All these topics are discussed with accuracy and sufficient fullness. It may be said, therefore, that this volume maintains the high standard set by the preceding volumes, and that he who possesses a copy of the cyclopædia as a whole is able to refer at once to the latest and best literature upon the various diseases classed as those particularly afflicting children. After a very careful examination of this work we can, without hesitation, recommend it as an excellent and reliable compendium of periodical literature arranged in such a form as to be of practical service. If succeeding numbers equal the first-and we take it for granted that they will-the publishers will have given to the profession a publication of permanent importance. The Pathology and Treatment of Sexual Impotence. By Victor G. Vecki, M.D. From the Author's Second German Edition, Revised and Rewritten. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders, 1899. Price, $2.00 net. This volume of moderate size deals with Progressive Medicine. 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, etc. Volume I. March, 1899. Surgery of the a subject which will always be of interest Head, Neck, and Chest Diseases of and importance from a medical point of Children Pathology - Infectious Dis- view. The unhappy sufferers, or perhaps eases, including Croupous Pneumonia-imaginary sufferers, peculiarly require saLaryngology and Rhinology-Otology. gacious management, and if unintelligently Lea Brothers & Co.: Philadelphia and New York, 1899. This is the initial number of a series which without doubt will be found of value to every subscriber. The title-page indicates the scope of the first number. The contributors to volume one are Dr. J. Chalmers Da Costa, who writes of "The Surgery of the Head, Neck, and Chest"; Dr. Alexander D. Blackader, who has charge of the section on "The Diseases of Children"; Dr. Ludvig Hektoen, who supervises the section on "Pathology"; Dr. William Sydney Thayer, who is responsible for the text upon "Infectious Diseases"; Dr. A. Logan Turner, to whom the department of "Laryngology and Rhinology" has been confided; and Dr. Robert L. Randolph, to whom is assigned the treatment of "Otology." These are all excellent writers and competent to the execution of their several tasks. The aim of the editor and contributors to this series is to present its readers only with a summary of important advances, excluding that great mass of literature which is of doubtful value or merely hypothetical character. treated quickly drift from bad to worse, until, in many instances, the scene closes in the suicide's grave. Dr. Vecki writes in a direct style, supported by his personal observations and drawing independent conclusions. The volume will repay perusal. 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