It is a very easy matter to criticise anything, but I fail to see that you have in any way demolished my proofs; you have simply thrown cold water on them, which I hope may aid them to flourish and bear a rich fruitage. For Truth, Honesty, Justice and Charity, F. H. LUTZE, M.D. REGRETS. Circumstances Over Which We Have No Control, Etc. By CHAS. S. MACK, M.D. La Porte, Indiana. THE LAW OF LIKES is the ship we sail, The living truth is the sea; Onward we ride before the gale, Sure of our course are we. Yon slave-ship, racked and water-logged, drifts, Some rotten stay parts--some rotten sail rifts The officers blind and the manacled crew, "We're used to our shackles, and like them, too," The sunburnt sailors cry. "Yes, yes," says the captain, "and heaven's bright blue Cannot dazzle a sightless eye." "So come, share our ship," plead both captain and crew, Free to do as we say; so come along-do! But somehow or other our little ship's great, So, with malice toward none, and with good will toward all, And with firmness in right, as God gives us to see it, We answer, with no hesitation at all, "Regarding your ship, our one wish is to flee it."* *Should this fall under the eye of some "regular," and he take exception to my picture of his ship and of those aboard her, let me remind him how vastly appearances may differ with points of view. To one who occupies the position that rational practice (technically so-called) is the ne plus ultra in medicine, the ship of the "regulars" may appear fine, and those aboard her keen of sight and free; while to one who occupies the position that similia similibus curantur is the law of a cure which transcends the possibilities of rational medicine (technically so-called) that same ship and those aboard her may, when homeopathy is under consideration, appear as in this doggerel. The first lines in the last verse are adapted from Abraham Lincoln's second inaugural address, which seems permeated throughout with the sentiment: Let us do what is right, "as God gives us to see the right," and leave results with him. That is the address in which occurs: "Fondly do we hope fervently do we pray-that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until," etc., etc. Book Reviews. Von Bergmann's Surgery. A System of Practical Surgery, By DRS. E. VON BERGMANN, of Berlin, P. VON BRUNS, of Tübingen, of J. voN MIKULICZ, of Breslau. Edited by William T. Bull, M.D., Professor of Surgery in the College of Physicians and Surgeons (Columbia University), New York. To be complete in five Imperial Octavo volumes, containing over 4000 pages, 1600 engravings and 110 full-page plates in colors and monochrome. Sold by subscription only. Per volume, cloth, $6.00; leather, $7.00; half morocco, $8.50, net. Volume I just ready. 936 pages, 361 engravings, 18 plates. Lea Brothers & Co., Phila., Pa. This System of Surgery by von Bergmann, von Bruns and von Mikulicz, is, without doubt, the most important work on the subject that has recently appeared. Its first edition in the original met with such a demand that the earlier volumes were out of print before the later ones were ready for issue. The second edition, carefully revised and brought thoroughly up to date, is the basis of the present English translation. The work has been done by Dr. William T. Bull and his collaborators with great fidelity and thoroughness. They have brought to their work a wide surgical experience, enabling them to add judicious references to methods of practice which have gained the preference of English and American surgeons. The work is encyclopedic in character. Many of its chapters exceed in scope and detail special treatises which have been published on their subjects. The great value of the work lies in its practical and clinical character, but there will be found an abundance of pathological data, details of original research and statistical facts. The first volume, which is now ready, covers the following subjects: Injuries and Diseases of the Skull and its Contents; Malformations, Injuries and Diseases of the Ear; of the Face, including Plastic Operations and the Neuralgias of the Head; of the Salivary Glands, including Anomalies; of the Jaw; of the Nose and its Adjacent Tissues; of the Mouth and of the Pharynx. The other volumes of the System will follow in rapid succession. Book Reviews W. B. Saunders & Co. announce the early publication of the following books: Nothnagel's Practice of Medicine Miliary Tuberculosis. By Dr. G. Cornet, of Berlin. Edited, with additions, by Walter B. Diseases of the Intestines and Peritoneum. By Dr. Herman OcCloth. Nothnagel, of Vienna. Edited, with additions, by Humphrey D. Rolleston, M.D., F.R.C.P., of St. George's Hospital London. tavc volume of 1,032 pages, containing 20 insert plates. $5.00 net; Half Morocco, $6.00 net. Epilepsy and Its Treatment. Superintendent of the Craig Octavo volume of 528 pages, A Text-Book of Pathology. Colony for Epileptics at Sonyea, N. Y. By Wm. P. Spratling, M.D., Medical illustrated Medico-Chirurgical College, Philadelphia. By Joseph McFarland, M.D., of the 800 pages, beautifully illustrated, including a number in colors. Octavo volume of about The Vermiform Appendix and Its Diseases. By Howard A. Kelly, Hand M.D., of the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. some octavo of about 800 pages, superbly illustrated with over 400 entirely original illustrations, including several lithographic plates. Clinical Diagnosis. By L. Napoleon Boston, M.D., Medico-Chirurgical College, Philadelphia. illustrations, including 25 colored plates. Octavo volume of 525 pages, containing 200 A Hand-Book of Surgery. York. By Frederic R. Griffith, M.D., of New 12mo of about 450 pages, with 300 illustrations. flexible leather. Diseases of the Liver. Bound in of St. George's Hospital, London. Octavo volume of about 1,000 pages, By Humphrey D. Rolleston, M.D., F.R.C.P., beautifully illustrated, including a number of colored plates. A Text-Book of Legal Medicine. A.M., M.D., of Harvard University Medical School, Boston, Mass. A Text-Book of Materia Medica. Including Laboratory Exercises in the Histologic and Chemic Examination of Drugs. By Robert A. Examination of the Urine. Columbus Hospital, New York City. 12mo. volume of about 300 pages, By G. A. de Santos Saxe, Pathologist to fully illustrated. Bound in flexible leather. A Text-Book of Operative Surgery. Covering the Surgical Anat omy and Operative Technic involved in the Operations of General Surgery. By Warren Stone Bickham, M.D., of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City. Second edition, revised. Octavo volume of about 1,000 pages, with 559 beautiful illustrations, nearly all original. Cloth, $6.00 net; sheep or half morocco, $7.00 net. The Practical Application of the Roentgen Rays in Therapeutics and Diagnosis. By William Allen Pusey, A.M., M.D., the University of Illinois; and Eugene W. Caldwell, B.S., of the Edof ward N. Gibbs Memorial X-ray Laboratory of the University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York City. Second edition. revised and enlarged. Octavo volume of about 625 pages, with nearly 200 illustrations, some in colors. A Text-Book of Mechano-Therapy. (Massage and Medical Gymnas tics). By Axel V. Grafstrom, B.Sc., M.D., late of City Hospital, Blackwell's Island, N.Y. tirely reset. Second edition, greatly enlarged and en12mo. of 200 pages, fully illustrated. Materia Medica for Nurses. By Emily A. H. Stoney, Superintendent of the Training School for Nurses at Carney Hospital, South Boston. Second edition, thoroughly revised and enlarged. 12mo. volume of 325 pages. Obstetric and Gynecologic Nursing. By Edward P. Davis, A.M., M.D., of the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Second edition, revised and enlarged. 12mo. of 400 pages, fully illustrated. Bound in buckram. 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. Edited by A. O. J. Kelly, A.M., M.D., Philadelphia, U. S. A. Volume IV., Thirteenth Series, 1904. J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia. Price, $2.00. This volume contains, among other things, articles on Clinical Features and Treatment of Ulcer of the Stomach, by James Tyson; Treatment of Croupous Pneumonia, by John H. Musser; Palpitation, Abnormal Rhythm, the Frequent Pulse, by Thomas E. Scatterthwaite; the Radical Cure of Prostatic Hypertrophy, by J. Albarran, of Paris; Gonorrheal Vulvitis, Its Dangers and Treatment, by Louis Frank; and many others of equal importance. International Clinics. Edited by A. O. J. Kelly, A.M., M.D. Fourteenth Series. Volume I., 1904. Price. $2.00 The same high standard of its predecessors is maintained by this, the first volume of a new series. Some of the articles are: The Early Diagnosis of Pulmonary Tuberculosis, by James J. Walsh, M.D., Ph.D., LL.D.; Angioma and Its Treatment, by Carl Beck; Peripheral Neuritis, by W. B. Pritchard; and a general review of the various branches of medicine for 1903. A Syllabus of Diagnosis. Being a series of questions based upon a work on Clinical Medicine by Dr. Clarence Bartlett, and a Course of Lectures in Physical Diagnosis by Dr. E. R. Snader. Prepared by William F. Baker, A.M., M.D., Clinical Instructor of Medicine in the Hahnemann Medical College of Philadelphia, Pa. 107 pages. Paper, 25 cents. Philadelphia. Boericke & Tafel. 1904. There are some two thousand questions on diagnosis, which will show the average physician what it means to be au courant with modern methods, and give the student who looks into the booklet for the first time a sense of the littleness of his present wisdom. The Law and the Doctor. A Compilation of the Fundamental Legal Principles Governing the Relation of the Physican to His Patients and the Community at Large. Volume I. The Physician's Liability for Malpractice. Prepared expressly for physicians by the Arlington Chemical Company, Yonkers, N. Y. This volume, prepared by a leading member of the New York Bar, is a very handy and valuable monograph on the subject of which it treats, and the medical profession ought to feel indebted to the well-known house that publishes it for their benefit. Here is collected a good deal of valuable information in concise form on a subject which the average physician neglects to his own peril. Transactions of the New York Academy of Medicine, 1896-1901. This volume includes the official report of the Semi-Centennial Anniversary of the Academy, with the addresses delivered on that occasion, and the anniversary discourses, presidential addresses, memorial addresses, and Wesley M. Carpenter lectures from 1896 1901. Transactions of the Thirty-Ninth Session of the Homeopathic Medical Society of the State of Pennsylvania, held at the Board of Trade Assembly Rooms, Scranton, September 22, 23 and 24, 1903. Here is another collection of exceedingly valuable papers, quite a number of which have appeared in the columns of the NORTH AMERICAN. The paper on Chronic Endometritis, by Dr. T. J. Gramm, is admirably illustrated by some fine reproductions of microphotographs, and Dr. H. P. Cole's remarks on a "New Method of Treating Talipes" is illustrated in a way that brings out forcibly the merits of the speaker's procedures. A Study of Man and the Way to Health. By J. D. Buck, M.D. 260 pages, cloth, with cover design by Mr. Knapp, $1.50. Sent prepaid on receipt of price. Robert Clarke Company, Cincinnati. This is a new and revised edition of Dr. Buck's previous work. An introduction and a supplement have been added. Yet so well did Dr. Buck reason that the latest developments of science and psychology are found to be in direct line with the hypothesis formulated in the first edition of "The Study of Man." The author is a trained thinker and has devoted long study to the truths which he promulgates. Especially valuable are his statements regarding the influence of pre-natal impressions upon the future character of the individual and upon the method for obtaining health. Would that not only physicians, but the laity as well, might read and learn these truths which he emphasizes. For the millenium will be much nearer when people know that all parts of the body have an influence upon health, and that it is just as important for the mind to be pure and healthy as for the body. The book is one which will make the reader think, and we believe inspire him to think those thoughts which will lead to a better and therefore a happier life. Dr. Buck honors the homeopathic profession, as well as the medical fraternity at large, by this contribution to science. The Pathogenic Microbes. By M. Le Dr. P. Jousset, Physician to the Hospital St. Jacques, Paris. Authorized translation by Horace P. Holmes, M.D. 192 pages. Cloth, $1.00. Postage, 8 cents. Philadelphia, Boericke & Tafel, 1903. This little book upon Pathogenic Microbes is of interest as a brief article which presents the theory of microbic origin of disease as it exists to-day. Dr. Jousset outlines the different states under which the pathogenic microbe presents itself and the functions. it plays in pathology. He touches upon the history of the toxins, antitoxins and alexins, and then studies the different roles in which the microbe acts, and the theories which endeavor to explain these acts. In closing he puts forth a general and bacteriological doctrine of treatment. To one who wishes to gain a general idea of the modern germ theory of disease, this book will be welcome. |