Physician's Library.

A Text-Book on the Practice of Gynecology.

For Practitioners

and Students. By W. EASTERLY ASHTON, M.D., LL.D., Fellow of the American Gynecologic Society; Professor of Gynecology in the Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia. Octavo volume of 1,079 pages, containing 1,046 new and entirely original line drawings. Philadelphia and London: W B. Saunders & Company. Canadian Agents: J. A. Carveth & Co., Limited, 434 Yonge St., Toronto. 1905. Cloth, $6.50 net; Half Morocco, $7.50 net.

Dr. Ashton's Practice of Gynecology is a new departure in medical text-book making. The author takes up each procedure step by step, the student being led from one step to another just as in studying any non-medical subject. Nothing is assumed, Dr. Ashton in every instance not only telling what should be done, but also precisely how to do it. All the methods and details of technic described have been thoroughly tested by the author himself, so as to assure their value and accuracy. A very commendable feature is the departure from the old routine method of devoting a general chapter to physical examination. In place of this the author presents the examination of each organ separately before describing its diseases, thus greatly aiding the student in familiarizing himself with the technic. A distinctly original feature consists in the line drawings made especially for this work, under the author's personal supervision, from actual apparatus, living models, dissections on the cadaver, and from the operative technics of other authors. There are ten hundred and forty-six of these illustrations, showing the procedures and operations without obscuring their purpose by unnecessary anatomic surroundings. Definite and precise instructions are given regarding the preservation of specimens of morbid tissues and secretions, and their delivery in good condition to the pathologist. The fore part of the work, dealing with antiseptic technic, shows great care in its preparation, Dr. Ashton wisely describing only those methods which he employs in his own practice, in order that the reader may have a clear and definite conception of the subject. Very special attention has been given to the consideration of visceral injuries, and we know of no other work on gynecology or general surgery discussing this important subject with the same amount of detail. This is decidedly a work for the general practitioner as well as for the student; and a good one.

Saunders' Pocket Medical Formulary. By WILLIAM M. POWELL, M.D., author of "Essentials of Diseases of Children"; Member of Philadelphia Pathological Society. Containing 1,831 formulas from the best known authorities. With an Appendix containing Posological Table, Formulas and Doses for Hypodermic Medication, Poisons and their Antidotes, Diameters of the Female Pelvis and Fetal Head, Obstetrical Table, Diet-list, Materials and Drugs used in Antiseptic Surgery, Treatment of Asphyxia from Drowning, Surgical Remembrancer, Tables of Incompatibles, Eruptive Fevers, etc., etc. Seventh Edition,

Revised. In flexible morocco, with side index, wallet and flap. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Co. Canadian Agents: J. A. Carveth & Co., Limited, 434 Yonge St., Toronto. $1.75 net.

When a work has reached its seventh edition there can be no doubt of its practical usefulness. And it is not at all surprising to us that Saunders' Pocket Medical Formulary should have attained such popularity, for we know of no similar work containing so much useful, practical, and accurate information in so small a compass. In this new seventh edition there have been added over 460 new and valuable formulas, selected from the works and private practices of the best authorities. The editor has shown. rare discretion in the elimination of many obsolete formulas, inserting in their place newer and better ones, embodying a large number of approved new remedies. In its new edition this Formularly is thoroughly representative of the most recent therapeutic methods, and its convenient size and mechanical get-up make it the most desirable work of its kind on the market.

The Surgical Assistant. A Manual for Students, Practitioners Hospital Internes and Nurses. By WALTER M. BRICKNER B.S., M.D., Assistant Surgeon, Mt. Sinai Hospital, Out-Patient Department, etc. 360 pages. 360 pages. 123 original illustrations and 116 illustrations of surgical instruments. New York: The International Journal of Surgery Co. 1905. Price, $2.co net.

This splendid manual is one of the really important books of the year, in as much as it fills a place in medical literature that has hitherto been unfilled. It certainly meets a wide spread demand

in a highly acceptable manner, and it is sure to attain immediate and lasting popularity.

The book is not too large for the doctor's overcoat pocket, nor the nurse's satchel, yet it covers the entire subject. The first two chapters deal, respectfully, with the general conduct of the assistant and the hospital interne and contain much practical sense and sound advice for young men to take to heart. Chapter three treats of assistance in examinations and dressings, fracture reductions, the manipulation of plaster-of-Paris, etc. Chapter four gives in great detail an illustrated, systematic scheme for the preparation of an operating room. Chapter five describes the immediate preparation of the patient and of the assistant himself, in which the technique of asepsis is thoroughly impressed. Chapter six is a very practical article on the anesthetist. The two succeeding chapters take up the preservation and preparation of surgical accessories and the details of "instrument handing." They are brimful of "wrinkles" and useful hints. Chapter nine describes all the various manipulations concerned in assistance at the wound, from the proper manner of holding the hands and body to the method of managing an irrigator tip. A most valuable chapter is the tenth, concerning itself as it does with those important matters that may confront an assistant left to watch a patient just after operation. Vomiting urination, pain, the arrangement of the bed and other numerous details are succinctly dealt with, and a valuable table for differentiation between shock and concealed hemorrhage is incorporated. The management of these and all other emergencies that may arise is given in great detail.

The second part of the book (chapters eleven to twenty-five) deals with the most commonly performed operations, describing them step by step, from the assistant's standpoint. A regional classification is here adopted. With each operation is given a list of the instruments and accessories required, and the manner of preparing them. The complete technique of intravenous infusion is accurately described.

A useful appendix to the work consists in the preliminary preparation and routine after treatment of operative cases, the various methods of preparing suture material, iodoform gauze, etc., etc., and a formulary of surgical solutions and wound applications, etc. In a second appendix are printed illustrations of general surgical instruments, thus placed to be convenient for reference.

It is a book that no young practitioner should be without, as it will prove of the greatest value to him in his every day work. Likewise it should be in the hands of every nurse and hospital interne. Its use will not only assure greater efficiency in everything pertaining to surgical operations but will prevent all the embarrassing delays and annovances caused by inexperience or lack of knowledge.

Nothnagel's Practice.—Malaria, Influenza, and Dengue. By DR. J. MANNABERG, of Vienna, and DR. O. LEICHTENSTERN, of Cologne. Entire volume edited, with additions, by RONALD Ross, F.R.C.S., F. R.S., Professor of Tropical Medicine, University of Liverpool; J. W. W. STEPHENS, M.D., D.P.H., Walter Myers Lecturer in Tropical Medicine, University of Liverpool; and ALBERT S. GRUNBAUM, F.R.C.P., Professor of Experimental Medicine, University of Liverpool. Octavo volume of 769 pages, fully illustrated, including eight full-page plates. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Company. Canadian agents: J. A. Carveth & Company, Limited, 434 Yonge St., Toronto. 1905. Cloth, $5.00 net; Half Morocco, $6.00 net.

treats.

This new volume in Saunders' American edition of Nothnagel's Practice represents the latest word on the subjects of which it And more than that: It is the undisputed authority on these subjects. For this American edition Dr. Ross has made many additions to the article on malaria, so many discoveries having been made since the appearance of the original article. The articles on the Mosquito and its various relations to Malaria comes from the authoritative pen of Dr. J. W. W. Stephens, of Liverpool. The Influenza and Dengue Sections are equally well written. The untiring labor of the editors in preparing this work for the English speaking market is evidenced on almost every page by the lengthy and valuable editorial interpolations. This is the tenth volume in the series, and the eleventh one (that dealing with Diseases of the Kidneys and Spleen and with Hemorrhagic Diseases) is promised very soon. When the series is completed it will undoubtedly form the best practice of medicine in existence.

Atlas and Text-Book of Topographic and Applied Anatomy. By PROF. DR. O. SCHULTZE, of Würzburg. Edited, with additions by GEORGE D. STEWART, M.D., Professor of Anatomy and Clinical Surgery, University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York. Large quarto volume of 187 pages, containing 25 figures on 22 colored lithographic plates, and 89 textcuts, 60 in colors. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Co. Canadian Agents: J. A. Carveth & Co., Limited, 434 Yonge Street, Toronto. 1905. Cloth, $5.50 net.

In the preparation of this book Professor Schultze had in mind the need of a work that would combine the features of a text-book

with the educational advantages of an atlas. He has produced a work of great merit, and not alone the anatomist but more particularly the general practitioner will find it of constant value. Professor Schultze has presented his own methods for the study of anatomy-methods proved to be correct and practical by many years of clinical study. Throughout the work the value of the knowledge of topographic anatomy in bedside diagnosis is emphasized. The many colored lithographic plates and the numerous test cuts, sixty of which are in colors, are of exceptional excellence. Indeed, both for accurateness of detail and artistic beauty we have never seen their equal. The greater portion of the dissections from which these illustrations have been made are from the author's own preparations. Dr. George D. Stewart, in editing the work, has added many valuable notes.