always up to date, and contains practical views upon the most pertinent subjects. In this volume diseases of the respiratory tract, dermatology and syphilis, diseases of the nervous system, obstetrics, etc., are fully discussed. Practitioners will find this work of great value to them in placing them in touch with medical progress. ATLAS AND EPITOME OF SPECIAL PATHOLOGIC HISTOLOGY. By Docent Dr. Hermann Dürck, of the Pathologic Institute of Munich. Edited by Ludvig Hektoen, M.D., Professor of Pathology in Rush Medical College, Chicago. Vol. II.-Liver; Urinary Organs; Sexual Organs; Nervous System; Skin; Muscles; Bones. With 123 colored illustrations on 60 lithographic plates and 192 pages of text. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Company, 1901. Cloth $3.00 net. In all of this series of handsome atlases, none is more beautiful nor of greater practical worth. The colored lithographs in this volume are as nearly accurate representations of the microscopic changes produced by disease as one could conceive. To the many illustrations contained in this book is added sufficient descriptive matter to enable the student to thoroughly grasp the subject. DOSE-BOOK AND MANUAL OF PRESCRIPTION WRITING: with a List of the Official Drugs and Preparations, and the More Important Newer Remedies. E. Q. Thornton, M.D., Demonstrator of Therapeutics, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Octavo, 362 pages, illustrated. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Company, 1901. Bound in flexible leather, $2.00 net. While as a general rule we believe that practitioners and students should avoid the habitual use of stereotyped formula, still there are times when a book of these is found very handy. For such occasions this work is well adapted. But its chief value will be to the student in instructing him as to the manner in which prescriptions should be written, and in acquainting him with the list of incompatibilities. INFANT-FEEDING IN ITS RELATION TO HEALTH AND DISEASE. By Louis Fischer, M.D., Visiting Physician to the Willard Parker and Reception Hospitals of New York City, Attending Physician to the Children's Service of the New York German Poliklinik, former Instructor in Diseases of Children at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital, etc., etc.; Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine. Containing 52 illustrations, with 23 Charts and tables, mostly original. Second edition. Philadelphia: F. A. Davis Company, Publishers, 1901. The increasing recognition of the importance of infant feeding in the prevention and treatment of diseased conditions in infancy and childhood is amply illustrated by the great amount of literature that is now being devoted to this subject. Text-books on practice and on diseases of children usually accord considerable space to discussion of this quite pertinent topic, and special works devoted to a similar consideration are not uncommon. Dr. Fischer has contributed one of the most important works on infant feeding that has ever appeared in the English language. His work is of a most thorough character. It begins with a description of the anatomy and physiology of the infantile stomach, and takes us through a consideration of the preparation of the various infant foods, explains thoroughly the modification of milk, its sterilization, pasteurization, etc. The commoner diseases that have to do with infant feeding are also duly considered, and forced feeding and feeding in diphtheria-intubation cases are described. In fact this work is complete in every detail, and will be found of the highest value in the study of the necessities of infant feeding, whether in health or in disease. This second edition has been thoroughly revised. A LABORATORY COURSE IN BACTERIOLOGY. For the use of Medical, Agricultural and Industrial Students. By Frederic P. Gorham, A.M., Professor of Biology, Brown University; Bacteriologist to the Health Department, Providence, R. I. 12mo volume of 198 pages, with 97 illustrations. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Company, 1901. Cloth $1.25 net. Inasmuch as bacteriology is essentially a laboratory study, works intended for students of this branch of medicine should be direct in their teaching. This little volume is a carefully prepared guide to the practical details of laboratory work, and the student will find here a presentation of the subject in such a manner as to give him a thorough comprehension of the fundamental principles of this rapidly developing science. A MANUAL OF THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE. By George Roe Lockwood, M.D., Professor of Practice in the Woman's Medical College of the New York Infirmary. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Octavo volume of 847 pages, with 79 illustrations and 20 full-page plates. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Company, 1901. Cloth $4.00 net. Although this is preeminently an age of many text-books on the practice of medicine, this work seems to have found a place for itself. It is a happy medium between the compend and the voluminous works of reference. Students especially will find this book quite satisfactory as a text-book, and practioners will find it readily available as a work for immediate consultation. The book has been thoroughly revised, and much new matter added. CASPARTS PHARMACY. A Treatise on Pharmacy for Students and Pharmacists. By Charles Caspari Jr., PH.G., Professor of the Theory and Practice of Pharmacy in the Maryland College of Pharmacy. New (2d) edition, revised and enlarged. In one octavo volume of 774 pages, with 301 engravings and a plate of portraits of the leaders in pharmacy during the last half of the 19th century. Cloth $4.25 net. Lea Brothers & Co., Publishers, Philadelphia and New York, 1901. A pharmaceutical course in medicine is now regarded as a practical necessity, for it is considered as essential that the student should not merely be acquainted with the physiological action of drugs and their combination in the form of prescriptions. He should be taught more of drug origin, of compatibility and incompatibility, and of the method of combining active principles. Pharmacy is a handmaid to materia medica, and this latter being allied in close relationship to therapeutics, necessarily there exists a direct relationship between the three. This work of Caspari's is one of the best published. It is now in the second revised and enlarged edition, and the author herein writes from an experience of twenty-five years as a pharmacist and teacher, and is therefore enabled to present the science and art of pharmacy in its most advanced state. Students and pharmacists will find this work instructive as a guide-book, and valuable as a work of reference whose authority goes unquestioned. PATHOLOGICAL TECHNIQUE. A Practical Manual for Workers in Pathological Histology, Including Directions for the Performance of Autopsies and for Clinical Diagnosis by Laboratory Methods. By Frank P. Mallory, A.M., M.D., Associate Professor of Pathology, Harvard University Medical School; and James H. Wright, A.M., M.D., Instructor in Pathology, Harvard University Medical School. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Octavo, 432 pages, with 137 illustrations. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Company, 1901. Cloth $3.00 net. Every day there are being added to the ranks of workers in pathology not merely students of medicine but general practitioners. It is universally conceded that a working knowledge of pathology gleaned from the dead room is of eminent practical advantage, so that physicians who have lacked the facilities for obtaining this knowledge in their student days, look about them for means wherewith to supply this deficiency at this time. A prime requisite for work in pathology is a knowledge of pathological technique, and to obtain this latter good text-books are necessary. This work is inferior to none as a practical guide for the laboratory worker. It also carefully instructs in the method of performing autopsies. The work has gone to the second edition, and this has been revised and enlarged by the addition of much descriptive matter. The book is thoroughly modern, and is most useful in its sphere. DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS IN INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD. With Chapters on the Diet and General Management of Children, and Massage in Pediatrics. By Louis Starr, M.D., late Clinical Professor of Diseases of Children in the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Consulting Pediatrist to the Maternity Hospital, Philadelphia, etc. Third edition, rewritten and enlarged. Illustrated. Published by P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1012 Walnut St., Philadelphia, 1901. Price $3.00 net. Some ten years ago the first edition of this work appeared, and at the time it was practically the only work in this country devoted exclusively to the subject of the diseases of the digestive organs in children. This most important subject had previously received considerable attention at the hands of text-book writers on medicine and the diseases of children, but they were necessarily handicapped in a proper consideration of such an essential topic by lack of space. Dr. Starr has long been known for his labor in the field to which this book is devoted, and no one in America is better qualified to instruct students and the profession in the treatment of those diseases of the digestive organs which occur particularly in childhood, and which are responsible for such an exceedingly heavy mortality at this age. Dr. Starr's book is divided into an introduction and two parts. The introduction considers the general management of children, and also devotes some attention to massage and pediatrics. Part one comprises a study of the diseases produced by improper food and imperfect nutrition, while part two exhaustively presents the diseases of the digestive organs. This work is now in its third edition, and has been rewritten and somewhat enlarged. Great stress, in fact greater than in former editions, has been laid upon dietetics and general regimen, and the administration of drugs, while not neglected, has been made of secondary importance. General practitioners will find this work of much value. THE PRINCIPLES OF HYGIENE. A Practical Manual for Students, Physi cians and Health Officers. By D. H. Bergey, A.M., M.D., First Assistant, Laboratory of Hygiene, University of Pennsylvania. Octavo volume of 495 pages, illustrated. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Company, 1901. Cloth $3.00 net. It is generally accepted nowadays, that the practitioner who is not thoroughly familiar with the principles of hygiene is greatly handicaped in his struggle for professional success. So far is this recognized that the teaching of practical hygiene in medical colleges is regarded as a necessity. Practical application of the principles of hygiene should not be limited to health officers, but properly belongs in the province of every practitioner of medicine. We have in this book a thorough treatise on the general principles of this subject, and the reader is given a clear understanding of all the most recent teaching as to ventilation, heating, water and water supplies, disposal of sewage and garbage, food and diet, exercise, clothing, personal hygiene, industrial hygiene, school hygiene, military and naval hygiene, habitations, vital statistics, disinfectants, quarantine, etc. The book should prove valuable reading to everyone. THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF MEDICINE. Designed for the Use of Practitioners and Students of Medicine. By William Osler, M.D., Fellow of the Royal Society; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, London; Professor of Medicine in the Johns Hopkins University, and Physician in Chief to the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore; formerly Professor of the Institutes of Medicine, McGill University, Montreal; and Professor of Clinical Medicine in the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. Fourth edition. New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1901. Perhaps no other medical work has done so much to extend the reputation of American medicine as has Osler's Practice. This book enjoys an international reputation, and every meed of praise that has been accorded it is deserved. Prof. Osler's book is now in its fourth edition, and on the occasion of the appearance of this last edition he has taken advantage of the opportunity afforded him to make such revisions and additions as medical progress necessitated. No physician's library is complete without this work, and every student feels that in Osler he has a source of reference whose opinion cannot be gainsaid. ESSENTIALS OF OBSTETRICS. By Charles Jewett, A.M., M.D,, SC.D., Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in the Long Island College Hospital, and Obstetrician and Gynecologist to the Hospital, etc. New (2d) edition, revised and enlarged. In one 12mo volume of 376 pages, with 80 engravings and 5 colored plates. Cloth $2.25 net. Lea Brothers & Co., Publishers, Philadelphia and New York. The object of this book is to place the essential facts and principles of obstetrics within the easy grasp of the student, and to aid him in following the lectures and practical teachings of his college course. It is in this respect much better adapted to the requirements of the student than is the average compend, as it really partakes of the nature of a text-book. It is thorough, and is brief only through the conciseness of the language used, and in being free from much useless descriptive matter that so frequently characterizes larger works. The student will find this book of considerable practical utility, and its use need not be confined to his college course. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN-In contemplating a subject for this occasion, the thought occurred to the writer to depart somewhat from the usual custom of discussing a medical subject purely, and to turn aside and study for a while that being whose afflictions and misfortunes have led to the permanent establishment of the science and practice of medicine. This being is a composite of body, mind, and soul, all separate in their qualities, yet blended into one, so that each has an influence over the other. Physical conditions affect the mind and morals. Mind operates on the moral and physical qualities, and it is no less true that moral states influence the body and mind. "Faults in the life breed errors in the brain, And stamp their image on each other's mint." This trinity in unity is man. His origin has been a subject of much scientific thought and research, but whether we regard him as having instantly and miraculously appeared on the earth in obedience to the creative fiat of Jehovah, or as having * President's address, read before Tri-State Medical Association of Mississippi, Arkansas and Tennessee, Memphis, Nov. 19, 1901. VOL. XXI-45 617 |