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In the minds of not a few the careful differentiation of many of the diseases of the uterine mucosa is somewhat indefinite, the general idea that a given condition is "malignant" or is "merely endometritis" usually being sufficient. To combat such an impression and to give carefully noted distinguishing characteristics of the various diverse conditions has been the purpose of the author. The title might better have been something such as "microscopic diagnosis of uterine fragments obtained by curette" as the subject matter covered is limited to that field.

After an introductory chapter descriptive of methods of technic in which we are surprised to find the alum carmine stain given preference, comes the main part of the book. This consists essentially of fifty-two beautifully colored lithographs illustrative of as many diverse conditions encountered in examination of tissues removed by curettement. Accompanying each is a section fully descriptive of the condition and of the clinical picture produced thereby.

In excellence of preparation and scope we are somewhat reminded of the earlier book of Cullen. It well combines much of the clinical with some of the pathological, and in this way will give the truest idea to the properly trained physician of the actually existing condition and thus often shows the best form of treatment.

Handbook of Treatment for Diseases of the Eye. (Ophthalmic Therapeutics.) By Dr. Curt Adam, Assistant-Surgeon in the I. University Clinic for Diseases of the Eye, Berlin. With a preface by Prof. von Michel, Berlin. Translated from the second German edition (1910) by William George Sym, M.D., F.R.C.S., Ed., and E. M. Lithgow, M.B., F.R.C.S. Ed. With thirty-six illustrations. Price $2.50. New York, Rebman Company.

The author states the purpose of this book to be for assistance to the surgeon in practice and has as its particular object the careful description of various forms of treatment, medicinal and otherwise. In a somewhat indefinite manner we might divide the book into three parts: general methods of treatment, treatment of special diseases or conditions and first aid in ocular injuries. In the first part tuberculosis and syphilis are given prominence. The various diagnostic tests, the cutaneous, the percutaneous, the ocular and the subcutaneous are all fully described and their relative value described. In tuberculin treatment the method of Trudeau rather than that of Wright is followed. Tulase is also mentioned.

In syphilis the recognition of the spirochaetae is explained, also the value of the Wasserman reaction. "806" was discovered a little too late to be included. In the section devoted to special diseases glaucoma and cataract stand forth prominently, although an appropriate amount of space is given to all the various diseases.

The first aid section covers such topics as foreign bodies penetrating and non-penetrating wounds, injuries from violence, burns, caustics, rupture of globe and gunshot wounds. This book cannot be considered (and it was not intended) to be a complete work on the subject as not infrequently it presupposes considerable knowledge upon the part of the reader. As one that contains many valuable differential diagnostic suggestions it is valuable. Its principal worth comes, however, in the careful description of the various methods of treatment for a great variety of affections, conditions concerning which the average physician is too often at a loss to know what form of medication to apply. It has apparently been well written and at least well translated into good readable English.

Golden Rules of Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases. Aphorisms,

Observations and Precepts on the Method of Examination and Diagnosis of Diseases, with Practical Rules for Proper Remedial Procedure. By Henry A. Cables, B.S., M.D. Professor Medicine and Clinical Medicine of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, St. Louis; Consultant at Jefferson Hospital, St. Louis; formerly House Physician at Alexian Brothers' Hospital, St. Louis, etc. C. V. Mosby Company, St. Louis, 1911.

This is one of the "golden rule" series prepared by this house and brings a very common topic home to the physician who reads it in a very unique manner. It has been prepared as a summarization of the entire subject as obtained from both personal experience of the author and from his extensive reading. Concerning treatment, Dr. Cables in bis preface speaks as follows: "It can be said that quinin is an exceedingly useful friend in small doses in certain affections, because of its power of increasing or calling out the body defenses, but in large oftrepeated doses it will have a disastrous effect, causing paralysis of the body defense by destroying the ameboid functions of the cells."

No definite attempt has been made to prepare the text for connected consecutive reading, but rather to condense into small space a large number of facts, such as might easily slip from the mind of most of us.

We believe that the practitioner will obtain valuable suggestions from possession and study of this book.

Manual of Cystoscopy. By J. Bentley Squier, M.D., Professor of Genito-
Urinary Surgery, New York Post-Graduate Medical School and
Hospital, and Henry G. Bugbee, M.D., Instructor in Genito-Urinary
Surgery, New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital.
Price $3.00 net. Paul B. Hoeber, Publisher, New York, 1911.
The art of cystoscopy has become so important as to demand of
every practitioner a working knowledge of the technic and the simpler
interpretation. Such a working knowledge this book is intended to

give.

In a very clear, terse style the authors describe first the technic of examination of the normal bladder, giving a home-made method of obtaining the first indiments. This is accompanied by illustrations of conditions normally seen, a fact of much importance. Following this is a series of excellent colored plates demonstrating various pathologic conditions, each accompanied by a section devoted to description of the particular disease shown. In short, the book well fulfills its purpose, i. e., it gives a very plain description of cystoscopy and its interpretation couched in such language as to be pleasing and readily understood. It is bound in flexible leather covers and is neat and attractive in all ways.

The Testimony of the Clinic. By E. B. Nash, M. D., Author of "Leaders in Homeopathic Materia Medica," "Leaders in Respiratory Organs," "Leaders for the Use of Sulphur," "Leaders in Typhoid," etc. Boericke & Tafel. Price, $1.50. Philadelphia, 1911.

The author of this book is becoming one of our most prolific writers upon subjects relating to homeopathic application of drugs. Several of his works have already been reviewed in the Gazette. The present one consists of a series of one hundred cases carefully, and fully described. They are grouped under fifty-one different remedies by which they were treated, and were under the care of twenty-five different physicians. We are glad to note the emphasis placed upon the statement that the potency question has nothing to do with the principle of Homœopathy, a point too often overlooked. To probably the majority of the members of our fraternity the stress given to the indicated remedy in diphtheria to the complete exclusion of antitoxin will be a distinct disappointment.

The Treatment of Disease. A Manual of Practical Medicine. By Reynold Webb Wilcox, M.A., M.D., LL.D., Professor of Medicine (retired) at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital; Consulting Physician to St. Mark's and to the Nassau Hospital; formerly President of the American Therapeutic Society; Fellow of the American Academy of Medicine and of the American Associa tion for the Advancement of Science, etc. Third edition. Thoroughly revised and enlarged. Price, $7.00. P. Blakiston's Son & Co. Philadelphia, 1911.

If this book had been called "Practical Medicine" or a "Practice of Medicine" it would, in our opinion, have been more accurately named. It is really a treatise upon practical medicine, including all its various phases, etiology, pathology, symptomatology, diagnosis and prognosis, but with particular attention given, as it always should be, to treatment. It is therefore rather more inclusive than its name might seem to indicate.

It is classified in a manner in no way unlike that common in texts upon pathology, diagnosis and practice, beginning with infectious diseases, constitutional affections, then followed by those disturbances of the alimentary, circulatory, respiratory, urinary, nervous and muscular systems, and is concluded by a very full index.

In such a book it is always possible to select some points for criticism or refutation, and it is unfair to judge by any such minor points. If any criticism is to be made it would be along the line of the fact that the author seems to leave too much to the knowledge of the reader, assuming that his information is greater than that often possessed by the average practitioner along new or special lines. To illustrate: the use of Flexner's serum in meningitis, while described, is given but comparatively slight attention, by no means adequate to enable one to administer it to a patient. The use of tuberculin lacks clearness in description. At times a number of different methods of treatment for some disease are described, but nowhere is it stated which is the most successful or which the author prefers. In the treatment of morphinism no mention is made of specific antidotal treatment with which some of our New York confrères are reported to be obtaining such good results. Occasionally conditions are described rather than diseases. Otherwise, however, the book is very satisfactory. It certainly contains a great amount of condensed information neatly arranged in a manner that deserves much credit both to the author and to the publisher.

This new edition will doubtless receive, as its predecessors have so deservingly had bestowed upon them, a great degree of popularity among the members of the medical profession.

Bismuth Paste in Chronic Suppurations. Its Diagnostic Importance and Therapeutic Value. By Emil G. Beck, M.D., Surgeon to the North Chicago Hospital, Chicago, Ill. With an Introduction by Carl Beck, M.D., and a Chapter on the Application of Bismuth Paste in the Treatment of Chronic Suppuration of the Nasal Accessory Sinuses and the Ear by Joseph C. Beck, M.D. With eighty-one engravings, nine diagrammatic illustrations, and a colored plate. Price, $2.50. C. V. Mosby Company, 1915.

During the past two or three years the name of Beck has to a large proporton of the medical profession come to suggest the topic of the bismuth paste method of treating chronic sinuses and fistulae. Much has been written about this method, in some instance doubtless by those not well qualified to discuss it. It is, accordingly, doubly gratifying to obtain a full and satisfactory account by the originator of the process who has, naturally, had the widest experience with it. There is the unavoidable objection of possible bias in favor of the product of one's brain when the topic is thus discussed by the one who introduced it. In the present instance that personality is very carefully

subordinated to the real purpose of the work. It begins with an introduction by Dr. Carl Beck, a brother of the author, who describes the manner of the discovery and the first one or two cases tested, and closes with a chapter by another brother, Dr. Joseph C. Beck, upon its application to rhinology and otology.

Early in the work the proper cases to treat are indicated as follows: "All chronic suppurative sinuses, fistulae, or abscess cavities, whether of tubercular or other infectious origin, with the exception of fistulae of the gall bladder, pancreas, or those communicating with the cranium, are suitable for the bismuth paste treatment. Very acute inflammatory conditions are not suitable for the injections, and, while some good results have been reported, I have noticed even aggravation after the treatment."

The use of the paste as a diagnostic adjuvant is fully described and illustrated. Then follows a chapter on its therapeutic effects. Detailed notes are then given concerning the method of use on all the various diseases suitable for treatment, such as sinuses, fistulae, empyema, tuberculous abscesses, etc. A chapter is devoted to the subject of bismuth poisoning and one to the limitations and causes of failure of the method.

The book throughout has been pleasing reading, accompanied as it is by numerous very satisfactory illustrations, a large proportion of which are x-ray reproductions. The reviewer has learned much from this perusal and is more optimistic concerning the method than he has been heretofore.

Anæmia. By Geh. Obermedizinalrat, Professor Dr. P. Ehrlich, Director of the Konigl. Institut. fur Experimentelle Therapie, Frankfurt, A.-M., ond Dr. A. Lazarus, Professor of the University of Berlin-Charlottenburg. Part I. Volume I. Normal and Pathological Histology of the Blood. Second Edition (enlarged and to a great extent rewritten) by Dr. A. Lazarus and Dr. O. Naegeli. Translated from the German by H. W. Armit, M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P. (London). With five illustrations in the text and five colored plates. Price, $4.00. Rebman Company, New York.

No one at all familiar with haematology is unfamiliar with one of the classics that appeared upon the subject, written by Ehrlich and Lazarus. It was undoubtedly the best known and most able description of various topics allied to blood disease that was then in existence, and even since that time, in spite of the great advance in our knowledge, it has well maintained its position of prominence. Such was its popularity and intrinsic worth that in response to a very widespread demand, it has appeared in a new edition, practically entirely rewritten. Ehrlich himself has only entered into the work so far as to write a short introduction, the actual work having been performed by Lazarus and Naegeli.

The introduction by the original author, while doubtless correct from the German standpoint, seems to be a somewhat undue presentation of the ego when viewed through American eyes.

Concerning the book itself, no detailed commendation is required. It is a classic and will remain so, with the present added advantage of being thoroughly up to date. It is not necessary to agree with all the statements in order to admire a book, and so here, while the future will undoubtedly show some of the statements to be erroneous, we warmly endorse the work itself. It will be interesting to see in future whether or not the work of Ross will be so accepted as to transform the present ideas concerning the origin of blood platelets as here indicated. A series of beautiful colored plates are of much interest and value. This book will, we believe, prove to be one of the notable books of the year.

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Evolution and Heredity. By David Berry Hart, M. D., F. R. C. P. E.
Lecturer on Midwifery and Diseases of Women, School of the Royal
Colleges, Edinburgh; sometime Examiner in the Universities of
Edinburgh, Oxford, Birmingham and Liverpool, and also to the Royal
College of Physicians, Edinburgh. Price $2.00. Rebman Company,
New York.

This subject, of so much interest and yet so difficult of ready
comprehension, the author has succeeded in expressing in terms readily
understood. He has also couched it in enough of the common-place to
make most interesting reading. He discusses briefly the revolutionary
work of Darwin and Weisemann and the more neglected though equally
important work of Mendel, to which he adds an interesting chapter on
Mendel's life. Biometry and Mnemism are explained and an intrinsic
theory of variation and its transmission is considered. The author reviews
the essence of the earlier researchers, correcting them to agree with the
latest knowledge, and finally "urges that in the primitive germ cells,
while they are undergoing the phenomena of mitosis in the sexual glands,
the determinants of the unit characters in them are arranged according
to the Law of Probabilities."

The succeeding more popular chapters are on Heredity. Heredity in Disease, The Community of Bees and their Evolution, Evolution and Controversy, The Handicap of Sex, Evolution in Religious Belief, and a final chapter on Men who have Revealed Themselves, in which is given a brief glimpse of the lives of Shakespeare, Pepys, Amile and Rousseau. Of the latter Hart says "There is no antiseptic in which one could dip one's pen even to allude to his mawkish sensuality." He cites these men as types unusual to their time and place, as reversions to older types.

This book, like its companions reviewed above, is in good type on light paper, and all three would be a credit to any library, scientific or lay.

Care of the Patient.

M.D.

Co.

A Book for Nurses.

With six illustrations. Price, $1.00 net. P. Blakiston's Son &
By Alfred T. Hawes, A.M.,
Philadelphia, 1911.

This little book has been written for nurses, the purpose being to give to them that exact knowledge of various medical aspects of disease that is essential to satisfactory work, whether medical, surgical or obstetrical.

Two chapters are devoted to medical, two to surgical and two to maternity nursing. from the standpoint of the nurse, many in much detail. We are glad The various procedures are all carefully described to note that the author strongly advises against the use of chloroform by the nurse. to be anticipated are fully described. Technic for administration of ether and the dangers solution 1 to 500, is given without any specifications concerning its use The preparation of a formalin in that strength.

The section upon generaly medical nursing seems very commendable. In our opinion this is a book that is admirably adapted to be put into the hands of the partly trained nurse by the physician who is attending a given case. and the description of the technic can be fully mastered without the Any of the desired points can be indicated danger of misunderstanding and forgetfulness when such facts are verbally stated.

Induced Cell-Reproduction and Cancer.

The Isolation of the Chemical

Causes of Normal and of Augmented, Asymmetrical Human Cell-
Division. By Hugh Campbell Ross, M.R.C.S. (Eng.), L.R.C.P. (Lond.),
Surgeon Royal Navy (Emergency List); Director of Special Re-
searches at the Royal Southern Hospital, Liverpool; and Honorary
Clinical Pathologist to the Royal Liverpool Country Hospital for
Children. Being the Results of Researches Carried Out by the
Author, with the Assistance of John Westray Cropper, M.B., M.Sc.

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