Literary Department.

Under the charge of WINSLOW ANDERSON, A.M., M.D., M.R.C. P.London; M.R.C.S.England; L.S.A. London, etc., Professor of Gynecology and Abdominal Surgery in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of San Francisco.

SURGICAL ANATOMY. A Treatise on Human Anatomy in its Application to the Practice of Medicine and Surgery. By JOHN B. DEAVER, M. D., Surgeon in-Chief to the German Hospital, Philadelphia; in three volumes. Illustrated by 499 plates, nearly all drawn for this work from original dissections. Vol. III: Abdomen; Pelvic Cavity; Lymphatics of the Abdomen and Pelvis; Thorax; Lower Extremity. Cloth, $21; sheep, $24; morocco, $27. P. Blakiston's Son & Co., Philadelphia, 1012 Walnut street, 1903.

Volume III. of this remarkable work of Surgical Anatomy has been received. It is truly a treatise on human anatomy in its application to the practice of medicine and surgery. Deaver's surgical anatomy in three volumes is undoubtedly one of the best applied anatomies published in the English language. Dr. Deaver demonstrates from dissections, specially prepared, giving realistic surgical object lessons. The illustrations are among the best we have ever seen and the enterprising house of P. Blakiston's Son & Co., are to be congratulated on the excellence of the illustrations. Volume III. is devoted to the abdomen, pelvic cavity, lymphatics of the abdomen and pelvis, thorax, and lower extremities. It contains 173 plates most carefully engraved and most useful in depicting the surgery of the parts. The illustrations are as perfect as the actual anatomy and afford the practitioner at a glance the exact anatomic relations in that portion of the body upon which he is working. The volumes are invaluable, the text is clear and concise, the illustrations superb and the make up among the best. When we consider that the author has been twelve years in preparing this work, one can understand the enormous amount of detail, painstaking dissections and descriptions necessary to furnish the profession with this masterpiece of modern surgery.

METHODS OF TEACHING GYMNASTICS. By WILLIAM GILBERT ANDERSON, M. D., Associate Director of the Yale University Gymnasium, President of the Anderson Normal School of Gymnastics, Dean of the Chautauqua School of Physical Education, etc. Hinds & Noble, Publishers, 31 33 35 West 15th street, New York City.

This little volume of 260 pages deserves more than a passing notice, It is written by a teacher of gymnastics,

one who loves his work and daily sees the benefits of it. From a medical standpoint a student does not take enough exercise. Physical training should receive more attention in our public schools, gymnasiums and colleges of to-day. A work such as Professor Anderson has written is a stimulus. It arouses interest and teaches us how to keep our physical bodies in perfect condition. The work should be used as a text book in all the schools, academies and colleges as it is one of the most interesting and instructive works on the methods of teaching gymnastics we have seen. THERAPEUTICS OF INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD. By A. JACOBI, M. D., LL. D. Third edition. Price, $3.50 J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia and London.

Dr. A. Jacobi has presented to the medical profession his third edition of Therapeutics of Infancy and Childhood. It is thoroughly rewritten, containing the very latest thought on the subject. Many additions have been made and as the author remarks "much that belongs to pathological anatomy, etiology and diagnosis has been utilized in the interest of treatment." The work is well worthy of careful study by all those interested in Therapeutics of Infancy and Childhood.

THE PRACTICAL TREATMENT OF STAMMERING AND STUTTE RING WITH SUGGESTIONS FOR PRACTICE AND HELPFUL EXERCISES. BY GEORGE Andrew LEWIS, Originator of the Lewis Phono-Metric Met hod; Founder and Principal of the Lewis School for Stammerers; Editor of the "Phono Meter;" Lecturer, Author, and Speech Specialist. And a treatise on the Cultivation of the Voice with a discussion of principles and suggestions for practice. By GEORGE B. HYNSON, M. A., Late Principal of the National School of Elocution and Oratory; Instructor in Public Speaking in the University of Pennsylvania, Lecturer, Author, and Voice Specialist. Illustrated. Price, $3.50. George Andrew Lewis, Detroit, 1902. This volume is the result of the labors of two teachers, specialists in their respective departments, who have been working for years in different branches of the subject of human speech. The work treats in the first part of those defects of speech that are actual impediments and in the second part of the cultivation of the ordinary voice with a view to greater ease and better execution. Its aim is practical rather than technical. The number of stammerers reach about five per thousand among Americans and Europeans. China is said to have the smallest number. Defective speech, as the author states, is more prevalent

among men than women. Stammering and stuttering usually develop between the ages of four and six years, and rarely after the age of ten. In five thousand cases of stammering investigated by the writers, they found but one case in which there was any real defect in the organs of speech, which suggests that elocutionary and physical rather than surgical treatment is the proper remedy. The work is well filled with appropriate exercises from breathing to enunciation and well worthy of careful study by all who are interested in the subject.

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THE AMERICAN YEAR-BOOK OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY FOR 1903. yearly Digest of Scientific Progress and Authoritative Opinions in all branches of Medicine and Surgery, drawn from journals, monographs, and text-books of the leading American and foreign authors and investigators. Arranged, with critical editorial comments, by eminent American speciaasts, under the editorial cuarge of GEORGE M. GOULD, A. M., M. D. In two volumes-Volume I, including General Medicine, octavo, 700 pages, fully illustrated; Volume II, General Surgery, octavo, 670 pages, fully illustrated. Philadelphia, New York, London. W. B. Saunders & Co., 1903. Per volume: Cloth, $3 00 net; half morocco, $3.75 net. We do not know of any similar publication, either American or foreign, that can compete in any way with this excellent Year-Book, published by W. B. Saunders & Co. It is not an indiscriminate collection of extracts clipped from any and every journal: the matter is carefully selected, edited, and in numerous cases commented upon by the eminent authorities whom Dr. Gould has enlisted as his assistants. Every new theory and scientific discovery worthy of the consideration of the profession has found a place in this unusually complete Year-Book; and the names of the several editors are sufficient guarantee of a proper discrimination. The work comes to us in the same dress as last year-in two volumes. Volume I contains General Medicine, and Volume II General Surgery, the volumes being sold separately if desired. As usual the illustrative feature is well taken care of, there being eleven full page inserts, besides many excellent text-cuts. We strongly recommend Saunders' Year-Book as the best work of its kind on the market.

THE 1903 STANDARD MEDICAL DIRECTORY.

That the publication of a high-class Medical Directory— correct, comprehensive, attractive and influential—is appreciated by the profession is proven by the cordial reception

given the 1902 edition of the Standard Medical Directory of North America and the promising auspices attending the 1903 edition now in active preparation with the aid, so the publishers state from actual computation, of nearly twenty-five thousand correspondents representing every State, province, county, city and town of any size in North America. The new volume will consist of about 1300 pages comprising complete directories respectively of the physicians of all North America, colleges, societies, hospitals, sanitariums, mineral springs, publications, and in fact everything related to medicine. The new features (including an alphabetical index of physicians with post office addresses and rosters of practitioners of the specialties) will, it is stated, add about one-third to the volume of the work.

HARRINGTON'S HYGIENE. A Manual of Practical Hygiene for Students, Physicians and Health Officers. By CHARLES HARRINGTON, M. D., Assistant Professor of Hygiene in the Medical School of Harvard University. New (2d) edition, revised and enlarged. In one octavo volume of 755 pages, illustrated with 113 engravings and 12 full-page plates in colors and monochrome. Cloth, $4.25, net. Lea Brothers & Co., Publishers, Philadelphia and New York. The demand for a second edition of this work within a little more than a year from the appearance of the first is very satisfactory evidence of the appreciation which it has met. During the interval, research in the field of Hygiene has been active and fruitful, and the results have been incorporated in the present edition. A chapter on the Relation of Insects to Human Diseases has been added. Many of the other chapters have been entirely rewritten to present the latest knowledge, and throughout the book will be found evidence of the searching revision to which it has been subjected. The present century brings with it the generally accepted teaching that within the field of preventive medicine lie the greatest possibilities for future success in the reduction of disease prevalence. It is, therefore, an important duty which every practitioner owes to himself and to his patients, to render himself thoroughly conversant with the most up-to-date theories and practical ideas in this science. For this purpose we know of no book that is better adapted than Harrington's Hygiene. In its pages the subject is considered thoroughly, clearly and in its most modern aspect. The work is so compre

hensive, and at the same time so admirably simple, that it serves equally the needs of student, physician, health officer and scientific sanitarian.;

DISEASES OF THE SKIN. Their Description, Pathology, Diagnosis and Treat ment with Special Reference to the Skin Eruptions of Children and an Analysis of Fifteen Thousand Cases of Skin Disease. By H. RADCLIFFECROCKER, M. D., London, F. R. C. P. Physician for Diseases of the Skin in University College Hospital; Honorary Member of the American Dermatological Society; Membre Correspondent Étranger de la Société Francaise de Dermatologie; Correspondierendes Mitglied der Wiener Dermatologischen Gesselschaft; Socio Onorario della Società Italiana di Dermatologia e Sifilografia; late Physician to the East London Hospital for Children; Examiner in Medicine, Apothecaries' Hall, London. Third edition, revised, rewritten and enlarged, with 4 plates, 2 of which contain 12 colored figures, and 112 other illustrations; octavo, 1400 pages; cloth, $5 00; sheep $6.00, net. P. Blakiston's Son & Co, 1012 Walnut street, Philadelphia.

Crocker on the Skin is a book built entirely upon superior merit. It has been acknowledged by the American medical press as "the best text book in the English language." The new third edition maintains this high standard of excellence. Coming at a time when recent progress in dermatology makes an authoritative work upon the subject a positive necessity, its announcement therefore is considered of special importance by the publishers, and it is believed the same view will be taken by the profession. It is a safe, accurate, eminently practical and strictly modern treatise, well and clearly written by a man of large experience and most excellent judgment. Though completely scientific, it is written in such a happy manner that the tyro may follow the writer almost as readily as the expert on diseases of the skin. It will be seen, therefore, that it appeals to general practitioners as well as specialists, while to the student it will serve as a valuable guide when he enters upon the more arduous task of practice. The etiology, symptomatology, pathology and minute anatomy, constitutional conditions, diagnosis and treatment of each disease mentioned is fully entered upon, the therapeutics, dietetics and general regimen coming in also for their due share of attention, great strength in the accuracy of statement and method and clearness of definition and differentiation being shown. The newer remedies and bacteriological researches, in their bearing upon dermatology, are carefully noted. The book proves Dr.