Essentials of the Diseases of Children.-By William M. Powell., M. D. Third Edition. Thoroughly Revised by Alfred Hand, Jr., M.D., Dispensary Physician and Pathologist to the Children's Hospital, Philadelphia. Twelvemo; 259 pages. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Co. Price $1.00 net.

The revised edition has been enlarged and modified so as to be abreast with the times. The section on infectious diseases has been rewritten, and a new chapter on infant feeding introduced. Symptomatology and treatment are given special prominence.

Atlas and Epitome of Obstetric Diagnosis and Treatment.-By Dr. O. Schaeffer, of Heidelberg. From the Second Revised German Edition. Edited by J. Clifton Edgar, M. D., Professor of Obstetrics and Clinical Midwifery, Cornell University Medical School. With 122 Colored Figures on 56 Plates, 38 Other Illustrations, and 317 Pages of Text. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Co., 1901. Cloth, $3.00 net.

Obstetrics is of all the branches of medicine most readily imparted pictorially. The reviewer has before him the first atlas of Dr. Schaeffer, published in 1893. It was thought brilliant and unique at that time, but it is not to be compared with the present atlas. In addition to the large number of beautiful and accurate lithographic illustrations, a practical text abstract covering all essential points is given. Scientific data are printed in smaller type. The advances of the last few years are fully represented, and most of the colored plates are new. The book is particularly helpful as regards obstetric operations, but much of value concerning pregnancy, physiologic labor and the puerperium is included.

The Circulation in the Nervous System.-By Herman Gasser, M. D., Platteville, Wisconsin. Journal Publishing Co., 1901. Price,

$1.00.

This brochure contains ten papers on the author's new theory, read before medical societies and published in the New York Medical Times during the past three years. Students of psychophysiology will find this book both interesting and instructive.

Select Methods in Food Analysis.-By Henry Leffmann, A. M., M.D., Professor of Chemistry and Toxicology in the Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania; and William Beam, A.M. M.D., Formerly Chief Chemist of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. Twelvemo; 383 pages; with 53 Illustrations in the Text, 4 Full-Page Plates, and Many Tables. Price, $2.50. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1012 Walnut Street. 1901. This book comprises a practical summary of analytic methods now in vogue. The first part reviews the reader's knowledge of physical and chemical methods and the use of instruments and

apparatus. The major portion of the text is devoted to applied analysis, including general methods of testing for poisonous metals, colors and preservatives; and special methods for the identification of all sorts of food and beverage products, their adulterants and sophisticants. The authors have grouped very clearly and systematically an immense mass of invaluable data to the analytic chemist and advanced students.

Uterine Fibromata.-Their Pathology, Diagnosis and Treatment. By E. Stanmore Bishop, F. R.C.S., Eng., President Manchester Clinical Society. Octavo; 323 pages; with 49 Illustrations. Price, $3.50. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1012 Walnut Street. 1901.

The author of this comprehensive brochure states that the transition period of abdominal surgery has passed, especially in the treatment of uterine fibromata. He is firmly convinced of the advisability of hysterectomy in nearly all cases requiring any treatment, but admits the power of electricity skillfully used in controlling hemorrhages. The agent is, however, useless or harmful in fibrocystic and sarcomatous tumors and in those complicated with salpingitis or ovaritis. The author reviews the subject of uterine fibromata in all aspects and with impartial quotations from about every authority. The chapters on surgical technique are especially complete, including in detail the special method of most leading operators throughout the world.

Infant Feeding, Its Relation to Health and Disease.-By Louis Fischer, M.D., Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine. Philadelphia and Chicago: F. A. Davis Company.

1901.

Compact as this little volume is, it is essentially a most practical treatise on its subject. Very properly is this so, because a baby is the most practical thing in life and least of all problems one to be discussed on the lines of mere theory. The volume under review presents the ripe thought of a student, under the best masters and in himself an authority whose experience with infant humanity has been of the widest. Dr. Fischer was intimately associated with Baginsky in Berlin, and for ten years has been an instructor in pediatrics at the most important schools of graduate study in New York and for the same time has been in charge of the childrens' ward in several of the most prominent hospitals. The conclusions which he presents are, therefore, the detailing of actual practice which has stood the test of ripe experience and well grounded study. The scope of Dr. Fischer's work is satisfactorily indicated by its title. He begins with the first need of the new-born infant for food and the food which he normally receives at that time, namely the thin and watery colostrum and he shows the part this

early mammary fluid plays in the infant economy. From this he advances to the consideration of true breast milk, and thenceforward devolops the nutritive needs of the infant up to the period of dentition; the next step is to the time of weaning, and then the food with which the infant may be expected to enter upon the period of childhood. This arrangement of topics is most natural and cannot be other than satisfactory in such a practical hand-book for the practitioner. Before entering upon this line of study, however, the author prefaces his work with a very valuable presentation of the normal and abnormal conditions of the infant stomach, the various natural ferments, and the constituents of normal breast milk and of the various substitutes. Where all is so good it is a difficult task to pick out that which is best. Yet, despite this difficulty, there can be little doubt that all practitioners will welcome the stress which the author lays upon the importance of breast-feeding for the infant up to the natural period of weaning and certainly to the period of incipient dentition. In no uncertain tone the author makes it plain that breast-feeding is not only best for the infant, but for the mother as well. When conditions exist under which it is impracticable for the child to be suckled by its own mother, he advises first and foremost the employment of the wet-nurse. It is only after these possibilities have been exhausted that he permits the consideration of bottle-feeding. In connection therewith he discusses the various forms of artificial substitutes for breast milk and thus comes to the consideration of infant foods other than milk. It is a marked manifestation of the scrupulous care of the author that it would be difficult to name any milk substitute or infant food at all worthy of consideration which he has not discussed in the volume under review, pointed out its excellencies and indicated the untoward symptoms which may be expected to follow its employment. In conclusion, as at the outset, too mnch stress cannot be laid upon the fact that this is not a theoretical contribution to a subject which is essentially practical. It is intended to be used by practitioners who are in doubt as to any particular to supply the resolution of their doubt, to offer a consistent system of infant feeding. It is certain that before the publication of this volume there has been nothing of the sort in any language.--B. T. W.

Is Cheese Wholesome? The Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette answers this question both in the affirmative and in the negative. Freshly made cheese is both nutritious and digestible, but the trouble is that gourmands do not appreciate a cheese until it has undergone butyric acid fermentation and has in fact become putrid and fit for neither man nor beast.

SELECTIONS.

New Orleans Polyclinic.-Physicians will find the Polyclinic an excellent means for posting themselves upon modern progress in all branches of medicine and surgery. The specialties are fully taught, particularly laboratory work. The fourteenth annual session opens Nov. 12, 1900. For further information address Dr. Isadore Dyer, Secretary, New Orleans Polyclinic, New Orleans, La.

Definite Medication. In making medicated solutions, with powders, etc., for vaginal injections it is usually left with the patient to do the mixing. This is unscientific and permits of a possibility for a mistake. There is no mixing of solutions, no water to spill and soil the clothing when Micajah's Medicated Uterine Wafers are prescribed. A definite amount of medication, in a convenient form for administration and an assurance of results, are features which commend Micajah's Medicated Uterine Wafers as a remedy par excellence in the treatment of diseases of women. Insert one wafer into the vaginal canal up to the uterus every third night, proceeded by copious injections of plain hot water.

The Ideal Haemagogue and Emmenagogue.-To continue our request for the physician's consideration and investigation of our Ergoapiol -(Smith), we hold as essential, an explanation for the lauded efficacy of this preparation, viz: Our apiol is a product exclusively our own, containing 92% of the active principle of apium petroselinum and does have decided characteristic therapeutic properties and merit, whereas other apiols heretofore employed by the physician with negative results contain only 1%% to 2% of this principle, (the other portion being purely inert resinous matter) and consequently have proved ineffective representatives of the excellent and valuable therapeutic properties of apium for treating amenorrhea, dysmenorrhea, etc. This apiol we do not at any time supply in bulk, or in any form other than our Ergoapiol-(Smith).

The preparations of Pepsin, made by Robinson-Pettet Co., are endorsed by many prominent physicians. We recommend a careful perusal of the advertisement of this well-known manufacturing house. (See page 28.)

Dr. Smithwick, of La Grange, N. C., in January, 1901, number of the Maryland Medical Journal, says: "When, in disease, bed sores occur, we must use the best means for healing them and making the patient comfortable. In my experience I have tried a great many things, but have come to the conclusion, which is substantiated by clinical results, that I obtained the best results by thoroughly washing the parts with warm normal salt solution, bathing in peroxide of hydrogen, and dressing in pledgets of cotton or strips of gauze soaked in Ecthol. This dressing is repeated, once twice, or thrice daily, as the urgency of the case seems to demand."

"Gentlemen:-Perhaps we Englishmen are a little slower in praising medicinal preparations than our American cousins, but I must confess that your Neurosine, for its physiological action, is the best all-round nerve tonic I know of, and your Dioviburnia equally so as a uterine tonic."-C. Baillie Cahusac, M.D., 701 E. Eleventh Street, Kansas City, Mo.

Depleting congestions and inflamed tissues through exosmosis without injury to or irritation of the skin and affected surfaces, and thereby preserving the tissues, relieving swelling, redness, pressure on the nerve terminals, consequently pain, is a doctrine which had its origin and birth simultaneously and in connection with the origin of Antiphlogistine some nine years ago. The practical cliniciansthat is the successful men everywhere-have demonstrated to their own satisfaction that this theory is sound and that Antiphlogistine alone is capable of accomplishing these ends. Doctors not familiar. with the preparation ought to be. See advertisement is this issue.

Cystogen. This is the therapeutic name of hexamethylene. tetramine, a genito-urinary antiseptic which depends for its action. upon the liberation of free formaldehyde in the urine. It prevents intravesical decomposition and renders turbid, fetid irritating urine clear, inodorous and unirritating. It ameliorates the symptoms of gout and rheumatism and facilitates the excretion of uric acid. In gonorrhea cystogen serves to restrict the area of infection and prevent reinfection. The dose of the remedy is 5 grains, three to six times daily, largely diluted with water. In a paper recently read before the St. Louis Medical Society, Henry J. Sherck spoke of the benefits of antiseptic injections and irrigation in gonorrhea and also of methods for internal medication. He designated as a very happy combination 5 grains of cystogen and 10 minims of oil of sandal in capsules, one every four hours.