It is published in about a dozen different styles, with varying prices from $1.25 to $4.00. It contains the usual important memoranda and data.

"It is not only an economizer of time and trouble in keeping a record of his professional visits and engagements, but may directly save a large percentage of his accounts, by enforcing systematic and business-like habits in presenting and collecting the same."

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'Wm. Wood & Co. issue their Visiting List in the same style they do all their publications - excellence and cheapness are marvelously combined in them, and repeatedly evoke praise from the impartial and elicit wonder from their competitors."

THE PHYSICIAN'S VISITING LIST, 1907 (Lindsay and Blakiston's).- P. Blakiston's Son & Co., Publishers, 1012 Walnut Street. Prices, from $1.00 to $1.50.

The best and most comprehensive visiting list and pocket account book presented to the medical profession. It is beautifully bound in flexible leather, of a size to fit the pocket. It has columns and pages for all the data the most painstaking doctor could desire. It comprises not only the daily visit list, but a memorandum, address of patients and nurses, obstetric engagements, birth and death record, cash account, etc. Besides these, there is the usual schedule of emergency information contained in all similar publications. Its completeness indicates its age in years and thought of its designer. This is the fifty-sixth year of its publication.

A TEXT-BOOK OF Materia MediCA: Including Laboratory Exercises in the Histologic and Chemic Examinations of Drugs. For Pharmaceutic and Medical Schools, and for Home Study.- By ROBERT A. HATCHER, Ph. G., M. D., Instructor in Pharmacology in Cornell University Medical School of New York City; and TORALD SOLLMAN, M. D., Assistant Professor in Pharmacology and Materia Medica in the Medical Department of the Western Reserve University of Cleveland. 12mo volume of about 400 pages, illustrated. Price, flexible leather, $2.50, net. W. B. Saunders & Co., Philadelphia, New York, and London, 1904. Students of medicine, as well as pharmacy students, will undoubtedly welcome this work. The authors are teachers of much

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experience, and in this forelying book present a work on the subject of materia medica in an entirely new way, teaching by actuai experimental demonstration. Part I comprises a guide to the study of crude drugs, both official and unofficial; while in Parts II and III the histologic and chemic examinations of drugs are considered in a scientific, yet clear and simple manner. All the histologic descriptions are supplemented by laboratory exercises of important drugs, so that the student becomes insensibly acquainted with their construction. Throughout the entire work general stress is laid on the recognition of adulterations. We can strongly recommend this work as reliable, practical, and excellent in every way.

A TEXT-BOOK of Obstetrics.— By BARTON Cooke Hirst, M. D., Professor of Obstetrics in the University of Pennsylvania. Fifth revised edition. Octavo of 915 pages, with 753 illustrations, 39 of them in colors. Cloth, $5.00, net; half morocco, $6.00, net. W. B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia and London, 1906.

Immediately on its publication this work took its place as the leading text-book on the subject. Both in this country and in England it is recognized as the most satisfactorily written and clearly illustrated work on obstetrics in the language. The illustrations form one of the features of the book. They are numerous and the most of them are original. In this edition the book has been thoroughly revised. More attention has been given to the diseases of the genital organs associated with or following childbirth. Many of the old illustrations have been replaced by better ones, and there have been added a number eneirely new. The work treats the subject from a clinical stand

point.

The following authoritative Press opinions we can most heartily endorse:

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The popularity of American text-books in this country is one of the features of recent years. The popularity is probably chiefly due to the great superiority of their illustrations over those of the English text-books. The illustrations in Dr. Hirst's volume are far more numerous and far better executed, and therefore more

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instructive, than those commonly found in the works of writers on obstetrics in our own country."-British Medical Journal.

"The work is an admirable one in every sense of the word, concisely but comprehensively written."-Bulletin of Johns Hopkins Hospital.

"The illustrations are numerous and are works of art, many of them appearing for the first time. The author's style, though condensed, is singularly clear, so that it is never necessary to reread a sentence in order to grasp the meaning. As a true model of what a modern text-book on obstetrics should be, we feel justified in affirming that Dr. Hirst's book is without a rival."The Medical Record, New York.

ATLAS AND TEXT-BOOK OF HUMAN ANATOMY, Vol. I.— BY PROFESSOR J. SOFOTTA, of Wurzburg. Edited, with additions, by J. PLAYFAIR MCMURRICH, A. M., Ph. D., Professor of Anatomy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Quarto volume of 258 pages, containing 320 illustrations, mostly all in colors. Cloth, $6.00, net; half morocco, $7.00, net. W. B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia and London, 1906.

In no department of medicine and surgery have the disciples of Guttenburg and Faust aided so much as in the fundamental one anatomy. When one comes to compare the anatomical works of to-day with those of half a century ago, he can but be astonished and marvel at the greater facilities afforded outside the nauseating and noxious atmosphere of the dissecting room. This splendid Atlas, with its wealth of accurate illustrations and its thorough though concise text will prove of the greatest value to students and practitioners.

This volume, confined to Bones, Ligaments, Joints, and Muscles, is especially adapted for use during dissection, and while actual work over the cadaver is absolutely essential, this work will greatly aid and facilitate that, as well as proving of additional value for refreshing the memory and fixing in the mind's grasp the observations and studies in the dissecting room.

The splendid half-tone plates, the thirty multi-color, and four in the so-called three-color process in the section on myology are marvelous in their clearness and accuracy. No illustration has been omitted which would make the relation of the parts more

easily understood.

For ready reference by the general practitioner, and for the student in preparing for his examinations the work will prove of more than ordinary value.

In order to insure accuracy of the illustrations, all of the preparations were photographed and the photo was made exactly the same size as the intended illustration, lenses of the longest possible focal length being employed to avoid perspective distortion ; and in a few instances where it was thought there would be a possibility of distortion even with this precaution, the subject was photographed to one half the size of the desired illustration, and the photo was then subsequently enlarged. The publishers have spared nothing to make the illustrations excel all other works of this class, yet the price is remarkably moderate.

ABDOMINAL OPERATIONS.-By B. G. A. MOYNIHAN, M. S. (London), F.R.C.S., Senior Assistant Surgeon at Leeds General Infirmary, England. Second revised edition, greatly enlarged. Octavo of 815 pages, with 305 original illustrations. Cloth, $7.00, net; half morocco, $8.00, net. W. B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia and London, 1906

In this magnificent work, only those operations common to both sexes are considered, no gynecological operations being described; furthermore, the surgery of the kidneys and bladder, both partly extra- and intra-peritoneal, and the various hernia operations are not included. The operations described are those in general use, and all, or nearly all, are those practiced by the author.

It has been said of Mr. Moynihan that in describing details of operations he is at his best. This, his latest work, gives in most exact language not only the actual modus operandi of the various abdominal operations, but also the technic of preliminary preparation and sterilization. Dr. Edward Martin, of the University of Pennsylvania, says: "It is a wonderfully good book. He has achieved complete success in illustrating, both by words. and pictures, the best technic of the abdominal operations now commonly performed." Complications and sequelæ and aftertreatment are presented in the same clear-cut style as the operations themselves. The beautiful illustrations were drawn under

the author's personal supervision, and serve extremely well, indeed, to illustrate the various steps in the operations described.

Although only a very short time has elapsed since the first edition of this work was published, the author has found it necessary to make a large number of additions to the text and to the illustrations; some revision he has also found desirable, and has entirely rewritten two of the chapters.

Selections.

A CASE OF AN INFANT MENSTRUATING FROM DATE OF BIRTH. The first child of healthy, young white parents was born at their country home in Wythe county, July 14, 1905. On the 18th of the same month, I was called to see the child, and found undoubted menstruation. Its breasts were enlarged, congested, and tender, and a milky fluid oozed from the nipples.

The menstrual flow continued for three days, at the end of that time the congestion left the breasts, but they have remained unusually developed.

The flow has reappeared each month, with no perceptible effect upon the child; she appearing perfectly normal and healthy in all other respects.

I find two kindred cases mentioned in Vol. I of " Medical and Surgical Gynecology" (Pozzi) as follows: "Campbell has recorded an excessive development of the generative organs in a child of four years, who had regularly menstruated every three weeks since birth." Prochownick had the opportunity of performing an autopsy upon a little girl of three years, who had begun to menstruate at one year, and found upon the ovaries all the signs of both old and recent ovulation.-W. H. Ribble, Jr., M. D., in Virginia Medical Semi-Monthly.

TREATMENT OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS. For local applications, hot baths, moist or dry heat, and especially the baking apparatus, especially with the larger joints, have been very efficacious. To rub the joints, a cream of menthol, five per cent., and ten per