Pediatric Nursing. By GLADYS SELLEW, R. N. 12 mo. of 456 pages, illustrated. W. B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia. Cloth, $2.10 net.

This modern presentation of pediatric nursing is designed as a textbook for nurses and reflects the author's teaching experience of 20 years. She has brought to the book all the helps which simplify the teacher's work and facilitate the learning of the student.

The book consists of two parts, Part 1, dealing with the problems involved in teaching pediatric nursing and with the general care of infants and young children. The second part is more technical and deals with nursing procedures and discusses the various types of care to be given children suffering from different diseases.

The work is well written and well adapted to class use.

POLLOCK.

Fundamentals of Dietetics. By BERTHA M. WOOD and ANNIE L. WEEKS. 12 mo. of 241 pages, illustrated. W B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia. Cloth, $1.75 net.

The aim of this book is to give a course in dietetics for a class of average size in a school of nursing. The laboratory lessons have been arranged for 12 student nurses as this is the usual number in classes in dietetics. The courses have been planned for fifteen 1-hour periods and fifteen 2-hour periods in preliminary dietetics and twelve 2-hour periods in advanced dietetics, making a total of 69 hours. Each lesson consists of a lecture outline and laboratory exercises. The subject matter is well arranged and the laboratory exercises are practical and clearly presented. This manual should help to popularize dietetics in schools of nursing.

POLLOCK.

Materia Medica for Nurses. By GEORGE P. PAUL, M. D., C. P. H. Fifth Edition. Thoroughly revised. 12 mo. of 352 pages. W. B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia. Cloth, $1.75 net.

This is the fifth edition of a very useful and well prepared manual. The subject matter is arranged in six parts, Part 1 dealing with general considerations; Part 2, with general materia medica, therapeutics and toxicology; Part 3, with drugs of minor importance; Part 4, with newer medicinal agents; Part 5, with practical therapeutics, and Part 6, with miscellaneous matters relating to drugs and their preparation.

In describing the principal drugs, the author gives the derivations, synonyms, incompatibilities, physiologic action, therapeutic indications, and toxic properties. The descriptions are clear and concise. Under the head

ing of practical therapeutics, the author discusses hydrotherapy, hypodermoclysis, disinfection, counter-irritation, application of heat, biologic therapy, massage, electrotherapy and other methods of treatment. The tables given in Part 6 cover a wide variety of valuable information.

Altogether the book well deserves the success it has had and we bespeak a cordial acceptance of this fifth edition.

POLLOCK.

This Business of Operations. By JAMES RADLEY.. 96 pages. The Digest Publishing Company, Cincinnati.

In this interesting story the author, a business man, tells with genial humor his thought and experiences in relation to a general hospital. He held the hospital in dread and although he needed an operation for a considerable period, he postponed the matter until his condition became critical. After reaching the hospital his fear became less and he underwent a serious operation with no misgivings as to the result. His full recovery followed and he left the hospital with gratitude and praise for the kind and skillful treatment he had received. The object of the book is to inspire confidence in hospitals and in the physicians and nurses who conduct them.

POLLOCK.

THOMAS WILLIAM SALMON, M. D.

BY WILLIAM L. RUSSELL, M. D.,

GENERAL PSYCHIATRIC DIRECTOR, THE SOCIETY OF THE NEW YORK HOSPITAL,

WHITE PLAINS, N. Y.

The sudden death of Dr. Thomas W. Salmon on August 13, 1927, was a severe shock to all in the field of mental hygiene and psychiatry as well as to a wide circle of personal friends. In a brief span of life he rendered a service of the highest importance and value to the State, to the country, and to humanity. His loss will be long and keenly felt by many public officials, private workers, and a host of others who looked to him for guidance, inspiration and help.

He will be especially missed in the State in which he was born and spent most of his life. He was born in Lansingburg, near Troy, New York, where his father, Dr. Thomas H. Salmon, was a practicing physician. He was educated in the public schools and the Lansingburg Academy. After teaching for a year or two he became a student at the Albany Medical College. He received his degree in 1899, and at once entered into private practice at Brewster, New York. After two years he was obliged to give up his practice because of illness and to spend a short time in the Adirondacks. When he was sufficiently recovered, in the fall of 1901, he accepted a temporary position at the Willard State Hospital. During his service there diphtheria prevailed at the hospital and he made a valuable study of its bacteriology, especially with regard to the spread of the disease by infected well persons. His careful and extensive observations of diphtheria carriers were among the earliest recorded. They were published in a report that appeared in the Annual Report of the State Commission in Lunacy for the year 1904.

In 1903, he received a commission in the United States Public Health Service. He served in the marine hospitals, and in 1905 he was assigned to the immigration service on Ellis Island. At that time the State of New York, aroused by the extent to which the aliens in the population were contributing to the burden of insanity, had established a Board of Alienists and was endeavoring to be permitted to aid the federal government in examining the landing immigrants. The subject of mental disease and defect among the immigrants had been given little or no consideration by the immi