The urethra and bladder show a remarkable tolerance for it; the patient suffers no pain and has no desire to urinate after its use. Collargolum is not at all caustic; it is the silver itself that combats and destroys the gonococcus in the uretha and bladder.-Abstracted from the Journal des Praticiens, May 20, 1905.

ETHICS IN PROPRIETARY MEDICINES.-A well-known medical writer, in the New York Medical Journal, has recently called the attention of his confreres to a difference in proprietary medicines. He has corralled off the sheep from the goats in a generic way, so that even the skeptic may specifically recognize the good from the bad in things proprietary. Some who may have before presumed that no good could come of anything not formulated by themselves, will no doubt be surprised to learn from this ethical physician, speaking to ethical practitioners, that "with firms of standing the best drugs are used, the published formulas reliable, and the methods of compounding beyond criticism or reproach. Further, it is for us solely to determine clinically with the use of their products in suitable cases, what effects we obtain." Happily, Vin Mariani has been so long before the medical profession that it is known and recommended the wide world over for just what it is represented—a combination of Erythroxylon Coca with a sound-bodied nutrient French wine. It is no extemporaneous compound about which there is possible for doubt as to whether it may or may not prove palatable, or efficacious. It does not emanate from any uncertain source, it presents no vague probabilities as a problematical cure-all. Conversely, it is a definite preparation which, during nearly half a century, has been guarded and conservatively introduced to medical men by a skilled pharmacist, who has made this specialty his life's work, and has jealously maintained his preparation and his representations with the honor and glory that sorrounds any good name. Vive la Coca Mariani!-Coca Leaf, November, 1904.

Reviews and Book Notices.

A TEXT-BOOK ON THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE FOR STUDENTS AND PRACTITIONERS. BY JAMES MACGOFFIn French, M. D., formerly Lecturer on the Throat and Practice of Medicine, Medical College of Ohio. Second edition, revised, illustrated by eleven full-page plates and fifty wood engravings, 780 pp., cloth. Price, $4.00. Wm. Wood & Co., Publishers, New York, 1905.

Only a short while ago we justly had occasion to commend this new work on "Practice for Students and Practitioners" in high

est terms.

What we said then we can now but emphasize.

The

revision has been limited to such changes as were essential to completeness and accuracy, or promotive of the highest usefulness of the book. Few of the original statements had to be modified, but quite a number of additions had to be made to bring the subject-matter fully up to date. Additions have been made as brief as possible, and no attempt has been made to record all the theories advanced in literature, but only those that are generally accepted or the truth of which has been established by valid authority.

In the acute infectious diseases, several chapters have been re-arranged so as to place all these affections in one group, in accordance with the clinical order in which they are best studied. We find a short chapter on Paratyphoid fever not in the original, the chapter on Ankylostomiasis has been rewritten, and new methods have been referred to as their importance seemed to justify. The size of the book is unchanged.

INTERNATIONAL CLINICS, a quarterly of illustrated lectures and especially prepared original articles on Treatment, Medicine, Surgery, Neurology, Pediatrics, Obstetrics, Gynecology, Orthopedics, Dermatology, Ophthalmology, Otology, etc., by leading members of the medical profession throughout the world. Edited By A. O. J. KELLY, A. M., M D., of Philadelphia. 8vo cloth, Vol. II., 15th Series. Price, $2.00. Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Co., Publishers.

This is one of the best volumes of International Clinics yet issued and the physician cannot get a larger return for his money than in this particular number. The following are some of the practical reasons why it is the best work published for the money: "The International Clinics" contains something of interest to every physician, being the most practical, economical and best illustrated work of its kind ever offered to the profession.

The editorial staff includes medical authorities of the widest reputation, with duties that are actual and not honorary, and is one of the strongest associated with any medico-literary enterprise.

The cream of practical medicine and the most recent opinions

thereon, as illustrated by the bedside teachings of the best clinicians of both continents, is shown through the medium of concise lectures by the ablest teachers of the leading medical colleges.

Practical articles, short and crisp, upon subjects with which the physician has to deal in his every-day work, treating the common diseases and embracing the latest views as to diagnosis, therapeutics and treatment, are given in large number.

A MANUAL AND ATLAS OF ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY. BY DR. JAMES K. YOUNG, Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Philadelphia Polyclinic, etc. Now in process of publication by Messrs. P. Blakiston's Son & Co.

From advance sheets showing several pages of the text and a number of the illustrations it will be a very handsome and valuable addition to the medical and surgical literature of current times, in which it is destined to occupy a very inportant place. It is to be a quarto in size, of about 900 pages and will contain upwards of 800 illustrations. A definite price for the complete work has not yet been fixed, but all advance orders received will be filled by the publishers as soon as the book is ready, at $10 for cloth binding and $12 for half morocco binding.

Address all communications to P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1012 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pa.

THE PSYCHIC TREATMENT OF NERVOUS DISORDERS. By DR. PAUL DUBOIS, Professor of Neuropathology, University of Berne. Illustrated by SMITH ELY JELLIFFE, M.D., Ph.D., and WILLIAM A. WHITE, M.D. 8vo

cloth, 471 pp. Price, $3.00 net. 1905. New York. Funk and Wag

nalls Co., Publishers, 44-46 E. Twenty-third St.

This work gives the experience and principles of psychic treatment of nervous disorders, based upon twenty years of successful specialization and practice in this branch of medical skill. The work of the author is both that of psychologist and physician. Bsides many psychological considerations the author provides full descriptions of the methods used in his practice of psychotherapy. Psychic disorders require psychic treatment, and many distressing nervous diseases, both dangerous and taxing, as

well to the patient as to the physician, are purely and primarily psychic; and it is these subjects that are so ably and satisfactorily considered by Professor Dubois. The work comprises the subject matter of the lectures given to the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Berne, and our people are under obligations to Drs. Jelliffe and White for their very excellent translation and editing of the valuable matter of Dr. Dubois.

HALL'S PHYSIOLOGY. A Text-Book of Physiology, Normal and Pathological. For Students and Practitioners of Medicine. By WINFIELD S. HALL, Ph.D., M.D. (Leipzig), Professor of Physiology, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago; Member of the American Physiological Society; Member of American Association for the Advancement of Science, etc. New (2d) Edition, revised and enlarged. In one 8vo volume of 795 pp., with 339 engravings and three full-colored plates. Cloth, $4.00, net. 1905. Philadelphia and New York: Lea Brothers & Co., Publishers.

It is rare that an author gives evidence of being the most critical student of his own book. Dr. Hall has exhibited this power of detachment, and has put himself in the place of his various classes of readers, namely, teachers, students, and last, but by no means, least, physicians. Accordingly, he has greatly simplified his whole presentation of his subject, while of course revising. it to date. A new departure which should appeal to the physician (and equally also to the teacher and student) is the increased attention given to the application of physiology to clinical medicine. The volume is now one which the student will carry into practice and also one which the physician will buy when he wishes to post himself on the physiology of disease as well as of health. To quote from the preface:

The most notable additions to the work are the sub-chapters on Pathologic Physiology. It is becoming apparent to medical educators that to master normal physiology alone without applying its laws to the symptomatology of disease is to miss a large part of the service which physiology should render, just as the mastery of structural or morphologic pathology without an understanding of the modification which structural changes induce in the functions, implies the loss of a large part of the advantage which the study of pathology should give to the student and

practitioner of medicine. The author has attempted to cover this most important field.

The revision and improvements have required an increase of one hundred and thirty pages, but the previous very moderate price, four dollars, has been maintained. The work is handsomely illustrated.

OPHTHALMIC NEURO-MYOLOGY. A study of the normal and abnormal actions of the Ocular Muscles from the brain side of the question. By G. C. SAVAGE, M. D., Professor of Ophthalmology in the Medical Department of Vanderbilt University; author of "New Truths in Ophthalmology" and "Ophthalmic Myology;" Ex-President of Nashville Academy of Medicine; Ex-President of Tennessee State Medical Association, etc. 8vo, 221 pp., with 39 full page plates and 12 illustrative figures. Published by the author, 137 Eighth Avenue, North, Nashville, Tenn., 1905.

This work is intended to illustrate, first, the single and associated action, both normal and abnormal, of the ocular muscles; second, to furnish schematically an arrangement of the nerve centers, both cortical and basilar, which might explain these actions. The work, therefore, as its name indicates, may be viewed from two standpoints: first, ophthalmic myology; second, ophthalmic neurology.

In ocular rotations the author places the center of motion in the center of the eye, thus differing with the teaching of Donders, who places the center of motion from 1.77 mm. to 2.17 mm. behind the center of the eye, the exact difference varying, and depending upon the refraction, being further back in hyperopia than in emmetropia or myopia.

Much of the work is devoted to a detailed account of the methods of measuring the strength of the several extra-ocular muscles, together with the different varieties and amounts of muscle imbalance. It is here that Dr. Savage is at his best, and while, for reasons of brevity, some well known and valuable tests for heterophoria are omitted, yet this feature of the work compares favorably with the author's best contributions to ophthalmic literature.

The portion of the work devoted to neurology is largely