BOOK NOTICES.

DISEASES OF CHILDREN.-By William Nelson Mundy, M. D., Professor of Pediatrics in the Eclectic Medical Institute, Cincinnati, Ohio. Second revised edition, illustrated, 8-vo, 512 pp. Cloth, $3.00. The Scudder Brothers Company, Publishers, Cincinnati, Ohio. This is a very good eclectic text-book on diseases of children. It goes over the entire subject carefully, and is to be recommended to those who desire information upon the eclectic form of teaching. The illustrations are good.

MEDICAL GREEK.-Collection of Papers on Medical Onomatology and a Grammatical Guide to Learn Modern Greek. By Achilles Rose. New York, 1908. Peri Hellados Publication Office.

Dr. Rose needs no introduction to our readers as an authority on the Greek language, as he has favored our readers with many articles on the subject of the reform of medical language and the use of correct Greek terms instead of the many hybrids now in vogue. This little work consists of a collection of thirteen papers on Medical Greek, including one translation from the German of Dr. Herbert Kruger on the subject of learning modern Greek for those who know classical Greek. Rose's little volume is a valuable treatise, and should be read by every one who is in favor of exact nomenclature in science.

ESSENTIALS OF DIETETICS IN HEALTH

AND DISEASE. A Text-Book for Nurses and a Practical Dietary Guide for the Household. By Amy Elizabeth Pope, Author, with Anna Caroline Maxwell, of "Practical Nursing," and Instructor in the Presbyterian Hospital School of Nursing; Instructor in Dietetics in the Schools of Nursing of the New York Hospital, Mt. Sinai Hospital, and Smith's Infirmary, Staten Island, and Mary L. Carpenter, Director of Domestic Science of the Public Schools, Saratoga Springs, N. Y. Illustrated. G. P. Putnam's Sons: New York and London. The Knickerbocker Press, 1908.

This is a work essentially necessary for the nurse who wants to know the "inside" of her profession. It deals with a question of paramount importance to one who is attempting to co-operate with the physician in his remedial ef

forts. This book aims to teach the nurse something of the chemistry of foods, and also is a practical treatise upon the manner of preservation and preparation of foods for sick people. It tells not only how to select and cook the food, but it even tells how to serve it. The field is a most important one, and the subject is thoroughly considered.

THE NEW PSYCHOLOGY, Its Basic Principles and Practical Formulas.-By A. A. Lindsay, M. D. Eugene and Arthur Lindsay, Publishers, Portland, Oregon. "Manufactured" by The Portland Printing House, Tenth and Taylor Streets, Portland, Oregon.

This is a book that deals with the powers, attributes, qualities and classifications of all the mental functions of the individual, and the methods of their working, and formulas for directing their operation for definite results. Dr. Lindsay has made a thorough study of hypnosis and its application to the treatment of disease. He has made an enviable reputation in this line by his private courses to physicians. To those who were not fortunate enough to have taken one of these courses, we can recommend this book as the next best thing in getting light on the new psychology.

ELECTRICAL TREATMENT.-By Wilfred

Harris, M. D., F. R. C. P., Physician to Out-Patients, Physician to the Department of Nervous Diseases, and Lecturer on Neurology, St. Mary's Hospital; Physician to Out-Patients, Hospital for Epilepsy and Paralysis, Maida Vale. Illustrated. Chicago: W. T. Keener & Co., Price, $2.25 net.

This work on electrical treatment is the fifth of a series of five, entitled, "Modern Methods of Treatment." The purpose of the book is to demonstrate that there is a certain definite field of usefulness for the galvanic current in the treatment of certain medial disorders, to-wit: In acute sciatica, brachia! neuritis, and other forms of perineuritis. There are many physicians who are tempted to take up electro-therapy, but have no way of getting instruction about the usage of the various electrical devices, save írom the "salesman" who takes their order-certainly not a reliable person to go into the minutia with a medical man on this complicated subject. To such individuals this little book can be especially commended. It will tell you exactly how the electric treatments may be given. While to some of us there seems nothing roseate about the results to be obtained from electro

therapeutics, there are others who fairly bow down before the shrine of Volta,' claiming that most excellent results are obtainable from the judicious use of electricity in its many forms. To those of the profession who wish to investigate for themselves whether electro-therapy is a good thing, or whether it is a delusion and a snare, we commend this work as a manual for guidance over the roads to an acquirement of a sufficient working knowledge to test the question.

NEUROLOGICAL AND MENTAL DIAGNOSIS; A MANUAL OF METHODS.-By L. Pierce Clark, M. D., Senior Attending Physician in the Hospital for Nervous Diseases, New York, etc., and A. Ross Diefendorf, M. D., Lecturer in Psychiatry in Yale University, etc. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1908. Price, $1.25 net.

This is a working manual for the instruction of those who wish to perfect themselves in the art of making neurological and mental diagnoses. The careful examination of the nervous system is no easy matter, and he who wants to come to a clear diagnosis in a given neurological case must go over the patient from head to foot, and test all the sensory and motor parts of the cerebrospinal and sympathetic systems that are accessible to external examination. This book will serve as a useful manual for physicians who desire to keep abreast of the times in neurological diagnosis.

A TEXT-BOOK OF HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY, Including a Section on Physiologic Apparatus.-By Albert P. Brubaker, A. M., M. D., Professor of Physiology and Hygiene in the Jefferson Medical College; Professor of Physiology in the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery; Lecturer on Physiology and Hygiene in the Drexel Institute of Art, Science and Industry. Third edition, revised and enlarged. With colored plates and 383 illustrations. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1908. Price, $3.00 net.

This excellent work on physiology is now in its third edition. The domain of physiology is well covered by Brubaker. The book is a good text-book for the student, and a good reference book for the practitioner. To those who desire to make physiologic experiments, we can especially recommend the volume, as it contains a well-written and well-illustrated chapter on physiologic apparatus.

INTERNATIONAL CLINICS. A Quarterly of Illustrated Clinical Lectures.-By Leading Members of the Medical Profession Throughout the World. Edited by W. T. Longscope, M. D. Volume II, eighteenth series, 1908. Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1908.

There are some twenty-four original articles and lectures in this second volume of the Eighteenth Series of International Clinics. The subject heads are Treatment, Medicine, Surgery, Gynecology, Ophthalmology, Dermatology, Orthopaedics, Pediatrics and Pathology.

The articles are all worth special mention, but space forbids it. A practical paper is that on the "Treatment of Varicose Veins," by Willmoth. Another valuable paper is that by H. Gideon Wells on "Malignant Renal Hypernephromata. The volume before us keeps up the high standard of medical literature that has been set by the preceding numbers.

A MANUAL FOR MIDWIVES.-By C. Nepean Longbridge, M. D. (Vict.), F. R. C. S. (Eng.), M. R. C. P. (Lond.), Pathologist and Registrar, late Resident Medical Officer at Queen Charlotte's Hospital, Examiner to the Central Midwives' Board, Lecturer on Midwifery for London County Council. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1908. Price, $1.40 net.

This book, so states the author in his preface, is designed for midwives. Its language is, therefore, very simple, and as devoid of technical terms as it is possible to make any medical work intended for practical lay readers. The points discussed in the book are the regular obstetrical questions of anatomy of the pelvis, physiology of pregnancy, mechanics of labor, asepsis and antisepsis, etc. The book will be found useful among the class for which it was writ

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REPRINTS RECEIVED.

Dr. Fred J. Taussig, "The History of Mole Pregnancy." Reprint from Medical Library and Historical Journal, December, 1907.

Dr. Phil Hoffman, "A Statistical Study of the Relation Between the Height of the Longitudinal Arch and the Function of the Foot." Reprint from American Medicine, August, 1908.

Dr. R. L. Thompson and Dr. D. L. Harris, "A Consideration of the Pathological Histology of the Parathyroid-Like Tumor." Reprint from The Journal of Medical Research, July, 1908.