SAUNDERS' MEDICAL HAND ATLASES-ATLAS AND EPITOME OF OPERATIVE GYNECOLOGY. BY DR. O. SCHAEFER, of Heidelberg. Edited, with additions, by J. CLARENCE WEBSTER, M. D. (Edin.), F. R. C. P. E, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Rush Medical College, in affiliation with the University of Chicago. With 42 lithographic plates in colors, many text cuts, a number in colors, and 138 pages of text. Philadelphia, New York, London: W. B. Saunders & Company, 1904. Cloth, $3 net This new addition to Saunders' admirable series of Hand-Atlases is excellent. It is unfortunate that medical students graduating each year know less about gynecologic operations than about almost any other department of operative surgery. This atlas, therefore, is opportune, and the excellence of the lithographic plates and the many other illustrations render it of the greatest value in obtaining a sound and practical knowledge of operative gynecology. Indeed, the artist, the author, and the lithographer have evidently expended much patient endeavor in the preparation of the water-colors and drawings. They are based on hundreds of photographs taken from nature and reproduce faithfully and instructively the various situations which they intend to illustrate. The text closely follows the illustrations, and we have found it fully as accurate. We consider it of great value to the up-to-date practitioner and surgeon, as well as to the specialist. TEXT-BOOK OF OPERATIVE SURGERY. BY DR. THEODORE KOCHER, Professor of Surgery and Director of the Surgical Clinic in the University of Bern. Authorized translation from the fourth German edition, by HAROLD J. STIVES, M. B., F. R. C. S. Edin., Surgeon to the Royal Edinburgh Hospital for sick children; late Assistant Surgeon, Edinburgh Infirmary; Examiner in Anatomy, Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, with 125 illustrations. Adam and Charles Black, Publishers, London, 1903. One of the world's greatest surgeons to-day is the author of this work on operative surgery-Professor Theodore Kocher. The great value of the work lies in the fact that it is practically a record of the author's personal experience and not a text-book of quotations from a dozen authors. The present work is the second English edition, translated from the fourth German edition. The work is thorough, reliable, instructive as well as interesting, especially so when we remember that it embraces the teaching and methods of so great a master as Professor Kocher. DISEASES OF THE INTESTINES. A text-book for practitioners and students of medicine. By MAX EINHORN, M. D., Professor of Medicine at the New York Post Graduate Medical School and Hospital, and Visiting Physician at the German Hospital, New York. Second revised edition. Price, $3 net. William Wood & Company, Publishers, New York. Professor Max Einhorn has long been known for his thorough work in intestinal diseases. His second and revised edition has just been issued and contains all the essential facts and theories of the diseases of the intestines. The present book is a continuation of the "diseases of the stomach. The elucidation of the intimate relation existing between functional disturbances of the stomach and of the intestines marks an important step forward, especially as to treatment. The work is worthy of careful study. THE FORCE OF MIND, OR, THE MENTAL FACTOR IN MEDICINE. BY ALFRED T. SCHOFIELD, M. D., M. R. C. S., Author of "The Unconscious Mind," "The Springs of Character," etc. Messrs. Funk and Wagnalls Company, 30 Lafayette Place, New York, 1903. Price, $2. Dr. A. T. Schofield has written another remarkably interesting book, "The Force of Mind." Some of his previous works, such as, "The Unconscious Mind," "Springs of Character," and "Nerves Disordered" were extensively read by members of the medical profession as well as by lay readers. All these books are written with scientific accuracy by an eminent authority. They are full of remarkably practical suggestive material for the physician. The work on "The Force of Mind" should be read and re-read by every practitioner of medicine. It will repay the reader an hundred fold. The work is a masterpiece. DISEASES OF THE EYE. A Text Book by L. WEBSTER Fox, A. M., M. D., Professor of Ophthalmology in the Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia, Pa.; Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Medico-Chirurgical Hospital, etc., etc. Five colored plates and 296 illustrations in the text, many in colors. D. Appleton & Company, Publishers, 436 Fifth Avenue, New York. Sold only by subscription. Cloth, $4. This work is based on an extended experience and is a digested summary of the known facts in ophthalmology, which should be of use to the student and to the practitioner who is so often called upon for advice in ophthalmic cases. Among the articles of special importance, we think that particular attention is due to those upon albuminuric retinitis, hemorrhagic retinitis, lid operations, declinations of the retinal meridians, cataract, glaucoma and diseases of the orbit. The subconjunctival injection of salt solutions in iritis and corneal ulcers, peridectomy in pannus, grattage in trachoma, and the use of opaque slips combined with correcting lenses for conical cornea are also given the prominence to which they are entitled in the subject of treatment. Chlorine as a Disinfectant for the Hands. D. H. Stewart (Amer. Jour. of Obstetrics, Jan., 1904) claims that as a result of considerable experience in methods of hand sterilization a mixture of makes the best disinfectant. Five minutes scrubbing with the above solution, after five minutes careful cleansing, has always in his experience prevented the growth of streptococcus, staphylococcus, and bacilli communis coli, after the hands had been intentionally contaminated with pure cultures. The author believes that its antiseptic power is equal to 1 to 500 corrosive sublimate. In obstetrics the author believes that the aseptic bare hand is safer than the rubber glove. He was able to obtain six cultures out of thirty trials from a pair of rubber gloves which had been boiled for fifteen minutes after a previous contamination.-Therapeutic Review. How Odors Move from Place to Place. That odors move with the air, or diffuse through it like gases and do not pass through it in waves, as sounds do, or in swiftly-moving particles like the radium emanations, seems to be conclusively shown by recent experiments on the propaganda of scents through small tubes. In such tubes there can be no general motion of the air, and the rate of travel of an odor is extremely slow. That of ammonia took over two hours to get through a tube a yard and a half long. The presence of the ammonia could be detected chemically at about the same time that its smell was noticed. It seemed to make little difference in the speed whether the tube was held horizontally or vertically, or whether the odor moved up or down.-Success. Department of Dentistry. Editorial Staff. ROBERT E. O'CONNELL, D.D.S. WILLIAM A. BRYANT, M.D., D.D.S. THOMAS MORFFEW, D.D.8. J. O. HENNESSY, D.D.S. CALVIN W. KNOWLES, D.D.S., M.D. 0. A. HOOKER, D D S. D. H LATIMER, D D S. M. E. CLARK, D.D.S. The Editors of this Department are not responsible for the views of contributors. All communications relating to the Editorial Department of Dentistry should be addressed to PACIFIC MEDICAL JOURNAL, 1025 Sutter St., San Francisco. DENTINAL ANESTHESIA. By DR. THIESING, Bonn. Dr. Thiesing recommends the use of ammonia solutions for dentinal anesthesia. His experiments have demonstrated that these solutions in a majority of cases bring about anesthesia of the dentin. The objectionable properties of solutions of ammonia salts, which preclude their being used hypodermically, disappear completely when used to obtund sensitive dentin. The anesthesia of the teeth lasts from a few hours to a few days, according to the strength of the solution employed and to the length of time during which it is allowed to remain in the tooth. These solutions do not discolor the teeth and do not have any irritating action on the pulp. The objectionable and penetrating odor can be attenuated by the addition of a solution of etheral oil in alcohol. Ammonium bromide, in 10 per cent solutions, produces a very feeble degree of anesthesia. Ammonium chloride, in 20 per cent solutions, after 10 minutes' contact, produces slight anesthesia and no pain. Ammonium phosphide produces slight pain and complete anesthesia after 5 to 10 minutes. Ammonium acetate produces complete anesthesia after 5 minutes, but at the same time it causes severe pain which, however, lasts only a few seconds. Ammonium carbonate, in solutions of 5 to 20 per cent, causes no pain and complete anesthesia after 5 to 10 minutes. This is the solution recommended by the author. Caustic ammonia in solutions of one-fourth of 1 per cent to which is added eight-tenths of 1 per cent of sodium chloride, does not anesthetize dentin after 5 minutes, but after 10 minutes brings about a sufficient degree of insensitivity. The application of this solution is not painful, and solutions of 10 to 20 per cent always produce dentinal insensitivity after 5 to 10 minutes. Solutions of 30 to 50 per cent produce good results; these are, however, accompanied by pain, which can be avoided by the addition of concentrated carbolic acid.-Dental Register. BLEACHING TEETH.-Success in bleaching the teeth demands recognition of the fact that each special case presents its peculiar characteristics, and that the problem is a chemical one always, as the bleaching method in any case must be selected with special reference to the character of discoloration and applied with care, for without that care success is impossible.-S. A. ALDRICH-Penn. Dental Journal. MOISTENING ROOT CANALS BEFORE FILLING.-C. R. Taylor in Review. Tyndale's pure oil of eucalyptus is an excellent dressing with which to moisten root canals prior to introducing gutta percha cones. If also applied after the cone has been placed in the canal, and by employing a blast of warm air the gutta percha will be easily packed into the canal. Just enough of the oil to moisten the canal is all that is necessary.-Dental Digest. MASSAGING IN PYORRHEA.-Massaging the gums often increases the capillary circulation the lack of which is one of the principal causes of this disease. We often meet the disease advanced to the stage when the teeth have become loosened. I have found ligation, in the not too far advanced stage, satisfactory in lessening the danger of increasing the surrounding inflammation, but when the gums have loosened to such an extent as to entirely fail to support the teeth I use a number of bands, either of gold or of other suitable metal, made to tightly fit the necks of the teeth well up toward the biting edge. After |