this book was that we have all been slow to see the real importance of many points now forming a part of every-day work. Take, for Sir Thomas Watson sugexample, the use of rubber gloves. gested these more than half a century ago, and Halstead has used them since '89, but only for the last half dozen years have they been generally recognized as eliminating the chief dangers of wound infection. It is quite safe to say that there is not a hospital in Canada in which better work will not be done if this book be obtained and rightly used. One may go further and claim that there is not a surgeon who will fail to receive benefit by such a review of his knowledge as its careful reading can afford.

N. A. P.

By GEORGE BARR MCCUTCHEON, Beverley of Graustark. author of "Graustark," "The Sherrods," etc., with illustrations by Harrison Fisher. Toronto: McLeod and Allen, 1904. A crisp, bright tale for the physician's week-end jaunt.

The author takes us back to that wonderful little Duchy of Graustark, in the far east, with its placid valleys and rugged mountains, full of thrills and dangers. There the beautiful daughter of a Carolina Midas meets with numerous strange and hair-raising adventures, which holds the reader breathless with interest from the drop of the hat until he passes the wire.

W. H. P.

A Compend of Operative Gynecology, based on Lectures in the Course of Operative Gynecology on the Cadaver at the New York Post Graduate Medical School and Hospital, delivered by WILLIAM SEAMAN BAINBRIDGE, M.D., Adjunct Professor of Operative Gynecology on the Cadaver, New York Post Graduate Medical School and Hospital; Consulting Gynecologist, St Mary's Hospital, Jamaica, L.I.; Consulting Gynecologist to St. Andrew's Convalescent Hospital, New York, etc. Compiled with additional Notes in Collaboration with Harold D. Meeker, M.D., Instructor in Operative Gynecology on the Cadaver, New York Post Graduate Medical School and Hospital; Assistant, Department of Gynecology Vanderbilt Clinic, College of Physicians and Surgeons, New Price $1.00 net. New York. 12mo. Cloth, 76 pages.

York City The Grafton Press Publishers.

Practically this is a guide to operative gynecology as practised on the cadaver. The technique of operations is well described, and if a student would learn it by heart he would probably be fairly familiar with the operations herein detailed. Every young surgeon, particularly those practising in the country, will find this book of very great value, especially when called upon to perform

operations with which they are not very familiar, as it is such a perfect compend that a general idea of almost any operation can be obtained in five minutes.

A. J. J.

Students' Handbook of Operative Surgery. By WILLIAM IRELAND DE C. WHEELER (Mod.), B.A., M.D. (Dub. Univ.), F.R.C.S., Surgeon to Mercer's Hospital. Ex-demonstrator of Anatomy, Trinity College, Dublin. Dublin: Bailliere, Tindall and Cox, 8 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. 1906.

This little treatise of 300 pages is well written and is a trustworthy guide for the student who is taking a course in Operative Surgery. The author does not profess to do more than supply a text book for student purposes and he has succeeded admirably in covering quite an extensive field; describing the technique of various operations in the different regions of the body in a concise and clear manner. The book will doubtless be found useful to those preparing for examination.

A. P.

The International Medical Annual. A Year Book of Treatment and Practitioner's Index. Contributors: Jos. Blumfield, M.D., Cantab.; Victor Bonney, M.S., M.D., F.R.C.S.; Prof. J. Rose Bradford, D.Sc., M.D.; Prof. A. H. Carter, M.Sc., M.D., F.R.C.P.; Frank J. Charteris, M.B., Ph.B.; Charles C. Easterbrook, M.A., M.D., F.R.C.P.; Ed. Jos. G. Emanuel, B.Sc., M.D.; E. Hurry Fenwick, F.R.C.S.; Fredk. Gardner, B.Sc., M.D., F.R.C.S.; Edward W. Goodall, M.D.; Wilfred James Hadley, M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.C.S.; G. Armauer Hanson, M.D., Bergen; Robert Hutchison, M.D., F.R.C.P.; Priestley Leech, M.D., F.R.C.S.; Jas. Kerr Love, M.D.; Harold F. Mole, F:R.C.S.; E. Reginald Morton, M.D., C.M., F.R.C.S.; Prof. P. Lockhart Mummery, B.S., F.R.C.S.; Jos. Priestley, B.A., M.D., D.P.H.; Walther E. Rahte, M.D.; Philadelphia; Prof. Boardman Reed, M.D., Philadelphia; Prof. A. W. Mayo Robson, D.Sc., F.R.C.S.; G. W. Watson, Stephens, M.D., B.Ch., D.P.H.; Purves Stewart, M.A., Ed., M.D.; Geo. Fred. Still, M.A., M.D., F.R.C.P.; Prof. Ralph Stockman, M.D., F.R.C.P.E.; A. Hugh Thompson, M.A., M.D., M.R.C.S.; J. W. Thompson Walker, M.B., F.R.C.S.; Norman Walker, M.D.; Prof. Wertheim, M.D., Vienna; P. Watson Williams, M.D., M.R.C.S. 1906. Twenty- fourth Year. New York: E. B. Treat & Company, 241-243 West Twenty-third Street. $3.00.

The present issue of the International Medical Annual is similar in bulk to the last issue, which was the first of the enlarged series. The names of the contributors are a guarantee of the high

quality of the articles in this volume. The first eighty pages are devoted to a dictionary of Materia Medica and Therapeutics.

The Dictionary of Treatment, arranged alphabetically, gives a review of medical and surgical progress for 1905, by many contributors, in 475 pages. Part III. contains some references to Sanitary Science. Though a little late in appearing this year, the International Medical Annual is as welcome as ever.

J. J. C.

The Delineator for October.-The strongest feature of the October Delineator, aside from the fashions, which are splendidly shown, is the opening of the Countess von Arnhim's new serial story, "Fraulein Schmidt and Mr. Anstruther." It is now publicly announced that the Countess von Arnhim is the author of "Elizabeth and her German Garden." The serial stories, "The Diary of a Baby," by Barry Pain, and "The Chauffeur and the Chaperon," by the Williamsons, merrily continue. J. J. Bell contributes another "Wee Macgregor" episode, and other contributors of short stories the Ralph Henry Barbour, George Middleton, Florence E. Wilkinson and Ponnie A. Nedwill. John Vance Cheney is represented by a poem, "Hallowe'en." The kitchen department, under the direction of M. Jean Marie Devaux, presents the second course of “A Perfect Dinner," some "Recipes for Cooking Game," more "Favorite Recipes of Famous People," and seasonable advice about peppers, melons and grapes; the continuation of "A Culinary Dictionary,' " and the beginning of a series "Around the World in Eighty Dishes." Seasonable suggestions for entertainments may be found. in "The Practical Side of Amateur Theatricals," by Sarah Comstock, “A Paper Party," and "Hallowe'en Merrymaking for Girls and Boys." Subjects of vital importance are treated in the papers, "Coloring a Life," by Lida A. Churchill, "The Art of Pleasing, by Edgar Saltus, "More Courtship After Marriage," and "A Royal Road to Perfect Memory," by William George Jordan. The departments, "he Moneymakers" and "The Wisdom of Many" contains many original, as well as sensible ideas.

A Non-surgical Treatise on the Diseases of the Prostate Gland and Adnexa. By GEORGE WHITEFIELD OVERALL, A.B., M.D. Chicago: Rowe Publishing Co. 1906. pp. 228.

The title of this book is a misnomer. The writer would have all surgical procedures restricted to the use of the knife. The curi ous fact is that he is an ardent exponent of the theory that prostatic hypertrophy can be cured by cataphoresis and he would have us believe that his method is the only salvation for the unfortunate sufferers from prostatic disease. It may be in one sense that his methods are non-surgical because they are possibly non-scientific, but on no other ground can he designate his treatment "non-surgi

He entirely overlooks the brilliant results which have been attained by supra-pubic prostatectomy in properly selected cases and has the effrontery to state that the results of such procedures "have been either utterly unsatisfactory or at least equivocal." It is impossible and unnecessary to discuss the attitude assumed by one so absolutely ignorant of the magnificent results which have been obtained by operative methods in this field of surgery. Whatever may be said for cataphoresis as a method of treatment we may assume that the profession are sufficiently experienced or suffici ently well informed regarding the operation of prostatectomy to prevent them being misled by such seemingly absurd statements.

A. P.

Heart Disease and Aneurysm of the Aorta. By SIR WILLIAM-H. BROADBENT, Bart., K.C.V.O., and JOHN F. H. BROADBENT, M.D., F.R.C.P. Fourth edition. London; Baillière, Tindall and Cox. 1906.

That a medical book should have reached the fourth edition in nine years is strong evidence in its favor. Broadbent's Heart Disease would appear to be the work of careful, observing, clinicians. It is popular with practitioners and justly so..

In the fourth edition John F. H. Broadbent has re-arranged the subject matter and has added chapters on the pulse, disease of the coronary arteries, bradycardia, and atheroma of the aorta. He has also re-written the chapters on acute and pernicious endocarditis, the chapters on affections of the myocardium and that one on affections of the pericardium.

Sir William Broadbent has made additions to the chapters on angina pectoris and functional disorders of the heart.

This work evidently represents the first-hand experience of skilled observers of heart disease, men who speak with authority.

J. J. C.

Ellis's Demonstrations of Anatomy, being a guide to the knowledge of the human body by dissection. Twelfth edition. Revised and edited by CHRISTOPHER ADDISON, M.D., B.S. (Lond.), F.R.C.S., Lecturer on Anatomy, Charing Cross Hospital, Medical School: formerly Hunterian Professor, Royal College of Surgeons, England; Examiner in Anatomy, Royal College of Surgeons, England, etc. Illustrated by 306 engravings on wood, of which a large number are in colors. Octavo volume, 861 pages. Price, muslin binding, $3.50 net. New York:

William Wood & Company, Publishers. 1906.

It is not necessary to review in detail this well-known text book. Suffice it to say that among all the books which have appeared in recent years as practical guides to the dissection of the human body, and many excellent ones have been published, we know of no better

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than that entitled "Ellis's Demonstrations of Anatomy." present edition has been thoroughly revised and brought up to date by Christopher Addison, M.D., B.S. (Lond.), F.R.C.S. We can recommend the book without any reservation as one of the best guides to practical anatomy available.

Comparative Otology-Surgical Pathology and Treatment of Diseases of the Ear. By CLARENCE JOHN BLAKE, M.D., Professor of Otology in Harvard University, and Harry Ottridge Reik, M.D., Associate in Ophthalmology and Otology, Johns Hopkins University. New York and London: D. Appleton & Co. 1906. 1906. Canadian Agents: Geo. W. Morang Co., Ltd.,

Toronto.

This is not a review of the literature of the subject, but rather a record of individual experience, and therefore so much the more valuable, for nowadays medical books which are records of individual experience are few and far between. Its aim is practical utility this, with an evident desire to present the subject as simply as possible, has led to a book which is not beyond the student, but is of value to him, the general practitioner and the specialist. We commend it for its clearness of statement, scientific accuracy, and some clinical judgment.

J. M.

The Autotoxicoses: Their Theory, Pathology, and Treatment. By HEINRICH STERN, Ph., M.D., New York, Professor of Special Medical Pathology and Therapy in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Boston; Director of the Institute for Medical Diagnosis and Research in the City of New York; Phy sician-in-Chief Philanthropin Hospital of the City of New York; Pediatrist and Pathologist Misericordia Hospital and the Hartsdale Infirmary; Consulting Physician Metropolitan and Red Cross Hospitals; Chairman Section on Pharmacology American Medical Association; Permanent Member Medical Society of the State of New York; Fellow New York Academy of Medicine, etc., etc. Chicago: G. P. Engelhard & Company. 1906.

Dr. Stern objects to the off-hand diagnosis of autointoxication so common at the present time. He has recognized the difficulties of making such a diagnosis in a great many cases, and in the present work he endeavors to place the subject on a more rational basis.

The first part of the book treats of autointoxication in its various forms. The author draws a clear distinction between "toxicoses" and "autotoxicoses," and shows that differential diagnosis between enterogenous autotoxicoses and ectogenous toxicoses is often impossible.