method we know of no superior way of familiarizing the practitioner and the student with the outstanding features of simulating diseases. Malaria, yellow fever, bacillary dysentery, cholecystitis, certain animal parasitic diseases, and the use of the X-rays in diagnosis and treatment have been fully discussed, incorporating the results of the most recent investigations. Among the new subjects introduced are Paratyphoid Fever, the Fourth Disease, Trypanosomiasis Orthostatic, Albuminuria, Transcortical Aphasia, Adiposis Dolorosa, and Amaurotic Family Idiocy. Every affection has been treated separately, particular attention being paid to its clinical character, diagnosis, and treatment. Evidently an immense mass of literature has been thoroughly digested, no pains having been spared to bring the entire work down to date, giving special reference to the daily needs of practitioners and students. In recommending it, we believe we are recommending the best text-book on the practice of medicine on the market.

A TEXT-BOOK OF LEGAL MEDICINE AND TOXICOLOGY. Edited by Frederick Peterson, M. D., Chief of Clinic, Nervous Department of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York; and Walter S. Haines, M. D., Professor of Chemistry, Pharmacy, and Toxicology, Rush Medical College, in affiliation with the University of Chicago. Two imperial octavo volumes of about 750 pages each, fully illustrated. Philadelphia, New York, London: W. B. Saunders & Company. 1903. Per volume: Cloth, $5, net; sheep or half Morocco, $6, net.

This work presents to the medical and legal professions a comprehensive survey of forensic medicine and toxicology in moderate compass.

For convenience of reference the treatise has been divided into two sections-Part I and Part II-the latter being devoted to Toxicology and all other portions of legal medicine in which laboratory investigation is an essential feature. Under "Expert Evidence" not only is advice given to medical experts, but suggestions are also made to attorneys as to the best methods of obtaining the desired information from the witness. The Bertillon and Greenleaf-Smart systems of identification are concisely and intelligently described, and the advantages of each stated. An interesting and important chapter is that on "The Destruction and Attempted Destruction of the Human Body by Fire and Chemicals;" for on the determination of the human or animal source of the remains frequently depends the legal conduct of a given case, and the guilt or innocence of the accused. A chapter not usually found in works on Legal Medicine, though of far more than passing signifi

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cance to both the medical expert and the attorney, is that on the medicolegal relations of the X-rays. The responsibility of pharmacists in the compounding of prescriptions, in the selling of poisons, in substituting drugs other than those prescribed, etc., furnishes a chapter of the greatest interest to everyone concerned with questions of medical jurisprudence. Also included in the work is the enumeration of the laws of the various States relating to the commitment and retention of the insane. In fact, the entire work is overflowing with matters of the utmost importance, and expresses clearly, concisely, and accurately the very latest opinions on all branches of forensic medicine and toxicology.

[A review of Vol. I appeared in a recent issue of the JOURNAL. -ED.]

THE FOUR EPOCHS OF WOMAN'S LIFE. Maidenhood, Marriage, Maternity, Menopause. By Anna M. Galbraith, M. D., author of "Hygiene and Physical Culture for Women." Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, etc. With an introductory note by John H. Musser, M. D., Professor of Clinical Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. 12mo. volume of 247 pages. Philadelphia, New York, London: W. B. Saunders & Company. 1903. Cloth, $1.50, net.

This work, written for the instruction of the laity on subjects of which every woman should have a thorough knowledge, is indeed a timely and excellent one. The fact that a second edition has been demanded in such a short time is sufficient proof that women have at last awakened to a sense of the penalties they have paid for their ignorance of those laws of nature which govern the epochs of their lives. The language used is clear and comprehensive, yet, withal, modest, and the meaning easily grasped even by those unfamiliar with medical subjects. As a further aid a comprehensive glossary of medical terms has been appended.

In this new edition the author has made some excellent additions, viz.: A section on "The Hygiene of Puberty;" one on "Hemorrhage at the Menopause a Significant Symptom of Cancer;" and one on "The Hygiene of the Menopause." These sections make the work the very best on the subject we have seen, and physicians will be doing a real service by recommending it to their patients.

ATLAS OF THE EXTERNAL DISEASES OF THE EYE. By Prof. Dr. O. Haab, of Zurich. Second edition, thoroughly revised. Edited, with additions, by G. E. DeSchweinitz, A. M., M. D., Professor of Ophthalmology in the University of Pennsylvania. With 98 colored lithographic illustrations on 48 plates, and 232

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pages of text. Philadelphia, New York, London: W. B. Saunders & Company. 1903. Price, $3, net.

This Atlas on External Diseases of the Eye forms an excellent compaion-book to Professor Haab's "Atlas of Ophthalmology and Ophthalmoscopic Diagnosis," and is just what might be expected from an author of such broad clinical experience and trained observation. Starting with examination of the eye the student is easily and gradually led from one examination to another, thus becoming familiar with the best methods of investigating the eye for the detection of disease. In the chapters on diseases of the eye which follow, the most important diseases are clearly described and the best therapeutic measures recorded. The text has been amply illustrated by a series of beautiful chromo-lithographic plates, to each one of which a clinical history is appended. This second edition has been thoroughly revised and brought down to date, and a number of new chromo-lithographic plates added. As in the first edition, valuable editorial comments are introduced, and reference made to many of the modern therapeutic agents.

MORPHINISM AND NARCOMANIA from Opium, Cocaine, Ether, Chloral, Chloroform, and other Narcotic Drugs; also the Etiology, Treatment, and Medicolegal Relations. By T. D. Crothers, M. D., Superintendent of Walnut Lodge Hospital, Conn.; Professor of Mental and Nervous Diseases, New York School of Clinical Medicine, etc. Handsome 12mo of 351 pages. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Co. 1902. Cloth, $2, net.

The alarming increase, in the last few years, of morphomania. and the associated various narcomanias imperatively demands immediate attention by the medical profession. Every year the increasing prominence of this psychosis calls for more exact studies,. with a fuller recognition of the conditions and causes of the disease. Medicolegally, questions of responsibility have been asked with increasing frequency, and there has been no literature and nostudy of the subject to afford an intelligent answer until this present volume was initiated.

The special object of this work has been to group the general facts and outline some of the causes and symptoms common to most cases, and to suggest general methods of treatment and prevention. The object could not have been better accomplished. The work gives a general preliminary survey of this new field of psychopathy, and points out the possibilities from a larger and more accurate knowledge, and so indicates degrees of curability at present. unknown. The author shows his absolute familiarity with his subject in the clear, concise, and in every way admirable work which he has given to the profession, whom he has placed under merited obligations.