for its relief as pain in different parts of the human anatomy, and how frequently is it the case that, though it can be frequently relieved without delay, its exact origin is not, at the time anyway, located. Dr. Hill's work will materially assist in this respect, and be found to be the handiest kind of a manual for the desk or pocket, and one that can be readily referred to in more or less of an emergency. The book consists of eleven chapters, e.g., Headache, Pain in the Ear and Nose, Pain in the Mouth and Throat, Chest Pain, Backache, Abdominal Pain, Pelvic Pain, Genito-Urinary Pain, Proctalgia, Limb and Joint Pains, and Dermatalgia. In each chapter, the author takes up the various forms of pain in its different locations, and gives in the same paragraph its different symptoms, and the best forms of treatment for its relief. The book costs but $1.00, and is worth all of that.

W. A. Y.

Diseases of the Intestines. A Text-Book for Practitioners and Students of Mediine. By MAX EINHORN, M.B., Prof of Medicine in the New York Post-Graduate School and Hospital. Second edition. New York: William Wood & Co., Publishers.

This work is really a continuation of the excellent book on "Diseases of the Stomach," by the same author. The first chapter contains a resume of the anatomy-gross and minute-of the intestinal canal, and also its physiology. We wonder what some of the leading physiologists would say to condensing the physiology of the intestinal tract into twelve pages, and yet such is done, and done very successfully, too.

Then the methods of examination are gone into exhaustively, for this is such an important subject. Are not most of our errors in diagnosis sins rather of omission than of commission?

The other chapters are devoted to acute and chronic intestinal catarrh, dysentery, ulcers of the intestines, neoplasms, hemorrhoids, appendicitis, obstruction, nervous affections, and intestinal parasites. A careful perusal of the book will be useful to anyone; but to the surgeon, the chapter on appendicitis and on new growths is most interesting reading.

S.

Contributions to Practical Medicine. By JAMES SAWYER, Senior Consulting Physician to the Queen's Hospital, Birmingham. Fourth edition, with many revisions and additions. Birmingham: Cornish Bros. 1904.

It is the common every-day ailments, and particularly those which are remedial or curative, which should demand the specialization of the general practitioner. The author has aimed, as he says, at utility in medical practice, and deals with a few of the subjects occurring most frequently in his own extensive practice,

covering a period of thirty-five years. The first edition was published in 1886, and the third edition two years ago. There are some changes and improvements since the last edition. Among the subjects embraced are: The Causes and Cure of Insomnia, the Cure of Gastralgia, Treatment and Cure of Habitual Constipation, Intestinal Obstruction, Floating Kidneys, Cure of Eczema, Fuming, Inhalations in Asthma, Diet in Diabetes, Medicated Lozenges, Accentuation of the Pulmonary, Second Sound of the Heart, and there is even a chapter devoted to the cause and cure of a form of backache-the backache of loaded colon.

Saunders' Medical Hand-Atlases.

E. H. A.

Atlas and Epitome of Operative Gynecology. By DR. O. SCHLAFFER, of Heidelberg. Edited, with additions, by J. Clarence Webster, M.D. (Edin.), F.R.C.P.E., Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Rush Medical College, in affiliation with. the University of Chicago. With 42 lithographic plates in colors, many text cuts, a number in colors, and 138 pages of text. Philadelphia, New York, London: W. B. Saunders & Company. 1904. Cloth, $3.00 net. Canadian agents: J. A. Carveth & Co., Toronto.

It is an admitted fact that one of the branches of study that not nearly sufficient attention is paid to in teaching students in not only Canadian, but American, colleges is that of operative gynecology. How can it be wondered at, therefore, that young practitioners are unable to "tackle" a case of anterior or posterior kolporrhaphy, or a kolpoperineorrhaphy, or even a celiotomy, when the majority of them take their degree without ever having an opportunity of seeing, much less taking part in, such operations as those named? An atlas such as Dr. Schaffer's will prove of great assistance to any practitioner thinking of operating in some difficult pelvic case, which his innate modesty forced him to hesitate at first in undertaking. Dr. Clarence Webster is to be congratulated upon his work. We cannot, however, speak as highly of many of the lithographic plates, which, in comparison with those in preceding atlases, are distinctly disappointing as to execution and coloring.

A Practical Guide to the Administration of the Nauheim Treatment of Chronic Diseases of the Heart in England. By LESLIE THORNE THORNE, M.D., B.S., Durham; Medical Examiner to the London County Council Technical Board. London: Bailliere, Tyndall & Cox, 8 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden.

1904.

The author, without entering into a lengthy discussion of the theories of the treatment or a description of Nauheim and its

baths, endeavors to give a short detailed practical description of this method of treatment, which consists essentially in the administration of a graduated course of baths prepared artificially so as to resemble, in all active ingredients, the natural baths of Nauheim. A chapter is devoted to a method of administration of exercises invented and perfected by the late Dr. Augustus Schott and his brother, Prof. Theodore Schott. This little book is well illustrated with sphygmographic tracings, showing the influence of the effects of immersion upon the rate, volume and tension of the pulse.

E. H. A.

Golden Rules on Dental Surgery. By CHAS. W. GLASSINGTON, M.R.C.S., L.D.S. (Ed.), Senior Dental Surgeon to the Westminster Hospital; Lecturer on Dental Materia Medica and Therapeutics (late Dental Surgeon) to the National Dental Hospital and College, etc. Golden Rules Series, No. XIII. Bristol: John Wright & Co. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Limited.

This is a waistcoat pocket edition, intended specially for the author's past and present students; but students and young practitioners in the United States and Canada will profit also if they utilize this concise little booklet in their spare moments. While some of these golden rules on dental surgery may seem somewhat arbitrary from an American standpoint of dental knowledge, still we must admit, if there are any signs, they are those rather of omission than of commission.

E. H. A.

Lectures, Chiefly Clinical and Practical, on Diseases of the Lungs and the Heart. By JAMES ALEXANDER LINDSAY, M.D., F.R.C.P. (Lond.), M.A., Professor of Medicine, Queen's College, Belfast. London: Bailliere, Tindall & Cox, Henrietta Street, Covent Garden. Canadian Agents: J. A. Carveth & Co., Limited, 434 Yonge Street, Toronto. 1904.

This volume purports to be the substance of clinical lectures delivered during the past fifteen years, and consists rather of didactic information than of clinical demonstration. The conditions treated of are dealt with systematically, and few of the lectures are an interpretation of the phenomena presented by any patient, or series of patients, and in that sense can scarcely be called clinical. The volume will be found a useful one for any physician to refer to when in difficulty.

A. M'P.

My Friend Prospero. By HENRY HARLAND. Toronto: William Briggs.

A charming love story, the courtship aglow with the radiance of summer skies in Italy; romantic, humorous; in a word, bewitching, even to the reader.

The Infectivity of Enteric Fever. With Observations on Its Origin and Incidence at Caius College, Cambridge, Festiniog and Wicken-Conant. By ALEXANDER ALEXANDER COLLIE, COLLIE, M.D. (Aberd.), late Clinical Instructor at the Eastern Hospital, etc. Bristol: John Wright & Co., Printers, Stone Bridge. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co., Ltd. 1904.

In this little book of 47 pages, the author makes a strong argument for the infectivity of enteric fever, and, to our mind, with complete success. There can be no question that the germs of typhoid get on the patient's skin and clothing from both feces and urine, and are distributed over the surface by fingers and otherwise, and thus form an easy source of infection.

SOME OF W. B. SAUNDERS & CO.'S FORTHCOMING BOOKS.

The following comprise a few of the books now in press, and which W. B. Saunders & Co. will issue shortly:

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Nothnagel's Practice of Medicine." Tuberculosis and Acute General Miliary Tuberculosis. By Dr. G. Cornet, of Berlin. Edited with additions, by Walter B. James, M.D., of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York. Handsome octavo of 806 pages. Cloth, $5.00 net; half morocco, $6.00 net. Diseases of the Intestines and Peritoneum. By Dr. Hermann Nothnagel, of Vienna. Edited, with additions, by Humphrey D. Rolleston, M.D., F.R.C.P., of St. George's Hospital, London. Octavo volume of 1032 pages, containing 20 insert plates. Cloth, $5.00 net; half morocco, $6.00 net.

Epilepsy and its Treatment." By Wm. P. Spratling, M.D., Medical Superintendent of the Craig Colony for Epileptics at Sonyea, N.Y. Octavo volume of 528 pages, illustrated.

"A Text-Book of Pathology." By Joseph McFarland, M.D., of the Medico-Chirurgical College, Philadelphia. Octavo volume of about 800 pages, beautifully illustrated, including a number in colors.

"The Vermiform Appendix and its Diseases." By Howard A. Kelly, M.D., of the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. Handsome octavo of about 800 pages, superbly illustrated with over 400 entirely original illustrations, including several lithographic plates.

"Clinical Diagnosis." By L. Napoleon Boston, M.D., Medico-Chirurgical College, Philadelphia. Octavo volume of 525 pages, containing 200 illustrations, including 25 colored plates. "A Hand-Book of Surgery." By Frederic R. Griffith, M.D.,

of New York. 12mo of about 450 pages, with 300 illustrations. Bound in flexible leather.

"Diseases of the Liver." By Humphrey D. Rolleston, M.D., F.R.C.P., of St. George's Hospital, London. Octavo volume of about 1,000 pages, beautifully illustrated, including a number of colored plates.

"A Text-Book of Legal Medicine." By Frank Winthrop Draper, A.M., M.D., of Harvard University Medical School, Boston, Mass. Handsome octavo of nearly 600 pages, fully illustrated.

"A Text-Book of Materia Medica: Including Laboratory Exercises in the Histological and Chemic Examination of Drugs. By Robert A. Hatcher, Ph.G., M.D., of Cornell University Medical School, New York City; and Torald Sollmann, of the Western Reserve University, Cleveland, O. 12mo volume of about 300 pages. Bound in flexible leather.

"Examination of the Urine." By G. A. deSantos Saxe, Pathologist to Columbus Hospital, New York City. 12mo volume of about 300 pages, fully illustrated. Bound in flexible leather.

"A Text-Book of Operative Surgery: Covering the Surgical Anatomy and Operative Technic involved in the Operations of General Surgery. By Warren Stone Bickham, M.D., of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City. Second edition, revised. Octavo volume of about 1,000 pages, with 559 beautiful illustrations, nearly all original. Cloth, $6.00 net; sheep or half morocco, $7.00 net.

"The Practical Application of the Roentgen Rays in Therapeutics and Diagnosis." By William Allen Pusey, A.M., M.D., of the University of Illinois; and Eugene W. Caldwell, B.S., of the Edward N. Gibbs Memorial X-Ray Laboratory of the University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York City. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Octavo volume of about 625 pages, with nearly 200 illustrations, some in colors.

"A Text-Book of Mechano-Therapy (Massage and Medical Gymnastics). By Axel V. Grafstrom, B.Sc., M.D., late of City Hospital, Blackwell's Island, N.Y. Second edition, greatly enlarged and entirely reset.. 12mo of 200 pages, fully illustrated.

"Materia Medica for Nurses." By Emily A. M. Stoney, Superintendent of the Training School for Nurses at Carney Hospital, South Boston. Second edition, thoroughly revised and enlarged 12mo volume of 325 pages.

"Obstetrics and Gynecologic Nursing," By Edward P. Davis, A.M., M.D., of the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Second edition, revised and enlarged. 12mo of 400 pages, fully illustrated. Bound in buckram.