that portion of the work devoted to the housing and open air treatment of patients. The question of the sanitorium is well considered, as is climae, in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. The style of the book is good and will replay reading. DUNN (Omaha.) GOLDEN RULES OF DIETETICS. By A. S. Benedict, A. M., M. D., Buffalo, N. Y. Published by C. V. Mosby, Medical Book and Publishing Co., 713-14-15 Metropolitan Building, Grand Ave., and Olive St., St. Louis, Mo. Price $3.00. This book by Dr. Benedict is intended to give in a compact form the principles underlying the use of foodstuffs of all kinds and the composition of foods, and then to show how to choose from and to apply these various foods in different disease conditions. It makes a compact and readable little volume and its practical value is enhanced by numerous tables showing the caloric value of foods and how to make up a diet properly on a caloric basis. are few men to whose library it would not be a helpful addition. H. L. AKIN (Omaha.) OBSTETRICS FOR NURSES. (The new (3rd) Edition. There By Joseph B. DeLee, M. D., Professor of Obstetrics in the Northwestern University of Medical School, Chicago. Third Revised Edition. 12 mo. of 512 pages, fully illustrated. Philadelphia and London; W. B. Saunders Company, 1908. Cloth $2.50 net. In this third edtion, revised and enlarged, of DeLee's obstetrical book we have a very thorough and up-to-date course of instruction. A minute and careful description is given of the nurse's duty in preparing and sterilizing all the necessary requirements for an obstetrical case. One part of the book describes obstetric complications with such clearness that any trained nurse can understand what to do and what to avoid doing until the physician arrives. A great deal of necessary information is given about the care of the infant, also a number of very good formulas for feeding when substitutes for "mother's milk" have to be obtained. The nurse who studies and follows the directions given in this book will not only fulfill her duty, but will be most successful in her profession. M. REEKIE, Supt. of Nurses, Omaha Gen. Hospital. Progressive Medicine, Vol. IV, December, 1908. A Quarterly Digest of Advances, Discoveries and Improements 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. Octova, 333 pages, with 26 engravings, and 2 colored plate.. Per annum, in four paper-bound volumes, containing over 1,200 pages, $6.00, net; in cloth, $9.00, net. Lee & Febiger, Publishers, Philadelphia and New York. The December issue of Progressive Medicine is fully abreast of the reputation of this quarterly for practical usefulness to every active medical man whether physician, surgeon or specialist. In fact, its contents are purposely limited to the clinical as distinguished from the theoretical aspects of medine. As brief examples of these characteristics, we may cite only a few of the multitude of topics treated by Dr. Edsall, of Philadelphia, in his 80 pages on Diseases of the Digestive System, if possible the most important in the entire range of human ailments. He points out the clinical bearings of recent physiological researches on the stomach and of psychic influences on digestion, deals with the results of recent x-ray advances in connection with that organ, devotes 10 pages to Gastric Ulcer, Stenosis and Carinoma, revises to date the recently developed subject of intestinal diverticula, and illuminates the hitherto obscure field of diseases of the pancreas. In the same most cursory manner we may refer to the articles on Renal Tuberculosis and Syphilitic Nephritis in the section on the Kidneys written by Dr. John Rose Bradford, of London. Bloodgood of Baltimore, has covered in a hundred pages, the real additions to practical surgery during the year. His remarks on Surgical Shock deal instrucetively with a common and serious condition. He devotes twenty-five pages to advancees in Surgery of the Blood-vessels, a subject of especial interest at the present time, and the same may be said of his articles on Surgery of the Joints. He closes with twenty pages on Tumors, thus completing in connection with his successive sections on these morbid growths, the most important monograph on the subject in the language. Belfield, of Chicago, covers the latest advances in the Genito-Urinary field authoritatively in thirty uages. The Assistant Editor, Dr. Landis, closes the year with a Practical Therapeutic Referendum, reviewing the advances in both medicinal and nonmedicinal treatment, and giving due prominence to untoward results following serum therapy. Publishers' Announcement. E. B. Treat & Co., Medical Publishers, New York, announce, in press, for early publication, the following works: Surgical Diseases of Children. A Modern Treatise on Pediatric Surgery, by Samuel W. Kelley, M. D., Professor of Diseases of Children, Cleveland College of Physicians and Surgeons. This volume occupies a distinct place in medical literature as it is devoted entirely to the surgical diseases of children and is the first yet written by an American on the subject. The author's special training amply qualifies him for the present work. An attractive and most instructive feature is the more than 300 illustrations, mostly of the author's own cases, under which are full descriptions, thus forming little clinics in themselves. Octavo, 750 pages, over 300 illustrations, cloths, express paid, $5.00 net. Ptomaine Poisoning.-A Concise Exposition of the Etiology, Bacteriology, Pathology, Symptomatology, Prophylaxis, and Treatment of Bacterial Food Poisoning by, Prof. Dr. A. Dieudonne, Munich, Translated and Edited, with ad ditions, by Dr. Charles Frederick Boulduan, Bacteriologist, Research Labora tory, Department of Health, City of New York. 8vo, 125 pages, cloth, prepaid, $1.00 net. Diagnosis and Treatment of Disorders of the Blaader with Technique of Cystoscopy, by Follen Cabot, M. D., Professor Genito-Urinary Diseases, PostGraduate Medical School and Hospital, New York. A mannual of this phase of surgery supplementing the more pretentious volumes. 8vo, 225 pages, 40 illustrations and 1 colored plate, cloth, prepaid, 2.00 net. Forgetful. A minister's wife, a travelling man's wife, and a doctor's wife met one day recently and were talking about the forgetfulness of their husbands. The minister's wife thought her husband was the most forgetful man living, because he would go to church and forget his notes and no one could make out what he was trying to preach about. The traveling man's wife thought her husband was the most forgetful, for he would often start out to see his customers and forget his sample case and, therefore, travel miles for nothing. "Well," said the doctor's wife, "my husband beats that. He came home the other day and patted me on the cheek and said, 'I believe I have seen you before, little girl. What is your name?" "-Tit-Bits. Dr. J. P. Lord, Omaha, Councillor from the First District, Douglas and Sarpy Dr. C. W. M. Poynter, Lincoln, Councillor from the Second District, Lancaster, Dr. A. B. Anderson, Pawnee City, Councillor from the Third District, Gage, Dr. P. H. Salter, Norfolk, Councillor from the Fourth District, Knox, Cedar, Dr. A. P. Overgaard, Fremont, Councillor from the Fifth District, Burt, Wash- Dr. Mary A. Quincy, Ashland, Councillor from the Sixth District, Saunders, Dr. A. W. Fitzsimons, Ohiowa, Councillor from the Seventh District, Clay, Dr. J. P. 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