of phenacetin, is of value. Occasionally we meet with children who perspire with great difficulty. In such cases it is best to first put the patient in a hot hip-bath with mustard, and then proceed with the treatment outlined be fore. Protracted cases of broncho-pneumonia do best on moderate doses of creosote carbonate, general tonic plan of treatment, and change of air.

Questions Used by the State Medical Examining Board of Washington, Seattle, July 5, 6, and 7, 1905. WEDNESDAY, JULY 5-9 to 10, Materia Medica and Therapeutics; 1 to 5, Practise of Medicin and Diseases of Children.

THURSDAY, JULY 6-9 to 10.30, Histology. Bacteriology, ard Pathology; 10.30 to 12, Chemistry and Toxicology; 1 to 3.30, Surgery; 3.30 to 5, Nervous Diseases and Diseases of the Eye and Ear.

FRIDAY, JULY 7-9 to 12, Anatomy and Physiology; 1 to 3.30, Diseases of Women and Obstetrics; 3.30 to 5, Preventiv Medicin and Medical Jurisprudence.

5. Name the branches of the abdominal aorta.

6. Give the nerve supply of the alimentary canal.

7. Name the contents of the thorax.

8. Name the sinuses of the brain, both vault and base.

9

Describe the nervous and muscular mechanism of the respiratory act.

10. Describe the manner in which the mammary glands perform their function.

11. What are the physiological causes of sleep?

12. Give the process of replacement of the temporary by the permanent teeth.

13. Describe the process of osmosis and give examples in the human economy.

14. Describe the digestion of a meal of roast beef and boiled potatoes.

15. How are the fat cells developt?

HISTOLOGY, BACTERIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY.

1. How would you prepare a specimen of suspected tissue to transmit to a pathologist?

2. What are the component parts of a cell?

3. Give the histological elements of compact bone.

4. Describe the cross-section of the spinal cord.

5. Name the histological elements of the blood. Describe their action in an inflammatory process.

6. Describe a section of normal kidney, also one in a state of parenchymatous inflammation, and one in a state of inter

stitial inflammation.

7. Describe staphylococci pyogenes and streptococci pyogenes and their arrangement. Also diplococci. Name a pathological condition in which each is the exciting cause.

8. Name and describe the microorganism which causes diphtheria. What culture medium is best adapted to its growth? Describe your method of confirming a suspected diagnosis. 9. How would you prepare tubercular sputum for examination? How high the power and what kind of lens would you employ for bacteriological work?

10. Name in their order and briefly describe the various stages of acute croupous pneumonia, also give the macro- and microscopic appearance in the third stage.

CHEMISTRY AND TOXICOLOGY.

1. How does chlorid of lime act as a disinfectant?

2. Describe the difference between organic and inorganic chemistry.

3. How would you test for albumin? Give two methods. 4. What is an ion?

5. Describe a test for excess of hydrochloric acid in gastric

contents.

6. What is the treatment of arsenical poisoning?

7. Give symptoms of iodoform poisoning.

8. Describe symptoms of mushroom poisoning, also give the treatment for the same.

9. Give the process by which strychnin is isolated from a vomit. 10. How would you determin the presence of organic matter in water?

MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS.

1. What are alkaloids? Give the names of four drugs from which they are derived, their dosage, and the indications for their

use.

2. Name a contraindication to the use of (a) phenacetin, (b) pilocarpin, (c) tartrate of antimony and potash, (d) strychnin.

3. Give a rule of dosage for a child.

4.

Write a prescription for a liquid cough mixture of four ingredients.

5. Name two drugs, of different groups, that are physiologically antagonistic in their action to jaborandi.

6. From what is salicylic acid derived? Name three drugs into the composition of which it enters. Give their dosage and therapeutic indications.

7. What is the composition and preparation of a seidlitz powder? What is the indication for its use?

8. Give two drugs that are commonly used in treating anemia, two preparations of each, and the directions for the administration of each

9. Give the medical treatment, name the drugs and the proper method of administration for typhoid fever, and the complication of the tebril period.

10. What is the chief therapeutic indication for water, and name the methods for using the same.

HOMEOPATHIC MATERIA MEDICA.

1. Give three leading symptoms calling for each of the following remedies: aconite, bryonia, gelsemium, colycinth, lycopodium.

2. Describe a nux vomica patient.

3. Differentiate the cough of tartar emetic, belladonna, cuprum, hyoscyamus.

4. Differentiate bladder symptoms of cantharides, terebinthina, cannabis sativa,

5. Give pen picture of a typical silicea patient.

6. What are the bowel symptoms of each of the following remedies: aloes, podophyllum, nux vomica, croton tig.

7. In prescribing for an infant distinguish symptoms of chamomilla, borax, calcarea carb.

8. Give the eye symptoms of euphrasia, pulsatilla, natrum mur. 9. Describe the tongue of rhus tox lachesis, nux vomica, mer

PRACTISE OF MEDICIN AND DISEASES OF CHILDREN.

1. Give briefly the etiology, pathology and diagnosis of typhoid fever Enumerate the sequelae.

2. Name three forms of anemia and give the pathology and symptoms of two forms.

3. Give the symptoms, course and complication of diabetes mellitus.

4. Give the etiology, pathology, symptoms, diagnosis and complications of lobar pneumonia.

5. Give the symptoms of pericarditis and endocarditis and make the differential diagnosis between the two.

6. Define cirrhosis of the liver, giving two forms, the symptoms and the differential diagnosis.

7. Give the physical signs of phthisis pulmonaris in the two stages of consolidation and cavity formation.

8. Give the symptoms, complications and sequelae of acute

articular rheumatism.

9. Differentiate between empyema and pneumonia.

10. Give the etiology, pathology, diagnosis and complication of

rachitis.

11. Give the various forms of stomatitis with etiology and symptoms of each,

12. Give briefly the differential diagnosis between epilepsy, convulsions due to intestinal irritation and uremic convulsions. 13. Give the symptoms of pertussis and differentiate it from acute bronchitis.

14. What is rotheln? Give the symptoms and course.

15. What alterations would you make in modified milk to overcome constipation.

SURGERY.

1. Tuberculosis of knee-joint, give diagnosis, prognosis, and

treatment.

2. Tabulate d fferential diagnosis between three varieties of hipjoint dislocations. Give method of reduction in each.

3. How do you treat a deep-seated infection of foot!

5. Describe fully ligation of subclavian artery in its most accessible portion.

6. Give symptoms of osteosarcoma of the humerus. Prognosis and treatment of same.

7. Osteomyelitis. Give diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment. 8. Give symptoms of stone in kidney and treatment of same.

9. Give symptoms of strangulated hernia, and describe operation for relief of same.

10. How do you treat a sprain of the ankle joint?

DISEASES OF WOMEN AND OBSTETRICS.

1. Give the differential diagnosis between ovarian cyst and extrauterin pregnancy.

2. In a case of salpingitis would you use the vaginal route for drainage, and give your reasons for or against.

3. Give the diagnosis and treatment of gonorrheal endometritis. 4. Name the pathological conditions due to a laceration of the Cervix and the disease that it predisposes to. Give the method of repairing.

5. Name three forms of uterin fibroids. The symptoms of each and the treatment.

6. What are the indications for inducing premature labor?

7. Give the management of an arm presentation.

8. Give the cause and treatment of (a) after-pains, (b) suppression of the lochial discharge.

9. Name the various head presentations and give the mechanism of one.

10. Name four concomitant conditions of pregnancy and give the treatment of each.

NERVOUS DISEASES AND DISEASES OF EYE AND EAR.

1. Give the etiology, pathology, and symptoms of anterior poliomyelitis.

2. Differentiate between cerebrospinal (epidemic) meningitis and tubercular meningitis.

3. What is migraine? Give the etiology and symptoms.

4. Briefly describe the various forms of chorea. Give the prognosis of each form.

5. Define and give the etiology, symptoms and prognosis of (a) simple neuritis, (b) multiple neuritis.

6. Make a differential diagnosis between acute catarrhal conjunctivitis and iritis.

7. Outline the treatment of ophthalmia neonatorum.

8. Differentiate between cataract, corneal opacities, and pterygium.

9. Define the most frequent manifestations of syphilis in the eye. 10. Give the treatment and sequelae of chronic suppurating otitis media.

MEDICAL JURisprudence AND PREVENTIV MEDICIN.

1. Differentiate between wounds inflicted before death and those inflicted after death.

2. Define insanity from a medical legal standpoint.

3. What constitutes malpractise?

4. What are the duties and rights and privileges of a medical expert?

5. Give in detail, the inspection from a medical legal standpoint, of a body found dead.

6. Suppose the only available water supply of a certain city contained impurities, what municipal measures should be used to enable the community to continue to use the same supply? 7. What prophylactic measures should be adopted at Panama and for what reasons?

8. Suppose that a case of smallpox was discovered in a lodginghouse, what steps should be taken towards the prevention of the spread of the disease?

9. How do you prevent the spread of yellow fever?

10. What prophylaxis would you advise during an epidemic of cerebrospinal meningitis?

RECENT BOOKS

Dr. W. C. Cooper, of Cleves, O., poet and physician, for many years editor of the Eclectic Medical Gleaner, is over seventy years of age. As a writer and philosophic thinker, Dr. Cooper has attracted considerable attention. In medicin, tho he has usually been classed as an eclectic, he is much broader than any sect. The Doctor felt that he owed it to the profession and to mankind to publish his final "say" in medicin; hence he has written a little book, which he calls "Preventiv Medicin." But don't be misled by the name. The book contains his medical philosophy and also his treatment of the usual diseases, as dysentery, anemia, malaria, pneumonia, etc. Dr. Cooper is conscientious in believing that his

message to the profession is important; and that the serious consideration (and consequent adoption) of it by the profession would result advantageously to humanity. In this I heartily agree with him. For proof, I will say that if I had pneumonia, I would rather have Dr. Cooper to treat me than any man I know. His treatment (as given in this book, and from time to time in THE WORLD) is simple and direct, and the patient is free from those dozen or more burdens and annoyances which are usually put upon pneumonia patients, particularly those dreadful heart whips, strychnin, digitalis, etc. I wish to suggest that you send $1 to the Doctor for this book. Don't send to Cleveland, but to Cleves, O., which is in the southern part of the State, near Cincinnati. After reading the book, if you regret the investment, report to me and I will make it good. I run no risk in saying this, for you will not regret the investment of either time or money.-C. F. T.

Saunders' Question Compends. Essentials of Materia Medica and Therapeutics. Seventh revised edition, adapted to the new (1905) Pharmacopeia. By Henry Morris, MD., College of Physicians, Philadelphia. By W. A. Bastedo, Ph.G., M.D., Instructor in Materia Medica and Pharmacology at the Columbia University (College of Physicians and Surgeons), New York City. 12mo, 300 pages. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Co., 1905. Cloth, $1 net.

The student cannot find in condenst form a more practical work on materia medica, therapeutics, and prescription writing than this little essentials from the press of W. B. Saunders & Co. Dr. Bastedo, in revising the book for this seventh edition, has brought it in accord with the new (1905) Pharmacopeia, introducing all the new remedies and carefully indicating their therapeutic doses and uses. For a work of 300 pages it contains a mine of information so presented as to be easily graspt.

Nervous and Mental Diseases. By Archibald Church, M.D., Professor of Nervous and Mental Diseases and Medical Jurisprudence in Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago and Frederick Peterson, M.D., President of the State Commission in Lunacy. New York; Clinical Professor of Neurology and Psychiatry, Columbia University. Fifth edition, revised and enlarged. Octavo volume of 937 pages, with 341 illustrations Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Co., 1905. Cloth, $5 net; half morocco, $6 net.

It is not surprising to us that a fifth edition of Church and Peterson's work should be necessary. Such success was to be expected from what is undoubtedly the most complete and authoritativ volumes on nervous and mental diseases today. In preparing this edition Dr. Church has carefully revised his entire section, placing it in accord with the most recent psychiatric advances. In Dr. Peterson's section-Mental Diseases -the Kraepelin classification of insanity has been added to the chapter on classifications for purposes of reference, and new chapters on Manic-Depressiv Insanity and on Dementia Precox included. A number of the illustrations have been replaced by newer and better ones. This edition will maintain the reputation already won.

Gall-stones and Their Surgical Treatment. By B. G. A. Moynihan, M.S. (London), F. R.C.S., Senior Assistant Surgeon to Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds, England. Second edition, revised and enlarged Octavo of 458 pages, beautifully illustrated. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Co., 1905. Cloth, $5 net; half morocco, $6 net.

The first edition of Mr. Moynihan's work on gallstones was completely exhausted in eight months. Mr. Moynihan, by his masterly presentation of operativ technic and clear, logical discussion of indications and contraindications, has won an enviable place in contemporary abdominal surgery. In this edition, increast in size by 70 pages, many additional case records have been incorporated and a number of new illustrations added. We note also the addition of

a very valuable chapter-Congenital Abnormalities of the Gall-bladder and Bile-ducts. It is evident that the whole text has undergone a careful revision and all recent work along the line of gall-stone surgery included. Mr. Moynihan's book still holds first place in its field. The illustrations are very beautiful, especially the nine colored plates.

Dose-book and Manual of Prescription-writing: with a List of the Official Drugs and Preparations, and the more important Newer Remedies. By E. Q.Thornton, M.D., Assistant Professor of Materia Medica, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Third edition, revised and enlarged. Adapted to the new (1905) Pharmacopeia. 12mo, 392 pages, illustrated. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Co., 1905. Bound in flexible leather, $2 net.

A glance at Dr. Thornton's book explains its attainment of a third edition. In addition to the consideration of the official and the more important nonofficial preparations intended for internal administration, weights and measures, solubilities, and incompatibilities, attention is given to the grammatic construction of prescriptions, illustrated by examples. In revising the text for this edition, Dr. Thornton has made it conform with the new (1905) Pharmacopeia, the radical change in strength or name of many chemicals, drugs, and preparations already official, and the admission of many newer remedies necessitating the re-writing of a number of sections. We notice in the appendix an addition of much value-a table showing the change in strength of important preparations, and also a list of average doses for adults in accordance with the new Pharmacopeia.

A Treatise on Diagnostic Methods of Examination. By Prof. Dr. H. Sahli, of Bern. Edited, with additions, by Francis P. Kinnicutt, M.D., Professor of Clinical Medicine, Columbia University, N. Y.; and Nath'l Bowditch Potter, M.D., Visiting Physician to the City Hospital and to the French Hospital; and Consulting Physician to the Manhattan State Hospital, N. Y. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Co., 1905. Octavo of 1008 pages, profusely illustrated. Cloth, $6.50 net; half morocco, $7.50 net.

Not only does the distinguisht professor exhaustivly consider all methods of examination for the purpose of diagnosis, but the explanations of clinical phenomena are given and discust from physiologic as well as pathologic points of view, and with a thoroness never before attempted in any clinical work. The examinations of the stomach, sputum, feces, urin, and blood are exhaustivly treated. There is an article from the pen of Dr. Theodore C. Janeway giving a brief review of the investigations of American and English observers upon the value of the clinical estimation of blood pressure, with a description of some newly devised instruments. Some of the new features in the chapter on urin examination are: Seliwanow's reaction for levulose, Bial's test for pentoses, and quantitativ determination of urochrome after Klemperer. Osmotic pressure and cryoscopy of the urin are also discust at length, and a description is given of Liebermann and Posner's method of staining urinary pigments. In the chemical examination much attention is directed to describing methods; and this is done so exactly that it is possible for the clinician to work according to these directions. The nervous system has been very elaborately detailed, giving unusual space to electrical examination. Indeed, the American edition of this great work contains all the material of the new fourth German edition, with which it simultataneously appeared. Many new illustrations have been added by the editors.

A Treatise on Diseases of the Skin. For the use of advanced Students and Practicians. By Henry W. Stelwagon, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Dermatology, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia; and Clinical Professor of Dermatology, Woman's Medical College, Philadelphia. Fourth edition, revised. Handsome octavo of 1135 pages, with 258 text illustrations, and 32 full-page lithographic and half-tone plates. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Co., 1905. Cloth, $6.00 net; sheep or half morocco, $7.00 net.

Four large editions of Dr. Stelwagon's work have been required in three years. Surely such a sale bespeaks a book of unusual merit. The therapeutic use

of the Roentgen rays, high-frequency current, and Finsen light have been accorded the increast attention their growing importance deserves. We notice the addition of new text-cuts, some 38 in number, and 6 additional insert plates, all up to the high standard set by the text. The author, by the judicious elimination of redundant material, has kept the size of his book much as before, the increase being only some 20 pages.

A Manual of Diseases of Infants and Children. By John Ruhräh, M. D., Clinical Professor of Diseases of Children, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore. 12mo volume of 404 pages, fully illustrated. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Co., 1905. Flexible leather, $2.00 net.

Dr. Ruhrah is to be congratulated upon the production of a manual that presents the subject of pediatrics in such a clear yet concise manner. He has outlined the therapeutics of infancy and childhood in a way that cannot fail to make for this work a place of first importance in its field. He has given explicit instructions for dosage and prescribing, and a number of useful prescriptions are appended. Infant feeding is given in detail. All the illustrations are practical, and include 3 inserts.

A Text-Book of Physiology. For Medical Students and Physicians. By William H. Howell, Ph.D., M.D., LL.D., Professor of Physiology, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. Octavo volume of 905 pages, fully illustrated Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Co., 1905. Cloth, $4.00 net; half morocco, $5.00 net.

The author has laid emphasis upon those facts and views which will be helpful in the study of general pathology and in the practical branches of medicin. At the same time we are gratified to see that Dr. Howell has not ignored the experimental side of the subject. The entire literature of physiology has been thoroly digested and the important views and conclusions incorporated. Indeed, the author has prepared a text-book which, while preserving the scientific spirit, is at the same time simple and modern in presentation. Every notable advance in physics or chemistry as influencing physiology has been carefully noted. Especially valuable are those illustrations employed to make clear the more intricate anatomic and physiologic mechanisms.

Clinical Methods. A Guide to the Practical Study of Medicin. By Robert Hutchison, M.D., F.R.C.P., Assistant Physician to the London Hospital, and to the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, and Harry Rainey, M.A., F.R.C.P. Ed., F.R.S.E., Examiner in Medicin and Clinical Medicin, St. Andrew's University, with upwards of 150 illustrations and 9 colored plates. Ninth edition. Publisht by W. T. Keener & Co., Chicago, Ill., 1905. Price $2.50.

Contains 601 pages and an index, yet is of a convenient pocket size. The work does not purport to be a treatise on medical diagnosis, but it describes such methods of investigation of cases as is necessary in arriving at a correct diagnosis. Beginning with case taking," it considers methods of examining children, and then every part and organ of the body, pathological fluids, clinical bacteriology, etc. It fills the wants of those wishing to post up on the latest methods of clinical examination." It is almost a postgraduate course for those knowing themselves deficient in this branch of the art. The price is very low for the material tendered. Spare moments devoted to this work will polish and perfect the man who is rusting.-A. L. R.

Hare's Therapeutics. A Text-Book of Practical Therapeutics, with Especial Reference to the Application of Remedial Measures to Disease and their Employment upon a Rational Basis. By Hobart Amory Hare, M.D., B.Sc., Professor of Therapeutics and Materia Medica in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia, Physician to the Jefferson Hospital, etc. New (11th) edition, enlarged and thoroly revised to accord with the eighth decennial revision of the U. S. Pharmacopeia, 1905. In one octavo volume of 910 pages, with 113 engravings and 4 colored plates. Cloth, $4.00 net; leather. $5.00 net; half morocco, $5.50 Lea Brothers & Co., Philadelphia and New York, 1905. This book has run thru 11 editions in 15 years, and many of the editions were put in press several times, because Hare has the intuitiv faculty of differentiating

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the practical from the impractical and visionary. He practises and he teaches, and he has learned from both pursuits until he is able to give the profession just what it demands. Too many writers on therapeutics have followed physiological tests upon animals so far that they have almost forgotten human beings. The book has two main sections: the first dealing with drugs, remedial measures, and foods for the sick, and the second with applied therapeutics. Each section is arranged alphabetically, and the two are closely cross-referenced, so that complete information on any point is quickly and easily found. One index refers to drugs, and the other to diseases and remedies, so that a complete list of indicated remedies is presented from which the practician may choose what seems to him best, and he has no chance of forgetting any of the others that might do as well, or better. This book is the most practical on the market today. It is revised completely.-A. L. R.

The Principles and Practise of Medicin. Designed for the use of Practicians and Students of Medicin. By William Osler, M.D., Fellow of the Royal Society; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London; Regius Professor of Medicin, Oxford University; Honorary Professor of Medicin, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore; Formerly Professor of the Institute of Medicin, McGill University, Montreal; and Professor of Clinical Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Sixth edition, thoroly revised from new plates. Publisht by D. Appleton & Co., New York and London, 1905. Price not stated.

So thoro has been the revision since the last issue, so many sections having been rewritten, and so many alterations having been made, that the sixth edition is practically a new book. Because of a larger page and different type, the size of the book is not increast. The book is an accurate mirror of current knowledge on symptomatology and treatment of disease, presented by a master hand. There are 22 charts and 10 diagrammatic figures, and the book has 1114 pages and an excellent index. The work is a complete, conservativ, and up-to-date treatise, and we can find nothing to criticise in it. We commend it to both those who buy many and those who are content with few books, for it is suited to all who wish a dependable guide in rational practise.-A.L.R.

"Being Done Good." By Edward B. Lent. Illustrated edition. Publisht by the Brooklyn Eagle Press, Brooklyn, N. Y. 12mo. $1.50.

The approval with which Mr. Edward B. Lent's book, "Being Done Good," has been received, has led to the publication of an illustrated edition, where the artist has given his interpretation of some of the witty and clever satires which the author has launcht at the practisers of the healing art. Mr. Lent set forth his experiences in the effort made to secure a cure for an obstinate and peculiarly manevolent brand of rheumatism, and his exposition of the methods practised by the various varieties of healers whom he consulted was so inexpressibly funny that the reading world laughed from one end of the country to the other. Mr. Lent did not denounce the practicians; he simply told what they did to him, and told it in such a fashion that even the healers themselves had to laugh. The book showed that Mr. Lent is a humorist of rare discernment and quality. Not every man has the philosophy to see the humorous side of his own suffering. That the story was well told is establisht by the welcome which the book has received in all quarters. It is unique in character and quality. The fun of the pictures is just as crisp, as pungent, and as void of offense as the text. Since" Being Done Good" was first publisht, Mr. Lent has tried another "cure." He has gone to Arizona to test the effects of the superlativly dry atmosphere of that arid region upon his malady.

Hygiene and Public Health. By B. Arthur Whitelegge, C.B., M.D., B.Sc., Lond., F. R.P.C., D.P.H., and George Newman, M.D., D.P.H., F.Ŕ.S.E. New edition, revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten. Illustrated. Publisht by W. T. Keener & Co., Chicago, Ill. Price $1.75.

In student's manual style, of convenient pocket size, yet containing 620 pages and a complete index. It gives a concise summary of the position of the English health

officer's duties before the law, and of the best methods of employing the known principles of preventiv medicin. There is much material incorporated that does not concern the American physician, and which might well have been omitted in an issue intended for sale in this country.—A. L. R.

Rest, Mental Therapeutics, Suggestion. By Francis X. Dercum, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Nervous and Mental Diseases in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia; Neurologist to the Philadelphia Hospital; Consulting Physician to the Asylum for the Chronic Insane at Wernersville; Consulting Neurologist to the St. Agnes Hospital; Consulting Neurologist to the Jewish Hospital, etc. This is Vol. VIII of a System of Physiologic Therapeutics edited by Solomon Solis Cohen, A.M., M.D., publisht by P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1012 Walnut street, Philadelphia, Pa. Price not stated.

Contains 318 pages and an index. It touches on hypnotism, faith cure, Eddyism, clairvoyance, and telepathy. The hypnotic methods are described in full. The methods of treatment employed in addiction to morphin, cocain, and alcohol are helpful to any interested in this line of work. Melancholia, hysteria, and hypochondria come in for full consideration. The methods advocated would be more extensivly employed if they were but better understood, and this book is a safe guide to a more complete knowledge of these important adjuvants to treatment.-A. L. R.

Coakley's Laryngology. A Manual of Diseases of the Nose and Throat. By Cornelius G. Coakley, A.M., M.D., Professor of Laryngology in the University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College; Laryngologist to Columbus Hospital, etc., New York. New (3d) edition, revised and enlarged. In one 12mo. volume of 594 pages, with 118 engravings and 5 colored plates. Cloth, $2.75 net. Lea Brothers & Co., Publishers, Philadelphia and New York, 1905.

As an introduction to rhinology it is probable that there is no book in the English language that so richly will repay the labor of reading with a clear, accurate, and not unduly superficial knowledge of that subject. It is especially well adapted for students and general practicians who have neither the time nor the inclination for the larger volumes of Bosworth, Kyle, or Browne.

The third edition has been enriched by new illustrations, some of them in colors. Additions to the text and some important changes have been made, bringing the third edition entirely up to date.-E. B. G.

The New Knowledge. A popular account of the new physics and the new chemistry in their relation to the new theory of matter. By Robert Kennedy Duncan. Professor of Chemistry in Washington and Jefferson College. Illustrated. Publisht by A. S. Barnes & Co., New York, N. Y. Price, $2.

Contains 257 pages and an index. The subjects considered are intensely interesting to all physicians, dealing as the author does with the query as to the "why" of electricity, radio-activity, Becquerel-rays, atoms, corpuscles, ions, etc. Written as a popular book, information is here collected that could only otherwise be obtained by laborious search and extended reading, even by professional men. The language is neither stilted nor pedantic, the author presuming only a high school education as a basis of power to follow him thru all his reasonings and arguments. The book opens new fields of thought, and compels many of us to forget many things we learned so laboriously. Professor Duncan is a clear, logical, and convincing writer, and his book is entertaining and instructiv. We advise its purchase by all who wish to keep well informed on the rapid progress of the sciences.-A. L. R.

Materia Medica and Clinical Therapeutics. By F. J. Petersen, M.D. Publisht by the author. Los Olivos, Cal. Price, $3.

Contains 392 pages and an index. The book is an ingenious attempt to combine those features of eclecticism and homeopathy which the author considers good. Himself an eclectic, he incorporates a consideration of rational, eclectic, and homeopathic drugs with a fairness none can dispute. There is much information embodied in the work only obtainable by a perusal of the best books of the leading schools.

Drugs are declared to have a primary and a secondary action, some being of value in the primary action only, others in the secondary effect alone, and yet others have power in both the primary and secondary effects. The work is divided into two parts, the first dealing with the eclectic side of the therapeutics, and the second with the homeopathic viewpoint. It is interesting, and will add to the practical value of any library, beside giving an insight into the practises of the sects mentioned, which is of positiv value to any live physician.-A. L. R.

Manual of Pathology; including Bacteriology, the Technic of Postmortems, and Methods of Pathologic Research. By W. M. Late Coplin, M.D., Professor of Pathology and Bacteriology, Jefferson Medical College; Pathologist to the Friend's Asylum for the Insane, Frankford. Fourth edition, re-written and enlarged. With 495 illustrations, many of which are original, and 10 colored plates. Publisht by P. Blakiston's Son & Co., Philadelphia, Pa., 1905. Price, $4.

Contains 948 pages of text and a complete index. Quite a number of original drawings have been incorporated in this issue, and a number of old illustrations have been replaced by better ones; in fact, nearly all of the 145 new illustrations are original. In the colored plates, those portraying the parasitology of malaria and the blood changes in leukemia are most notable. Much new text is on postmortems, and brief summaries on urinary and sputum examination appear in the appendix. Blood examination has due space; in fact, wherever it is advisable to describe the technic of any procedure, it is given in detail. Poisons, as related to disease production, the recent theories on intoxication, and cytolytic processes are considered at length. Numerous references are given to aid those who wish to read up on any subject. As the work now stands, it is truly "useful in the laboratory, postmortem room, and in clinical diagnosis by the aid of the microscope."-A. L. R.

Berg's Surgical Diagnosis. A Manual of Surgical Diagnosis. For students and practicians. By Albert A. Berg, M.D., Adjunct Attending Surgeon to Mt. Sinai Hospital, New York. In one 12mo volume of 543 pages with 215 engravings and 21 full page plates. Cloth, $3.25 net. Lea Brothers & Co., publishers, Philadelphia and New York.

This is a terse, complete, and precise manual along lines upon which the average practician is weak. It is one of the few books really suited to the student, surgeon, and general practician; the intuition and experience of the author having taught him the needs of the average members of the profession in a manner in which few writers have interpreted them. Special stress is laid upon the early diagnosis of tuberculosis of the ends of the bones; the diagnosis of diseases of the kidneys from the appearance of the ureteral orifices; and the broadened field of surgery upon the internal organs made possible thru recent advances in technic. He is careful to differentiate the disease in question from other diseases which might prove confusing in diagnosis. Thru the principles he outlines, it is now possible to diagnose in their incipiency most of the diseases which are strictly surgical. His plan is to first give a complete clinical picture of the disease, and then to follow with details as to cause, onset, and course.-A. L. R.

LeFevre's Diagnosis. A Manual of Physical Diagnosis, including Diseases of the Thoracic and Abdominal Organs. For students and physicians. By Egbert LeFevre, M.D., Professor of Clinical Medicin and Therapeutics in the University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College; Attending Physician to Bellevue Hospital and to St. Luke's Hospital, New York. New (second) edition, thoroly revised and much enlarged. In one 12mo volume of 479 pages with 102 engravings and 6 full page plates in black and colors. Cloth, $2 25 net. Lea Brothers & Co., publishers, Philadelphia and New York.

This little work is sufficient for all the ordinary purposes of every day practise. It is particularly strong just where the majority of such books are weak; notably in its exposition of heart lesions. The methods detailed are the writer's own, and most clinicians can learn something here which will improve their own system. The revision has been thoro,

and we can conscientiously repeat the commendation accorded the book on its first appearance.

The

changes in the chapter on topographical and relational anatomy are an improvement, and the X-ray illustrations of cardiac outlines are not excelled in graphic teaching power. The practician who has rusted, yet will not wade thru a large modern work, needs just such a book, and this will not prove disappointing.A. L. R.

Simon's Manual of Chemistry. A Guide to Lectures and Laboratory Work for Beginners in Chemistry. A text-book especially adapted for students of medicin, pharmacy, and dentistry. By William Simon, Ph.D., M.D., Professor of Chemistry in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Baltimore, and in the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, etc. New (eighth) edition, thoroly revised to conform with the eighth decennial revision of the United States Pharmacopeia. In one octavo volume of 643 pages, with 66 engravings, 8 colored plates representing 64 important chemical reactions, and colored spectra plate Cloth, $3 net. Lea Brothers & Co., publishers, Philadelphia and New York, 1905.

Much of the matter on organic chemistry has beer re-written and re-arranged, and the valuable color plates have been amplified by including the tints noted in volumetric analysis and in examination of the gastric juice. The book, as before, is divided into seven parts, and in each the effort is made to keep prominent only such matters as intimately concern the student of medicin, pharmacy, or dentistry. Electrolysis and the ionic theory are briefly considered. While the periodic law is admitted to be an admirable basis, it has not been strictly followed, and the old classification of metals and non-metals, organic and inorganic, is retained. In consideration of organic chemistry, only sufficient matter is given to instill the principles of carbon compounds, and of the bodies most important in medicin.-A. L. R.

A System of Physiologic Therapeutics. Edited by Solomon Solis Cohen, A.M., M.D. Volume VII, Mechanotherapy and Physical Education, including Massage and Treatment. By John K. Mitchell, M.D., Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia; Physician to the Philadelphia Orthopedic Hospital and Infirmary for Nervous Diseases; Assistant Neurologist to the Presbyterian Hospital of Philadelphia, etc., and Physical Education by Muscular Exercise. By Luther Halsey Gulick, M. D., Director of Physical Training in the Public Schools of Greater New York; President of American Physical Education Association, etc. With 229 illustrations. Publisht by P. Blakiston's Son & Co., Philadelphia, Pa., 1904. Price not stated,

Contains 394 pages, with an index. This book is one of the most practical of the series. It gives all the information on mechano-therapy needed by any practician to enable him to treat patients scientifically. Osteopathy is disposed of in little over a page, and is declared to be nothing more than massage. The Schott system is fully explained and illustrated. Each disease in which mechanotherapy is indicated is taken up in detail and every motion and appliance minutely explained. In the Addenda, Orthopedic apparatus, Correctiv manipulations, and Physical Methods used in Ophthalmic Therapeutics are taken up seriatim. Every well equipt physician needs this book in his every day work, but we fear few in general practise will profit from it. We commend it to all.-A.L.R.

Carbonic Acid in Medicin. By Achilles Rose, M.D. With the portraits of van Helmont, Priestley, and Lavoisier. Publisht by Funk & Wagnalls Co., New York and London, 1905. Price, $1.

A neat 12mo of 259 pages. It is most interesting in its suggestions of new methods of treatment for common and annoying conditions. The author does not claim discovery, but merely recalls forgotten methods of successful treatment by means of this agent. He reports a few cases under each suggestion, and he candidly mentions failures as well as successes. He asserts that the method is devoid of danger or after effect. He suggests the employment of the gas in sexual neurasthenia and frigidity; in cases of rigid os in accouchement; in asthma; in rectal fistula; in rhinitis; in whooping cough; dysentery; and in chlorosis. The apparatus in not expensiv, or may be