Executive Committee-W. K. Harrison; Mrs. H. K. Whitford, Elgin, Ill.; N. H. Paaren, Chicago, Ill. Board of Censors-H. S. Tucker, Ottilie Ricklefs, Carl Giegerich, Chicago, Ill. BOOK NOTICES. THE CHEMISTRY OF MEDICINE, PRACTICAL. A Text and Reference Book for the use of students, physicians and pharmacists, embodying the principles of chemical philosophy and their application to those chemicals that are used in medicine and in pharmacy, including all those that are officinal in the Pharmacopoeia of the United States, with fifty original cuts. By J. U. LLOYD, Professor of Chemistry in the Eclectic Medical Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio, etc., etc. Cincinnati : Published by the author, 1881. Price, leather, $3.25; cloth, $2.75. For sale by the publisher and also by W. H. Davis, M. D., Chicago, Ill. Followers of the eclectic practice of medicine may view with pride this production of one of their number. Having subjected the work to a prolonged and critical examination, we have no hesitancy in saying that for the wants of the student and physician it is unsurpassed. In a work of a little more than 400 pages, all the organic and inorganic chemicals employed in medicine are practically investigated, and the processes of manufacture described. The principal impurities or adulterations are pointed out with the proper tests for their detection. Poisons are specified with appropriate treatment and antidotes. Concise direction for the clinical examination of the urine, complete the work. PHYSICIANS' AND SURGEONS' OFFICE RECORD. By FLAVEL B. TIFFINY, M. D. Comparatively, few physicians keep an accurate record of even the more important cases of their practice. All are ready to acknowledge the advantage of keeping a record, and the common excuse is "want of time." Much of value to the profession at large is thus lost, and the physician himself is deprived in many instances of the means of arriving at a correct diagnosis and consequent appropriate treatment. Various case records have been devised from time to time, with a view of abridging the time and labor necessary to an accurate record. By far the most complete and convenient of these is the work 623 of Dr. Tiffany. A large and handsome book, well illustrated, is so arranged and systematized that a stroke of the pen here and there gives all the details of the family history of the patient, his own history and present condition, including a register of the morning and evening pulse rate, temperature and respirations. The printed questions are such as will bring to light and record all the important matters connected with examination, diagnosis and treatment. One page is sufficient to keep the record of a patient for ninety days. The book contains over 500 pages, and is sold by subscription only at $7. Orders addressed to W. E. Scott, M. D., 15 West Ninth street, Kansas City, Mo., will receive prompt attention. A companion to the office record is in preparation, which we shall notice as soon as we have examined. We most earnestly recommend the Office Record to our readers. A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON THE MEDICAL AND SURGICAL USES New York: 1881. Beard and Rockwell's work has been so long the acknowledged standard authority concerning the therapeutical application of electricity, that little remains to the reviewer but to notice Porthe changes or additions pertaining to the new edition. tions of the work have been condensed, and others omitted, so that the work remains of about the original size, notwithstanding some important and extensive additions have been made. Two new chapters on the sequelae of acute diseases, and on exophthalmic goiter have been inserted, and interesting and suggestive clinical additions have been made to the revised chapter on diseases of women. These, together with many other changes and brief additions throughout the work, have materially enhanced its practical value. Electricity as a therapeutic agent is deservedly attracting more and more attention in the medical world, and is being lifted out of the hands of empirics and charlatans. No physician can afford to be ignorant of its practical application, and the work under consideration is without doubt the best in the English language to impart the needed information. AN INDEX OF COMPARATIVE THERAPEUTICS. By SAMUEL 0. L. POTTER, M. D., Chicago: Duncan Bros. 280 pages. This little work will prove a most valuable acquisition to all the busy workers in the profession who desire to acquaint themselves with the therapeutics of the different schools of medicine. Arranged in parallel columns we have the most advanced allopathic and homoeopathic modes of treatment for all the common diseases. Where the same drug is used in common by the two schools, that fact is indicated by a difference in type. This community of drug choice occurs more frequently than is generally admitted. On this account alone the book possesses considerable speculative interest. Aside from this, the work has a practical value to every unprejudiced seeker of truth. Dr. Potter has expended a great amount of labor and painstaking, and his work deserves to be popular. DRAINAGE FOR HEALTH, OR EASY LESSONS IN SANITARY SCIENCE. By JOSEPH WILSON, M. D., Medical Director United States Navy. Philadelphia: Presly Blakiston, 1012 Walnut street. 1881. For sale by Jansen, McClurg & Co. Price, $1. This attractive and interesting little book will be found useful to all who take an interest in sanitary matters, and may be read with profit by both physicians and the laity. The book is well illustrated. TEETHING AND CROUP. By W. V. DRURY, M. D. and additions, by T. C. DUNCAN, M. D. Chicago: 58 pages. Enriched with notes Duncan Bros. 1881. Dr. Drury's papers, collected in book form, have had a very extended circulation in Great Britain, and with Dr. Duncan's additions, will be deservedly popular in this country. BRAITHWAITE'S RETROSPECT OF PRACTICAL MEDICINE AND SURGERY. Part LXXXII. January, 1881. New York: W. A. Townsend, Publisher. Price, $1.50. For sale by Western News Co. and Jansen, McClurg & Co., Chicago, Ill. WALSH'S RETROSPECT. A quarterly compendium of American medicine and surgery. Edited and published by RALPH WALSH, M. D. Washing ton, D. C.: $2.50 a year, single number, 75 cents. TRANSACTIONS OF THE AMERICAN OPHTHALMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. Sixteenth annual meeting, Newport, 1880. New York: Published by the Society. Dr. Richard H. Derby, Secretary, 12 W. 35th street, N. Y. |