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THE ESSENTIALS OF MODERN MATERIA MEDICA AND THERAPEUTICS. By John William Fyfe, M. D., with FORMULARY by G. W. Boskowitz, M. D., 12 mo., 344 pp. The Scudders Brothers Company, Publishers, Cincinnati, O., 1903. Price, cloth, $2.00, net.

This book, as its name indicates, contains the essentials of materia medica and therapeutics,all in a nut shell,as it were. Nearly a thousand remedies are presented,treated and arranged in alphabetical order. Of each is given the common name, natural order, part and general description, dose and usual dose and indications and the ordinary classification. The facts presented have been obtained from the experimentation and observation of many able investigators, and from the writer's own experience in practice.

This book is not only useful to the eclectics, as a class, but to all physicians who wish to become better acquainted with the real therapeutic value of our indigenous remedies, many of which have been too much neglected by even the so-called scientific doctor, as it were.

MEDICAL JURISPRUDENCE, INSANITY AND TOXICOLOGY. By Henry C. Chapman, M. D., Professor of Institutes of Medicine and Medical Jurisprudence in the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Third Edition, Thoroughly Revised, Greatly Enlarged, and Entirely Reset. Handsome 12 mo. volume of 329 pages, fully illustrated, including four colored plates. W. B. Saunders & Company, Publishers, Philadelphia, New York, London, 1903. Price, cloth, $1.75 net.

The author of this most admirable work having been Coroner's Physician of the City of Philadelphia for a period of six years; and presenting, as it does, the information thus gained from active participation in medico-legal cases, greatly enhances the value of the work; and is of unusual value to the medical and legal professions. This, the third edition, has been entirely reset, and not less than seventy five pages of new matter have been added; every page has undergone the most careful scrutiny, so as to include the very latest advances in this important branch of medical science. Much of the matter has been rearranged, the text

has been more fully illuminated by additional references to cases, and a number of new figures and tables have been added.

The work before us covers the field completely and thoroughly, nothing of practical importance to the physician or lawyer having been omitted. No doubt the work will meet with as great,if not greater favor than the previous edition; which it certainly de

serves.

A TEXT-BOOK OF LEGAL MEDICINE AND TOXICOLOGY. Edited by Frederick Peterson, M. D., Chief of Clinic, Nervous Department of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York; and Walter S. Haines, M. D., Professor of Chemistry, Pharmacy and Toxicology, Rush Medical College, in affiliation with the University of Chicago. Two imperial octavo volumes of about 750 pages each, fully illustrated. W. B. Saunders & Company, Publishers, 1903. Price, per volume, cloth, $5.00 net; Sheep or Half Morocco, $6.00 net.

To the medical and legal profession this work presents a comprehensive survey of forensic medicine and toxicology in moderate compass.

For convenience of reference the treatise has been divided into two sections, Part I and Part II, the latter being devoted to Toxicology and all other portions of Legal Medicine in which laboratory investigation is an essential feature. Under "Expert Evidence" not only is advice given to medical experts, but suggestions are also made to attorneys as to the best methods of obtaining the desired information from the witness. The Bertillon and Greenleaf-Smart systems of identification are concisely and intelligently described, and the advantages of each stated. An interesting and important chapter is that on "The Destruction and Attempted Destruction of the Human Body by Fire and Chemicals;" for on the determination of the human or animal source of the remains frequently depends the legal conduct of a given case, and the guilt or innocence of the accused. A chapter not usually found in works on Legal Medicine, though of far more than passing significance to both the medical expert and the attorney, is that on the medicolegal relations of the X-Rays. The responsibility of pharmacists

in the compounding of prescriptions, in the selling of poisons; in substituting drugs other than those prescribed, etc., furnishes a chapter of the greatest interest to everyone concerned with questions of medical jurisprudence. Also included in the work is the enumeration of the laws of the various States relating to the commitment and retention of the insane.

This work is overflowing with matters of great interest and the utmost importance, clearly and accurately expressing the latest opinions on all branches of forensic medicine and toxicology.

TUBERCULOSIS. Recast from Lectures Delivered at Rush Medical College in affiliation with the University of Chicago. By Norman Bridge, A. M., M. D., Emeritus Professor of Medicine in Rush Medical College; Member of the Association of American Physicians. Handsome 12 mo volume of 302 pages, illustrated. W. B. Saunders & Company, Publishers, Philadelphia, New York, London, 1903. Price, cloth, $1.50 net.

The practical side of the care and management of those sick with the various nonsurgical forms of tuberculosis is concisely stated in the present volume. Prophylaxis,a heretofore much neglected phase of the subject, receives full consideration in this work.

There are also chapters upon the Bacillus of Tuberculosis; on the Pathology, Etiology, Symptoms, Physical Signs, Diagnosis and Prognosis of the disease, each treated in the judicious and thorough manner to be expected in a work by such a well-known authority as Dr. Bridge. Treatment is accorded unusual space, there being chapters upon Hygienic Treatment, Management of the Diseased Lung,Climatic Treatment, Medicinal and Local Treatments, Special Treatments, besides a chapter devoted to the subject of Sanatoria.

Altogether this is a most valuable work, and one that we can heartily recommend to all practitioners of medicine.

PRACTICAL POINTS IN NURSING. For
Nurses in Private Practice. With an Ap-
pendix containing Rules for Feeding the
Sick; Recipes for Invalid Food and Bev-
erages; Weights and Measures; Dose
List; and a full Glossary of Medical
Terms and Nursing Treatment. By
Emily A. M. Stoney, late Superintendent

of the Training School for Nurses, Carney Hospital, South Boston, Mass. Third Edition, Thoroughly Revised. Handsome 12 mo. of 458 pages, fully illustrated, including 8 colored and half tone plates. W. B. Saunders & Company, Publishers, Philadelphia, New York, London, 1903. Price, cloth, $1.75 net.

This neatly printed volume of 458 pages now appearing in its third edition, reflects the latest advances in progressive profession of nursing, every page of the book showing evidences of the most careful scrutiny in its revision.

Considerable portions of the work have been either amended, modified or amplified in accordance with the progressive spirit of medicine and its indispensable handmaid, nursing. The sections treating of certain diseases, especially the infectious diseases, as well as the treatment of the common poisonings, have been in large part recast and rewritten.

This is a work that should be in the hands of every nurse in the land, and its popularity will continue to increase as its practical worth becomes better known.

THE CARE OF THE BABY. A Manual for Mothers and Nurses, containing Practical Directions for the Management of Infancy and Childhood in Health and in Disease. By J. P. Crozer Griffith, M. D., Clinical Professor of Diseases of Children in the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania; Physician to the Children's Hospital, Philadelphia. Third Edition, Thoroughly Revised. Handsome 12 mo. volume of 436 pages, fully illustrated. W. B. Saunders & Company, Publishers, Philadelphia, New York, London, 1903. Price, cloth, $1.50 net.

That cholera infantum cases and other infantile diseases are not so numerous now as they were twenty-five years ago, is a well known fact to most practitioners who have been in active practice that many years, and the cause of this is undoubtedly due, in part, at least, to the fact that mothers, as a rule, are better educated, they understand better how to take care of the baby's health and therefore ward off much sickness, as it were. A book like the volume now before us in the hands of the mother or nurse will undoubtedly give her great assistance. This is the best book on the subject that has ever come to our notice, and the fact of a third edition being called for within such a short time, is sufficient evidence to substantiate our assertion. No better service can be performed by the physician than the recommendation of this book to every mother.

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