order to accomplish this the author has eliminated in part certain older, superfluous, or at present untenable statements, and in certain instances has treated the chemical methods of work less fully than in the other editions. In other regards the plan of the book is the same as in the previous excellent editions.

The Translator makes the following statement:

"As physiological chemistry has made such rapid advances during the last five years, and as the literature of the subject is becoming more and more specialized, I feel confident that the American student will be glad to receive the present edition, and I hope it will be of material aid in the advancement of the subject."

The author's addenda have been incorporated into the text. DIET IN HEALTH AND DISEASE. By Julius Friedenwald, M. D., Clinical Professor of Diseases of the Stomach in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore; and John Ruhrah, M. D., Clinical Professor of Diseases of Children in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore. Octavo volume of 689 pages. Philadelphia, New York, London. W. B. Saunders & Company, 1904. Cloth, $4.00, net.

This latest work on diet is practical and comprehensive, prepared to meet the needs of the general practitioner, medical student, hospital interne, and trained nurse. It contains a full account of food stuffs, their uses and chemical compositions. Dietetic management in all diseases in which diet plays a part in treatment is carefully considered, the articles on diet in diseases of the digestive organs containing numerous diet lists and explicit instructions for administering. The feeding of infants and children, of patients before and after anesthesia and surgical operations, and the latest methods for feeding after gastro-intestinal operations, have never before been discussed with such practical detail. The subject of rectal enemata is given completely, with recipes and full instructions as to technic. Diet is considered in its relations to age, occupation, and environment; and the beneficial results from the rest cure have been accorded prominent consideration. There is also a section on food adulteration and the resultant diseases. Withal, this is a work well worthy the reputation of its authors, and we most cheerfully recommend it.

MANUAL OF SERUM DIAGNOSIS, by Dr. O. Rostoski, of the University of Wursburg. Authorized translation by Dr. Charles Bolduan. First edition, first thousand. 12mo, cloth, pp. 86. Price, $1.00. John Wiley & Sons, Publishers, 43-45 E. 19th Street, New York, 1904.

Rostoski's Serum Diagnosis, published in the Wurzburger Abhandlungen in 1903, has been recognized as one of the best works on this subject. In this translation several additions have been made in order to include important work done in the past year, as Ficker's Typhoid Diagnostic, the test with Formalin Typhoid Cultures, and Para-Dysentery. Most of the material for these additions have been obtained by the translator through personal communication with Dr. Rostoski.

THE SURGICAL TREATMENT OF BRIGHT'S DISEASE, by George H. Edebohls, A. M., M. D., L. L. D., Professor of Diseases of Women in the N. Y. Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital; Consulting Surgeon to the St. Francis Hospital, New York; Consulting Gynecologist to St. John's Hospital, Yonkers, N. J., etc., etc. 8vo, cloth, pp. 332. Frank L. Lisiecki, Publisher, 9 to 15 Murray St., New York, 1904.

As showing briefly the scope of this volume, the following extract from the author's preface is quoted:

The various contributions of the author to the literature of this subject, the most recent of which have appeared almost contemporaneously with the inception of the present work, are believed to embody with reasonable completeness our present knowledge of the surgical treatment of Bright's disease. These contributions arranged in chronological order make up two fifths of the present volume.

“The remaining three fifths is entirely new matter, never before published, and deals almost wholly with that phase of the subject which is at present exciting the keenest interest - the results." Seventy-one case reports are given, with a very full analysis of the results.

The following is the closing paragraph of his conclusions: "The evidence submitted, in the author's opinion, not alone justifies the surgical treatment of chronic Bright's disease, but establishes surgery as at present the main, if not the only hope of sufferers from a hitherto incurable malady."

THE SUPPRESSION OF TUBERCULOSIS, together with observations concerning phthisiogenesis in man and animals, and suggestions concerning the hygiene of cow stables and the production of milk for infant feeding, with special reference to tuberculosis, by Professor E. von Behring, University of Marburg; authorized translation by Charles Bolduan, M. D. 12m0, v+85 pages. Cloth, $1.00. Johy Wiley & Sons, New York; Chapman & Hall, Limited, London.

Those interested in the study of tuberculosis, including especially all practitioners of medicine, will find this little brochure of more than passing interest. A little over half the volume is taken up with Prof. von Behring's Cassell lecture, delivered a little over a year ago; the remainder being translations of other articles by this distinguished investigator. In the "Observations on the Study of Phthisiogenesis in Man and Animals," we find practical and original ideas advanced.

A TEXT-BOOK OF HISTOLOGY, by Frederick R. Bailey, A. M., M. D., Adjunct Professor of Normal Histology, College of P. and S.-Medical Department of Columbia University, New York. 8vo, cloth, pp. 481, profusely illustrated. Price, $3.00 net. Wm. Wood & Co., Publishers, New York, 1904.

Professor Bailey in this handsome volume offers the student of medicine a text-book of histology for use in connection with practical laboratory instruction, and especially supplying the instructor in histology a most satisfactory manual for class-room teaching. The chapter on general technic prescribes the more essential laboratory methods; and the special technic given in connection with the different tissues and organs is in most cases such as can be conveniently used for the preparation of class sections. The work is thoroughly practical, and fully up-to-date, the latest developments being fully considered. The handsome typography, beautiful paper and binding and magnificent illustrations are all that could be desired.

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ALCOHOL IN THE TROPICS.- Chas. E. Woodruff earnestly urges a reconsideration by the profession of the long-established dictum that total abstinence is an essential to the preservation of health in the tropics. This is a conclusion without logical foundation, and the statistics of our army in the Philippines show that in that climate the moderate drinker is better off than the total abstainer. The enervating effect of tropical climates requires the stimulus of a certain amount of alcohol to counteract it, and it is a serious error to denounce its use in moderation by those compelled to live in such latitudes. Total abstinence among the people of that country at large is the ideal condition, and everything should be done to encourage it, but with the army in the Philippines alcohol is a necessity. The W. C. T. U. has played into the hands of the liquor dealers in causing the canteen to be abolished, and in the horrible dives which have sprung up about all the barracks drunkenness flourishes to a degree far in excess of what was formerly the case. The author's object is to induce recognition of the fact that a moderate amount of alcohol is essential to health in the tropics, and that the abolition of the army canteen is fostering alcoholism among the soldiers. Medical Record, December 17, 1904.

SUBCUTANEOUS GELATIN INJECTIONS IN CHILDHOOD.-Zuppinger (Wien. klin. Wochenschr., December 25, 1902) considers gelatin injections in the treatment of hemorrhage from any source, one of the greatest boons of modern medicine. Where from 50 to 100 per cent. of all cases of internal hemorrhage in children used to die on account of the lack of an efficient hemostasis very few need do so now since the introduction of gelatin. He briefly reports three cases, in which the bleeding was so severe as to leave the patients almost bloodless. Hypodermic injections of from one per cent. to five per cent. solutions of gelatin in varying quantities were used and all of them recovered. Two were cases of scurvy, the third of purpura hemorrhagica.

He has also tried it in melena neonatorum, epistaxis, pulmonary hemorrhage, etc., and always with the same result. He warns against the use of commercial gelatin, as this was often found to contain tetanus bacilli. If carefully sterilized few unpleasant after-effects will be noted.-American Medicine.

SOME PAINFUL AFFECTIONS OF THE FEET. DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT.-C. Ogilvy discusses the commoner causes of foot pain, with the appropriate treatment. The diagnosis of " rheumatism of the feet" is often made, but is usually incorrect, the symptoms in most cases being due to some deformity, such as eversion, or flat foot. In eversion, or what is commonly called "weak ankle," the foot is everted, the internal malleolus projects very prominently, the toes point outward, and the line of strain. falls to the inner side of the foot, throwing excessive weight on the inner half of the longitudinal arch. This leads to loss of elasticity of the arch, the foot breaks down and flat foot results. Flat foot in its first stages is not diagnosed correctly in 50 per cent. of the cases, yet an early diagnosis is of the greatest importance, for it is a difficult matter to transform an everted painful foot with a broken-down arch into one which is capable of performing all its functions without pain or discomfort. The treatment may require the use of the Thomas heel, the Whitman plate, the plaster bandage, operation, exercise, and massage, singly or in combination according to the nature of the case. Metatarsophalangeal pain is due to weakness of the anterior arch, and is treated by the application of a felt pad and adhesive plaster. Bursitis of the heel is less frequently met with and is treated by hollowing out the heel of the shoe or by dissecting out the bursa. The subject of proper footwear is also considered and the essential points of a well-fitting shoe are enumerated.- Medical Record, January 21, 1905.

DUODENAL ULCER.-W. J. Mayo reviews the clinical aspects of fifty-eight operated cases, and adds some remarks on gastrojejunostomy. His cases are divided into the following groups:

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