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Treatment of Poisoning. These additions will enhance considerably the value of The Physician's Visiting List as a pocket record book and ever handy reference guide for the medical practitioner.

Neat, compact, well arranged and durable, it has justly earned so many friends throughout the medical world that commendation is unnecessary.

MANUAL OF GYNECOLOGY. BY HENRY T. BYFORD, M.D., Professor of Gynecology and Clinical Gynecology in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago; Professor of Gynecology in the PostGraduate Medical School of Chicago, and in the Chicago Clinical School, etc. 8vo. cloth, pp. 598. Third Revised Edition, with 363 illustrations, many original. Price, $3.00 net. P. BLAKISTON'S SON & Co., Publishers, 1012 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 1902.

While this excellent work will be of great value to the practitioner, it is essentially a Manual and Text-Book of especial value to the student, prepared by one of the most practical and successful teachers of his day. Its former editions were universally well received, and established it as one of the standards.

In preparing the third edition, its able author has recast the contents of the book and added much new matter, making the volume not only concise, but at the same time as complete as possible.

Anatomy, physiology, diagnosis and treatment are considered in a most practical manner. To the busy practitioner who is not exclusively limited in his work to gynecology, it will be found as complete for his purpose as desirable, without being rendered cumbersome and excessively voluminous.

The large, clear type, the marginal notes, its wealth of illustrations, are most valuable as a reference medium for the practitioner, without diminishing its value as a student's "vade mecum."

LEA'S SERIES OF MEDICAL EPITOMES. A Manual of Genito-Urinary and Venereal Diseases for the use of Students and Practitioners. By LOUIS E. SCHMIDT, M.D., of the Chicago Polyclinic. In one handy 12mo volume of 250 pages, with 21 illustrations. Cloth, $1.00 net. LEA BROTRERS & Co., Publishers, Philadelphia and New York, 1902. Dr. Schmidt's little work, the first volume of Lea's Series of

Medical Epitomes, furnishes an excellent example of what a useful epitome should be.

He has furnished a compendious treatise written in clear, intelligible language, and covering the esentials of his important subject in its most modern development. The book treats in sufficient detail of Venereal and Genito-Urinary diseases, together with their direct and remote complications.

Dr. Schmidt has adapted the work especially to the needs of medical students, but it will be found peculiarly convenient as a ready reference work for the physician who wishes to refresh his memory or to post himself on the most recent knowledge on the subject.

For the convenience of students who desire to form quiz classes, a series of questions is appended to each chapter. Illustrations are used whenever they can serve to clarify the text.

THE POCKET REFERENCE BOOK AND VISITING LIST, Perpetual for 25 patients a week. Price, $1.00. J. H. CHAMBERS & Co., Publishers, St. Louis, Mo., 1903.

In addition to the usual pages for the daily visits and other records essential to the doctor, we find some very practical memoranda, such as prediction of date of confinement, artificial respiration, care of galvanic battery, disinfectants, examination of urine, poisons and antidotes, doses of medicine, comparison of thermometer scales, table of equivalents, metric system, diet table for diabetes, dagnostic table of eruptive fevers, etc., making it very useful as well as convenient, handy and practical. It will readily bear comparison with any of its class, and we think will become a favorite.

Selections.

THE CONTROL OF UTERINE HEMORHAGE.-The Journal of Medicine and Science recently reported the following case:

"The woman, 42 years old, had a climacteric hemorrhage. The uterus was subinvoluted and prolapsed. The right tube and ovary were enlarged when the patient first came under ob

servation. She had been bleeding continuously for seven days. The doctor gave fluid extract of ergot in drachm doses every four hours and packed the vagina. At the end of two days there was no improvement; the fourth day atrophine was prescribed to meet the constitutional symptoms and solution of adrenalin chloride (1 to 1000) was given in 15-drop doses every four hours. In twenty-four hours he found a complete cessation of the flow. The use of adrenalin solution was continued for twenty-four hours together with hot water douches, and he had no further trouble with the case.-Colorado. Med Journal

ANOTHER ATTEMPT AT SUBSTITUTION.-We are informed that preparations of liquid magnesia are being urged upon physicians and sold to the dispensing chemist under various titles. Many of these preparations are chemically unsafe, while others contain calcined magnesia, triturated or suspended by mucilaginous or glycerine solutions. Chalk and other earthly substances have also been found. The strongest claims made for their adoption is cheapness. Their administration, simply or in combination, is dangerous, certainly with infants, where concretions in the delicate intestinal tract are so readily formed.

It can hardly be deemed necessary to suggest that these products of unscrupulous manufacturers would not have appeared, were it not for the esteem in which Milk of Magnesia (Phillips),* has been held for so many years. Physicians should not be misled in this matter. In this instance at least, "the best is the cheapest," and the "best" preparation of magnesia is Milk of Magnesia (Phillips).-Massachusetts Medical Journal.

BORAX IN OBESITY.-From the fact that borax exercises in animals and man an inhibitory action upon the processes of nutrition M. C. Gerhardt conceived the idea of employing this salt in the treatment of obesity. He found that in the dose of 1.50 grammes (nearly 24 grains) a day taken in three doses borax is well supported and reduces excessive corpulence. In smaller quantities it produces no appreciable effect in dimishing fat.-Le Bulletin Medical.

*The Charles H. Phillips Chemical Company, New York.

METHYLENE BLUE IN NEURALGIA.-Dr. A. De Voe, of Seattle, (Wash.), in The Medical World, in a note on the treatment of neuralgia, has this to say: "Don't wait to try strychnine or aconitine to their full physiological limit, and don't operate for neuralgia, since all of these measures will prove needless barbarities after a small hypodermic dose of methylene blue. One-fourth, one-eighth, or even one-tenth of a grain of Merck's medicinal methylene blue, in watery solution, hypodermically near the seat of pain or near the spinal source of the affected nerve, is generally sufficient. Using these small doses two points of injection may sometimes be advisable at the same sitting. So administered, for local effect chiefly, the drug having a special attraction for nerve tissue, there can be little if any risk of abortificacient action. I have so used it to cure neuralgias in in pregnant women, and always without harmful results of any kind. The local smarting is but brief. Methlene blue is worthy a place in the hypodermic case of every physician who desires to treat with bess success tic douloureux and other neuralgias, especially those showing a daily recurrence."-Merck's.

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TREATMENT OF COAL-GAS POISONING.—We wish to call the attention of our readers to a little remedy in coal-gas asphyxia that has proved very efficient, but with which, we fear, not many are familiar. We refer to the administration of hydrogen peroxide per rectum and per os. Per rectum is given in full strength; per os it is diluted with an equal volume of water. piece of ice inserted into the rectum is a great adjuvant, as it has quite a remarkable effect in restoring consciousness. The dose per rectum is about two ounces; per mouth about one ounce; and it may be frequently repeated. The usefulness of the treatment depends upon the absorption of oxygen from the hydrogen peroxide into the blood-cnrrent.-Merck's Archives.

First Pedestrian: "Out walking for your health?"

Second Pedestrian: "Yes, I'm going for the doctor."-The Med. Standard.

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