thoroughly on the needs of the student-the difficulties to be met, and the best way to acquire a solid knowledge of this most important fundamental branch of medicine. This little volume represents a compact, compendious manual. The amount of well-arranged information it contains is amazing, and its value to the medical student, especially when used in connection with a larger reference book such as Szymonowicz's sterling work, cannot well be overestimated. The author has not only given clearly and concisely the essentials of his subject proper, but he has also included references to embryology that will greatly aid in a correct understanding of histology and a better appreciation of pathology.

WHITMAN'S ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY. New (2d) edition. A Treatise on Orthopedic Surgery. By ROYAL WHITMAN, M. D., Instructor in Orthopedic Surgery in the College of Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia University), New York; Associate Surgeon to the Hospital for Ruptured and Crippled; Orthopedic Surgeon to the Hospital of St. John's Guild; Chief of the Orthopedic Department of the Vanderbilt Clinic, etc. New (2d) edition, thoroughly revised and much enlarged. In one octavo volume of 820 pages, with 507 engravings, mostly original. Cloth, $5.50, net. Lea Brothers & Co, Publishers, Philadelphia and New York. Orthopedic surgery occupies a broad field and one of very great and general interest. Its most distinctive advance in recent years has been toward the prevention of deformity, an advance that has been made possible by the better understanding of its predisposing and exciting As a natural consequence, treatment has become more direct, more simple, and more effective. It has been the purpose of the author to emphasize this aspect of the subject, which is of the greatest importance to the general practitioner, who so often has the opportunity to recognize disease or disability in its incipiency, when its progress may be checked by timely treatment.

causes.

Dr. Whitman has endeavored to outline methods of examination, to explain the phenomena of the symptoms and so to describe and to illustrate the causes and effects of disease and disability as to indicate, in natural sequence, the principles of treatment; but the particular methods. of the application of these principles, which have been described in detail, are always those that have been tested by personal experience. The work is of special use for students and general practitioners and no specialist's library is complete without it.

ESSENTIALS OF PELVIC DIAGNOSIS, with Illustrative Cases. By E. STANMORE BISHOP, F.R C.S. Eng., Author of "Uterine Fibromyata, their Pathology, Diagnosis and Treatment"; Hon. Surg. Ancoats Hospital, Manchester; Vice-President British Gynecological Society, London; Ex-President Clinical Society, Manchester, etc. And an Appendix on EXAMINATION OF BLOOD, etc., by CHAS. H. MELLAND, M. D. (Lond.), 'M. R. C. P., Hon. Physician Ancoats Hospital, Manchester; Platt Physiological Scholar, etc. Octavo volume, 309 pages, illustrated by line drawings and 2 colored plates. Price, muslin, $3.00, net. William Wood & Co., Publishers, New York.

Diagnosis is usually taught on the inductive principle. The disease is predicted as already known. But procedure on the inductive principle is the very reverse of that upon which all men in practice are called upon to act. In practice the symptoms are known, the disease is not. It has to be deduced; and this little book is an attempt to make this mental process with regard to pelvic diseases in both sexes more easy. We are free to say the author has succeeded admirably, and we consider the work a valuable contribution to the literature of the subject.

A TEXT-BOOK OF LEGAL MEDICINE AND TOXICOLOGY. Edited by FREDERICK PETERSON, M. D., Chief of Clinic, Nervous Department of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York; and WALTER S. HAINES, M. D., Professor of Chemistry, Pharmacy, and Toxicology, Rush Medical College, in affiliation with the University of Chicago. Two imperial octavo volumes of about 750 pages each, fully illustrated. Philadelphia, New York, London: W. B. Saunders & Co. 1903. Per volume: Cloth, $5.00, net; sheep or half morocco, $6.00, net.

This work presents to the medical and legal professions a comprehensive survey of forensic medicine and toxicology in moderate compass. For convenience of reference the treatise has been divided into two sections, Part I and Part II, the latter being devoted to toxicology and all other portions of legal medicine in which laboratory investigation is an essential feature. Under "Expert Evidence" not only is advice give to medical experts, but suggestions are also made to attorneys as to the best methods of obtaining the desired information from the witness. The Bertillon and Greenleaf Smart systems of identification are concisely and intelligently described, and the advantages of each stated. An interesting and important chapter is that on "The Destruction and Attempted Destruction of the Human Body by Fire and Chemicals;" for on the determination of the human or animal source of the remains

frequently depends the legal conduct of a given case, and the guilt or innocence of the accused. A chapter not usually found in works on legal medicine, though of far more than passing significance to both the medical expert and the attorney, is that on the medicolegal relations of the X-rays. The responsibility of pharmacists in the compounding of prescriptions, in the selling of poisons, in substituting drugs other thau those prescribed, etc., furnishes a chapter of the greatest interest to everyone concerned with questions of medical jurisprudence. Also included in the work is the enumeration of the laws of the various States relating to the commitment and retention of the insane. In fact, the entire work is overflowing with matters of the utmost importance, and expresses clearly, concisely, and accurately the very latest opinions on all branches of forensic medicine and toxicology.

PROGRESSIVE MEDICINE, Vol. IV, December, 1903. A Quarterly Digest of Advances, Discoveries and Improvements in the Medical and Sugical Sciences. Edited by HOBART AMORY HARE, M. D., Professor of Thera. peutics and Materia Medica in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. Octavo, handsomely bouni in cloth, 434 pages, 46 illustrations. Lea Brothers & Co., publishers, Philadelphia and New York.

The completing volume of "Progressive Medicine" for the year 1903 contains some of the most important contributions of the series. Dr. J. C. Hemmeter's article on diseases of the digestive tract is really a monograph, embodying the new physiology of digestion as it has been. established by the discoveries made by Pawlow, Futterer and others, whose investigations have so completely revolutionized our knowledge of the digestive function. The bacteriology of dysentery and the diarrheas of infants; the subject of intestinal parasites and the recent advances in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the liver and gall-bladder, are fully considered. Diseases of the pancreas have of late been exciting much attention, and Dr. Hemmeter has devoted considerable space to their discussion. In the article on surgery, by Dr. J. C. Bloodgood, of Johns Hopkins, there will be found a particularly interestisg discussion of the entire field of anesthesia, both local and general, considered not only from the standpoint of the surgeon specialist but also from that of the general practitioner. Dr. Bloodgood's chapter includes, in addition

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to the subjects above referred to, an exhaustive review of all advances in the treatment of fractures and dislocations, amputations and orthopedics. It is illustrated by a splendid series of engravings in the text, and by six full-page plates in black and colors. The subject of the surgical infections in their various aspects is thoroughly canvassed. A very valuable part of Dr. Bloodgood's contribution is that devoted to tumors, benign and malignant; all the recent advances in their surgical treatment being presented, and the X-ray therapy of tumors is discussed at length. Dr. Belfield's contribution on genito-urinary diseases covers the entire field in a most practical manner. Of special interest to the general practitioner will be found that part which deals with tuberculosis and other infections of the genito-urinary tract. The article on the prostate, especially on the treatment of hypertrophy of that organ, is of the highest interest. In dealing with diseases of the kidneys, Dr. John Rose Bradford, of University College, London, presents an interesting discussion of the blood changes in chronic renal disease, and particular attention may be called to his able consideration of the surgical treatment of chronic Bright's disease. An excellent résumé of the advances in our knowledge of albuminuria and indicanuria is included in the article. Since the startling announcement made by Koch in regard to the difference between human and bovine tuberculosis, scientists the world over have been engaged in an earnest endeavor to ascertain the actual facts. This subject constitutes one of the most interesting of the topics discussed by Dr. Harrington, of Harvard, in the section on hygiene. The conveyance of typhoid and other infectious diseases is another topic upon which Dr. Harrington presents the most recent views.

The concluding section of the issue is taken up with the Practical Therapeutic Referendum, by Dr. Landis. It is a thorough, up-to-date index of the progress in therapeutics, treating not only of the drugs recently introduced to the profession, but also dealing fully with the physiological action and clinical uses of older remedies. Thus the continued use of acetone in enteric is noted; the various antitoxins receive due attention; the coal-tar products are

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Vioform, the new neutral powder, and isarol, the new substitute for ichthyol, are described, and on the other hand it takes two pages to describe the newer preparations of as old a stand-by as quinine. Dr. Landis greatly increases the practical value of this excellent chapter by introducing a number of prescriptions, showng the best vehicles for the administration of the less iknown drugs. In dealing with the contents of "Progressive Medicine," it is impossible to mention more than a few of the subjects of special interest. Each contributor, however, will be found to cover most thoroughly the entire field which is assigned to him. The different sections are not mere compilations, but are complete discussions of the various topics under consideration. Because of their standing as consultants and teachers, the contributors to "Progressive Medicine" are peculiarly cognizant of the points possessing interest for the medical profession. It is this knowledge and its practical application which has resulted in the wonderful success of the work. The publishers announce that, with the new year, the annual subscription price of "Progressive Medicine" will be reduced from $10 to $6, and that, for convenience in carriage, it will divest itself of the heavy cloth binding. The volumes will each contain 300 pages, abundantly illustrated, and the work will continue to be issued under the same editorial management and with the same brilliant corps of contributors which have made it the indispensable assistant to the active, busy practitioner. The series of these volumes. forms annually a practical treatise covering the entire domain of medicine and surgery.

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Advances, Discoveries and Improvements in the Medical and Surgical Sciences. Edited by HOBART AMORY HARE, M. D., Professor of Therapeutics and Materia Medica in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. Octavo, 337 pages, 7 illustrations. Per annum, in four cloth bound volumes, $9 00; in paper binding, $6.00; carriage paid to any address. Lea Brothers & Co., Publishers, Philadelphia and

New York.

Considered from every point of view, that of authoritativeness, completeness, adaptation to practical needs, agreeable style, availability for reference, convenient form, satisfactory press work, telling illustrations, and marvelously low price, the work is one that the medical profession may well be proud of and grateful to possess.