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the assistance of the surgeon should be invoked. The present edition may almost be regarded as a new book, to such an extent has it been rewritten. TWENTIETH CENTURY PRACTICE. An International Encyclopedia of Modern Medical Science by leading authorities of Europe and America. Edited by Thomas L. Stedman, M. D., New York City. Twenty Volumes. Volume IX., Diseases of the Digestive Organs. New York: William Wood & Company, 1897. Pp. 820.

Of the ten contributors to this volume, six are foreigners and four are Americans. Three of those across the Atlantic are among the most eminent medical men of the world; Carl Anton Ewald of Berlin, Johann Mikulicz of Breslau, and Mariano Semmola of Naples. The others are not so well known in this country, though their contributions entitle them to a high place in the estimation of the profession, so ably and thoroughly have they handled the subjects assigned them. They are Kendal Franks of Johannesburg, S. A. Republic, Carlo Gioffredi of Naples, and Werner Kümmel of Breslau.

The American contributors are Virgil P. Gibney and John B. Walker of New York, John B. Murphy of Chicago, and Alfred Stengel of Philadelphia. These gentlemen are too well known to the profession to need any introduction or encomium.

The classification of the subjects treated is as follows: Local Diseases of the Mouth; Diseases of the Intestines; Hernia; Diseases of the Spleen, Liver, Gall-Bladder, and Movable Kidney. Whatever might at first be thought of the appropriateness of discussing some of these subjects which are usually regarded as surgical, in a system of "Practice," the reader will, we are sure, not think it inappropriate after he has read these articles. They are among the best in the volume.

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