F. R. C. S. It is fully illustrated and is well adapted for its use.

DISEASES OF THE NOSE AND THROAT. BY CHARLES HUNTOON KNIGHT, A. M., M. D., Professor of Laryngology, Cornell University Medical College; Surgeon, Manhattan Eye and Ear Hospital, Throat Department; Member of the American Laryngological Association, of the American Medical Association, of the American Academy of Medicine, of the American Therapeutic Society, of the New York Academy of Medicine, etc. 147 illustrations. Price, $3.00, net. P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1012 Walnut St., Philadelphia. 1903.

Professor Charles Huntoon Knight, A. M., M. D., of Cornell, has written a valuable work on diseases of the nose and throat. One cannot lay two much stress on specialism. The field of medicine of to-day requires specialists. To become an expert in one branch is much better than to be a "Jack-of-all-trades, and master of none." Dr. Knight has given the profession a valuable work, one that is up to date and contains much that is new to the general practitioner. The work was originally designed for students but all practitioners will do well to consult the book.

A HANDBOOK OF THE DISEASES OF THE EYE AND THEIR TREATMENT. By HENRY R. SWANZY, A. M., M.B., F.R.C.S.I., Surgeon to the Royal Victoria Eye and Ear Hospital, and Ophthalmic Surgeon to the Adelaide Hospital, Dublin; ex-President of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom. Eighth edition, with 168 illustrations and zephyr card of Holmgren's tests. P. Blakiston's Son & Co., Publishers, 1012 Walnut street, Philadelphia, Pa. 1903. Price, $2.50 net.

Already the eighth edition of this excellent work has been called for. This is flattering alike to the author and publishers. The volume has been carefully brought up to date, and must stand as one of the best text-books we have on the subject in the English language.

SCHEME FOR THE DIFFERENTIAL TESTING OF NERVES AND MUSCLES FOR USE IN DIAGNOSIS. By J. MONTGOMERY MOSHER, A.M., M.D., Clinical Professor of Insanity, Neurology and Electro Therapeutics, Albany Medical College; Attending Specialist in Mental Diseases, and Physician to the Out-Patient Department for Nervous and Mental Diseases, Albany Hos. pital. Illustrated. Price, $1.00 net. Brandow Printing Company, Publishers, Fort Orange Press, Albany, N. Y. 1903.

This work is the result of many painstaking examinations at the Albany Hospital of nerves and muscles, group testing by means of the electric current. It will surely be found of great practical utility in nerve and muscle action, as well as in localizing the many conditions requiring motor or sensory treatment.

INTERNATIONAL CLINICS. A Quarterly of Illustrated Clinical Lectures and especially prepared Articles on Medicine, Neurology, Surgery, Therapeutics, Obstetrics, Pediatrics, Pathology, Dermatology, Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat, and other Topics of Interest to Students and Practitioners, by leading Members of the Medical Profession throughout the World. Edited by HENRY W. CATTELL, A.M., M.D., Philadelphia, U. S. A., with the collaboration of JOHN B. MURPHY, MD, Chicago; ALEXANDER D. BLACKADER, M.D., Montreal; H. C. WOOD, M D., Philadelphia; T. M. ROTCH, M.D., Boston; E. LANDOLT, M.D., Paris; THOMAS G. MORTON, M.D., Philadelphia; JAMES J. WALSH, MD., New York; J W. BALLANTYNE, M.D., Edinburgh, and JOHN HAROLD, M.D., London, with regular correspondents in Montreal, London, Paris, Leipsic and Vienna. J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia and London. Cloth, $2 00. Volume 2, 13th series.

This is the second volume of the thirteenth series, 1903, of these excellent publications. It deals with summer diarrhea of children; diseases of the pancreas; Truneck's serum in arterosclerosis; the treatment of influenza, malaria, erysipelas, ozena, the rest treatment. The medical articles are on common cold, peripheral causes of heart disease, endocarditis and valvular diseases of the heart. The surgery taken up treats of hemorrhoids; abdomino-pelvic diagnosis; and epilepsy. In pediatrics there is an excellent article on cirrhosis of the liver in children. Obstetrics and gynecology are represented by the causation and treatment of sterility in women, ectopic gestation, cervical laceration. Under the head of ophthalmology is a very instructive article on surgical intervention in paralysis of the ocular muscles.

PROGRESSIVE MEDICINE. A Quarterly Digest of Advances, Discoveries and Improvements in the Medical Sciences. Edited by HOBART AMORY HARE, M D., Professor of Therapeutics and Materia Medica in the Jetferson Medical College of Philadelphia; Physician to the Jefferson Medical College; one time Clinical Professor of Diseases of Children in the University of Pennsylvania; Member of the Association of American Physicians, etc., assisted by H. R. M. LANDIS, M.D., Assistant Physician to the Out Patient Medical Department of the Jefferson Medical College Hospital. Volume III., September, 1903. Diseases of the thorax and its viscera, including the heart, lungs and blood vessels; dermatology and syphilis; diseases of the nervous system; obstetrics. Lea Brothers & Co., Publishers, Philadelphia and New York. 1903. The contents of Volume III, 1903, are: Diseases of the thorax and its viscera, including the heart, lungs and bloodvessels, by William Ewart, M.D., F.R.C.P.; dermatology and syphilis, by William S. Gottheil, M.D.; diseases of the nervous system, by William G. Spiller, M.D.; obstetrics, by Richard C. Norris, M.D.

RADIUM, AND OTHER RADIO-ACTIVE SUBSTANCES: POLONIUM, ACTINIUM AND THORIUM. With a consideration of phosphorescent and fluorescent substances; the properties and applications of selenium, and the treatment of disease by the ultra-violet light. By WILLIAM J. HAMMER, Consulting Electrical Engineer. Price, $1.00. D. Van Nostrand Company, Publishers, 23 Murray and 27 Warren streets, New York.

The author of this brochure has endeavored to exemplify certain fundamental principles connected with the phenomena upon which he has treated; and in considering these subjects, all of which may be said to be on the border land of science, to bring out by means of experiments, lantern slides and illustrations, which are reproduced in the volume, the practical and commercial side. The little book comprises a lecture delivered at a meeting of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers and American Electro-Chemical Society, in New York, April, 1903. It is especially interesting to medical men who desire to use radium as a therapeutic agent.

A NURSE'S HAND-BOOK OF OBSTETRICS FOR USE IN TRAINING-SCHOOLS. By JOSEPH BROWN COOKE, M.D., Fellow of the New York Obstetrical Society; Lecturer on Obstetrics to the New York City Training-School for Nurses; Surgeon to the New York Maternity Hospital, etc. Price, $2.00 net. J. B. Lippincott Company, Publishers, Philadelphia and London.

Obstetric nursing is of the greatest importance. This work shows much careful, thorough and wide experience. We know of no better book on the subject. In trainingschools it is important to have a reliable work for nurses to study and to follow. Such a work we have in Dr. Cooke's. THE AMERICAN ILLUSTRATED MEDICAL DICTIONARY. For Practitioners and Students. A Complete Dictionary of the Terms used in Medicine, Surgery, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Chemistry, and the kindred branches, including much collateral information of an encyclopedic character, together with new and elaborate tables of Arteries, Muscles, Nerves, Veins, etc.; of Bacilli, Bacteria, Micrococci, Streptococci; Eponymic Tables of Diseases, Operations, Signs and Symptoms, Stains, Tests, Methods of Treatment, etc. By W. A. NEWMAN DORLAND, A. M., M. D., editor of the "American Pocket Medical Dictionary." Handsome large octavo, nearly 800 pages, bound in full flexible leather Philadelphia, New York, London: W. B. Saunders & Company. Price, $4.50, net; with thumb index, $5.00, net. 1903.

The rapid exhaustion of two large editions cannot but be a gratifying proof to the editor and publishers that this excellent work meets the varied needs of physicians and students better that any other dictionary on the

market. In this, the third edition, several hundreds of new terms that have been added to the vocabulary of medical sciences have been incorporated and clearly defined. The entire work, moreover, has evidently been subjected to a careful revision, and many of the tables, notably those of acids, bacteria, stains, tests, methods of treatment, etc., have been amplified, and their practical value greatly increased. It is only by such constant and careful revision that a medical dictionary can hope to reflect the progress of medical science, and the usefulness of this work by this present revision has been very largely extended.

A TEXT-BOOK OF OBSTETRICS. By BARTON COOKE HIRST, M. D., Professor of Obstetrics in the University of Pennsylvania. Handsome octavo, 900 pages, with 746 illustrations. 39 of them in colors. Philadelphia, New York, London: W. B. Saunders & Company. 1903. Cloth, $5.50, net; sheep or half morocco, $6.00, net.

In revising his work for this edition, the author has spared no pains to make the book reflect the latest knowledge on the subject. He has even described and illustrated the method of using the "Neumann-Ehrenfest kliseometer." His perfect familiarity and extensive experience with diseases of women is shown in the careful and minute manner in which he describes the various methods of treatment. As most all the diseases of women are the consequences or complications of childbirth, their preventive treatment at least is in the hands of the obstetrician, and the physician in general practice must be equally well informed in both branches of gynecology. The specialist in obstetrics must be an expert in the surgical treatment of all diseases of women. Even a specialist who confines his work entirely to this treatment, must at least have served a long apprenticeship in practical obstetrics, and have mastered its science to be adequately prepared for his work. From the glimpse we have obtained of Dr. Hirst's knowledge of diseases of women, we wait anxiously for his new work on that subject. In this present work every page has been altered and bettered in some way. More attention has been given than in the previous editions to the diseases of the genital organs associated with or following childbirth, and this, we think, is an excellent improvement. Many of the old illustrations have been replaced by better ones, and there have been added besides a number entirely new.

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The work treats the subject from a clinical standpoint, the author ever keeping in mind that the aim of all medical literature is to cure.

A TEXT-BOOK UPON THE PATHOGENIC BACTERIA. For Students of Medicine and Physicians. By JOSEPH MCFARLAND, M. D., Professor of Pathology and Bacteriology in the Medico Chirurgical College, Philadelphia; Pathologist to the Philadelphia Hospital and to the Medico-Chirurgical Hospital, Philadelphia. Handsome octavo volume of 629 pages, fully illustrated, a number in colors. Philadelphia, New York, London: W. B. Saunders & Company. 1903. Cloth, $3.50, net.

This work gives a concise description of the technical procedures requisite in the study of bacteriology, a brief account of the life histories of the important pathogenic bacteria, and sufficient description of the pathologic lesions accompanying micro-organismal invasions to give an idea of the origin of symptoms and the causes of death. Although but a short time has elapsed since the appearance of the previous edition, such rapid strides have been made in the subject of bacteriology, especially in its relation to pathology, that the author deemed it necessary to rewrite the work entirely. All the old matter has been eliminated, much new matter is in evidence, and, in fact, the subjects treated have been brought precisely down to date. What impressed us most were the chapters upon infection and immunity. All the new facts recently added to our knowledge of these subjects can here be found. The value of the work as a book of reference has been materially increased by the introduction of a large number of references to bacteriologic literature. These have been thoughtfully chosen, and, in nearly all cases, give the sources of the original descriptions of the micro-organisms treated, and the important methods described. Another valuable addition is a bibliographic index containing the names of over 600 authors. Altogether the work in its new edition. is very commendable, and practitioners and students will find it of unusual value.

A TEXT BOOK OF PATHOLOGY. By ALFRED STENGEL, M.D., Professor of Clinical Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania. Octavo volume of 933 pages, with 394 text-illustrations, many in colors, and 7 full-page colored plates Philadelphia, New York, London: W. B. Saunders & Co. 1903. Cloth, $5.00 net; sheep or half-morocco, $6.00 net. In this work the practical application of pathologic facts to clinical medicine is considered more fully than is customary in works on pathology. While the subject