the points in the text where the conditions indicating their employment and choice will be found. In a word, the National Standard Dispensatory is a new, practical, and authoritative work containing information on all substances used in medicine and pharmacy at the present day. The volume is embellished with no fewer than 478 new and instructive engravings in the text.

MATERIA MEDICA AND PHARMACY.- By REYNOLD WEBB WILCOX, M. A., M. D., LL. D., Professor of Medicine in the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Attending Physician to the Hospital; Consulting Physician to the Nassau Hospital; Visiting Physician to St. Mark's Hospital; Vice-Chairman of the revision committee of the United States Pharmacopoeia; etc., etc. 8vo, cloth, pages 624. Price, $2.50, net. P. Blakiston's Son & Co., Publishers, 1012 Walnut St., Philadelphia.

1905.

This is the first of two volumes prepared by Dr. Wilcox, based upon the fifth edition of White and Wilcox's "Materia Medica, Pharmacy, Pharmacology, and Therapeutics." In that the author is Vice-Chairman of the Revision Committee of the U. S. Pharmacopoeia, it goes without saying that these two volumes have been prepared in accordance with the new standards given in the eighth decennial revision of the great pharmacal authority.

"Materia Medica and Pharmacy" is classified in accordance with the natural order. The second book, "Pharmacology and Therapeutics," which is nearly ready, is classified in accordance with the uses and physiologic action of the drug, and will be an exhaustive account of the action and use of both official and unofficial remedies.

The author's object in these two works has been to thoroughly, exhaustively, and yet as concisely as possible, cover his subject, modeling it along lines agreeing with the most modern methods of teaching, in order that it may most indispensably appeal to teachers and students of medicine and pharmacy.

PRACTICAL MASSAGE IN TWENTY LESSONS.- By HARTVIG NISSEN, Instructor and Lecturer in Massage and Gymnastics at Harvard University

Summer School; Director of Physical Training, Brookline Public Schools; former Acting Director of Physical Training, Boston Public Schools; former Instructor of Physical Training at Johns Hopkins University and Wellesley College; former Director of the Swedish Health Institute, Washington, D. C., etc., etc.; author of "Swedish Movement and Massage Treatment," " A, B, C of Swedish Educational Gymnastics," "Rational Home Gymnastics," etc. With 46 original illustrations. 168 pages, 12m0. Price, extra cloth, $1.00, net. F. A. Davis Company, Publishers, 1914-16 Cherry Street, Philadelphia.

This is a very excellent little manual on practical massage, and it will prove of value to students, nurses, and those practitioners who desire to keep fully up with so important a therapeutic aid. Its twenty lessons are eminently "practical," and it contains much indeed in its small compass.

A TREATISE ON THE NERVOUS DISEASES OF CHILDREN FOR PHYSICIANS AND STUDENTS. By B. SACHS, M. D., Alienist and Neurologist to Bellevue Hospital; Neurologist to the Mt. Sinai Hospital; Consulting Physician to the Manhattan State Hospital, East and West; Ex-President of the American Neurological Association, etc., etc. 8vo, cloth, 571 pages, illustrated, second edition, revised. Wm. Wood & Co., New York, Publishers. 1905.

Dr. Sachs has received a warm measure of praise both in this country and Europe for the first edition of his excellent work on nervous diseases in children; and translations have been made into German and Italian, and a French edition is to be brought out very soon. It has been of great service to teachers of medicine and pediatrics, and writers on these branches have made use of it in their text-books quite freely. Every chapter in this edition has been carefully and thoroughly revised, and much new matter has been added. A comparison of the two editions of the book, the first being in its day regarded as fully up to date, will show that important advances have been made in neurology and the allied sciences within recent years.

The publishers have done full justice to so excellent a work, and as is usual with everything that emanates from Wm. Wood & Co., it is printed and bound in most excellent manner, on the finest book-paper.

A MANUAL OF DISEASES OF THE NOSE, THROAT, NASO-PHARYNX, AND TRACHEA. For the use of Students and Practitioners.- By CORNELIUS G. COAKLEY, M. D., Clinical Professor of Laryngology in the University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York. New (3d) edition, in one 12mo volume of about 575 pages, with 118 engravings and 5 colored plates. Cloth, $2.75, net. Lea Bros. & Co., Publishers, New York and Philadelphia, 1905.

This is a compact manual answering well for the needs of both students and practitioners. Special attention has been given to examinations, diagnosis, and treatment. The author has selected from among the many medicinal and operative methods those which, in his judgment, are the best, and full details are given for the benefit of those who have not had the advantage of practical clinical instruction. The work is fully in accord with the most recent accepted views of pathology and therapeutics. Each article has been carefully considered and made to conform to the advances in diagnosis and treatment.

A TEXT-BOOK OF THE PRACTIce of Medicine.— By James M. ANDERS, M. D., Ph. D., LL. D., Professor of Medicine and of Clinical Medicine at the Medico-Chirurgical College, Philadelphia. Seventh edition, revised and enlarged. Octavo of 1297 pages, fully illustrated. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Company, 1905. Cloth, $5.50 net; sheep or half morocco, $6.50 net.

A sale of over 22,000 copies and the attainment of a seventh edition seems sufficient recommendation for any book; in fact, Anders' Practice does not now need any recommendation — it is too well known. As in the former editions, particular attention is bestowed upon inductive diagnosis, differential diagnosis, and treatment. Regarding differential diagnosis, we notice with much satisfaction that the many diagnostic tables of simulating diseases have been retained. The clinical value of these tabulated points of distinction is beyond cavil. Numerous new subjects have been introduced, among which are: Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, Examination of Patients for Diagnosis of Diseases of the Stomach, Splanchnoptosis, Cambridge's Test for Glycerose in the Urine, and Myasthenia Gravis. Certain other

individual affections have been entirely rewritten and important additions have been made to the diseases which prevail principally in tropical and subtropical regions. The seventh edition of Dr. Anders' Practice maintains the reputation of the work as the best practice before the profession to-day.

A TEXT-BOOK OF DISEASES OF WOMEN. BY BARTON COOKE HIRST, M. D., Professor of Obstetrics, University of Pennsylvania. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Octavo of 741 pages, with 701 original illustrations, many in colors. Cloth, $5.00 net; sheep or half morocco, $6.00 net. Philadelphia and London. W. B. Saunders & Company,

1905.

Dr. Hirst may well be congratulated upon the publication of such a work as this, a second edition of which has just appeared. Written on the same lines as his "Text-Book of Obstetrics," to which it may be called a companion volume, it gives every promise of attaining a similar success. The palliative treatment of diseases of women and such curative treatment as can be carried out by the general practitioner have been given special attention, enabling physicians to treat many of their patients without referring them to a specialist. Indeed, throughout the book great stress has been laid upon diagnosis and treatment, and the section devoted to a detailed description of modern gynecic operations is without doubt the most clear and concise we have yet read. In this second edition the revision has been thorough, introducing, however, only such matter that promises or has been demonstrated to be of permanent value. Forty-seven new illustrations have been added and thirty of the old ones replaced, the work now containing a collection of seven hundred and one beautiful original illustrations, many of them in colors. We take much pleasure in recommending Dr. Hirst's work to the medical profession generally.

ABDOMINAL OPERATIONS.- By B. G. A. MOYNIHAN, M. S. (London), F. R. C. S., Senior Assistant Surgeon to Leeds General Infirmary, England.

Octavo of 695 pages, with 250 original illustrations. Cloth, $7.00, net. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Company, 1905.

It has been truly said of Mr. Moynihan that in describing details of operations he is at his best. This, his latest work, therefore, will be widely welcomed by the medical profession generally, giving as it does in most clear and exact language the preliminary technic of preparation and sterilization, as well as the actual modus operandi of the various abdominal operations. Mr. Moynihan's reputation in this field is international, and this work, stamped with the authority of a rare experience, is undoubtedly to become the recognized standard. Peritonitis and appendicitis, the latter of such present importance, have been accorded unusual space in a work of this kind; and the subject of chronic gastric ulcers is also excellently detailed. Throughout the entire book numerous cases have been quoted from both the author's own practice and that of other distinguished surgeons. The beautiful illustrations are all new and have been drawn especially for Mr. Moynihan's work under his personal supervision. The book is a valuable production and adds greatly to the reputation of its eminent author.

CARBONIC ACID IN MEDICINE.— By Achilles Rose, M. D. of New York, Author of Atonia Gastrica." 12mo, cloth, 268 pages. Price, $1.00 net. Funk & Wagnalls Company, Publishers, 44-60 E 23rd, St., New York, and 44 Fleet St., London, 1905.

This book aims to set forth the fullest facts about the healing qualities of carbonic acid gas. These beneficial properties were known centuries ago, but they strangely passed into disuse until they have now become unjustly forgotten. The work is well written, and shows much original thought. It is an unquestioned fact that many very useful remedies of the past have been lost sight of, and no little to our disadvantage and that of our clientele. A portrait of Jean Baptiste Von Helmont, who flourished from 1577 to 1644, serves very nicely as a "frontispiece."