BOOKS.

DISEASES OF THE NOSE, PHARYNX AND EAR.-By Henry Gradle, M.D., Professor of Ophthalmology and Otology, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago. Handsome octavo of 547 pages, profusely illustrated, including two full-page plates in colors. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Co., 1902. Cloth, $3.50 net.

This volume, based upon a quarter century of experience, is full of practical points in diagnosis and treatment that could not have been gained out of other books. The sections on treatment are especially full and satisfactory, embracing only those procedures which have stood the critical tests of time and trial. Methods of treatment and the employment of instruments are described in clearest detail. Topographic anatomy is given due consideration. The book is handsomely and copiously illustrated, including two striking composite colored plates. The work is equally serviceable as a text-book or for reference.

NOTHNAGEL'S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL MEDICINE-AMER

ICAN EDITION.—DIPHTHERIA.-By William P. Northrup, M. D., of New York. MEASLES, SCARLET FEVER AND GERMAN MEASLES.-By Professor Dr. Th. von Jurgensen, Professor of Medicine in the University of Tubingen. Edited, with additions, by William P. Northrup, M.D., Professor of Pediatrics in the University and Bellevue Medical College, New York. Handsome octavo, 672 pages, illustrated, including 24 fullpage plates, three of them in colors. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Co., 1902. Cloth, $5.00 net; morocco, $6.00 net.

This volume is the third in the excellent series of English translations of the "Nothnagel System of Practical Medicine," and is of the same thoroughly high standard as its predecessors. Professor Jurgensen's monographs on measles, scarlatina and rubella have been brought practically up to date and adapted to English and American readers, and leave practically nothing to be said on the subjects under discussion. The author does not favor the theory of the so-called "fourth disease." The exhaustive exposition of diphtheria, by William P. Northrup, is of spe

cial value in regard to the operation of intubation, the author having been closely associated with Dr. O'Dwyer for some years. The book is profusely and instructively illustrated with temperature charts, cuts of instruments, photogravures, photomicrographic reproductions and beautiful colored plates of diphtheria and Koplik's spots.

THE NEUROSES OF THE GENITO-URINARY SYSTEM IN THE MALE, WITH STERILITY AND IMPOTENCE.-By Dr. R. Ultzmann, Professor of Genito-Urinary Diseases in the University of Vienna. Second edition. Revised, with notes and a supplementary article on nervous impotence, by the translator, Gardner W. Allen, M.D., Surgeon in the Genito-Urinary Department of the Boston Dispensary; Instructor in GenitoUrinary Surgery in Tuft's Medical College. Illustrated. Pages 198. 12mo. Price, extra cloth, $1.00 net, delivered. Philadelphia: F. A. Davis Company, Publishers, 1914-16 Cherry Street.

This is a helpful and sensible exposition of a part of the practice of medicine on which quacks flourish, because of its neglect by regular practitioners. The various forms of impotence are outlined from a practical standpoint. The most successful treatment in the author's experience is given in detail, considerable attention being paid to the use of electricity. In Dr. Allen's supplementary article he lays much stress upon massage of the prostate and the seminal vesicles, and tells how the procedure should be performed.

WHARTON'S MINOR SURGERY AND BANDAGING.-A Manual of

Minor Surgery and Bandaging. By Henry R. Wharton, M.D., Professor of Clinical Surgery in the Woman's Medical College, Surgeon to the Presbyterian Hospital, Philadelphia, etc. New (5th) edition, thoroughly revised. In one 12mo volume of 612 pages, with 509 illustrations, many of which are photographic. Cloth, $3.00 net. Just ready. Philadelphia and New York: Lea Brothers & Co.

The wide favor accorded to this excellent work has afforded the author frequent opportunities for revision, whereby it has been kept abreast of the continuous advances in surgery. The first part is taken up with bandaging, illustrated accurately by numerous photogravures. The large second part on minor surgery is fittingly introduced by a chapter on surgical bacteriology and teaches the best aseptic methods. The third and fourth parts,

on fractures and dislocations, are also fully illustrated photographically. Ligations, amputations, excisions, resections, trephining, intubation of the larynx, operations upon the kidney, and many other special procedures, are treated in the text. The book should be of the greatest utility to students and the younger practitioners.

THE PRACTICAL MEDICINE SERIES OF YEAR BOOKS.-Comprising ten volumes of the year's progress in medicine and surgery. Issued monthly, under the general editorial charge of Gustavus P. Head, M.D., Professor of Laryngology and Rhinology, Chicago Post-Graduate Medical School. Volume VI-General Medicine. Edited by Frank Billings, M.S., M.D., Head of Medical Department and Dean of the Faculty of Rush Medical College, Chicago. With the collaboration of S. C. Stanton, M.D. May, 1902. Price of this volume, $7.50. Chicago: The Year Book Publishing Co., 40 Dearborn street.

This is the second volume of general medicine in the monthly series, and shows considerable improvement over the first, published in October, 1901. Typhoid fever, malaria, yellow fever and diseases of stomach and intestines take up the major portion of the text. The abstracts are quite full and are arranged to complete the review of each subject as fully as possible. The information imparted is for the most part timely and seasonable.

THE ARTIFICIAL FEEDING OF INFANTS.-Including a critical review of the recent literature of the subject. By Charles F. Judson, M.D., Physician to the Medical Dispensary of the Children's Hospital, and J. Claxton Gittings, M.D., Assistant Physician to the Medical Dispensary of the Children's Hospital. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1902.

The substance of this compact work has been gleaned from the periodical literature, monographs and text-books of the past eight years, and includes much valuable material not contained in the average text-book. Being based upon the authoritative statements of Monti, Marfar, Meigs, Holt, Starr, Adriance and many other pediatrists, it may be regarded as a reliable and satisfactory guide on this most important topic. The principles and newer methods of home modification of milk and infant feeding in general are clearly explained. An appendix contains numerous useful recipes.

PRACTICAL DIETETICS.-With special reference to diet in disease. By W. Gilman Thompson, M.D., Professor of Medicine in the Cornell University Medical College in New York City; Visiting Physician to the Presbyterian and Bellevue Hospitals. Second edition, enlarged and thoroughly revised. Octavo, 828 pages. Price in cloth, $5.00. New

York: D. Appleton & Co., 1902.

Professor Thompson believes with Bennett, who in 1858 wrote: "Of all the means of cure at our disposal, attention to the quantity and quality of the ingesta is by far the most powerful." At the same time he is in no sense a dietary faddist. This work is, so far as we know, the most complete systematic treatise on dietetics published, and at the same time the most practically serviceable to all concerned. About one-fourth of the text is taken up with a discussion of foods from both the chemical and the physiologic viewpoints. The second part covers stimulants, beverages and condiments; the third, cooking and the preservation of foods; the fourth, foods required for special conditions; the fifth, food digestion; the sixth, the general relation of food to special diseases; the seventh, administration of food for the sick. The eighth part, embracing nearly half the volume, is a comprehensive summary, conveniently arranged, of the diets required in every special disease. The last part contains a large number of official and non-official rations and dietaries, with due attention to the feeding of infants and children. The appendix embraces numerous receipts for invalid food, and beverages suitable for fevers and convalescence from acute illness. The book is illustrated with nine full-page plates. From the standpoint of actual benefit to physician and patient, we doubt if a more important work has ever been published than "Practical Dietetics."

A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON SMALL-POX.-Illustrated by colored photographs from life. By George Henry Fox, A.M., M.D., Consulting Dermatologist to the Health Department of New York City. With the Collaboration of S. D. Hubbard, M.D., S. Pollitzer, M.D., and J. H. Huddleston, M.D. In two parts. Price, $3.00. Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1902.

The alarming increase of small-pox in this country (29,304 cases, with 850 deaths, from December 28, 1901, to April 18, 1902, against 16,734 cases and 225 deaths for the corresponding period of 1901) renders the early diagnosis of this dread malady

a practical study for every general practitioner. It would be impossible to conceive of any work which could be more helpful for such special purpose than the one before us. It is indeed the first publication which has presented illustrations of the variolous eruption in each of its successive stages and colors. The text is concise and comprehensive. Considering the first cost of the numerous colored plates, the work may be considered very cheap at the price quoted.

QUAIN'S DICTIONARY OF MEDICINE.-By various writers. Largely rewritten and revised throughout. With 14 colored plates and numerous other illustrations. Edited by H. Montague Murray, M.D., F. R. C. P., Joint Lecturer on Medicine Charing Cross Medical School, and Physician to Out-Patients Charing Cross Hospital; Senior Physician to the Victoria Hospital for Children, Chelsea, and to the Foundling Hospital. Assisted by John Harold, M. B., B.Ch., B.A.O., Physician to St. John's and St. Elizabeth's Hospital and Demonstrator of Medicine at Charing Cross Medical School; and W. Cecil Bosanquet, M.A., M.D., M.R.C.P., Physician to Out-Patients, Victoria Hospital for Children, Chelsea, and Pathologist to Charing Cross Hospital, Late Fellow of New College, Oxford. New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1902.

Quain's Dictionary is a small library in itself. The first edition was published in 1882, the second in 1894, and the third in 1902. The list of contributors, mostly British, with some Americans and Canadians, fills over seven octavo pages. The general scheme and the practical scope of the work, as planned by the late Sir Richard Quain, has been preserved. In the present edition more space has been allotted to specialties. Cross references are very numerous. The alphabetic arrangement is followed, and in general the articles are topical and comprehensive. Thus the article on bacteria is in substance an epitome of the science of bacteriology. Each reader will naturally find certain sections of greater interest than others to himself. One of the most entertaining and enlightening to the reviewer is that on "Pain in Visceral Disease," by Henry Head. Simon Flexner contributes an instructive paper on diseases of the pancreas. Diseases of the stomach are quite fully discussed by R. F. C. Leith. The text, consisting of 1892 double-column octavo pages, is beautifully illustrated with 21 full-page plates, 14 of which are in colors.