properties and eradicates the disease because it antagonizes the ever-present element of systemic depression.

The unique therapeutic value of Gray's Glycerine Tonic Compound can be best proven by a trial in those cases of general debility that have resisted all other tonic and reconstructive medication.

A REMINDER.

Two girls were going down the street when they passed

a man wearing a green vest and a beaver hat.

Oh!" said the one, "just see what that man is sporting."

"Yes," said the other, "that reminds me; I've got to buy some quinine."

"How does that remind you?" "Oh, just the bad taste."

-November Lippincott's.

"PARALDEHYD" possesses many of the good without the evil qualities of chloral. Used in insomnia resulting from various causes. The objectionable taste of the chemical is, to a great extent, disguised in Robinson's Elixir Paraldehyd (see page 17), which is an elegant preparation.

Reviews and Book Notices.

INTERNATIONAL CLINICS, A Quarterly of Illustrated Clinical Lectures and Especially Prepared Original Articles on Subjects Pertaining to the Various Departments of Medical and Surgical Science. By leading members of the medical profession throughout the world. Edited by Cloth, 8vo. Vol.

A. O. J. KELLY, A. M., M. D., of Philadelphia, Pa. III., sixteenth series. J. B. Lippincott Company, Publishers, Philadelphia, Pa., 1906. Price, $2.00 net.

Volume III. "International Clinics" is an especially valuable and interesting one. The four articles on treatment, eight on medicine, eight on surgery, three on gynecology and obstetrics, and one each on rhinology, otology, and pathology are of especial value and interest. One beautiful colored plate, eighteen other plates, and a number of special figures serve to elucidate the splendid articles.

Among the articles on surgery may be mentioned as of unusual interest that of E. H. Bradford, M. D., on "The Hyperemia Treatment of Swollen Joints," "The Surgical Complications of

Pneumonia," by T. Turner Thomas, M. D.; "The Radical Cure. of Inguinal Hernia," by A. N. McGregor, M. D., F. F. P. S. G., and "Inguinal Hernia in the Female," by E. Scott Carmichael, M. D., F. R. C. S. (Edin.), are also most excellent.

AN INTRODUCTION TO PHYSIOLOGY. By WM. TOWNSEND PORTER, M. D., Associate Professor of Physiology in the Harvard Medical School. Cloth, 8vo, pp. 387. J. B. Lippincott Co., Publishers, Philadelphia and London, 1906.

The "new method" of teaching physiology that seems to be the order of the day at Harvard is rather by observing the actual workings of nature rather than a dependence upon didactic teaching. This little volume is a collection of fundamental and accessory experiments in several fields, presented in a condensed form for use by students of medicine. In so far as it goes, it is "A Laboratory Text-book of Physiology." In his preface, the author says, "The old method insensibly teaches men to rest upon authority, but the new directs them to nature."

A TEXT-BOOK OF HISTOLOGY. By FREDERICK R. BAILEY, A. M., M. D., Adjunct Professor of Normal Histology, College of Physicians and Surgeons Medical Department Columbia University, New York. Second and revised edition. Cloth, 8vo, pp. 497. Profusely illustrated. Price, $3.00 net. Wm. Wood & Co., Publishers, 1906.

We had occasion to highly commend the first edition of this excellent work, and find some material improvements in this late edition. The aim of the author has been to give the student of medicine a text-book on histology for use in connection with practical laboratory instruction, and especially to furnish the instructor in this important branch of medical learning a satisfactory manual for class room teaching. This he has most satisfactorily accomplished, by making the text as concise as possible consistent with clearness.

The chapter on general technique furnishes the student with the more essential laboratory methods; and the special technic given in connection with the various tissues and organs is such as can be conveniently used for the preparation of class sections.

The many and valuable illustrations add no little to the usefulness of the work.

STUDIES IN THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SEX.- Erotic Symbolism, the Mechanism of Detumescence, the Psychic State of Pregnancy. BY HAVELOCK ELLIS. 63% x 8% inches. Pages x-285. Extra Cloth, $2.00 net. Sold only by Subscription to Physicians, Lawyers, and Scientists. F. A. Davis Company, Publishers, 1914-16 Cherry St., Philadelphia.

This is the fifth volume of "Studies in the Psychology of Sex," and in it Dr. Ellis has very fully considered: 1. Erotic Symbolism; 2. The Mechanism of Detumescence; and 3. The Psychic State in Pregnancy. Each of the volumes is sold separately, each being complete in itself.

In this volume the terminal phenomena of the sexual process are discussed, before an attempt is finally made, in the concluding volume, yet to appear, to consider the bearings of the psychology of sex on that part of the morals which may be called "social hygiene." Quite a number of illustrative cases are cited, which in themselves are more than interesting and instructive.

THE MEDICAL STUDENT'S MANUAL OF CHEMISTRY. By R. A. WITTHAUS, A. M., M. D., Professor of Chemistry, Physics, and Toxicology in Cornell University. Cloth, 8vo, pp. 820. Sixth edition, illustrated. Price, $4.00, net. Wm. Wood & Co., Publishers, 1906.

This is one of the standard and authoritative text-books for medical students, and has now reached its sixth edition. The author in his first edition apologized for adding "another to the long list of chemical text-books," which, however, has been demonstrated to have been unnecessary, as indicated by the popularity of the work.

In this edition the section on chemical physics and general chemistry has been entirely rewritten and rearranged; the section on inorganic chemistry is but little if at all changed from the former edition; and the section on organic chemistry has been rearranged in the light of additional information upon the relationship of substances; while that on physiological chemistry has been almost entirely rewritten and materially enlarged.

The author has kept his valuable work fully up with the advances and progress of the day, and his efforts have met with that appreciation they so richly merit.

RHYTHMOTHERAPY, or a Discussion of the Physiologic Basis and Therapeutic Potency of Mechano-Vital Vibration; to which is added a Dictionary of Diseases, with detailed suggestions as to the technic of vibratory therapeutics, with illustrative plates. By SAMUEL S. WALLIAN, A. M., M. D., Chicago. Press, 1906.

Price, $1.50, net; postage, 10 cents.

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The volume before us was evidently written by a practical man for practical men. Its author has something to say and says it with little regard for either apologetic preludes or prevailing conventionalities. He presents the physiologic arguments that have a bearing on his subject, for which he has coined a very appropriate term — Rhythmotherapy — in a vigorous and logical manner. We shall be surprised if the book does not have a wide sale even among practitioners who have not yet investigated, and therefore do not use vibration in their practice. The illustrations are unusually fine for works of this kind.

KIEPE'S MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS.-A Manual for Students and Physicians Attending Post-Graduate Courses. By EDWARD J. Kiepe, Professor of Materia Medica in the Department of Pharmacy, and Adjunct-Professor of Materia Medica and Pharmacology in the Medical Department, University of Buffalo. In one 12mo volume of 265 pages. Cloth, $1.00 net. Lea Brothers & Co., Publishers, Philadelphia and New York, 1906.

The Medical Epitome Series when complete will consist of twenty-three volumes. This is the twentieth, leaving but three more to complete the set. It is easy for students, and practitioners as well, to post themselves to date for examinations or practical purposes, or attending post-graduate courses, by reading these authoritative little books. They are written by professors or teachers in colleges of high standing, and the subjects are treated in at manner as clear, thorough, and interesting as the necessary limits. of space will permit.

Selections.

PNEUMONIA.-Lockbridge (Cent. States Monitor) in speaking of the diversity of opinion as to the treatment of pneumonia in the present age says it was not so with our forefathers. Then (50 years ago) it was believed that we had an inflammation to deal with and an antiphologistic treatment was instituted. The results were as good, if not better, than ours. Then bleeding, wet cups, antimony, veratrium, etc., were the remedies used. A resume of his ideas of treatment are given as follows: Venesection, if admissible; if not, aconite, spts. niter, syr. doveri, and spts. menderiri, with mustard to extreme rubefaction, muriate ammonia and heroin if cough is viscid and painful; quinine and strichnia if indicated by failing powers; emunctories especially skin and kidneys kept stimulated.

The only excuse I have to make for offering this medley is that I wish to furnish my mite toward establishing the truth of the following three propositions:

1. Pneumonia is not an opprobrium medici, but it can be controlled and arrested by a judicious plan of treatment, and even throttled if combated on the threshold.

2. We should have well in mind the date of onset, the course, the extent and the stage of the disease by a constant and careful interpretation of the physical signs.

3. Above all we should bear in mind that it is the destruction of the lung with the general wreck and ruin that are killing our patient; and not starvation for a few days and a reasonably bold treatment.

NEPHROLITHIASIS.A. H. Cordier, Kansas City (Journal A. M. A., September 22), reviews the subject of kidney stones, their causation, symptoms, treatment, etc. His conclusions are that nephrolithiasis is more prevalent than is generally supposed and that there seems to be some special cause for its more frequent occurrence in the right kidney. The stone is eighty per cent. of his cases having been in that organ. A stone once formed