BOOKS.

The Clinical Examination of Urine, with an Atlas of Urinary Deposits.-Including 41 Original Plates, Mostly Colored.-By Lindley Scott, M.A., M.D. Price, $5.00. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1012 Walnut Street.

1900.

Excepting Peyer's atlas, we have seen no work of the kind which can be compared with this in the realistic beauty and accuracy of its full-page plates. The whole wide field of microscopic urine analysis is ably covered, both pictorially and in the full notes of descriptive context. The chemistry of the urine and leading characters of the urine in disease are epitomized in a practical manner in the first part of the book. All our readers who are interested in uranalysis will be gratified and profited by this fine work.

Lea's Series of Pocket Text-Books-Chemistry and Physics.-A Manual for Students and l'ractitioners. By Walton Martin, Ph. B., M.D.,. and William H. Rockwell, Jr. M.D., Assistant Demonstrators of Anatomy, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York. Series Edited by Bern B. Gallaudet, M.D. Illustrated with 137 Engravings. Lea Brothers & Co., Philadelphia and New York.

The text is about evenly divided between physics and chemistry. The outline of the former subject is quite comprehensive and modern. The division on chemistry is marked by considerable Originality in the presentation of facts and principles. The section on organic chemistry is to be commended for its abundance of graphic formulas, but is on the whole rather too brief, considering. the importance of the topics under this heading.

The Treatment of Fractures.-By Charles Locke Scudder, M. D., Surgeon to the Massachusetts General Hospital, Out-Patient Department; Assistant in Clinical and Operative Surgery in the Harvard Medical School. Assisted by Frederic J. Cotton, M.D. Octavo; 533 pages. With 585 Illustrations. Price, $4.50 net. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders, 925 Walnut St. 1900. Surgeons will find this work as useful and practical as it is elegant from the typographic viewpoint. The author's descriptions are concise and perspicuous and his directions for treatment are always clear and discriminating. The publisher, as usual, has been very liberal in the pictorial aid, so requisite in a book of this kind. The chapter on the employment of plaster-of-paris is particularly suggestive. The contribution on the Roentgen ray and its relation to fractures, by Dr. E. A. Codman, is the best summary of the subject in any surgical work. Surgeons who wish to be up with the times will add Scudder's "Treatment of Fractures" to their libraries.

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. DeSchweinitz, Edward Martin and Barton C. Hirst. New (8th) 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.

Professor Hare's manual has proved exceptionally popular, eight large editions having been demanded within nine years. The reason of its popularity lies in the highly practical and thoroughly modern nature of its contents, first part of the text treats of

classification, modes of adminis rugs, dosage, idiosyncrasy,

etc. The second and major part is devoted to drugs-their composition, action, therapy and best methods of administration. The physiologic effects of the more important medicines are typified to the eye by simple figures. Part III.

it does with foods for the sick and ery important, dealing as

remedial measures other than drugs. The fourth part includes 250 pages of concise and valuable information on the clinical application of remedies to special diseases. The alphabetic arrangement is followed generally. Full dose tables and a complete double index, of drugs and remedial measures, and of diseases and remedies, are appended. The colored plates are a striking innovation in a work of this kind..

Progressive Medicine.-A Quarterly Digest of Advances, Discoveries.

and Improvements in the Medical and Surgical Sciences. Edited by Hobart Amory Hare, M.D., Assisted by Charles Adams Holder, M.D. Volume II. June, 1900. Lea Brothers & Co., Philadelphia and New York.

In the present volume of this timely and admirable digest we find the same judicious sifting of facts and theories as has characterized former numbers. Under "Surgery of the Abdomen, Including Hernia," Dr. William B. Coley has much to record on recent advances in stomach surgery, appendicitis, plastic operations on the colon and differential diagnosis of abdominal tumors. The section on gynecology by John G. Clark contains many useful and interesting data, the most striking perhaps being the observations on the use and abuse of normal salt solution and uterine hemorrhage in cases of myoma uteri. Alfred Stengel contributes a scientific review of the year's progress in hemic and constitutional diseases. The most helpful part to the general practitioner of the section on ophthalmology, by Edward Jackson, is the differentiation of conjunctival diseases according to bacteriologic relations-a distinct. advance in this branch of medical science. The book is illustrated with eighty-one figures in the text.

SELECTIONS.

Edw. L. H. Barry, Jr., M.D., Jerseyville, Ill., says: "I have used Aletris Cordial with excellent results in the following: Miss R., 19 years of age, brunette, well-developed, but troubled with dysmenorrhea, called at my office, and after explaining her affliction said: 'Doctor, if there is any thing you can prescribe to relieve my suffering do so, for life is a burden to me now.' I thought of Aletris Cordial at once, and gave her a six-ounce bottle, directing her to take a teaspoonful three times a day, commencing four or five days before the regular period. Several weeks afterward she returned. with the empty bottle, remarking: 'I've come back for more of that medicine, for it's the only thing I ever had to give me relief.' I can cheerfully recommend Aletris Cordial to the profession."

Sulphur as a Preventive of Mosquito Bites.-One of our readers informs us that, having seen a statement in some English medical journal to the effect that sulphur, taken internally, would protect a person against flea bites, it occured to him to try it as a preventive of mosquito bites. Accordingly, he began taking effervescing tablets of tartarlithine and sulphur, four daily. He provided himself with several lively mosquitoes and, having put them into a widemouthed bottle, inverted the bottle and pressed its mouth upon his bare arm. The mosquitoes settled on his skin, but showed no inclination to bite him. If this gentleman's experience should be borne out by further trials, it might be well for persons who are particularly sensitive to mosquito bites to take a course of sulphur during the mosquito season, especially in view of the growing opinion that the mosquito is the common vehicle of the Plasmodium malariae.-New York Medical Journal, May.

Summer Months.-Dioviburnia is the remedy par-excellence in cholera morbus, dysentery and other bowel troubles prevalent during the summer months. Free from all narcotics or deleterious drugs. As an uterine tonic and anti-spasmodic, Dioviburnia is unexcelled. In the treatment of dysmenorrhea it has no equal. Dose: Dessertspoonful in hot water every two or three hours.

Substitution-Cause and Effect.-An unsuccessful preparation or one which has not gained popularity with the physician is never substituetd. It is only those articles which have through their

merit won the esteem and confidence of the medical profession and have demonstrated their therapeutic value which suffer from this evil. Take, for instance, Micajah's Medicated Uterine Wafers, which have stood the test of time and have proven their worth to the doctor as a remedy of exceptional value in the treatment of diseases of women. This preparation was the first local application presented to the profession in the form of a wafer and should be given the credit for this original and novel form. Solely through merit it has become immensely popular, and, as a consequence, it is most extensively substituted. Therefore, we wish to call our reader's attention to the necessity of carefully specifying "Micajah's Medicated Uterine Wafers" on their prescriptions and insisting upon the same being dispensed, and to the danger of a substitute being foisted upon their patients. Do not be led astray by similar sounding names. To insure results and protect your patient, care should be taken to prescribe the original preparation.

Uric Acid and Headaches.-A physician who has been experimenting to discover, if possible, a relation between headaches and the retention of uric acid, found experimentally that he could produce a headache himself by adopting a diet of meat and cheesefoods which are highly nitrogenous and which, in their burning up, produce a great deal of uric acid. He found in himself an excessive excretion of uric acid during a headache, which perhaps means that a headache is a sign of nature's effort to relieve the system of a poison that would do worse than produce headaches were it permitted to remain. Such a headachy condition is comparable to the fevers which the human system often establishes for the purpose of ridding itself of disturbing impurities, and can best be overcome by the timely administration of Laxative Antikamnia and Quinine Tablets.

Nutrition in Severe Gastro-Intestinal Diseases.-Dr. J. E. Thatcher (Medical Century) states that in the care of patients suffering with malarial fevers, and especially children, there comes a time when the question of what food should be given becomes one of the gravest importance. In a case of this kind in a baby, 18 months old, in which extreme exhaustion existed after the subsidence of the fever, it was found very difficult to nourish the child, all food being refused or vomited. The case seemed almost hopeless, as the patient was apparently starving to death. A trial, however, was made of lacto-somatose given in a mixture of equal parts of oatmeal water and cow's milk, which was well tolerated without nausea or vomiting. Improvement set in from the moment of taking the

first dose of lacto-somatose. The preparation relieved the gastric disturbances, stimulated the digestive organs, and created a natural appetite and the power to digest other food. Under its continued use perfect recovery ensued.

Acne Due to General Waste.-"Mrs. B., a pale blonde of 26, came to see me for a cachectic acne with which she had suffered for several years. Her nourishment appeared below par and she steadily and slowly decreased in weight, complaining of lassitude and a general feeling of being unable to get about as she should. She was given the regular treatment for acne which I am in the custom of using, but it did not seem to produce the desired effect. Deeming that an improvement in her nutrition and assimilation would exercise a beneficial effect upon her cutaneous trouble, I ordered the following: Cord. ol. morrhuae comp. (Hagee), oz.xvi. Sig. Tablespoonful after each meal and at night. In one week she reported a net gain of four pounds and the eruption was in better condition, so much that the effect of the cordial was patent. From inquiry, I elicited the fact that the appetite had increased, assimilation was better and a general sense of comfort had replaced the bad feeling which had formerly prevailed. At the present date, three months after the inception of the treatment, my patient weighs twenty-six pounds more and is rid of her acne. I have used Hagee's Cordial with uniform good results, and it is without doubt one of the best reconstructives now offered to the profession.”—A. H. OhmannDumesnil, A. M., M. D., St. Louis, Mo.

Elixir Six Bromides (W.G.'s)-Dr. Deering J. Roberts, Editor of the Southern Practitioner, Nashville, Tennessee, writes: "From a recent and thorough trial of this preparation we find that it is justly entitled to the claim made for it, 'to rank as one of the most valuable therapeutic agents in quieting non-inflammatory excitement of the reflex centres of the cord, of the peripheral afferent nerves, of the genital function and of the cerebrum.' In one case in which it was used-neurasthenia-with nervous irritation following parturition, in which everything else failed, its result was most happy. There was no depression of an already weakened circulation, due to a severe post-partum hemorrhage, but, on the other hand, it was greatly improved. We have one case of epilepsy, in which it is doing more good than any previous remedy yet used. In other cases its results are good in quieting nervous irritability."