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ESSENTIALS OF DIAGNOSIS, arranged in the form of Questions and Answers, prepared especially for students of medicine by Solomon Solis-Cohen, M. D., Prof. of Clinical Medicine and Therapeutics in the Philadelphia Polyclinic, etc., etc., and August A. Eshner, M. D., Prof. of Clinical Medicine in the Philadelphia Polyclinic, etc. Illustrated; 2d edition; revised and enlarged. W. B. Saunders, publisher, 1900.

This series of books on medical subjects still enjoys professional confidence; with medical students they are recognized as a necessity, and have well nigh superseded the regular text books. There is not one in the series of more importance and practical usefulness than this on diagnosis.

A TEXT-BOOK OF MEDICAL TREATMENT OF DISEASES AND SYMPTOMS, for the use of Students and Practitioners of Medicine. By Nestor Tirard, M. D., F. R. C. P., Professor of Principles and Practice of Medicine, King's College, London. Adapted to the United States Pharmacopoeia by E. Quin Thoraton, M. D., of Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. In one octavo volume of 624 pages. Just ready. Cloth, $4.00 net. Lea Brothers & Co., Philadelphia and New York.

The order of treatment pursued in this work is one that enables the reader to group allied diseases in such a way as to impress on the mind a related knowledge of the group members. Thus, in taking up the diseases of the circulation, the reader has before his mind. when studying one, that which he learned of another of the group. Chapters 1 and 2 are devoted to diseases of the circulation, each subject being treated in sufficient fullness according to the principles of practice at the present time. In like manner the author takes up next in order the diseases of respiration in all the divisions of the respiratory system. To these, he devotes three chapters. So also diseases of the digestive organs, which are treated in chapters 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and II. As members of this group of diseases, Hepatic Diseases occupy chapters 12 and 13. Following these comes the Renal System, in chapters 14 and 15: Nervous Diseases follow in chapters 16 and 17 Specific Diseases in 18, 19 and 20; Tuberculosis in 21 and 22; Constitutional Diseases in 23, 24 and 25. The style of the author is simple, clear and in classic English, which pours into the mind the instruction given with the ease and quiet of a silent, flowing stream. The author gives the fruit of his own thinking and experience, and so well that the reader cannot fail to enjoy its study.

A TEXT-BOOK OF PRACTICAL THERAPEUTICS: : With Especial Reference to the Application of Remedial Measures to Disease and Their Employment Upon a Rational Basis. By Hobart Amory Hare, M. D., Professor of Therapeutics and Materia Medica in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. With special chapters by Drs. G. E. de Schweinitz. Edward Martin and Barton C. Hirst. New (eighth) edition. In one octavo volume of 796 pages, with 37 engravings and 3 colored plates. Cloth, $4.00; leather, $5.00, net. Lea Brothers & Co., Philadelphia and New York.

An eighth edition of this work in nine years tells a wonderful story of success and professional popularity. The author has improved each opportunity to make his work more valuable with each edition. The contents are abreast with the year of issue; the new edition has new additions of matter and illustrations. The work needs only to be announced.

INJURIES TO THE EYE IN THEIR MEDICO-LEGAL ASPECT.—By S. Bauduy, M. D., Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, University of Lille, France, etc. Translated from the original by Alfred James Ostheimer, Jr., M. D., of Philadelphia, Pa. Revised and edited by Charles A. Oliver, M. D. Attending Surgeon to the Wills Eye Hospital; Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Philadelphia Hospital;. Member of the American and French Ophthalmalogical Societies, etc. With an adaptation of the Medico-Legal Chapter to the Courts of the United States of America, by Charles Sinkler, Esq., Member of the Phi'adelphia Bar. 53x73 inches. Pages, x-161. Extra Cloth, $1.00, net. The F. A. Davis Co., Publishers, 1614-16 Cherry St., Philadelphia, Pa.

This work was received with such favor by the profession in France as to demand a second edition. This favorable reception led to its translation into English, which we have in this volume. It is divided into four parts. The first is devoted to "Traumatic Lesions of the Ocular Adnexa; Eyebrows, Eyelids and Conjunctiva; Orbit and Its Contents." Part II. includes "Traumatic Lesions of the Eyeballs; Cornea; Sclera; Iris; Choroid and Ciliary Body; Retina; Crystalline Lens; Vitreous humor, and of the Eye as a whole. Part III. discusses Simulated or Exaggerated Affections of the Eye. Part IV. considers Medico-Legal Expert Testimony. The great body of the work deals with Traumatic Lesions in such a way as to make the work one of great practical interest to the ophthalmologist in leading him to note with special care these classes of injuries in their legal aspect.

A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE SEXUAL DISORDERS OF THE MALE AND FEMALE. New (second) edition. By Robert W. Taylor, M. D, Clinical Professor of Venereal Diseases in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York. In one handsome octavo volume of 435 pages, with 91 illustrations and 13 plates in colors and monochrome. Cloth, $3.00, net. Lea Brothers & Co., Philadelphhia and New York.

This is an exceedingly interesting and practical work, one that holds the reader's interest to the close. The subjects treated are of great importance and of frequent occurrence. They are handled in plain and simple language and with a quiet charm that pleases and satisfies. The practical instruction is based on the anatomy and physiology of the organs suffering from disease, the treatment being a logical outcome of these bases. In this edition the author has felt the stimulus of the reception which the first edition received, to make the present one still more acceptable to the profession. The studious and thoughtful reader will find its reading a pleasure and its instruction valuable.

SURGICAL PATHOLOGY AND THERAPEUTICS. By John

Collins Warren, M. D.; LL. D., Professor of Surgery in Harvard University; Surgeon to the Massachusetts General Hospital. Illustrated. Second Edition, with an Appendix Containing an Enumeration of the Scientific Aids to Surgical Diagnosis, together with a Series of Sections on Regional Bacteriology. W. B. Saunders, Publisher, Philadelphia. 8vo pp. 873.

Of the numerous works on surgery in its relation to Pathology and Therapeutics, this is one which has taken a forward position among the best. It is logical and fundamental in its consideration of the numerous subjects that make up a connected whole, and leaves the reader in possession of most valuable information so orderly stowed away in the mind as to be more easily retained and the more readily used when specially needed.

The purpose of the book, as respects the treatment of his subjects at large, is "to associate pathological conditions as closely as possible with the symptoms and treatment of surgical diseases, and to impress upon the student the value of these lines of study as a firm foundation for clinical work. The student is put in possesion of the fundamental principles that underlie and guide in this field of scientific and practical work, while the practitioner of limited experience will find the book suitable as a capable instructor and a very safe leader. To those the better skilled in the use of language, the style will be found classical, and the author's method of teaching most agreeable and instructive. It will bear with increasing profit and pleasurable emotions many readings, and readers will realize the richness of its treasures.

DOCTORS' MAGAZINE-Edited by George Butler, M. D.; Doctors' Magazine Co., Chicago.

This very excellent medical journal follows its editor from Chicago to Alma, Mich., whose sanitarium Doctor Butler has taken superintendence of. We wish it all good in its new home. It may be said of it what Virgil said of travellers:

"Coelum non animum mutant, qui trans mare current."

ANNUAL AND ANALYTICAL CYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL MEDICINE. By Charles E. DeM. Sajous, M. D., and One Hundred Associate Editors, assisted by Corresponding Editors, Collaboratories and Correspondents. Illustrated with Chromo-Lithographs, Engravings and Maps. Volume III., large 8vo, pp. 600. The F. A. Davis Company, Publishers, Philadelphia, Pa., 1899.

The third volume of this admirable work sustains the good opinion it has received from the two previous volumes. The favorable reception of the work is doubtless very gratifying to every contributor of the work, and especially to its laborious editor, and must, consequently, urge them to greater, if possible, efforts in the work to come.. The work is unique in its method, and its sections and paragraphs are so arranged as to make the consideration of each subbject lucid, full and satisfactory. The plan is tht of giving special space to subjects calculated to elucidate by the close analysis, involved, many obscure phases of pathogenesis, has been continued in this volume. The articles on "Infantile Myxoedema" (criticisrn) by Prof. Osler and Dr. Norton of Baltimore; “Exophthalmic Goitre," by Prof Putnam of Boston; and "Goitre," by Prof. Adami of Montreal, thus form a trio which may be said to point to much of the progress that is to attend medicine in the near future. This, of course, has not in any way diminished the practical value of the work, for the third volume seems especially favored in this direction. The articles on "Dysentery," by Dr. Flexner of Baltimore; on “Eadometritis," by Frof. Byford of Chicago; on "Dislocations and Fractures," by Prof. Stinson and Dr. Keves of New York; on "Gout." by Dr. Levison of Copenhagen; on "Hip Joint Disease," by Dr. Reginald H. Sayre of New York; on "Eczema," by Prof. Stelwagon of Philadelphia, are all models of the kind, and may be mentioned as particularly valuable to the general practitioner.

The articles of Dislocations and Fractures are of special interest to medical readers, the special dislocations and fractures being each so well and clearly figured to the eye by illustrations. Interest in this excellent work will certainly increase with each volume issued.

A HAND BOOK FOR NURSES.-By J. K. Watson, M. D., Edin. Later House Surgeon Essex and Colchester Hospital; Assistant House-Surgeon Sheffield Royal Infirmary and Sheffield Royal Hospital. American Edition. Under the supervision of A. A. Stevens, A. M., M. D., Professor of Pathology in the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, Lecturer on Physical Diagnosis in the University of Pennsylvania; Physician to St. Agnes' Hospital, Philadelphia.

This work supplies the deficiencies of previous text books for nurses by furnishing a most excellent short course in anatomy and physiology. In addition the author treats of diseases, their treatment. and care, in a simple and comprehensive way. He imparts knowledge generously, believing that the more highly qualified the nurse the less likely she is to supplant the physician. The work as a whole is valuable, interesting and will be welcomed by all trained nurses and by those seeking entrance into this most exacting profession.

THE BOOKMAN, published by Dodd Mead & Co., is among the best literary magazines now published. The June issue is filled with interesting articles. Since the March number, a story of absorbing interest is continued monthly. It is written by John Wm. Lloyd, M. D., a story of a village in Kentucky called Stringtown, on a public road. The story takes the name of "Stringtown on the Pike.” From what has appeared of it, we judge that the doctor has made a "strike." When the reader has finished reading one issue, he is impatient to see the next, and wondering what strange thing is again to increase the interest of the story.

The American Monthly Review of Reviews for June is a wellillustrated number. The important news topics of the month are editorially treated in "The Progress of the World," the opening department. A character sketch of James J. Hill, a builder of the Northwest," is contributed by Mary Harriman Severance, who outlines the remarkable career of the president of the Great Northern Railroad. Dr. Albert Shaw, the editor, writes from full knowledge on "Paris and the Exposition of 1900." Mr. Jacob A. Riis, author of "How the Other Half Lives," forecasts the work of the New York Tenement-House Commission recently appointed by Governor Roosevelt. Mr. Cleveland Moffett writes on "Automobiles for the Average Man." Mr. Charles A. Conant describes the operation of the refunding law passed by Congress last March. There are also illustrated articles on summer camps for boys, the Passion Play at Oberammergau, and new fiction for summer reading.