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more important subjects are especially well treated. pages are devoted to the all-important subject of "Methods of Gynecological Examination," and a like number to uterine displacements. The American editor and translators have done their tasks well, the language is faultless, and the mechanical execution is good, while the explanatory notes and remarks of the editor are of great value. Numerous and excellent illustra

tions are inserted throughout the book.

ANOMALIES AND CURIOSITIES OF MEDICINE. Being an Encyclopedia Collection of Rare and Extraordinary Cases, and of the Most Striking Instances of Abnormality in all Branches of Medicine and Surgery, Derived from an Exhaustive Research of Medical Literature from its Origin to the Present Day. Abstracted, Classified, Annotated and Indexed. By Geo. M. Gould, A. M., M. D., and Walter L. Pyle, A. M., M. D. Fully Illustrated. Published by W. B. Saunders, Philadelphia. 1897. 968 pages. Price by subscription only, cloth, $6. Half Morrocco, $7.

The names of Gould and Pyle are a sufficient guarantee that this work is everything that its title page would indicate. All the museums of the world do not contain as many quaint curiosities. To say that it is the physicians' wonderland is to put it mildly. Of course the distinguished authors have not written for the sake of creating a sensation; on the contrary, every statement made bears evidence of care, and strict intention of veracity. Cases are detailed of women who have menstruated from the breasts, from cicatrices on the hands, from the eyes, and from cicatrices on the lower extremities. Men have menstruated from the penis and urethra, and other situations, and have suffered from amenorrhoea.

Unique cases of accidental conception, and superfotation, extrauterine pregnancies, gestations phenomenally long and short, and simulated pregnancies, are described.

There are strange cases of maternal and of paternal impressions and telegony. All kinds of human monsters, headless, armless, legless, as well as those who have had more than the usual complement of these useful organs, are described and illustrated.

Numerous cases of such anatomical curiosities as dermoid cysts, pseudo-hermaphrodism and many others of equal scientific interest are treated of.

In conclusion it suffices to state that no adequate description

of the contents of this unique work can be given in the brief space alloted to this review. "Anomalies and Curiosities" by Gould and Pyle will become a classic.

J.

DISEASES OF THE STOMACH. Their Special Pathology, Diagnosis and Treatment, with Sections on Anatomy, Physiology, Analysis of Stomach Contents, Dietics, Surgery of the Stomach, etc. In Three Parts. By Jno. C. Hemmeter. M. B., M. D., Ph. D., Clinical Professor of Medicine at the Baltimore Medical College; Consultant to the Maryland General Hospital, etc. With many Original Illustrations, many of which are in Colors. 788 pages. Price, cloth, $6. Published by P. Blackiston, Son & Co., Philadelphia. 1897.

This is one of those excellent works, which, being devoted to a single subject and written by an able author, leaves little to be desired.

The subject is the most important that presents itself to the general practioner, and is an indisputable field of study to every specialist. It has been said that "the blood is the life," but we must invariably, in practice, go further, and fully realize that good blood is only to be produced by good digestion and assimilation of food, and that bad digestion or assimilation is a bad disease, a morbid entity, in most cases.

The scientific treatment of diseases of the stomach is one of the rarest occurrences in the practice. When the organs of digestion fail to properly perform their task on account of a diseased condition, we usually devote our entire energies to finding some product of the slaughter pen or foreign weed or bark that will do their work for them, instead of making an accurate diagnosis of the diseased condition, and applying scientific treatment that will cure it, thus enabling these organs to do their own work. It takes some trouble and pains to properly examine and treat, by modern methods, diseases of the stomach; but there is nothing in the whole realm of medicine that is more satisfactory in the end.

The particular work which is the occasion of these general remarks is a valuable contribution. There is considerable original work embraced in its pages, and sufficient space has been given to thoroughly present every phase of the subject. A valuable addition to any library.

J.

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Hints in the Treatment of Subinvolution.-Among the conditions concerned in the causation of uterine diseases, subinvolution is one of the most frequent and important. The reason for this is obvious, if after childbirth or miscarriage, the uterus does not undergo completely the normal retrograde process, if it remains enlarged, engorged with a hypertrophied membrane, inflammatory changes are readily developed, and endometritis, displacements and serious pelvic diseases may result. One of the chief obstacles to efficient local medication. has been the lack of a topical remedy which could be safely en