the sections on the adenoid tissues, blood and the bloodforming organs, muscular tissues, special sense organs, and peripheral nerve distributions, making these parts conform to the latest advances in the study of these tissues. The work will be found useful as an atlas, text-book, and book of reference for student and practitioner. We strongly recommend it.

THE A B C OF PHOTO-MICROGRAPHY. A Practical Handbook for Beginners. By W. H. WALMSLEY, 155 pages, 5x7, with 29 Photo-Micrographs by the author. Tennant and Ward, New York.

The lack of any American book dealing with this fascinating branch of photographic work, and the great need of an elementary introduction to photo-micrography, has led Mr. W. H. Walmsley to prepare this excellent manual. Mr. Walmsley is a recognized authority in the photo-micrographic world, and has had a more varied and longer experience in the field than most of his co-workers. He deals with his subject in a plain but comprehensive way, and the beginner who will study the A B C should find his difficulties vanish. The illustrations add largely to the practical value of the book and are, in themselves, most interesting. ATLAS AND EPITOME OF DISEASES OF THE MOUTH, PHARYNX, AND NOSE. By DR. L. GRUNWALD, M.D., of Munich. Edite!, with additions, by JAMES E. NEWCOMB, M. D., Instructor in Laryngology, Cornell University Medical School; Attending Laryngologist to the Roosevelt Hospital, OutPatient Department. With 102 illustrations on 42 colored lithographic plates, 41 text-cuts, and 219 pages of text. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Co. Cloth, $3.00, net.

In designing this atlas the author has kept constantly in mind the needs of both student and practitioner, and as far as possible, typical cases of the various diseases have been selected. The illustrations are described in the text in exactly the same way as a practiced examiner would demonstrate the objective findings to his class, the book thus serving as a substitute for actual clinical work. The illustrations themselves are numerous and exceedingly well executed, portraying the conditions so strikingly that their study is almost equal to examination of the actual specimens. The editor has incorporated his own valuable experience, and has also included extensive notes on the use of the active principle of the suprarenal bodies in the materia medica of rhinology and laryngology. The work, being an excellent atlas and epitome of the diseases of the

mouth, pharynx and nose, serves also as a text-book on the anatomy and physiology of these organs. Indeed, we wonder how the author has encompassed so much within such a limited space. We heartily commend the work as the best we have seen.

OBSTETRICAL NURSING FOR NURSES AND STUDENTS. BY HENRY ENOS TULEY, M. D., Louisville, Ky., Professor of Obstetrics, Kentucky University, Medical Department; Visiting Obstetrician to the John N. Norton Memorial Infirmary, Louisville City Hospital, and the Home for Friendless Women, etc Pages 202. Price, cloth, $1.00 net. G. P. Engelhard & Company, Chicago. 1902.

This excellent little volume of 200 pages contains all the essentials of obstetrical nursing. It is fully illustrated, and should be used in every training school in the land. BIOGRAPHIC CLINICS. The Origin of the Ill-Health of De Quincey, Carlisle, Darwin, Huxley and Browning. By GEORGE M. GOULD, M. D., editor of American Medicine, author of "An Illustrated Dictionary of Medicine, Biology, etc." "Borderland Studies," "The Meaning and Method of Life," etc. P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1012 Walnut street, Philadelphia, Pa. 1903.

It is a peculiar fact that the letters and other writings of DeQuincey, Carlyle, Darwin, Huxley and Browning, liberal as they are with references to the continued ill-health of those great writers, have not before this suggested to the medical profession an opportunity for research into the causal factors of those physical conditions. That the opportunity has not until now been recognized in its proper light is evidenced by the hitherto total absence of any work dealing with this subject. Dr. George M. Gould's Biographic Clinics (P. Blakiston Son & Co., Philadelphia), which is devoted to this neglected subject, should, therefore, prove a most unique and valuable contribution to biographical and medical literature. Dr. Gould has gathered from the biographies, writings and letters of the five named men every reference to their ill-health. Each endured, as is well known, a life of suffering, which made almost every day a torment, and by which their work and worth as an asset of the nation and civilization was conditioned and often rendered morbid. The cause of their affliction was an utter mystery to their physicians. No explanation explained, and no cure cured. Dr. Gould has gone into the "why" of this very thoroughly and the conclusion reached by him, from logic and from a careful summary of the

clinical symptoms, is that each of the writers suffered from eye-strain, and that scientific correction of their ametropia would have transformed their lives of mistery into lives of happiness. A history of the discovery of astigmatism and eye-strain, with a discussion of its indications and responsibilities, completes the work. It is interestingly written, and will undoubtedly meet with a ready sale among medical men and those interested in the works and lives of the quintette of great writers.

AN EPITOME OF PHYSIOLOGY. For Students and Practitioners of Medicine. By THEODORE C. GUENTHER, M.D., of the Norwegian Hospital, Brooklyn, and AUGUSTUS E. GUENTHER, B.S., formerly Assistant in Physiology in the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. In one 12mo. volume of 250 pages, with 57 engravings. Cloth, $1.00, net. Lea Brothers & Co., Publishers, Philadelphia and New York. 1903.

This is a compact little treatise, free from discursive matter, but giving the established facts of Physiology as developed at the present day. It is intended for and especially adapted to the needs of medical and dental students, but it will also prove of value to the practitioner who may wish to post himself on the most recent findings on the subject. This Series of Medical Epitomes should not be confounded with the ordinary Question Compend, made up in question and answer form, for in the Epitomes the matter is given connectedly, thus facilitating reading and study, and the questions for convenience in quizzing are appended to each chapter. Helpful illustrations are used where necessary throughout the book.

MANTON'S OBSTETRICS. A Manual of Obstetrics for Students and Practitioners. By W. P. MANTON, M.D., Adjunct-Professor of Obstetrics and Professor of Clinical Gynecology, Detroit College of Medicine. In one 12mo. volume of 265 pages, with 82 illustrations. Cloth, $1.00. Lea Brothers & Co., Publishers, Philadelphia and New York. 1903.

This, the fourth volume of Lea's Series of Medical Epitomes, presents a clear, compendious covering of the essentials of modern Obstetrics. It is written in admirably simple language, and its arrangement and scope give ample evidence of its author's experience in teaching this subject. The little volume stands out boldly as an example of skillful condensation; its 265 pages contain a surprising amount of well-told information necessary to a foundation knowledge, and a superfluous word or phrase would be hard to find. To the student it will prove a boon indeed, and teachers and practitioners will value it almost as much.

A MANUAL OF MEDICINE. Edited by W. H. ALLCHIN, M. D. (Lond.), F.R.C.P., F.R.C.S. (Ed.), Senior Physician and Lecturer on Clinical Medicine, Westminster Hospital; Late Examiner in Medicine in the University of London, for the Royal College of Physicians of London, and for the British and Indian Army Medical Services. Vol. IV. Diseases of the Respiratory and of the Circulatory Systems. The Macmillan Company, New York and London. 1902.

The fourth volume of this excellent system of medicine has been received. It deals with the respiratory and the circulatory systems. This volume, like the three preceding, is written in the same clear, concise, interesting and instructive manner. Each page and each paragraph contains the essence of the subject matter under consideration. HUNTINGTON'S ABDOMINAL ANATOMY. The Anatomy of the Human Peritoneum and Abdominal Cavity considered from the standpoint of Development and Comparative Anatomy. By GEORGE S. Huntington, M. D., Professor of Anatomy in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Colum. bia University New York City. In one handsome quarto volume of 590 pages, including 300 full-page plates in colors and monochrome, containing 582 figures. De luxe edition; gilt top; uncut edges. $10.00, net. Lea Brothers & Co., Philadelphia and New York. 1903.

The mysteries of the Peritoneum and Abdominal Cavity particularly concern anatomists, surgeons, gynecologists and obstetricians, and interest the general practitioner to a degree scarcely less. This comprehensive and authoritative work will, therefore, appeal to an unusually wide constituency of readers. Dr. Huntington has approached the subject in the light thrown upon it by Embryology and Comparative Anatomy, thereby clarifying the hitherto difficult and complicated morphological problems presented by these regions. The book represents the course in visceral anatomy developed during many years at Columbia University, and is unique in its marvelous wealth of illustrations, amounting practically to an Atlas, with full explanatory text These illustrations are, for the most part, taken from preparations in the Morphological Museum of Columbia University, and wherever practicable direct photographic reproductions of the actual preparations are given. The introductory pages are devoted to the study of Development, after this come the Anatomy of the Peritoneum and Abdominal Cavity, and the Comparative Anatomy of the Stomach; the Anatomy of the Peritoneum in the Supracolic Compartment of the Abdomen; the Large and Small Intestine; Ileo-Colic Junction and Cæcum, and the Morphology

of the Cæcum and Vermiform Appendix. Each of these several sections is thoroughly elucidated in detail. The Morphology of the Vertebrate Ileo-Colic Junction and the structural details of the Human Cæcum and Appendix are considered very fully by reason of the extensive material available and the paramount clinical importance of these subjects.

CUSHNY'S PHARMACOLOGY AND THERAPEUTICS. A Text-Book of Pharmacol ogy and Therapeutics; or, the Action of Drugs in Health and Disease. By ARTHUR R. CUSHNY, A. M., M. D., Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, University of Michigan, Department of Medicine and Surgery, Ann Arbor, Mich. Third edition, revised and enlarged. In one handsome octavo volume of 750 pages, with 52 engravings. Cloth, $3.75, net; leather, $4.75, net. Lea Brothers & Co., Publishers, Philadelphia and New York. 1903.

During the eighteen months which have elapsed since the appearance of the second edition, several important advances have been made in pharmacology, necessitating corresponding changes in the text. The most interesting of these is the authoritative and, it is to be hoped, final determination of the food value of alcohol, which has been treated in more detail than in former editions. The increasing use of cocaine as a local anesthetic, and the introduction of the subarachnoid method of medication required an expansion of the chapter on cocaine, and much more consideration has been devoted to the adrenal gland. Numerous minor changes have been made to bring the text up to date, and several new illustrations have been added. It is an encouraging sign of the tendencies of modern medicine to note the continued welcome extended to a book which endeavors to explain the reasons for drug action, and to offer a connected and rational body of knowledge concerning therapeutics. The work is thoroughly modern and reliable.

A POCKET TEXT-BOOK OF ANATOMY. By WM. H. ROCKWELL, Jr., M. D., Assistant Demonstrator of Anatomy, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York. In one 12mo. volume of 600 pages, with 70 illustrations. Lea's Series of Pocket Text-Books. Edited by BERN B. GALLAUDET, M. D. Cloth, $2.25, net; limp leather, $2.75, net. Lea Brothers & Co, Philadelphia and New York.

Like its companion volumes in Lea's Series of Pocket Text Books, this work presents a compendious and trustworthy account of the most recent knowledge in its subject. While not intended to take the place of large complete