the great mass of obsolete and abandoned teaching with which so many recent books upon the subject are padded and which only serves to confuse the student and practitioner, and at the present day has no place excepting in a history of the subject. Gynecology has advanced with great rapidity, its theory and practice have been simplified and vastly improved from year to year and rare good judgment must be exercised in selecting the material for a live, upto-date, eclectic text-book; but the author of this little volume has certainly approached the ideal in this particular. Many of the illustrations are new and all are good from the standpoint of workmanship and as aids to a more perfect understanding of the text. In the sections of anatomy and plastic surgery the illustrations are particularly helpful, those depicting the various methods of repair of the vaginal outlet deserving special mention. Perhaps just here too much attention has been given to the unusual methods, knowing as we do, that the vast majority of this work is done by one of the four methods spoken of in the last paragraph of this section under the head "Choice of Operations."

Taken as a whole the teaching of this book is sound, conservative, clear and up-to-date, and the large experience and good judgment of the author have evidently dominated it. It's compactness, comprehensiveness and freedom from ambiguity particularly commend it for undergraduate use.

This book will be to the student and practitioner of gynecology what Hirst's has been to obstetrics. H. G. W.

1901. Price, $1.00 to $2.25, according to size. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co.

This is the fiftieth year of publication of this visiting list. It has been excels in its completeness, satisfactory constantly growing in popularity. It arrangement, and the quality of its make-up. It has blanks for a daily record of from 25 to 50 patients per week, special memoranda, addresses of patients, addresses of nurses, records of bills and accounts asked for, vaccination engagements, obstetric engagements, births, deaths and cash account. In addition to these, it has a number of excellent tables, viz., calendar for 1901 and 1902, table of signs, the metric or decimal system of weights and measures, table for converting apothecaries weights and measures into grams, what to do in cases of asphyxia and dyspncea, comparison of thermometers, table for computing the period of utero-gestation, and an excellent dose table which is decidedly up to date.

As a visiting list it will undoubtedly retain its old friends and win new ones.

The present army medical staff is insufficient, for the needs of the department were greatly increased by the occupation of the United States' foreign colonies. There is, therefore, a demand for more army surgeons.

What can be accomplished by proper sanitary measures is shown by the fact that there has been no yellow fever in Santiago since last last December. Under a lack of sanitary control this city has been the permanent abode of the disease for the last three or four hundred years.