We aim in this department to keep our readers in touch with the medical literature of the month and will supplement the notices given below with a fuller review of such books as in the opinion of the editors are of special interest. Any book mentioned will be sent postpaid by the REPORTER on the receipt of the published price, which in all cases is net. ALCOHOLISM-A STUDY IN HEREDITY. By G. ARCHDALL REID, M. B., C. M., F. R. S. E., $2.50 net. Wm. Wood & Co., New York. CHILDBED NURSING. With Notes on Infant Feeding. By CHARLES JEWETT, A. M., M. D., Sc. D. Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Women in the Long Island College Hospital. Brooklyn, N. Y. New Fifth Edition. Revised and greatly enlarged. 12mo. 96 pages. Cloth, $0.80. E. B. Treat & Co., New York. CLINICAL HEMATOLOGY. ease. be satisfied. For the student such a book as this would be invaluable, as it will enable him to grasp the sphere of the action of the drug without having to wade through an immense quantity of verbiage. DISEASES OF THE EYE AND EAR. By J. H. Buffum, M. D., Professor of Ophthalmology and Otology, Chicago Homeopathic College; Opthalmic and Aural Surgeon, Chicago Homeopathic Hospital and Dispensary; Consulting Oculist, Chicago Baptist Hospital; Member of the American Institute of Homeopathy, Illinois Homeopathic Medical Society, etc., etc. With illustrations in black and chromo-lithograph. edition, revised and enlarged. Cloth, flexible leather, $1.75. Halsey Bros., Second A Practical Guide to the Examination of the Blood by Clinical Methods, with reference to the Diagnosis of Dis$1.50; By JOHN C. DACOSTA, JR., M. D., Assistant Demonstrator of Clinical Medicine in the Chicago. Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia; Hematologist to the German Hospital, etc. Containing eight full-page colored plates and 48 other illustrations. Octavo. 450 pages. Price, $5.00 net. P. Blakiston's Son & Co., Philadelphia. CHEMICAL PATHOLOGY IN ITS RELATION TO PRACTICAL MEDICINE. By C. A. HERTER, M. D., Professor of Pathological Chemistry in the University and Bellevue Medical College, New York, etc. In one 12 mo. volume of 454 pages. Cloth, $1.75 net. Lea Brothers & Co., Philadel phia and New York. CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS, BY MICROSCOPICAL AND CHEMICAL METHODS. By CHARLES E. SIMON, M. D., late Resident Physician Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md. New (4th) and revised edition. In one handsome octavo volume of 608 pages, with 139 engravings and 19 full-page plates in colors. Cloth, $3.75. Lea Bros. & Co., Philadelphia and New York. DICTIONARY OF PRACTICAL MATERIA MEDICA (A). By JOHN HENRY CLARKE, M. D. In two volumes. Vol I. Abies Canadensis, Hypericum. Royal 8 vo., pp. i-xvi, 1-951. Contrary to the rather unnecessarily sharp, sarcastic and merciless remarks of a late reviewer, the writer would express the opinion that in this dictionary Dr. Clark has embodied much that is of service to the practitioner. It is not intended to be a treatise such as is the Encyclopedia of Medicine by Prof. Allen, or "Guiding Symptoms," by Hering, in which all that is known or surmised concerning a remedy is recorded, but it is, as its title indicates, a dictionary in which can be recorded the essential points concerning a remedy in a form available, compact, concise, and yet complete. An extensive study of a case will require more than can be found here, but for the class of information for which one generally appeals to a dictionary, one can look in Clark's book and DISEASES OF THE HEART. By A. L. BLACKWOOD, M. D., Senior Professor of Physiology and Professor of Theory and Practice and Materia Medica in the Hahnemann Medical College of Chicago. Attending Physician to the Hahnemann Hospital, Chicago. Price, $2.00 net. Halsey Bros., Chicago. ELEMENTARY OPHTHALMIC OPTICS. InBy cluding Ophthalmoscopy and Retinoscopy. J. HERBERT PARSONS, B. S., B. Sc., F. R. C. S., GUIDE TO THE MICROSCOPIC EXAMINA- MANUAL OF OPHTHALMOSCOPY (A). By J. E. JENNINGS, M. D. (Univ. of Penna.) Formerly Clinical Assistant Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, London; Member of the American Medical Association, etc. With 95 illustrations and one colored plate. 12 mo. Price, $1.50 net. P. Blakiston's Son & Co., Philadelphia. ON THE CURE OF THE MORPHIA HABIT WITHOUT SUFFERING. With a Note on the Physiological Method of Relieving the Craving for Drink. By OSCAR JENNINGS, M. D., (Paris), M. R. C. S. (Eng.) Fellow of the Royal MedicoChirurgical Society. Second Edition. Revised and Enlarged. 12 mo. 223 pages. Muslin, $1.25 net. Wm. Wood & Co., New York. PEDIATRICS. The Hygienic and Medical Treatment of Diseases in Children. For students and practitioners. By THOMAS MORGAN ROTCH, M. D., Professor of Diseases in Children, Harvard University. Complete in one handsome octavo PRACTICE OF MEDICINE (THE). By A. C. sec Those who are familiar with the author's previous work on Materia Medica will not be disappointed in this new work on the Practice of Medicine. It is a highly creditable production and coming from the pen of so distinguished an authority upon homeopathic materia medica, it will take its place as a standard work upon the methods of homeopathic prac. tice. It is interesting to note the fact that while the author in his consideration of treatment lays due stress upon the exhibition of the indicated remedy, yet he as fully recognizes the mechanical and physiological methods of treatment of conditions which form an aetiological factor in the case. In his preface he defends himself in the following words: "While I yield to no one in my devotion to the principles of homeopathy, nevertheless, I firmly believe in the use, when indicated, of mechanical means and sometimes of palliative measures in the treatment of certain conditions." He would not abuse their use nor allow them to supplant the homeopathic remedies, but would use them as valuable adjuvants. His consideration of diseases of the digestive system is especially complete and forms a valuable and up-to-date presentation of this subject. In discussing the treatment of appendicitis he follows very closely the best authorities upon the subject. While he says that many acute cases of catarrhal appendicitis are cured without surgical interference, yet he admits the difficulty of deciding whether the case in hand will prove to be one of this type of the disease. He claims, however, that he has had many cases of acute appendicitis, and while he recognized the possibility of the necessity of the surgeon's interference, yet in no case did his cases require it. The section on diseases of the Nervous System is written by Professor N. B. Delamater, who has drawn upon his profound knowledge and extensive experience in the presentation of these difficult and often obscure diseases. There is only one criticism which can justly be made and we feel that it should not be omitted because of the ctherwise creditable features of the work. We refer especially to the author's mention of a preparation of deodorized tincture of opium which at one time was largely used by physicians, but which the manufacturers are now extensively advertising to the laity in the newspapers. We believe that physicians should discountenance all such proprietary remedies—and to mention such an one in a standard work is a rank heresy to the ethics of the profession. While this does not apply in as great a degree to the author's liberal reference to other proprietary articles, yet such unlimited mention savors of commercialism and is criticised on that account. It is not necessary for the sake of clearness to make specific mention, for instance, of a certain substance to use in peptonizing milk. Physicians nowadays are sufficiently intelligent to understand what “milk peptonized” means. The mechanical part of the work reflects great credit upon the publishers. It is printed on heavy coated paper and typographically will compare favorably with the best products of medical book publishers. PRACTICAL TREATISE ON MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS (A). With Especial Reference to the Clinical Application of Drugs. By JOHN V. SHOEMAKER, M. D., LL. D., Professor of Materia Medica, Pharmacology, Therapeutics and Clinical Medicine, and Clinical Professor of Diseases of the Skin in the MedicoChirurgical College of Philadelphia; Physician to the Medico-Chirurgical Hospital; Member of the American Medical Association, of the Pennsylvania and Minnesota State Medical Societies, the American Academy of Medicine, the British Medical Association; Fellow of the Medical Society of London, etc., etc. Fifth Edition. Thoroughly Revised. 1143 Pages. Extra Cloth, $5.00 net; Sheep, $5.75 net. F. A. Davis Co., Philadelphia. PRACTICE OF MEDICINE. Containing the Homeopathic Treatment of Diseases. By PIERRE JOUSSET, M. D., Physician to Saint Jacques Hospital of Paris; Professor of Clinical Medicine; President of the Homeopathic Society of Paris. Translated from the Third Revised and Profusely Enlarged Non-Published French Edition, with Valuable Additions and Annotations by John Arschagouni, M. D., New York City. New York: A. L. Chatterton & Co. 1901. An impression which will last concerning this book is that the translator's notes are found as valuable as the original text. They serve to Americanize the results of a foreign experience, and doing so, they bring it within the grasp of every practitioner. They are con servative, up-to-date and show that the translator has given thought and consideration to the subject matter. We would especially commend his courage in entering objections to the quite free manner in which the author advises surgical procedures in conditions which under the hand of the general practitioner have been cured many times by internal medication. For example, treatment of hypertrophy of the tonsils is in the majority of cases extirpation or cauterization." This statement is directly contradicted by the translator, who in a splendid full-page note gives rational and successful internal treatment. The immense practice and experience of Prof. Jousset has been drawn upon with decidedly succ- ssful results. The book is a classic and will take its place in the fore-front of the works on practice. The magnitu le of the work may be appreciated when we consider that over three hundred diseases are noted in the table of contents. These are carefully and anatomically classified according to the same methods which Professor Jousset adopted in his General Pathology. The introduction is taken up by a consideration of medical practice in general, with a very clear exposition of homeopathy and its practice. It will be difficult, however, for the reader to understand why the author should endorse such a method as "giving two or three drugs, indicated by the symptoms, alternating them every day, in such a way as to give one the first day, a second the next day, and a third drug the third day; then start again with the first, and continue as before." And while we are discussing this thought, we would deprecate the advice so frequently found of giving medicines in alternations. Why both belladonna and muriatic acid should be the remedies indicated in the "stage of acme" of typhoid fever, or why in the same disease bryonia should be given at night and muriatic acid during the day, or why in the same disease "in case stranonium or hyoscyamus is indicated instead of belladonna, then the mode of administering has to be the same as before; that is, phos. acid during the day, and stramonium or hyos. at night," or why it is necessary to give arsenic in pleurisy whenever "there is a tendency to lypothymia, which is present whenever great effusion extends" in alternation with cantharis, or why in pneumonia "when no favorable sign is noticed after having used bryonia for three days it should be replaced or alternated with another remedy"we do not know. But with all this there is a very practical consideration throughout the entire work of the homeopathic treatment of disease, and particularly will this be helpful because the author and translator, too, have been careful to make suggestions with regard to potencies in their drug prescribing. This is not intended to be arbitrary, but simply gives the result of their personal experience in prescribing. It is gratifying to note that in the majority of cases the drugs call for higher rather than lower potencies. Diet and adjuvants in disease treatment are given a prominent place. In the general make-up of the book the publishers have done themselves great credit, though we note the existence of blank pages. A cursory glance through the book shows that more than ten per cent of the page space is blank. Had the matter been set more closely in the forms the book might have been reduced in size from a volume of 1115 pages to one of perhaps less than 1000-a considerable advantage when one wants to use a book as a cn stant desk companion. The binding and typcgraphy are up to the well-known standard of the Chatterton Co. RATIONAL HYDROTHERAPY. A Manual of the Physiological and Therapeutic Effects of Hydriatic Procedures, and the Technique of Their Application in the Treatment of Disease. By J. H. KELLOGG, M. D., Member of the American Med:cal Association, and Various Foreign Societies, Superintendent of the Battle Creek, Michigan, Sanitarium. Author of "Art of Massage," etc. 1200 pages. 283 illustrations, 18 in colors. F. A. Davis Company, Publishers, Philadelphia, Pa. Perhaps one of the most remarkable books of the day is this book of Dr. Kellogg's, upon which no trouble or expense has been spared. It contains the most complete discussion of hydrotherapy ever published, and valuable material within its pages makes the work a desirable one, and one which should be in the library of every progressive physician. The most striking feature of the book is the full display of illustrations. There are very few books of 1200 pages which contain more than 300 illustrations, many of them full page and about twenty in colors. The illustrations in black and white include all the instruments and apparatus necessary for the practice of hydrotherapy, together with many cuts, such as, for instance, those illustrating the treatment of lupus and its results, "cutaneous areas reflexly associated with internal and external parts," (a very important and interesting study) outline of dilated heart before and after treatment, etc. The illustrations in colors include diagrams showing the effect upon the hyperaemic conditions of cold and hot applications, explaining clearly the philosophy of hydriatic treatment. Following this con sideration of the effects of the application of water, the general principles of hydriatics and its technique comes an equally important part of the work, viz: hydriatic prescription making. Nearly 200 pages are devoted to minute and careful instruction as to the treatment of various diseases, reference being made by number in each instance to the paragraph in the body of the work containing instructions as to technique. This, with a brief consideration of aseptic dietary and a "brief summary of experimental work done in the hydriatic laboratory of the Battle Creek Sanitarium," completes a book which it is a pleasure to review and a definite and decided advantage to possess. The F. A. Davis Co. have bound the book in good form. REGIONAL ANATOMY OF THE HEAD AND NECK. A Text-book for Students and Practitioners of Dentistry. By WILLIAM T. ECKLEY, M. D., Professor of Anatomy in the Chicago College of Physicians and Surgeons, etc., etc., and Corinne B. Eckley, M. D., Professor of Anatomy, Chicago School of Anatomy and Physiology. In one octavo volume of 240 pages with 36 engravings and 20 full page colored plates. Cloth, $2.50 net. Lea Brothers & Co., Philadelphia and New York. SCIENCE AND ART OF OBSTETRICS. By SHELDON LEAVITT, M. D. Professor of Gynecology in the Chicago Homeopathic Medical College; formerly Professor of Obstetrics Hahnemann Medical College, Chicago; Consulting Gynecologist to the Chicago Baptist Hospital, and the Joliet Silver Cross Hospital; Member of the American Institute of Homeopathy and of the Surgical and Gynecological Association of the A. I. H.; Author of "The Obstetric Forceps," etc., etc. New third edition. Revised and greatly enlarged with 55 new illustrations. Large octavo, 824 pp. Price in cloth, $5.00; leather, $6.00. Halsey Bros., Chicago. SYPHILIS. A Symposium. Contributions by Drs. Louis A. Duhring, G. Frank Lydston, L. Duncan Bulkley, Orville Horwitz, Thomas G. Morton, Edward L. Keyes, William S. Gotthiel, A. Robin, Eugene Fuller, Robert Holmes Greene, Norman B. Gwyn, E. B. Gleason, Follen Cabot, Jr., J. D. Thomas. D. J. McCarthy and Boardman Reed. 12mo. 125 pages. Cloth, $1.00 net. E. B. Treat & Co., New York. TEXT BOOK OF MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS (A). Characteristic, Analytical, and Comparative. By A. C. COWPERTHWAITE, M. D., Ph. D., LL. D., Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in the Chicago Homeopathic Medical College. Author of "A Text Book of Gynecology," "Insanity in its Medico-Legal Relations," etc. Seventh edition. Entirely rewritten and revised, with Clinical Index. pp. 834. Price, cloth, $5.00; sheep, $6.00. Halsey Bros. Chicago. TREATISE ON SURGERY BY AMERICAN AUTHORS (A). By ROSWELL PARK, M. D., Professor of Surgery and Clinical Surgery. University of Buffalo, Buffalo, N. Y. New (third) edition, revised and enlarged. In one magnificent royal octavo volume of 1408 pages, with 692 engravings and 64 full page plates in colors and monochrome. Cloth, $7.00 net; Leather, $8.00 net. Lea Brothers & Co. Philadelphia and New York. The fact that within less than three years three editions of this work have been given to the profession shows that it is of exceptional merit and is appreciated by practitioners and students. It is not often that a book on surgery can be recommended as a text-book for students and at the same time be adapted to a practitioner's use. If adapted to the former it is too concise, if to the latter it is liable to be too comprehensive. This work, however, fills the wants of both. The present edition is practically a year book of surgery, its authors giving all that is new and of acknowledged merit in their several departments. It would be a futile effort to mention in detail the additions made in the present revision. The writer. however, wishes to call attention to what seems to him the most meritorious part of the work as compared with other works on general surgery-the chapters devoted to Surgical Pathology, The Surgical Fevers and Infections, Auto-intoxication in Surgical Patients and Blood Examinations as applied to Surgery. It is a broad statement, yet it is nevertheless true-that a correct understanding of the phenomena of hyperaemia and inflammation is the groundwork upon which all surgical diagnosis and treatment rests. In the first edition of this work the editor adopted a new, and in many respects original, method in treating this important subject. To many surgeons who had not carefully followed the development of surgical pathology it did not seem right to consider hyperaemia as a phenomenon having an identity and termination of its own, and inflammation as a process having no etiological relationship with hyperaemia. The advances of succeeding years since the first edition have upheld this presentation of the subject, and in the present edition a fuller presentation of the latest research along these rapidly advancing lines is given. We doubt if there has ever been written a more interesting description of inflammation and its causes and effects than is given by Dr. Park. The present edition gives a valuable chapter on blood examination. The practical application of blood examination to surgery, both in diagnosis and prognosis, has assumed such importance of late that the surgeon makes it as much of a routine practice as urinary analysis. While all that is presented here can be found in works devoted to blood examination, yet the full presentation which the author gives will serve to fix the attention of the practitioner upon this important subject. The chapter on fractures and dislocations has been revised by the editor, because of the death of the original author-Dr. H. H. Mudd. Dr. Park has made some valuable additions to the text in the description of different forms of fracture, and more particularly in the details of treatment. Throughout his descriptions of treatment he recommends the use of anaesthesia as a means of accurate diagnosis and of securing good re-position of the fragments, a method easy to carry out, but too often neglected, to the subsequent discomfort of both patient and surgeon. The chapter on the surgery of the female reproductive organ is new, being ably contributed by Dr. Montgomery A. Crockett, of Buffalo. VARIOLA (including Vaccination). By Dr. H. IMMERMANN, of Basle. Varicella. By Dr. Th. Jurgensen, of Tubingen. Cholera Asiatica von and Cholera Nostras. By Dr. C. Liebermeister, of Tubingen. Erysipelas and Erysipeloid. By Dr. H. Lennartz, of Hamburg. Pertussis and Hay Fever. By Dr. G. Sticker, of Giessen. Edited, with additions, by Sir J. W. Moore, M. D., F. R. C. P. I., Professor of Practice, Royal College of Surgeons, Ireland. Handsome octavo, 682 pages, illustrated. Cloth, $5.00 net; Half Morocco, $6.00 net. W. B. Saunders & Co., Philadelphia. The articles included in this volume treat of a number of diseases second to none in importance, whether regarded from the standpoint of preventive medicine or as the cause of widespread sickness and death. Although the excellence of the German work and the detailed and comprehensive manner in which the respective authors had dealt with their several subjects left comparatively little to be added, the editor has not hesitated to amend the text whenever necessary, and has also embodied the results of his personal experience, gained during a varied practice extending over thirtythree years. VENEREAL DISEASES.-A Pocket Text-Book. For Students and Practitioners. By JAMES R. HAYDEN, M. D., Chief of Clinic and Instructor in Venereal and Genito-Urinary Diseases in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, etc. New (3d) Edition, thoroughly revised. In one handsome 12 mo. volume of 304 pages with 66 engravings. Cloth, $1.75 net. Flexible leather, $2.25 net. Lea Brothers & Co., Philadelphia and New York. |