The trite saying, "Death loves a shining mark," is once more exemplified in the death, from typhoid fever at the early age of 33, of Dr. Geo. E. Tyler, member of the faculty of the Denver and Gross College of Medicine and secretary of the State Board of Health. Dr. Tyler was held in the highest esteem by all who knew him. His work of any kind was always thorough and painstaking. His intellectual achievements were crowned with a pure and gentle manhood. Such men as he are none too common, and we shall miss his presence for a long time.

BOOKS.

PROGRESSIVE MEDICINE, VOL. II, JUNE, 1902.-A Quarterly Dígest of Advances, Discoveries and Improvements in the Medical and Surgical Sciences. Edited by Hobart Amory Hare, M. D., Professor of Therapeutics and Materia Medica in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. Octavo, handsomely bound in cloth, 40 pages, 28 illustrations. Per volume, $2.50, by express prepaid to any address. Per annum, in four cloth-bound volumes, $10.00. Lea Brothers

& Co., Publishers, Philadelphia and New York.

Although largely surgical and mechanical in scope, the present volume is of great interest and utility to the all-'round general practitioner. Wm. B. Coley considers the surgery of the abdomen, including hernia, and describes the enlarging field for surgical therapeutics in diseases of the digestive organs. The field of gynecology, with special stress upon new technique, devices and operations, is thoroughly covered by John G. Clark. Alfred Stengel's critical article on diseases of the blood and ductless glands and the hemorrhagic and metabolic diseases is a lucid presentation of important recent progress in this fascinating field of medicine. The article on ophthalmology, by Edward Jackson, combines in happy measure scientific precision with practical applicability. His brief closing remarks on asthenopia are quite to the point.

THE ROLLER BANDAGE.-By William Barton Hopkins, M. D., Surgeon to Pennsylvania Hospital and to the Orthopedic Hospital and Infirmary for Nervous Diseases. With illustrations. Fifth Edition, Revised. Price, $1.50.

phia: J. P. Lippincott Company. 1902.

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This little book, first published in 1883, has been deservedly popular with the younger members of the medical profession. The plan of the work is to treat by illustrations and without elaborate verbal descriptions the principles and art of bandaging. Each bandage was applied to the living model, and "whenever the roller pursued a course which the author has found in his associations with students was the cause of uncertainty, it was at once photographed." The text includes 105 of these photogravures, and covers the whole field in a most practical manner.

"The destruction by fire of all the plates and electrotypes of the former edition has necessitated the preparation of new illustrations throughout and a complete remodeling of the book."

A MANUAL OF INSTRUCTION IN THE PRINCIPLES OF PROMPT AID TO THE INJURED.—Including a chapter on Hygiene and the Drill Regulations for the Hospital Corps, U. S. A. Designed for Military and Civil Use. By Alvah H. Doty, M. D., Health Officer of the Port of New York, late Major and Surgeon, Ninth Regiment, N. G. S. N. Y.; late Attending Surgeon to Bellevue Hospital Dispensary, New York. Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged. New York: D. Appleton & Co. 1902.

Dr. Doty's handy emergency book can be safely recommended to nurses and other non-medical persons, with the certainty that it will do good only. The common accidents and their treatment, including poisoning, are clearly described. Hygiene and disinfection are treated concisely and from the modern standpoint. Considerable space is given to anatomy and physiology and the transportation of the wounded. One hundred and fifty-eight cuts add to the instructive value of the

text.

A TREATISE ON DISEASES OF THE SKIN.-For the use of Advanced Students and Practitioners. By Henry W. Stelwagon, M. D., Ph. D., Clinical Professor of Dermatology, Jefferson Medical College and Woman's Medical College, Philadelphia; Dermatologist to the Howard and Philadelphia Hospitals. Handsome octavo of 1,125 pages, with 220 text-illustrations, and 26 full-page lithographic and half-tone plates. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Co. 1902. Cloth, $6.00 net; Sheep or Half Morocco, $7.00 net.

Professor Stelwagon has done himself credit by the practical thoroughness exhibited in the preparation of this volume. The work is extensive enough for all clinical needs. It is especially full and perspicuous on diagnosis and treatment, but etiology and pathology receive adequate consideration in the light of the latest investigations. In addition to the remedies and methods used in the author's own practice, he has referred largely to those employed and advised by others, so that the text is a general index of modern dermatology. The splendid series of illustrations, mainly from the author's own collection, are unsurpassed

by those in any other single-volume dermatologic work. General and special practitioners alike will find Stelwagon's treatise of great value for ready consultation.

MOTHER AND CHILD.-By Edward P. Davis, A. M., M. D., Professor of Obstetrics in the Jefferson Medical College; Professor of Obstetrics and Diseases of Infancy in the Philadelphia Polyclinic; Visiting Obstetrician to the Jefferson, Philadelphia and Polyclinic Hospitals. Price, $1.50. Philadelphia: J. P. Lippincott Company. 1902.

This book, says the author, is designed to help the family physician in the care of his patients by placing at their disposal information which physicians commonly give to their patients. Any physician who has had to do with the blank ignorance of young mothers concerning their offspring, will find much relief from detail repetition by recommending this volume to the prospective mothers in his clientele. The text is full of useful points on hygiene and prophylaxis. The baby's clothing and such. domestic procedures as abdominal massage and irrigation of the bowels are illustrated with photographic figures.

TEXT-BOOK OF PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PATHOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY. -By G. Bunge, Professor of Physiological Chemistry at Bale. Second English Edition. Translated from the Fourth German Edition, by Florence A. Starling, and Edited by Ernest H. Starling, M. D., F. R. S., Professor of Physiology in University College, London. Octavo; 470 pages. Price, $3.00 net. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1012 Walnut Street. 1902.

The eminent author of this text-book has so intimate a grasp on the general bearings of his subject that he is able to make many most interesting deductions, particularly as regards physiologic reasons and results. The vitalistic mode of thought predominates his writings, and gives to them added charm. The author has based this volume almost entirely on the original researches of himself and others, and the student is taught to develop his thinking powers and to keep, step with the constant progress in this great science. For this purpose an extensive and definite bibliography is supplied in the form of footnotes. The subject matter is well connected throughout, and the principal achievements of investigation are presented in biologic sequence.

SAUNDERS' MEDICAL HAND-ATLASES.

ATLAS AND EPITOME OF ABDOMINAL HERNIAS.-By Privatdocent Dr. Georg Sultan, of Gottingen. Edited, with additions, by William B. Coley, M. D., Clinical Lecturer on Surgery, Columbia University (College of Physicians and Surgeons). With 119 illustrations, 36 of them in colors, and 277 pages of text. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Co. 1902. Cloth, $3.00 net.

This is the most complete modern work upon the very important subject of abdominal hernias. The text is comprehensive, and the very liberal series of colored plates show the relations and conditions of adjacent parts as no words could describe them. The operative aspect of the subject is clearly written and authoritative in character.

Harmless Tobacco,-This weed is said to be deprived of all its poisonous constituents (St. Louis Courier of Medicine) by treating the leaves with tannic acid. This also removes some of their flavor, which is restored by macerating them in a decoction of the leaves of origanum vulgare. Cigars made of the leaves so treated are sold, and might be especially recommended where it is imperative, for therapeutic reasons, to withdraw nicotine, and the patient objects to complete abstention from tobacco.

A New Vocation. In the present period no business can be successful without extensive yet judicious advertising, and the amount of money spent for this purpose almost staggers the imagination. Good authorities claim that the total yearly expenditure for advertising purposes in the United States amounts to about $600,000,000. This is nearly double the value of the entire annual wheat crop, almost treble the yearly output of gold, and about seven times the worth of pig-iron produced in each year. In the writing of effective advertisements skill and experience are needed as in everything else, and good advertising assistants are in demand at flattering wages. There are even schools for teaching the art of advertising, and among these may be mentioned that of Charles Austin Bates, Vanderbilt building, New York. Mr. Bates has had sixteen years' experience in advertising and is prepared to give proper instruction along this