in any of the common pathological conditions in the treatment of which diet plays a prominent part. For the cooking and other preparation of food and drink for the sick, detailed instructions are given.

The Year-Book of Treatment for 1895. A Comprehensive and Critical Review for Practitioners of Medicine and Surgery. In one 12mo. volume of 501 pages. Cloth; $1.50. Philadelphia: Lea Brothers & Co., 1895. This is the eleventh consecutive annual issue of this excellent summary of medical progress. The presentation of the real advances for the year in treatment in all departments of practice in this convenient and available shape, is of great advantage to the practitioner who has not the time to gather for himself what is best in the annual additions to medical literature; indeed, this would be a task beyond the ability of any one man, and could only be accomplished, as in this case, by the combined labor of one or more writers in each depart

ment.

The International Medical Annual and Practitioners' Index. A Work of Reference for Medical Practitioners. pp. 648. Thirteenth year. $2.75. E. B. Treat, New York.

This work is the fruit of the combined efforts of thirty-seven editors and contributors to lay before the profession, in a book of moderate compass, whatever there is of value in the developments of medicine during the past year. The "Annual' is already well known to the profession, this being its thirteenth year of publication—a fact that sufficiently attests its usefulness. That the matter in the present volume has been prepared with great care and judgment, the high professional standing of the members of its editorial staff is a sufficient guarantee. Numerous illustrations, in black and colors, elucidate the text. In paper, type and binding, it forms a handsome volume-uniform with Treat's Medical Classics.

Annales d'Oculistique. Published monthly. Sixty to eighty pages. $5 per

annum.

This, the pioneer journal of ophthalmology, after fifty-seven consecutive years of publication in the French language, now appears in English and French simultaneously- the English edition under the editorial charge of Dr. George T. Stevens, 33 West 33rd street, New York. All papers appearing in one

edition will appear in the other, but more prominence will be given to the productions of English and American writers than heretofore. It is one of the best journals in this department of medicine, and we do not doubt that the new arrangement will add to the prosperity which has attended it for more than half a century.

Transactions of the Antiseptic Club. Reported by Albert Abrams, a Member of the San Francisco Medical Profession. Pages 205. Cloth; $1.75. E. B. Treat, 5 Cooper Union, New York, 1895.

Books intended to be humorous very often prove disappointing. Not so with these Transactions, in which the fads and foibles of modern Esculapians are with pen and pencil depicted in the most mirth - provoking fashion. The reader who frequents medical society meetings will have little difficulty in recalling characters to fit many of those drawn by the pungent pen of this writer. We commend it to all who agree with Charles Lamb, that "a laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market."

The Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary of the English Language. Volume II. Funk & Wagnalls, New York, London and Toronto, 1895. This is the completing volume of the Standard Dictionary, a work that is perhaps unequaled in our language. Five years, and the labors of two hundred and forty-seven editors and five hundred readers for quotations have been expended in its preparation. It contains two thousand three hundred and thirty-eight pages, five thousand illustrations, and more than three hundred thousand vocabulary terms. For want of space, a review commensurate with its merits must be deferred, but we cannot refrain from saying here that it is a dictionary in the best sense of the term, and will be welcomed by all who desire accurate and the latest information in compact form. Physicians, chemists and pharmacists will find it especially satisfactory, because the spelling of chemical terms is in conformity with the methods adopted by the chemical section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

The Pharmacology of Cola Acuminata. Parke, Davis & Co., Detroit,

Mich.

This is an instructive pamphlet of over forty pages, on cola, with colored plates illustrative of the plant and its seed.

BOOKS AND PAMPHLETS RECEIVED.

Cylindroma Endothelioides of the Dura Mater, Causing Localizing Symptoms and Early Muscular Atrophy. By L. Bremer, M.D., and N. B. Carson, M.D., St. Louis, Mo. Reprint from the Amer. Jour. Med. Sciences, February, 1895.

Early Diagnosis of Cancer of the Uterus. A paper read before the Cincinnati Obstetrical Society. By Edwin Rickett, M.D., Cincinnati.

Diagnosis and Treatment of "Floating Kidney." By R. Harvey Reed, M.D., Columbus, Ohio. Reprint from the Columbus Medical Journal, April, 1894.

A New Method of Anchoring the Kidney. By R. Harvey Reed, M.D., Columbus, Ohio. Reprint from the Journal Amer. Med. Association, December, 1894.

Report of a Case of Pathological Separation of the Lower Epiphysis of the Femur. By A. H. Meisanbach, St. Louis, Professor of Surgery in the Marion - Sims College of Medicine. Reprint from the Annals of Surgery.

Benefits of Bacteriological Investigation. A Lecture delivered before the Quarante Club. By Dr. Joseph Holt, New Orleans, December, 1894.

Intestinal Anastomosis, with Report of a Case. By Frederick Holme Wiggin, M.D. Read before New York State Medical Association, 1894. Reprint from the N. Y. Med. Jour.

Bicycling for Women from the Standpoint of the Gynecologist. By Robert L. Dickinson, M.D., Obstetrician to the Kings County Hospital, etc., Brooklyn, N. Y. Reprint from the American Journal of Obstetrics, 1895.

Abstract of Proceedings of the Michigan State Board of Health, January, 1895.

Biennial Report of the State Board of Health to the Governor of North Dakota. For 1893 and 1894.

The Value of Gude's Pepto-Mangan in the Treatment of Anæmia. By Hugo Sumnia, A.M., M.D., St. Louis. Reprinted from the N. Y. Med. Jour.

Proceedings and Addresses of the Second Annual Conference of the Health Officers in Michigan. Held at Ann Arbor, Mich., June, 1894. (Supplement to the Report of the Michigan State Board of Health for 1894.)

Infection and Immunity, with Special Reference to the New Diphtheria Antitoxin. By Charles Russell Dardeen, A.B., Assistant in Histology, Johns Hopkins University. Reprinted from the School Bulletin.

Surgical Clinic. (Illustrated.) Complimentary to the Visiting Members of the Mississippi Valley Medical Association. By Prof. Augustus C. Bernays, A.M., M.D., Heidelberg; M.R.C.S., England. Of the Marion-Sims Medical College of Medicine, St. Louis, Mo. This pamphlet of twenty-one pages contains several illustrations, and reports of the following operations: Case 1, Occlusion of Esophagus; Case 2, Lymphosarcoma of the Neck; Case 3, Osteoplastic Resection of Skull; Case 4, Nephrectomy; Case 5, Neurectomy; Case 6, Appendicecto

mies.

Radical Cure of Inguinal Hernia in the Male. By Wm. S. Halstead, M.D., Professor of Surgery, Johns Hopkins Univer sity, and Surgeon-in-Chief to the Johns Hopkins Hospital. From the Johns Hopkins Bulletin.

Codliver Oil and Chemistry. By F. Peckel Möller, PH.D., Co-Author of Pharmacopoeia Norvegica, 1870, etc. Quarto, pp. 508. Peter Möller, 43 Snow Hill, London, E. C., 1895. Can be had from W. H. Schieffelin & Co., New York.

System of Surgery. Vol. I. Edited by Frederic S. Dennis, M.D., assisted by John S. Billings, M.D. Lea Brothers & Co., Philadelphia, 1895.

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