. A Manual of the Medical and Surgical Diseases of Infancy and Childhood. By Dr. E. Graetzer, Editor of the "Centralblatt Fur Kinderheilkunde" and the "Excerpta Medica." Authorized translation, with numerous Additions and Notes, by Herman B. Sheffield, M. D., Instructor in Diseases of Children, and Attending Pediatrist (O.P.D), New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital; Visiting Pediatrist to the Metropolitan Hospital and Dispensary, etc. Pages XII-544. Crown octavo. Flexible cloth, round corners. Price, $3.00, net. F. A. Davis Company, Publishers, 1914-16 Cherry Street, Philadelphia.

The author has rightfully avoided the introduction of superfluous material, such as elaborate descriptions or illustrations

of baby nursing bottles, family scales, silver baby spoons, classical curves, etc. He has laid especial emphasis in describing diseases of childhood upon the numerous deviations from the types which so often baffle the skill of the general practitioner.

He adds many practical suggestions; among them are sections on Intubation, Lorenz's operation for dislocation of hip, Broncho-pneumonia, Achondroplasia, Home Modification of Milk, Gonorrheal Ophthalmia, Tinea tonsurans, and several of the newer standard remedies.

There is to my knowledge no book on Pediatrics which presents in so small a space such an abundance of practical and clinical material, pathological and bacteriological data and details of etiology and diagnosis as the volume in question.

REGIONAL MINOR SURGERY. By George Gray Van Schaick, Consulting Surgeon to French Hospital, N. Y. Second edition, enlarged and revised; 228 pages, bound in cloth, profusely illustrated. Price, $1.50. International Journal of Surgery Co., N. Y.

The author's object, as stated in preface, to furnish the general practitioner with such practical information on Minor Surgical Conditions as will be of the greatest service to him in his daily practice, has been well accomplished. Subjects of a technical character have been avoided, and only the most applicable methods demonstrated by twenty years' private and hospital experience are presented. The book is liberally illustrated with original sketches and is so eminently practical and useful, we believe it will run through many more editions.