Achilles Rose. The translator gives as his reason for presenting the book to his English-speaking colleagues, that they may learn what an independent and original investigator has said on the great problems of medicine to-day, and what he has written to restore the rights and re-establish the position of the general practitioner, which have been encroached upon by a morbid proliferation of specialism and a one-sided organo-therapy." Dr. Rosenbach, as his translator points out, fully appreciates the value of bacteriology as a biological science, and is well aware what surprising information and important methods are to be found in its study, but he aims to overthrow the fallacious conclusions that have been established, that all infectious diseases are caused by bacteria, and that all diseases in which so-called specific bacteria are found are infectious diseases. The thorough and comprehensive manner in which the author has examined and discussed his subject cannot fail to be of very great interest, if not enlightenment, to the medical profession.

DUDLEY'S GYNECOLOGY. NEW (4TH) EDITION. A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of Gynecology. By E. C. DUDLEY, A. M., M. D., Professor of Gynecology in the Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago. New (4th) edition. Revised and enlarged. Octavo, 771 pages, with 401 illustrations, of which 50 are in colors, and 18 full-page colored plates. Cloth, $5.00, net; leather, $6.00, net; half morocco, $6.50, net.

This is one of the most satisfactory works for students, general practitioners and specialists. Departing from the old method of regional arrangement it deals with each disease-process as a unit in its effects upon the various organs, thereby giving a clear and connected account of its nature and treatment. Dr. Dudley has given his work a revision so thoroughly as practically to amount to an entire rewriting. The illustrations have been revised as carefully as the text. All those in previous editions which were not strictly original have been omitted, and those which now appear in the work are not only original, but are executed with such clearness as to be of most satisfactory teaching value. One of the most important features of this work is the fact that all minor and major manipulations and operations have been illustrated to show the several procedures as they take place step by step, each operation being set forth in a series of drawings. In the revision of the work

the author has endeavored to bring it well up to date. The sections relating to general diagnosis, local treatment, major operations, drainage, urethritis, cystitis, ovarian tumors, embryology, malformations, and the treatment of salpingitis, ovaritis, and pelvic peritonitis, have been subjected to special revision, with practical additions. THE PRACTICE OF OBSTETRICS. Designed for the Use of Students and Prac titioners of Medicine. By J. CLIFTON EDGAR, Professor of Obstetrics and Clinical Midwifery in the Cornell University Medical College; Visiting Obstetrician to the Emergency Hospital of Bellevue Hospital, New York City; Consulting Obstetrician to the New York Maternity Hospital. Second edition, revised, with 1264 illustrations, including 5 colored plates and 38 figures printed in colors. Price, $6.00 net. P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1012 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. 1904.

A second edition of this valuable work has been called for in four months from the time of the first edition.

This is alike flattering to the author and to the publishers. The work is technically correct and reliable. It shows a vast experience and a keen discrimination as to what is important and what is not in the teaching of this important branch of practical medicine. The enterprising house of P. Blakiston's Son & Co., has spared no expense in publishing a fully illustrated well-printed edition in good clear type and on good paper.

LEA'S SERIES OF MEDICAL EPITOMES-NAGLE'S EPITOME OF NERVOUS AND MENTAL DISEASES. A Manual for Students and Physicians. By JOSEPH Darwin Nagle, M. D., Consulting Physician to the French Hospital, New York. In one 12mo volume of 276 pages, with 46 illustrations. Cloth, $1.00, net. Lea Brothers & Co., publishers, Philadelphia and New York. 1904.

In this age of rapid progress and evolution of new theories and sciences the student of medicine, who in four years is supposed to master the intricate and varied details of his chosen profession, and the busy practitioner, who must still spend a good part of his time in research and study to keep abreast with the rapid strides of advance, both feel the daily need of a text-book which will give them the essence of the subject which they are pursuing. It is with this idea that the author has undertaken to gather the various facts and data contained in the numerous text-books and pamphlets on the diseases of the mind and nervous system, and to weave them into a compact fabric, easily studied by those who are in search of precise information.

UNCONSCIOUS THERAPEUTICS; or, THE PERSONALITY OF THE PHYSICIAN.By ALFRED T. SCOFIELD, M. D., M. R. C. S., etc., Honorary Physician to Friedenhaim Hospital; author of "The Unconscious Mind," "The Force of Mind," etc. P. Blakiston's Son & Co, 1012 Walnut St., Philadelphia. 1904.

This noted medical author has given us a new book-a valuable book-a book that must be read and reread and afterward digested and thoroughly assimilated to get all the good out of it. The doctor writes convincingly. He writes as though he knows what he is writing about. We believe he does and heartily recommend this latest work to every physician in our great country.

A MANUAL OF SURGICAL DIAGNOSIS. BY JAMES BERRY, B. S., F. R. C. S., Surgeon to, and Lecturer on Surgery at the Royal Free Hospital; formerely Surgical Registrar and Demonstrator of Anatomy of Operative Surgery and of Practical Surgery at St. Bartholomew's Hospital. J. & A. Churchill, publishers, 7 Great Marlborough Street, London. 1904. James Berry, B. S., F. R. C. S., of England, has given to the medical profession, through the enterprising pub lishing house of J. & A. Churchill, one of the most interesting and instructive manuals of surgical diagnosis we have met with for a long time. The work is the outcome of more than 20 years of practical experience in the teaching of clinical surgery. The author we have known personally for many years as a painstaking teacher, a reliable diagnostician and an expert operator. His work on surgical diagnosis should be adopted in every medical college for the use of students, and in every hospital for the use of internes and junior surgeons, as we know of no better work in so small a manual in the English language.

URIC ACID, AN EPITOME OF THE SUBJECT. By ALEXANDER HAIG, M. A., M. D., Oxon, F. R. C. P., Physician to the Metropolitan Hospital, and the Royal Hospital for Children and Women; Author of "Uric Acid as a Factor in the Causation of Disease," and of "Diet and Food in Relation to Strength and Power of Endurance, Training and Athletics." P. Blakiston's Son & Co., publishers, 1012 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. 1904. Price, $1.00.

Dr. Haig's epitome of the subject of uric acid remains the standard work of to-day.

"Those who consider that sluggish circulation and poor blood, defective cerebration and mental and bodily lethargy, a life of almost constant disease, terminating in the forties or the fifties, is the summum bonum of human existence, can no doubt get the little they ask for; but it

will soon be no longer possible for them to say that nothing better was known or obtainable.

"A stronger, more active, and more noble life lived for 100 rather than for 50 years and ending in a natural death which will be painless and unconscious as birth is what knowledge of the truth promises to-day to all who dare to follow it."-Extract from Preface.

CLINICAL TREATISES ON THE PATHOLOGY AND THERAPY OF DISORDERS OF METABOLISM AND NUTRITION. BY PROF. DR. CARL VON NOORDEN, Physician-in-Chief to the City Hospital, Frankfort a. M. Authorized American edition, translated under the direction of BOARDMAN REED, M. D., Professor of Diseases of the Gastro- Intestinal Tract, Hygiene and Climatology, Department of Medicine, Temple College; Physician to the Samaritan Hospital, Philadelphia, etc. Part V: Concerning the Effects of Saline Waters (Kissingen, Homburg) on Metabolism, by PROF. CARL VON NOORDEN, Frankfort, and DR. CARL DAPPER, Bad, Kissingen. E. B. Treat & Company, publishers, New York. 1904. Price, 75 cents. This little volume is a useful addition to our knowledge of metabolism and nutrition.

INTERNATIONAL CLINICS. A Quarterly of Illustrated Clinical Lectures and Especially Prepared Original Articles on Treatment, Medicine, Surgery, Neurology, Pediatrics, Obstetrics, Gynecology, Orthopedics, Pathology, Dermatology, Ophthalmology, Otology, Rhinology, Laryngology, Hygiene, and other Topics of Interest to Students and Practitioners. By Leading Members of the Medical Profession throughout the World. Edited by A. O. KELLY, A. M., M. D., Phila., U. S. A., with the colJaboration of William Osler, M. D., Baltimore; John H. Musser, M. D., Phila.; Jas, Stewart, M. D., Montreal; J. B. Murphy, M. D., Chicago; A. McPhedran, M. D., Toronto; Thos. M. Rotch, M. D., Boston; John G. Clark, M. D., Philadelphia; James J. Walsh, M. D., New York; J. W. Ballantune, M. D., Edinburgh; John Harold, M. D., London; Edmund Landolt, M. D., Paris; Richard Krebz, M. D., Vienna, with regular correspondents in Montreal, London, Berlin, Vienna, Leipsic, Brussels and Carlsbad. Volume II, Fourteenth Series. 1904. J. B Lippincott Com. pany, Philadelphia. 1904.

Volume two of the fourteenth series contains many highly interesting and timely articles from the pens of many able authors.

THE URINE, AND CLINICAL CHEMISTRY OF THE GASTRIC CONTENTS, THE COMMON POISONS, AND MILK. By J. W. HOLLAND, M. D., Professor of Medical Chemistry and Toxicology, Jefferson Medical College, ‹f Philadelphia. Forty-one illustrations. Seventh edition, revised and enlarged. Price, $1.00. P. Blakiston's Son & Co., publishers, 1012 Walnut Street, Philadelphia. 1904.

With his usual clearness and completeness Professor J. W. Holland's seventh edition of clinical chemistry has

been prepared. For laboratory work on urine, gastric contents, common poisons, etc., no work excels the author's. A MANUAL OF PRACTICAL MEDICAL ELECTRICITY, THE RÖNTGEN RAYS, FINSEN LIGHT, RADIUM AND ITS RADIATIONS AND HIGH-FREQUENTED CURRENTS. BY DAWSON TURNER, B. A., M. D., F.R.C P. Ed., M. R. C. P. Lond., President of the Royal Scottish Society of Arts; Vice-President of the British Electro-therapeutic Society; Fellow of the Physical Society; Lecturer on Experimental Physics, Surgeon's Hall, Edinburgh; Additional Examiner in Experimental Physics to the Edinburgh University; Medical Officer in Charge of the Electrical Department of the Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh. Fourth edition, revised and enlarged. Price, $4.25. William Wood & Company, New York City. 1904. This work gives a practical working exposition of medical electricity. The sinusoidal currents in treatment are fully explained. The multiplate static machine in Röntgen ray work is fully elucidated. Radium and its radiations are described. The work is most useful, interesting and instructive, and we commend it to all interested in this special work.

THE COMPLETE MEDICAL POCKET-FORMULARY AND PHYSICIAN'S VADE MECUM. Containing upwards of 2,500 prescriptions collected from the practice of physicians and surgeons of experience, American and foreign, arranged for ready reference under an alphabetical list of diseases; also a special list of new drugs, with their dosage, solubilities, and therapeutical applications; together with a table of formulæ for suppositories; a table of formulæ for hypodermic medication; a list of drugs for inhalation; a table of poisons, with their antidotes; a postological table; a list of incompatibles; a table of metric equivalents; a brief account of external antipyrics, disinfectants, medical thermometry, the urinary tests; and much other useful information. Collated for the use of practitioners by J. C. WILSON, A. M., M. D., Physician to the German Hospital, Philadelphia, etc. Third revised edition. Price, $1.75; thumb indexed, $2.00. J. B. Lippincott Company, publishers.

This is an excellent, trustworthy and convenient formulary for physicians' use.

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THE WOMAN'S HOME LIBRARY. Edited by MARGARET S. SANGSTER. Mothers' Manual. A Month by Month Guide for Young Mothers by EMELYN LINCOLN COOLIDGE, M. D., Visiting Physician of the OutPatient Department of the Babies' Hospital, New York; formerly House Physician of the Babies' Hospital, New York; Physician in Charge of the Babies' Clinic of the Society of the Lying-in Hospital of the City of New York. Illustrated. A. S. Barnes & Company, publishers, New York. 1904. Price, $1.00.

This volume will be found to possess much information in regard to babyhood. Nor does the book conclude when the infant learns to walk but gives directions regarding