ever, a small fragment be found about puberty and causing no ill effects it may quite properly be left alone. He does not believe medicinal treatment of any appreciable value in the management of these cases. If used, iodine and arsenic are probably best. The iodine should be given in combination with tannic or gallic acid. The galvanic snare, electric puncture and cold snare are quite properly condemned as being impracticable. As an anaesthetic nitrous oxide is decidedly favored, while in very young children (under three) somnoform is preferable. Chloroform is condemned. The entire chapter dealing with the operation and preparation of the patient is very clearly and concisely written. Gargles, sprays, douches, et al, are not advised in the post operative treatment. In the reviewer's experience, however, these little patients are made much more comfortable by using a disinfecting ointment in the nose following the operation and cases seem to him to do better. The chapters dealing with the complications and after care of these patients are the most valuable in the book, and warning is given not tc interfere with the turbinals at puberty.

The small chapter devoted to adenoids and athletics is particularily appropriate. A very excellent chapter at the end of the book is written by Mr. Holten George on anæsthetics as applied to adenoid operations. Mr. George's extensive experience in this work and the thoroughness of his methods with attention to every little detail makes him most competent to deal authoritively with the subject. A very valuable feature of this book is found in an extensive formulæ at the end. For a book of but 126 pages, it contains a fund of valuable information both to the specialist and general practitioner.

MATERIA MEDICA FOR NURSES.

Materia Medica for Nursing By Emily A. M. Stoney, Superintendent of the Training School for Nurses in the Carney Hospital, South Boston, Mass. Beautiful 12 mo. volume of 300 pages. Second edition, thoroughly revised. Philadelphia, New York, London: W. B. Saunders and Company, 1904. Canadian Agents: J. A. Carveth & Co. Limited, 431 Yonge St. Toronto. Cloth, $1.50 net.

This little work on Materia Medica has proved of great value to the nursing profession, evidenced by the demand for a second edition. The statements are not only clear and definite, but the information given can be relied upon as being accurate. In making the revision for this new second edition, the entire text shows evidence of having been gone over with the greatest care. All the new drugs which have been shown to be of actual therapeutic value have been included, their preparations, uses and doses being clearly and fully described. A valuable feature of the

work is the Appendix, containing such practical matter as Poison-Emergencies, Dose-Lists, Weights and Measures, etc., as well as a Glossary of the terms used in materia medica. There is no doubt in our minds but that this little work is the best of its kind.

VON BERGMANN'S SURGERY.

A System of Practical Surgery, By Drs E von Bergmann, of Berlin, P. von Bruns, of Tubingen and J. von Mikulicz, of Breslau. Edited by William T. Bull, M. D. Professor of Surgery in the College of Physicians (Columbia University), New York. To be complete in five imperial octavo volumes, containing over 4,000 pages, 1,600 engravings and 110 full-page plates in colors and monochrome. Sold by subscription only. Per volume, cloth, $6.00; leather, $7.00; half morocco, $8.50, net. Volume III just ready. 918 pages, 595 engravings, 21 plates.

The American edition of von Bergmann, von Bruns and von Mikulicz's great surgery proceeds regularly and rapidly to completion. The first volume dealt with the Head, the second with the Neck, Thorax and Spinal Column, and the third considers the surgery of the Extremities. The arrangement of the subjects in the successive volumes is evidently planned for the purpose of facilitating consultation.

It is significant of the development of surgical knowledge and skill throughout America that the highest literary product of European surgery should be so warmly welcomed here. Even at this early date. the demand for the work exceeds expectations. As each country has its special conditions and preferences as to operations, the translators, themselves skilled surgeons, under the general editorship of Professor William T. Bull, of New York, have added whatever is necessary to make the work representative of American practice, so that readers may feel assured of possessing the latest and fullest surgical knowledge of the two continents. Modern progress is so rapid, and withal so solidly founded, that it behooves every surgeon, and likewise physicians who have even occasional surgery to perform, to add this library of surgical information to their shelves.

The third volume exceeds even its two predecessors in wealth of engravings and colored plates.

DUNHAM'S NORMAL HISTOLOGY.

A Text-book on Normal Histology for the use of Students and Practitioners of Medicine. By Edward K. Dunham, Ph. B., M.D., Professor of General Pathology, Bacteriology and Hygiene in the University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College, New York. New (3d) edition, revised and enlarged. In one octavo volume of 334 pages, with 260 illustrations. Cloth, $2.75, net. Lea Brothers & Co., Philadelphia and New York, 1904.

The general plan of this work is the outcome of the author's experience in teaching the subject to students under conditions which require

economy of time-conditions which in these days of crowded curricula prevail in nearly every medical college in the country. The work is a clear and concise exposition of its important fundamental subject, and has proved to be admirably adapted to the needs of students, as well as of those physicians who desire quickly to keep themselves posted on the latest discoveries in Histology.

The present revision has been very thorough, bringing the work well up to date, and, in addition, there has been inserted a most valuable and practical section on the Care and Use of the Microscope, and on Histological Technique. No better text-book and laboratory manual on Normal Histology has ever been issued, and its great popularity has made possible its publication at a price, the reasonableness of which is appreciated by every student.

Ive can very confidently recommend this book.

RADIOTHERAPY, PHOTOTHERAPY AND HIGH FREQUENCY

CURRENTS.

The Medical and Surgical Applications of Radiology in Diagnosis and Treatment. By Charles Warrenne Allen, M.D., Professor of Dermatology in the New York PostGraduate Medical School. Octavo, 618 pages, 131 engravings and 27 plates. Cloth, $4.50, net. Lea Brothers & Co., Publishers, Philadelphia, and New York. Recent discoveries in radiant energy have developed a new and important system of therapy. In fact, such positive results have already been achieved in maladies which were hitherto considered intractable, as to warrant the recognition of Radiotherapy as a very efficient addition to the resources of the profession. Dr. Allen's work is peculiarly opportune. It is based upon practical experience, as well as upon a careful review of the great mass of literature on the subject coming from almost all quarters of the globe. Naturally, in a science so new, much faulty observation has been encountered, and in this volume no effort has been spared to eliminate the errors and to present the subject correctly and abreast of its position to-day. Ample information is given upon the physical as well as the technical side, to equip the reader for the selection and management of appliances. The object of the work is always practical, and it has been the earnest endeavor of the author to enable his readers to secure for their patients prompt and permanent benefit Accordingly, much attention is given to questions of diagnosis and treatment, and, inasmuch as such powerful forces as are treated of in this volume may do harm if improperly applied, cautionary directions. are carefully given and exact instructions for the determination and measurement of desage. The author has by no means lost sight of the

demands of undergraduate students, and his long teaching experience has enabled him to produce a work which is admirably adapted to teaching purposes. The illustrations are numerous and excellent.

A TEXT-TOOK OF MECHANO-THERAPY.

(Massage and Medical Gymnastics.)

For Medical Students, Trained Nurses and Medical Gymnasts. By Axel. V. Grafstrom, B. Sc., M. D., Attending Physician to the Gustavus Adophus Orphanage, Jamestown, N. Y. Second edition, revised, enlarged, and entirely reset. 12 mo of 200 pages, fully illustrated. Philadelphia, New York, London: W. B. Saunders & Company, 1904. Canadian Agents: J. A. Carveth & Co., Limited, 434 Yonge St., Toronto. Cloth, $1.25 net.

The second edition of this useful little work has been entirely rewritten, reset, and very much enlarged. Two chapters have been added-one on Massage of the Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat, and the other on Pelvic Massage. Seventeen new illustrations have also been added. The author states that his object has been to present a work that would be useful as a text-book to students, trained nurses, and medical gymnasts, and as a reference book for the general practitioner, and in our opinion he has fully accomplished his purpose. It is certainly a practical and clear consideration of the subjects of massage and medical gymnastics, and it is with pleasure that we recommend it to our readers. The mechanical get-up is all that could be desired.

TAYLOR'S PRACTICE OF MEDICINE.

A manual of the Practice of Medicine by Frederick Taylor, M.D., F.R.C.P. Senior Physician to, and Lecturer on Medicine at Guy's Hospital; Consulting Physician to the Evelina Hospital for Sick Children; President of the Clinical Society; Examiner in Medicine at the University of London; Late Examiner in Medicine at the University of Durham and to the Royal College of Physicians and in Materia Medica and Pharmaceutical Chemistry at the University of London. Seventh edition. London: J. & A. Churchill, 7 Great Marlborough Street, 1904. Price 15s. net.

The first edition of this work appeared in 1890; and the present, seventh, edition this year. During the fourteen years it has been before the medical profession it has become a general favorite. The reasons for the marked popularity of this work on the practice of medicine are its condensed methods of treating the various subjects, the reliable char acter of its teachings, the attention given to treatment, and that it is up-to-date on all points. It is a crown octavo volume of a little ove 1,000 pages; and yet one can find practically everything in it that could reasonably be expected in a work on the practice of medicine. A review of the book convinces one of the fact that the author is a physician of great experience, and that, while the literature of medicine is freely

drawn upon, it is not a book made from other books, but one largely built upon the wide experience of the author. The literary style of the author is good, being simple, direct and perspicuous. Acute rheumatism and dysentery are grouped among the infectious diseases, and acute pneumonia with the diseases of the lungs, though it is regarded as an infectious disease with the primary seat of infection in the lungs. On the same principle that dysentery is removed from the diseases of the digestive system and placed among the infectious diseases, we think that acute pneumonia should also be classified with these and removed from among the diseases of the lungs. We can speak in the very highest terms of praise of this work. It is a safe and trustworthy guide to the practice of medicine.

WOOD'S REFERENCE HAND BOOK.

A Reference Hand-book of the Medical Sciences, embracing the entire range of Scientific and Practical Medicine and Allied Science. By various writers. A new edition, completely revised and rewritten, Edited by Albert H. Buck, M.D., New York City. Volume viii. Illustrated by chromo-lithographs and four hundred and thirty-five half-tone and wood engravings. New York: William Wood and Company.

This volume completes this remarkable encyclopedia of medical science. It is a work of the highest merit in the facts that it covers the whole range of medical sciences, that its articles are of the most eliable character, and that the artistic side of the publication is all that the most exacting could demand. On former occasions it has been our pleasure to review individual volumes as they appeared. On the present occasion we speak more of the completed work. We do not hesitate for a moment in making the statement that every doctor in active prac tice should secure a set of the Reference Hand Book. By so doing he will have at his hand a complete library, thoroughly up-to-date. The present volume contains a complete index to the eight volumes. This index gives the article, the volume and the page. Those who have these volumes could not be induced to part with them, while those who do not possess them know not what they are losing thereby. We recommend these volumes because of their beauty, excellence, completeness, and trustworthiness.

MISCELLANEOUS.

HOW TO AVOID PRESCRIBING OPIUM AND MORPHINE.

Dr. N. B. Shade of Washington, D. C. in an article published in the Medical Summary refers to many unfortunate effects of prescribing opium and morphine, intimating that the depressing after-effects of the