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Beviews and Book Notices.

A SYSTEM OF GENITO-URINARY DISEASES, SYPHILOLOGY AND DERMATOLOGY. By various authors. Edited by PRINCE A. MORROW, A.M., M.D., Clinical Professor of Genito-Urinary Diseases, Formerly Lecturer on Dermatology in the University of the City of New York; Surgeon to Charity Hospital, etc. With illustrations; in three volumes. Vol. 1, Genito-Urinary Diseases. D. APPLETON & Co., Publishers, New York. 1893. Price in cloth, $6.60; sheep, $7.50; Morocco, $8.00. To the systems of medicine, surgery, obstetrics and gynecology, we now have added a most magnificent, full and complete sys

tem of genito-urinary diseases, syphilology and dermatology, edited by one who is a recognized authority in those special and important lines. Among the authors of these articles are to be found the names of men who have obtained more than promi

nence.

From the preface we quote "It was impressed upon each contributor that, while his article written from his own individual standpoint, the work was designated to be, first of all, thoroughly practical, and adapted to the wants of the general practitioner as well as the specialist." This has been fully and most satisfactorily accomplished.

Dr. Geo. Woolsey leads with the initial article on the anatomy and physiology of the genito-urinary organs-clear, concise and well eludicated by graphic illustrations. The diseases of the penis are considered by Dr. Ramon Guiteras; diseases and injuries of the Urethra, by Dr. F. Tilden Brown; Etiology of Urethritis, by S. Lustgarten; Gonorrhoea, by Dr. Geo. Emerson Brewer; gleet, by William K. Otis; endoscopy, by Herman G. Klotz; gonorrhoeal ophthalmia, by Joseph A. Andrews; gonorrhoeal rheumatism, by Frank Hartly; gonorrhoea of the rectum, nose, mouth, ear, umbilicus, and axilla, by James P. Tuttle; stricture. of the urethra, by J. William White; diseases of the prostate, by W. T. Belfield; functional disorders of micturition, by Joseph D. Bryant; diagnostic significance of pathological modifications in the urine, by Eugene Fuller; urinary fever, by J. A: Fordyce; cystoscopy, by Willy Meyer; the cystites, by Samuel Alexander; injuries and diseases of the bladder, by George Ryerson Fowler; rupture of the bladder, by Alexander W. Stein; tumors of the bladder, by Francis Sedgwick Watson; stone in the bladder, by Arthur T. Cabot; surgical diseases of the kidney, by Lewis A. Stimson; tuberculosis uro-genitalis, by John P. Bryson; diseases of the scrotum, by Charles W. Allen; diseases of the testicle, by John P. Bryson; hydrocele and spermatocele, by John A. Wyeth; varicocele, by Edward L. Keyes; diseases of the seminal vesicles, by Paul Thorndyke; functional diseases of the male sexual organs, by Prince A. Morrow; gonorrhoea in the female, by Andrew F. Currier.

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We have neither time or space, nor is it necessary to go into a ull and complete review of the several articles-the mere men

tion of their authors is quite sufficient to recommend this most valuable contribution to the medical literature of 1893 in the highest terms. It is hardly possible for a more valuable or important work to be placed before medical readers.

The mechanical execution ot the work is in full keeping with its high standard of literary excellence.

THE YEAR BOOK OF TRATMENT for 1893, a Critical Review for Practitioners of Medicine and Surgeons, 8 vo., cloth, pp. 496. LEA BROS. & Co., Publishers, Philadelphia. 1893.

This the ninth edition of this valuable compilation of the progress of medicine and surgery is fully up with, aye, and even in advance of its predecessors. In addition to the usual subjects treated by such clinicians and observers as J. Mitchell Bruce, M.D., Alfred Cooper, M.D., M. Handfield Jones, M.D., Reginald Harrison, F. R. C. S., Edmund Owen, F. R. C. S., and seventeen other collaborateurs of equal prominence, we have two additional articles, "Anæsthetics," by Dr. Dudley Buxton, and "Public Health and Hygienne," by W. H. Corfield, M.D.

It is a complete, thorough and practical compilation of all that was attained in medicine during the past twelve months. A full and complete index makes it very convenient for ready reference.

KIRKE'S HANDBOOK OF PHYSIOLOGY, by W. Morrant Baker, F. R. C. S. and late Surgeon to and Lecturer on Physiology at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, etc.; Vincent Dormer Harris, M.D., London, F. R. C. P., Examiner in Physiology at the Conjoint Board of the Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons and in University of Durham, Demonstrator of Physiology at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, etc. Thirteenth edi tion with upwards of 500 illustrations, including some colored plates. P. Blakiston, Son & Co., 1012 Walnut St., Philadelphia, Pa.

More than a third of a century ago was placed in my hands by my preceptor "Kirke's Physiology" with the remark "to read, learn, mark well and inwardly digest." During all these years with its successive editors it has been the medical student's friend. Dr. Kirke has long gone to his haven of rest, but Mr. Baker and Dr. Harris have perpetuated his honored memory and honorable life by editing the thirteenth edition of "Kirke's."

The book has been thoroughly revised and enlarged. It is intended for the student in medicine, preparing himself for a general course, more than for who desires to investigate the subject in detail. It has many advantages over the larger and more elaborate works in the concise, yet comprehensive manner in which the facts are presented. The student will find it more serviceable for college work than the larger works on this subject.

It is not an epitome, yet it has for years supplied a place that the larger and more voluminous works of other authors could not fill, and is truly a most concise text-book. We gladly welcome this handsome and most excellently developed form of the friend of our student days. The illustrations by Mr. Danielsson are magnificent.

DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM, a Text-Book for Physicians and Students. By DR. LUDWIG HIBT, Professor at the University of Breslau. Translated, with permission of the author, by AUGUST HOCH, M.D., assisted by FRANK R. SMITH, A.M. (Cantab.), M.D., Assistant Physician to the Johns Hopkins Hospital. With an introduction by WM. OSLER, M.D., F. R. C. P., Professor of Medicine in the Johns Hopkins University, etc., etc., 8 vo. cloth, pp. 683, with 178 illustrations. D. APPLETON & Co., Publishers, New York. 1893.

I do not know that I could better show the importance and value of this most excellent contribution toward elucidating the intricate and serious problems pertaining to nervous diseases than by the following extracts from the "introductory note" by Prof. Wm. Osler, one who has long occupied a position that makes hi statements authentic and authoritative.

He says; "Early in 1890 my attention was called by Dr. Weir Mitchell to the first part of Prof. Hirt's Hand-buch der Mervenkrankherten, which he characterized as an exceptionally well arranged and thorough work on diseases of the nervous sysThe completed work seemed in many respects so admirable a text-book that I wrote to Prof. Hirt and asked his permission to have it translated.

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The arrangement of the subjects to which the author refers in the papers, though somewhat novel, is justifiable and certainly satisfactory; and it is a distinct advance in classification to place tabes dorsalis and dementia paralysis among the diseases of

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the general mervous system, instead of in the sections of diseases of the cord and diseases of the brain respectively.

The fact which makes the work of value to the teacher, the student, and the practitioner, is the graphic description of the anatomy and symptomalogy of the different diseases. Where all is good it is invidious to select, but the chapter on tabes is an illustration of our author's lucid and at the same time thorough treatment of his subject. The various affections are treated also from an advanced modern stand-point; conflicting theories and passing observations are submitted to a wise criticisms through which the author's own large and varied experience is very apparent. An attractive aspect of the work is the excellent character of the illustrations, which, as they are in great part original, will be a pleasing relief to the hackneyed cuts which have for so long passed from book to book in English works.

Pursuing the via media in the important question of treatment, without displaying the pessimism which too many maladies of the nervous system would seem to justify, nor an optimism so flagrant as to savor of quackery, Prof. Hirt is a safe guide in the highways and byways of neuro-therapeutics.

And, lastly, I think the author has been fairly handled by his translators, who, bearing in mind the admonition of Dryden: 'not to lackey by the side of his author, but to mount up beside him,' have given a clear and interesting rendering of the original."

MINERAL SPRINGS AND HEALTH RESORTS OF CALIFORNIA, with a Complete Chemical Analysis of every Important Mineral Water in the World. A Prize Essay Receiving the Annual Prize of the Medical Society of California. By WINSLOW ANDERSON, M.D., M. R. C. P. (Lond.), M. R. C. S. (Eng.), Joint Editor of the Pacific Medical Journal, Assistant Chair Medical Chemistry and Materia Medica in the Medical and Dental Departments of the University of California, Member of the International Congress, Member of Congress of Hygiene and Demography, of the American Medical Association, of the California Medical Society, etc. 8vo., cloth, pp. 384. Handsomely Illustrated. Published by the BANCROFT COMPANY, San Francisco, Cal. 1892.

Dr. Winslow Anderson has given us a very interesting and valuable book, containing full particulars of the numerous mineral springs and health resorts of that wonderful section bordering