Asylum. Second Edition, Rewritten and Enlarged. Octavo; 687 pages, with thirty-seven full-page plates, twenty of which are in colors, and two hundred and twelve smaller engravings and half-tones. Philadelphia: F. A Davis Company, Publishers. 1902.

This work, which was before very practical and helpful, has been greatly enlarged and improved, so that now, we think it takes the foremost rank in proctologic literature. The chapters on "Cancer" and "Colostomy" have been entirely rewritten and considerably extended. Three new chapters have been added, on "Diseases, Injuries and Tumors of the Coccyx," "Venereal Diseases of the Ano-Rectal Region" and "Recto-Colonic Enteroliths and Concretions." The author is an original worker and has devised a number of instruments and operations. His descriptions are explicit and systematic. He favors the clamp and cautery operation for internal hemorrhoids. The iodides are considered by him the best of internal antiseptics. The illustrations are the finest we have seen in any work on the same subject. Practitioners may be assured that they will not fail to find any useful related point in this volume.

GENERAL PARESIS.-Practical and Clinical. By Robert Howland Chase, A. M., M. D., Physician-in-Chief Friends Asylum for the Insane; Late Resident Physician State Hospital, Norristown, Pa., Twelve-mo; 291 pages. Illustrated. Price, $1.75 net. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1012 Walnut Street. 1901.

This is at present the only separate work upon the important subject of general paresis. The volume is based largely upon the author's personal experience for more than twenty-five years among cases of nervous and mental diseases, but he makes many brief clinical abstracts from the writings of other psychiatrists. The diagnosis of the prodromal stage, in which alone treatment is of any avail, is clearly and fully described. The book is unique in the number of portraits representing typical cases in all stages of the disease. The family physician will find it of great service as well as unusual interest.

SAUNDER'S QUESTION COMPENDS.-Essentials of Histology. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. By Louis Leroy, B. S., M. D., Professor of Histology and Pathology, Vanderbilt University, Medical and Dental Departments; Pathologist to

the Nashville City Hospital, etc. Second Edition, thoroughly revise dand greatly enlarged; 16-mo volume, of 263 pages, with 92 beautiful illustrations. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Co., 1902. Cloth, $1.00 net.

Though necessarily much condensed, the subject of histology is well taught in this small volume. The varied type, the questions at the end of each chapter and the large number of clear figures, make the book an admirable student's aid. It should be acceptable to that large class of busy practitioners who never had the opportunity of laboratory instrustion in cutting and mounting sections. The chapter on technic is practically complete and quite up-to-date.

SAUNDER'S MEDICAL HAND-ATLASES.-Atlas and Epitome of Traumatic Fractures and Dislocations. By Professor Dr. H. Helferich, Professor of Surgery at the Royal University, Greifswald, Prussia. Edited, with additions, by Joseph C. Bloodgood, M. D., Associate in Surgery, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. From the fifth revised and enlarged edition. With 216 colored illustrations on 64 lithographic plates, 190 text-cuts, and 353 pages of text. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Co., 1902. Cloth, $3.00 net.

Like all the other numbers of this popular series, the present volume provides practitioners with a ready reference manual whose value is best appreciated by use. The textual sections are grouped about an unrivalled atlas of colored plates and skiagraphs, with numerous figures in black and white, showing deformities and methods of treatment. Time, labor and care have been freely bestowed on the work with the well fulfilled purpose of facilitating the diagnosis and treatment of fractures and dislocations to the utmost degree. Full notes accompany each plate. The general considerations of the subject are discussed in a clear and comprehensive preliminary outline. The special text is arranged regionally, and is of a strictly practical character.

SAUNDER'S QUESTION COMPENDS.-Essentials of Diseases of the Ear. Third Edition, Thoroughly Revised. By E. B. Gleason, S. B., M. D., Professor of Otology, Medico-Chirurgical College, Philadelphia; Surgeon in Charge of the Nose, Throat and Ear Deparement of the Northern Dispensary.

Philadelphia, etc. Third Edition. Thoroughly Revised; 16 mo. volume of 214 pages, with 114 illustrations. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Co., 1902. Cloth, $1.00 net.

This little book is a convenient compendium of the rudiments of otologic diagnosis and practice, and should prove of practical service to general practitioners and medical students. It has been prepared with as much care as more pretentious tomes, and is specially helpful in the every day minor points of diagnosis and treatment. The present edition has undergone scrupulous revision and contains many original drawings.

INTERNATIONAL TEXT-BOOK OF SURGERY.-Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. In two volumes. By American and British Authors. Edited by J. Collins Warren, M. D., LL. D., F. R. C. S. (Hon.), Professor of Surgery Harvard Medical School, and A. Pearce Gould, M. S., F. R. C. S., of London, England. Vol. I. General and Operative Surgery. Royal octavo of 965 pages, with 461 illustrations, and 9 fullpaged colored lithographic plates. Vol. II. Special or Regional Surgery. Royal octavo of 1122 pages, with 499 illustrations, and 8 full-paged colored lithographic plates. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Co., 1902. Cloth, $5.00 net; sheep or half morocco, $6.00 net.

This great work has already taken a foremast rank as a masterly exposition of practical up-to-date surgery, untrammelled by the traditions of the past. The work derives exceptional authoritativeness from the method employed of having each contributor write on the subject in which he has a special reputation. The various departments of Volume I and Volume II in the present edition have been prepared by the following teachers and surgeons: C. H. Golding Bird, Edward H. Bradford, J. G. A. Burns, Herbert L. Barrell, Richard C. Cabot, I. H. Cameron, W. Watson Cheyne, J. Chalmers Da Costa, Harold C. Ernst, George Ryerson Fowler, George W. Gay, Robert B. Greenough, George H. Makins, Charles McBurney, George H. Monks, Rushton Parker, Lewis S. Pilcher, Franz Pfaff, Maurice H. Richardson, Guy Bellingham Smith, Walter George Spencer, J. Bland Sutton, L. McLane Tuffany, Weller Van Hook, James P. Warbasse, J. Collins Warren, DeForest Willard, Robert Abbe, Wil

liam T. Bull, James Cantile, William Bruce Clarke, William B. Coley, E. Treacher Collins, H. Holbrook Curtis, N. P. Danbridge, John B. Deaver, John W. Elliot, Christian Fenger, W. H. Forwood, A. Pearce Gould, J. Orne Green, M. L. Harris, Fernand Henrotin, Rudolph Matas, Charles McBurney, Andrew J. McCosh, Lewis S. McMurtry, J. Ewing Mears, John Murray, Robert W. Parker, George A. Peters, James J. Putnam, A. W. Mayo Robson, William L. Rodman, Charles A. Siegfried, H. Tuholske, Weller Van Hook, J. Collins Warren.

The marked progress in military and naval surgery during the past two years is fully represented in the present edition. The chapter on diseases of the lymphatic system, including the surgery of the spleen, has been completely rewritten, in accordance with the latest findings and practice, and the chapter on renal surgery has been extensively revised. A large number of new cuts have been added to an already generous supply of beautiful illustrations, including seventeen colored lithographic plates.

A TEXT-BOOK OF THE SURGICAL PRINCIPLES AND SURGICAL DISEASES OF THE FACE, MOUTH AND JAWS.-For Dental Students. By Horace Grant, A. M., M. D., Professor of Surgery and of Clinical Surgery, Hospital College of Medicine; Professor of Oral Surgery Louisville College of Dentistry, Louisville. Octavo volume of 231 pages, with 68 illustrations. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Co., 1902. Cloth, $2.50 net.

This text-book is designed for dental students, and succinctly describes the operative procedures of the art of dentistry, with the principles upon which they depend. The subject matter is presented clearly and concisely, and is made to conform with the practical requirements of college work and office practice. Verbal instruction is elucidated by a considerable number of well selected illustrations. We know of no better book of its kind for the very moderate price.

A TEXT-BOOK OF MATERIA MEDICA, THERAPEUTICS AND PHARMACOLOGY.-By George F. Butler, Ph. G., M. D., Professor of Material Medica and Therapeutics in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Chicago, Medical Department of the University of Illinois, etc. Fourth Edition, Thoroughly Re

vised. Handsome octavo volume of 896 pages, illustrated. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Co., 1902. Cloth, $4.00 net; sheep or half morocco, $5.00 net.

As a writer on Materia Medica and Therapeutics, Professor Butler is distinguished for a careful diction, an easy style and a methodic presentation of his topics. He enters largely into the rationale of thereapeutic applications through a full discussion of physiologic action. The grouping of correlated drugs in classes saves much repetition and greatly facilitates the labor of students. The special attention given to the administration and contraindication of remedies merits special notice. In the present edition the newer synthetics of approved value are considered critically. The chapters on serum therapy and organotherapy and cognate subjects have been carefully revised in accordance with the latest scientific researches. The up-to-dateness of the book is further shown by a comprehensive new chapter on the relation of physical chemistry to pharmacology and therapeutics, in which the applications of the ion science to practical medicine are made clear.

SCUDDER'S TREATMENT OF FRACTURES.-By Chas. L. Scudder, M. D., Assistant in Clinical and Operative Surgery, Harvard Medical School. Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged. Octavo, 480 pages, with 645 original illustrations. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Co., 1902. Polished buckram, $4.50 net; half morocco, $5.50 net.

This handsome work has all the advantages of an authoritative exposition of a special department. The author describes very clearly, fully and systematically, with reference to conditions as they actually are, all the details of the diagnosis and treatment of open and closed fractures, according to the most modern approved methods. In this task he has been aided wonderfully by a superb and most elaborate series of illustrations, largely photogravures and skiagraphs, the tracings of the latter representing the combined interpretation of the plate made by skilled observers personally familiar with the clinical aspects of the case. The use of anesthesia in the proper initial diagnosis and treatment of fractures is rightly emphasized, as are also the Roentgen ray, antisepsis, the open incision of closed fractures when indicated, and the