ticular belief, finds a joy and an inspiration in making out a strong case for his doctrine, the reviewer, who has no such infatuation to bolster him up, finds it exceedingly difficult to give a just proportion to the doctrine and the arguments advanced in its favor. In the book now under consideration, the author has amassed and set forth a powerful array of testimony to the rationalism of a vegetable diet. How much of it is warrantable, and how much specious? And if some of it be specious, in just what respect is it specious? We frankly confess we can not discriminate. In issues of this kind it seems almost impossible to get a presentation of the judicial, middle viewpoint. It is like the adjudication of a case in law. The only practicable way of arriving at a verdict is to hear each side of the case presented, in all its extremeness, by the opposing advocates, and all the witnesses examined on both sides, and out of one's own faculty of common sense evolve something like a rational conclusion as to the truth. To those who are interested in forming such a rational conclusion in the matter of vegetarianism, Dr. Buttner's book wil furnish a clear and forcible presentation of the vegetarian side of the question.

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DISEASES OF THE SKIN.-A Manual for Students and Practitioners. By Alfred Schalek, M. D., Professor of Dermatology, University of Nebraska; formerly Assistant Professor of Dermatology, Rush Medical College, Chicago; Attending Dermatologist to Nebraska Methodist Clarkson Episcopalian, Douglas County, Immanuel and Swedish Mission Hospitals. Second Edition,Thoroughly Revised. Illustrated with Forty-seven Engravings. Philadelphia and New York: Lea & Febiger.

This is one of Lea & Febiger's Medical Epitome series, and, of course, does not purport to be an exhaustive text-book on the subject of which it treats, but rather a ready reference to the essentials of dermatological diagnosis and treatment,

for the use of the man on the firing line, or for the student to refresh his overcharged memory. Viewed in this unpretentious light, the manual justifies its publication, and fulfills its mission. Dr. Schalek is a well-informed man, a lucid teacher, and a practical clinician, and al of these qualities characterize anything which comes from his pen. He is, perhaps, of all men, best fitted to epitomize the subject, and he has succeeded in doing so without being either undignified or inadequate. We can not quite see the justification for the illustrations which appear in the book. They are not clear enough to serve any didactic purpose, and they add nothing to the appearance of the book. So far as we can see, they might just as well have been left out. Skin diseases are a bête noir to the average practitioner, and any literature which helps out is likely to be eagerly welcomed by him.

VACCINE THERAPY. ITS THEORY AND PRACTICE.-By R. W. Allen, M. D., B. S. (London); Late Clinical Pathologist to the Mount Vernon Hospital for Diseases of the Chest; late Pathologist to the Royal Eye Hospital; late Gull Student of Pathology, Guy's Hospital. Third Edition. Philadelphia. P. Blakiston's Son & Company. 1910. Price, $2.00, net.

Vaccine therapy has been firmly placed in the front rank of new and successful therapeutic aids. The work of Wright and his followers has been followed up closely by the profession, so that today there is hardly a medical community in which we fail to find reliable testimony to the efficacy of vaccine medication, either with stock or autogenous vaccines. The practitioner of medicine is practically compelled to use these remedial agents if he wishes to obtain successful results in his daily practice. Gonococcic, staphylococcic, colon and typhoid vaccines have been used with brilliant success.

The one thing that has stood in the way of a more ready and wide espousa!

of the cause of vaccine therapy has been the absence of a reliable guide book or vade mecum to instruct the practitioner on the technique of preparation and usage of these products. The book in hand is well adapted to furnish all the information needed for a full understanding of the philosophy of this medication, the preparation of the vaccines and the modes of administration. The author gives a full and clear account of the opsonins, the opsonic index determination, accounts of the different vaccines, with records of interesting and obstinate cases handled by vaccine therapy. We are pleased to see the appearance of a work on this subject, for it is clearly needed. It is well written and understandable throughout by those who have not fully followed the laboratory workers' literature of the past ten years.

HYGIENE AND MORALITY. A Manual for Nurses and Others, Giving an Outline of the Medical, Social and Legal Aspects of the Venereal Diseases. By Lavinia L. Dock, R. N., Graduate of Bellevue Training School; Resident Member of the Nurses' Settlement, New York; Secretary of the International Council of Nurses. G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York and London. The Knickerbocker Press. 1910.

There are many reasons why the trained nurse can be made a better mouthpiece for the impartation of instruction and information concerning the venereal diseases and their medical and social aspects, than even the medical practitioner himself. Hence we regard it as a very wise step on the part of Miss Dock to set forth these truths in a manner that especially addresses itself to the nurse. The book contains not the least suggestion of sensationalism or hysteria; it is a sane, matter-of-fact, comprehensive presentation of the case. Its circulation need not by any means be confined to nurses, although, as stated, we believe they have peculiar opportunities and aptitude for promulgating such teaching. It may be put into the hands of all those

who are in any way practically concerned in the training of men and women. But the direct dedication of the book to the trained nurse gives the author the opportunity of saying what she has to say in an exceptionally straightforward, business-like way that is exceedingly powerful and effective. We trust our readers among the medical profession will make a point of seeing that Miss Dock's work is made known in quarters where it will do the most good.

THE OLD AND THE NEW.

"I am a heretic about the Victorian writers and their supremacy."-W. D. Howells.

We applaud a frank confession that will knock the rank obsession as to authors who are liked because they're oldThat there's nothing worth the reading, nor a passing instant's heeding, whose covers are not thick with ancient mould. We agree that every story that looms up before us, hoary with the whiskers of a grandpa, should be canned.

And our voice of gladness blesses some new book from off the presses, and we reach for it with eager, greedy hand.

But we find, upon perusal, that we foozled our refusal-that too soon we shook the ancients over there.

For the new book is the worstest, and its author is the curstest, that ever made

a reader tear his hair.

So we turn back to the old 'uns, and the wondrous green and gold 'uns shall try to lure us to them, but in vain;

Old age may be some faulty-may be lame and blind and halty-but the new books simply drive a man insane.

-Arthur Chapman, in Denver Republican.

GOOD PUNS.

The story is told that Judge Story and Edward Everett were once the prominent personages at a public dinner in Boston. The former, as a voluntary toast, gave: "Fame follows merit where Everett goes." The gentleman thus delicately complimented at once arose, and replied. with this equally felicitous impromptu : "To whatever height judicial learning may attain in this country, there will always be one Story higher.-The Mir

ror.

THE AFTER-CARE OF "A BAD COLD." HE young, virile, robust individual,

THE

who contracts what is commonly termed "a bad cold," rarely suffers long from such affection, as the superior resisting power of such persons soon overcomes the virulence of the infecting agent and recovery is rapid and complete. It is apt to be very different, however, with those whose circulation is less active and whose phagocytic activity is "below par," due to advancing years or general devitalization from whatever cause. For such patients something more than expectorants or respiratory sedatives is required. General nutritive and reconstituent measures are indicated and a quickly-acting and substantial medicinal tonic almost always materially hastens recovery in such cases. Pepto-Mangan (Gude), with which is combined an appropriate dose of strychnia, is the ideal supportive treatment, as the combination not only tones the circulation and the nervous system, but also supplies in palatable, tolerable and immediately assimilable form the organic iron and manganese needed to revitalize the blood and infuse force and vigor. In the case of young children it is perhaps wise to depend upon PeptoMangan (Gude), without strychnia.

GRACE BEFORE MEAT.

A young lady who taught a class of small boys in the Sunday school desired to impress on them the meaning of returning thanks before a meal. Turning to one of the class, whose father was a deacon in the church, she asked him:

"William, what is the first thing your father says when he sits down to the table?"

"He says, 'Go slow with the butter, kids; it's forty cents a pound,'" replied the youngster.-Everybody's.

"606" ON THE MARKET.

"No. 606," Professor Ehrlich has informed the medical press, will be placed on sale in Germany, through Farbwerke Hoechst on November 1, and through their U. S. agents, Victor Koechl Company, 34 Beach street, New York. It is a yellow granular powder, and will be marketed in sealed glass tubes each containing one dose, 0.3 gm.

SOMETHING TO LIVE FOR.

Three little girls were playing. The mother of one came into the room and engaged the children in conversation. "Marian, what are you going to be when you grow up?” she asked.

"I am going to be a famous singer," she replied.

"And you, Susie, what are you to be?" "Oh, I am going to write stories when I grow up," she answered.

"And what is Marjorie to be?" continued the mother.

Marjorie, aged five, thought seriously a moment, and then said, "Well I am not sure, but I think I'll be a widow."-Delineator.

A PALATABLE COD LIVER OIL PREP. ARATION.

By means of Cord. Ext. O1. Morrhuae Comp. (Hagee), the patient may enjoy the great advantages of cod liver oil, and be relieved of its distressing features. The plain oil frequently gives rise to gastric distress. Cord. Ext. Ol. Morrhuae Comp. (Hagee), does not, yet its therapeutic properties are just as potent as the plain oil when the latter is tolerated. Cord. Ext. Ol. Morrhuae Comp. (Hagee) nourishes the tissues as does nothing else, and may be relied upon in grippe, bronchitis, tuberculosis and all states demanding tissue reconstructives.

A TONIC FOR DYSPEPTICS. What to prescribe for dyspeptics that will be mildly tonic, that will calm the excited stomach nerves and prevent overloading of the stomach, and still allow the assimilation of sufficient nutriment to perfectly sustain the organism-that has been desired by physicians for years.

Dyspeptic patients try the diplomatic ability of the most skilled physicians to the extreme. For it is a notable fact that they can not be relied upon to carry out a course of dieting, the first symptom of recovery being unfailing followed by renewed abuse in eating which makes conditions as bad as ever.

Many practitioners are relying almost wholly upon some good malt extract, the most reliable of which is Pabst Extract, the "Best Tonic." It contains an easily assimilable iron; while the demand of the organism which is caused by the hops is satisfied by the highly nutritive qualities. of the barley. It is the long-desired "liquid bread."

SIMILIA SIMILIBUS.

The superintendent of a lunatic asylum was strolling round the grounds a few weeks after his appointment, when one of the inmates came up to him, and, touching his hat, exclaimed:

"We all like you better than the last one, sir."

"Thank you," said the new official, pleasantly. "And may I ask why?"

"Well, sir," replied the lunatic, “you see, you are more like one of us!"

POST-GRIPPAL ASTHENIA.

Of all the acute infections to which human flesh is heir, none seems to be followed by such general prostration as la grippe. As the Irishman aptly described it, it is "the disase that keeps ye sick for a month after ye get well." The general devitalization that ensues after the subsidence of the acute symptoms appears to be entirely out of proportion to the severity of the original attack. It is

therefore distinctly the part of clinical wisdom to inaugurate a vigorous reconstructive campaign as soon as the febrile movement subsides. Plenty of fresh air, an abundance of nutritious but easily digestible food, and regular doses of Pepto-Mangan (Gude) constitute a trio. of therapeutic measures of marked benefit. If the heart action is unduly weak, or if the prostration is more than usual'y pronounced, an appropriate dose of strychnia added to the Pepto-Mangan is of considerable additional service.

IO VICTIS.

I sing the hymn of the conquered, who fell in the battle of life

The hymn of the wounded, the beaten, who died overwhelmed in the strife; Not the jubilant song of the victors, for whom the resounding acclaim

Of nations was lifted in chorus, whose brows wore the chaplet of fame;

But the hymn of the low and the humble, the weary, the broken in heart, Who strove and who failed, acting bravely a silent and desperate part;

Whose youth bore no flower on its branches, whose hopes burned in ashes away,

From whose hands slipped the prize they had grasped at, who stood at the dying of day

With the wreck of their life all around them,

unpitied, unheeded, alone,

With death swooping down o'er their failure, and all but their faith overthrown.

While the voice of the world shouts its chorus

-its pæan for those who have won; While the trumpet is sounding triumphant, and high to the breeze and the sun Glad banners are waving, hands clapping, and hurrying feet

Thronged after the laurel-crowned victors, I stand on the field of defeat, In the shadow, with those who are fallen, and wounded, and dying, and there Chant a requiem low, place my hand on their pain-knotted brows, breathe a prayer. Hold the hand that is helpless, and whisper"They only the victory win

Who have fought the good fight and have vanquished the demon that tempts us within;

Who have held to their faith unseduced by the prize that the world holds on high; Who have dared for a high cause to suffer, resist, fight-if need be, to die."

Speak, History! who are Life's victors? Unroll thy long annals and say,

Are they those whom the world called viging

-who won the success of a day? The martyrs or Nero? The Spartans whippe, at Thermopyla's tryst,

Or the Persians of Xerxes? His judges
Socrates? Pilot or Christ?

-WM. WETMORE STOREY.