Landolt, M.D., Paris, and Richard Kretz, M.D., Vienna. We find among the contributors to Volume III., Dr. W. H. Allchin, London; Dr. J. W. Ballantyne, Edinburgh; Dr. Chauffard, Paris; Dr. W. S. Gottheil, New York; Dr. Alfred Fournier, of Paris Faculty of Medicine; Dr. T. S. Stuart, of the Vanderbilt. Clinic, New York; Dr. T. H. Manley, New York, and Mr. Campbell Williams, London, Eng. The first section of the book consists of twelve clinics by various authors, on syphilis, syphilitic inoculation, fever, headache, laryngeal, fetal syphilis, syphilis and suicide, treatment of chancre and treatment by calomel injections. This alone makes the volume one of value. The balance of the book is devoted to treatment, surgery, medicine, gynecology and neurology. Dr. T. H. Manley contributes an article on umbilical hernia in the female that possesses a great deal of merit, and is well worthy of careful perusal. Malignant Disease of the Larynx-Carcinoma and Sarcoma. By PHILIP DE SANTI, F.R.C.S., Surgeon to the Throat, Nose and Ear Departments, Westminster Hospital. London: Bailliére, Tindall & Cox. 1904. Pp. 106. Fortunately, malignant disease of the larynx is rare. In this country patients have usually been recommended to get their estates in order, for there is no hope for them. In England and Germany there has been a greater disposition to offer operation to the patient. In Germany the operation has usually been extirpation of the larynx; in England it has been thyrotomy and, if need be, extirpation of part or all of the larynx, as operation showed necessary. The English results have been very good, and De Santi's monograph is really a plea for this operation as offering the greatest measure of hope to the patient. J. M. Regional Minor Surgery. By GEORGE GRAY VAN SCHAICK, Consulting Surgeon to French Hospital, N.Y. Second edition, enlarged and revised. 228 pages, bound in cloth. Profusely illustrated. Price, $1.50. International Journal of Surgery Co., N.Y. The practicability and usefulness of this book is best indicated by the demand, necessitating a second edition in an unusually short time. This edition has been subjected to a thorough revision, and additional chapters have been added. The author's object, to furnish the general practitioner with such practical information on minor surgery conditions as will be of the greatest service to him in his daily practice, has been well accomplished. Subjects of a technical character have been avoided, and only the most applicable methods demonstrated by twenty years' private and hospital experience are presented. The book is liberally illustrated with original sketches and is so eminently practical and useful, we believe it will be run through many more editions. Minor surgery is minor in name only, since the most trivial injury may be followed by disastrous results. A ready reference, free from technicalities and theories, is of great advantage in emergency work, for the busy practitioner as well as for the student, and while in a small work like this much. cannot be included, still there is a reasonable share of what is necessary for such purposes. E. H. A. A Text-Book of Physiological Chemistry. For Students of Medicine and Physicians. By CHARLES E. SIMON, M.D., of Baltimore, Md. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Philadelphia and New York: Lea Brothers & Co. "The subject-matter has been arranged in such a manner that in the first section of the work a general survey is given of the origin and the chemical nature of the three great classes of foodstuffs, and also of the most important products of their decomposition. The second section deals essentially with the processes of digestion, resorption and excretion. The third and last portion is devoted to the chemical study of the elementary tissues and the various organs of the animal body, the specific products of their activity, and their relation to physiological function." In this second edition, many important additions have been made, while some of the chapters have been almost entirely rewritten in order to include in them the advances in chemical research that are rapidly taking place. The style adopted by the author is very clear, the subjectmatter is thoroughly treated, and we are sure that the work will be exceedingly popular with all those who are interested in this most fascinating subject. A. E. Text-Book of Human Physiology. Including Histology and Micrcscopical Anatomy, with Especial Reference to the Practice of Medicine. By DR. L. LANDOIs, Professor of Physiology and Director of the Physiological Institute in the University of Griefswald. Tenth revised and enlarged edition. Edited by ALBERT P. BRUBAKER, M.D., Professor of Physiology and Hygiene in the Jefferson Medical College. Translated by AUGUSTUS A. ESHNER, M.D., Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Philadelphia Polyclinic. With 394 illustrations. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1012 Walnut Street. 1904. This is a translation of the tenth and last German edition of Landois' well-known text-book of human physiology. In the preparation of this work the author says that he has tried to provide for physicians and students a book that should supply the needs of the practising physician in larger measure than is done by the majority of similar works. In every section a brief outline of the usual pathological variations follows the description of the normal processes. This linking together of the normal and abnormal, physiology and pathology, cannot fail to help both students and practitioners in their efforts to recognize and interpret the significance of clinical symptoms in any departure from normal conditions. Many new illustrations have been added, and some of the old ones have been replaced by better ones. It would be hard to find a more complete or more useful work on physiology, and we think the improvements in this edition. will add even still more to its popularity. A. E. A Text-Book of Histology. By FREDERICK R. BAILEY, A.M., M.D., Adjunct Professor of Normal Histology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Medical Department, Columbia University, New York City. Profusely illustrated. New York: Wm. Wood & Co. 1904. In those days when medical teaching is almost entirely conducted on the laboratory system, a book written along the line of Dr. Bailey's will be found especially useful for both teacher and student. It is practical and concise, all unnecessary material having been culled out, without the value of the book having been in any way sacrificed. As a text-book of histology, it will not be easy to find one to excel it. The Physician's Visiting List for 1905. Fifty-fourth year of its publication. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1012 Walnut Street. Blakiston's "Visiting List" for the coming year is practically the same as for 1904. It contains some useful, practical information on incompatibility of drugs, poisoning, the metric system, dose table, asphyxia and apnea, comparison of thermometers, and a table for calculating the period of utero gestation. It can be procured for from twenty-five to one hundred patients per week, or in perpetual form. The leather cover, with pocket and pencil, sells at $1.00. Blakiston's list is excelled by none. "General Catalogue of Medical Books." P. Blakiston's Son & Co., Philadelphia, Pa. This is a useful list of the most recent works in all branches of medicine and surgery, arranged alphabetically. The book is interleaved. The Medical News' Visiting List for 1905 has come to hand. It varies little from that for the year now closing, but will be found by physicians who like to carry a daily visiting list, to be exceedingly compact and handy. It contains a lot of memoranda and data, that will be found most useful to the busy practitioner, and can be procured in four styles, a weekly, monthly, perpetual, and one undated, for sixty patients weekly. The List is published by Wm. Wood & Co., New York, N.Y. "Visiting and Pocket Reference Book for 1905." The following is a comprehensive contents: Table of signs and how to keep visiting accounts, obstetrical memoranda, clinical emergencies, poisons and antidotes, dose table, blank leaves for weekly visiting list, memorandum, nurses' addresses, clinical, obstetrical, birth, death and vaccination records, bills rendered, cash received, articles loaned, money loaned, miscellaneous, calendar 1905. 126 pages, lapel binding, red edges. This very complete call book will be furnished by the Dios Chemical Co., of St. Louis, Mo., on receipt of 10 cents for postage. The December Delineator, with its message of good cheer and helpfulness, will be welcomed in every home. The fashion pages are unusually attractive, illustrating and describing the very latest modes in a way to make their construction during the busy festive season a pleasure instead of a task, and the literary and pictorial features are of rare excellence. A selection of Love Songs from the Wagner Operas, rendered into English by Richard de Gallienne and beautifully illustrated in colors by J. C. Leydendecker, occupies a prominent place, and a chapter in the Composers' Series, relating the Romance of Wagner and Cosima, is an interesting supplement to the lyrics. A very clever paper, entitled "The Court Circles of the Republic," describes some unique phases of Washington social life, is from an unnamed contributor, who is said to write from the inner circles of society. There are short stories. from the pens of F. Hopkinson Smith, Robert Grant, Alice Brown, Mary Stewart Cutting and Elmore Elliott Peake, and such interesting writers as Julia Magruder, L. Frank Baum and Grace MacGowan Cooke hold the attention of the children. Many Christmas suggestions are given in needlework, and the Cookery pages are redolent of the Christmas feast. In addition, there are the regular departments of the magazine, with many special articles on topics relating to woman's interests within and without the home. |