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Handbook of Practical Medicine. By D. Herman Eichhorst, Professor of Special Pathology and Therapeutics in the University of Zurich. Vol. I. Diseases of the circulatory and respiratory apparatus. 103 wood engravings. Cloth: pp. 407. New York: Wm. Wood & Company. 1886.

This is the March number of Wood's Library for 1886. The volume is well illustrated for the purposes of physical diagnosis, for appliances and methods of treatment, and for showing pathological changes. We commend the book to student or practitioner as being fully up to the times.

A Compend of Pharmacy. By F. E. Stewart, M. D., Ph. G., QuizMaster in Chemistry and Theoretical Pharmacy in the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy; Demonstrator and Lecturer on Pharmacology in the Medico-Chirurgical College, and in the Woman's College, Philadelphia. 12mo.; 196 pages. Philadelphia: P. Blakison, Son & Co. 1886. Columbus: A, H. Smythe. Price, $1.00.

This little book is No. 11 of the Quiz-Compend Series. All of the books of this series have been prepared with much care, and are justly held as being far above the average compends. This Compend of Pharmacy is based, by special permission, on Prof. Joseph P. Remington's "Text Book of Pharmacy, which is now the acknowledged standard authority. The author and publishers have given much time towards making it as complete and concise as possible, and in arranging the types and paragraphs so that it may be easily and quickly referred to, and it will be found a useful guide to the tyro and worker in pharmacy.

A Treatise on Bright's Disease of the Kidneys. Pathology, Diagnosis and Treatment. With chapters on the Anatomy of the Kidney, Albuminuria, and the Urinary Secretion. By Henry B. Millard, M. D., A. M., Member of the N. Y. County Medical Society, etc., etc. Second Edition. Revised and Enlarged. New York: William Wood & Co. 1886.

We gave this book a very favorable notice in 1883, when the first edition appeared. The book is the outcome of the author's large experience, both in hospital and private practice. The first seven chapters are taken up by an account of the minute anatomy and physiology of the kidney, and the remainder of the first part is occupied by a description of the pathology of the kidney and urine. In the second part the treatment of the various diseased conditions is considered. In the discussion

of the many remedies which have been recommended, the author evinces great practical experience, and gives sound, common-sense views on the alleviation and cure of this class of disease. We can commend the book to our readers as thoroughly scientific, reliable, and practical.

The Student's Manual of Venereal Diseases. By Berkeley Hill, M. D., Professor of Clinical Surgery, University College, London, etc. and Arthur Cooper, M. D., Surgeon to the Westminster General Dispensary, etc. Fourth edition, revised, 132 pp., duodecimo. Cloth, $1.00. Philadelphia, P. Blakison, Son & Co. 1886. Columbus: A. H. Smythe.

The account of the venereal affections here presented is sufficient to give the student a correct outline of their history, methods of contagion, manifestations, sequelæ, and treatment. Within the space allotted, the authors have done better than could have been expected.

The Principles and Practice of Medicine. By the late Charles Hilton Fagge,
M. D., F. R. C. P., Physician to, and Lecturer on Pathology at
Guy's Hospital; Examiner in Medicine in the University of London;
Senior Physician to the Evelina Hospital for Sick Children, etc.
Including a section on Cutaneous Diseases, by P. H. Pye-Smith,
M. D., F. R. C. S., Lecturer on Medicine at Guy's Hospital;
Chapters on Cardiac Diseases, by Samuel Wilkes, M. D., F. R. S.,
Physician to Guy's Hospital and to the Royal Hospital for Children,
London; and complete indexes, by Robert Edmund Carrington,
M. D., Assistant Physician to Guy's Hospital, London.
P. Blakison, Son & Co., Publishers, Philadelphia, 1886.
A. H. Smythe.

Volume II.
Columbus:

The very favorable notice of Volume I, of this most excellent work, which recently appeared in our columns, is fully applicable to its successor. The second volume, indeed, gains additional value by reason of the chapters on chronic endocarditis, by Samuel Wilkes, M. D., and a section on cutaneous diseases, by P. H. Pye-Smith, M. D. These chapters are not superior to the rest of the book, but they fill the gaps left by the untimely death of the author, and render his work complete in all particulars. The two volumes together constitute a most enduring monument to the memory of their gifted author.

The Genuine Works of Hippocrates.

Translated from the Greek, with a

Preliminary Discourse and Annotations. By Francis Adams, LL.D.,
Surgeon. In two Volumes. Volume I. Being Vol. IV of Wood's

Library for 1886. New York: William Wood & Company.

Dr. Adams was appointed to the task of translating and editing the works of Hippocrates by the Sydenham Society. Two volumes, of which

the one before us is the first, will include the whole of those treatises now regarded as genuine. The first 125 pages, by the editor, on Origin of Medicine, Physical Philosophy of the Ancients, etc., is very interesting. These works have heretofore been practically inaccessible to the great mass of medical men, who cannot but be delighted, as they now find them presented in good English, with all necessary explanatory notes and illustrations.

Insanity and its Treatment.

Lectures on the Treatment, Medical and Legal, of Insane Patients. By. G. Fielding Blanford, M. D., (Oxon.), Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in London; late Lecturer on Psychological Medicine at the School of St. George's Hospital, London. Third Edition. To which is added Types of Insanity. An Illustrated Guide in the Physical Diagnosis of Mental Disease. By Allan McLane Hamilton, M. D., one of the Consulting Physicians to the Insane Asylums of New York City, and the Hudson River State Hospital for the Insane. Illustrated by ten full-page plates from photographs of cases selected as types, with descriptive text. Vol. II of Wood's Library for 1886. New York:

Wood & Company.

William

These Lectures were originally delivered before the students at St. George's Hospital. Afterwards reproduced in book form, they have now passed to their third edition It constitutes an important and valuable portion of the Library. "Types of Insanity," by Allan McLane Hamilton, M. D., includes ten large plates, from instantaneous photographs, and five chapters on the general appearance of the insane, the condition of special organs, the condition of bodily functions, the examination of patients, and the commitment of insane, with abstract of laws in various States. The volume is thus made American as well as English.

Diseases of the Spinal Cord. By Byron Bramwell, M. D., F. R. C. P., (Edin.), Lecturer on the Principles and Practice of Medicine, and on Medical Diagnosis in the Extra Academical School of Medicine, Edinburgh; Pathologist to the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, etc., etc. Illustrated by fifty-two full-page lithographic plates, in colors, and many fine wood engravings. New York. William Wood & Co.

This is the first volume of Wood's Library of Standard Medical Authors for 1886. The subject treated of is at the same time one of the most important, as well as most obscure, in the science of medicine. Yet the author has handled it well. He places great stress on the early diagnosis of spinal lesions, as they are most amenable to treatment— whether curative or palliative-in their earliest stages. The section on "Railway Spine" is especially valuable. The work is well illustrated.

Diseases of the Digestive Organs in Infancy and Childhood, with chapters on the Investigation of Disease, and on the General Management of Children. By Louis Starr, M. D., Clinical Professor of Diseases of Children in the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, etc. 385 pp., octavo. Cloth. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston, Son & Co. 1886. Columbus: A. H. Smythe. Price, $2.50.

The author could hardly have chosen a subject in which all practitioners are more interested. Infants with disordered digestion are, like the poor, always with us, and their treatment is, as a rule, by no means particularly satisfactory.

After some general instructions as to examinations, etc., the author takes up the affections of the mouth and throat, whence he passes to those of the stomach and bowels. Tabes mesenterica receives special consideration. A separate chapter is devoted to diseases of the liver, and another to those of the peritoneum. The last forty pages explain the general management of infants with reference to feeding, bathing, clothing, sleep and exercise.

There are a number of illustrations.

The material of the work has been drawn from careful observation, and this gives it a freshness which will be appreciated by all.

The Principles and Practice of Surgery. By Frank H. Hamilton, M. D., LL. D., late Professor of the Practice of Surgery with Operations, and of Clinical Surgery in Bellevue Hospital Medical College; Consulting Surgeon to Bellevue Hospital; to the Bureau of Surgical and Medical Relief for the Out-door Poor at Bellevue Hospital, etc. Illustrated with 472 engravings on wood. Third edition, revised and corrected. New York: William Wood & Co. 1886.

The first edition of the work was issued fourteen years ago. The author is well known, not only as one of the most accomplished surgeons of modern times, but also as the author of the best work on fractures and dislocations in any language. The twelve years that have elapsed since the previous edition was issued, have seen gigantic strides made in surgery, and the author has therefore either thoroughly revised, or entirely re-written the entire work.

As announced in his preface, he has aimed to discard all historical and theoretical discussions, and to confine himself to the description of those methods which his long experience has proved to be the most satisfactory. Hence the tone of the volume is, throughout, eminently practical, and by such limitation he has presented the whole domain of surgery within the compass of one volume of moderate magnitude.

His work will be found to fill the want, that many have felt, of a comprehensive work on surgery in a single volume.

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BY NORMAN GAY, M. D., COLUMBUS, OHIO.

A paper read before the Ohio State Medical Society, June, 1886.

An apology may be in order, for offering a short article on the treatment of Carbuncle, since so many articles have appeared in the medical journals of late.

During the session of the American Medical Association at New Orleans, in 1885, an article was read on the treatment of Carbuncle, the main feature of which was to condemn the practice of incisions, crucial or otherwise, as a means of relief, or cure, claiming that it was not only unnecessary, but that they did harm by causing loss of blood, and greatly increased the pain and largely interfered with the progress of recovery; the gentleman closed by recommending such treatment as any old lady would use, which, after many weeks of suffering, (if the patient could stand it) would end in recovery, although large numbers have died under such treatment.

Subsequent to this, two other articles have appeared in two journals recommending a similar plan of treatment, none of which convey any idea of checking the course of the disease, or producing a rapid recovery.

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