The Reviewer's Table. Books, Reprints, and Instruments for this department, should be sent to the Editors, St. Louis THIS visiting list contains a vast amount ently arranged and made ready for use. THE COURIER OF MEDICINE POCKET of information, all very conveniThe subject matter includes all that is usually found in books of this class, covering various subjects of the emergency class, and giving numerous tables and rules which are invaluable, and are The pages devoted to daily, absolutely essential to every-day work. monthly and other accounts are admirably arranged, and seem to leave little to be desired. The book is well bound in leather, its size is, happily, not such as will strain the pocket or prove a burden to the doctor. PHYSIOLOGY is no longer without its delightful compensations. To the student interested in the apparent inexhaustible study of cell life the newer A TEXT-BOOK OF PHYSIOLOGY. By WINFIELD S. HALL, PH. D. (Leipzig), M. D. (Leipzig), Professor of Physiology, Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago; Member of the American Physiological Society; Fellow of the American Academy of Medicine. Illustrated with 343 Engravings and Six Colored Plates. Cloth, octavo, 612 pages. LEA BROTHERS & CO., New York and Philadelphia. 1899. physiology is an unfolding of nature's manifold wonders. Hall has deftly given us in this handsome volume a text-book worthy of the great subject considered. It is concise, readable to the physician, as well as being specially serviceable to the student, for whom it is primarily designed. Like the specialties of practice, the fundamental branches-the basic principles of medicine, are now so comprehensive that the teachers of these studies are essentially specialists in their departments. They give us, therefore, in text-books the principles sufficiently elaborated as to impress the student with the importance and possibilities of these great foundations upon which practical medicine must build. Hall's physiology is an ideal text-book, a credit to Western progress in medical teaching, and a product of the times, which demands high standards and thoroughness in the texts presented by the modern author. F. P. N. THE second edition of this compend comes to us revised, enlarged and set A COMPEND OF THE DISEASES OF THE in larger type. The whole subject of ophthalmology is here condensed into a little work of 295 pages. It is just such a book as the student needs when preparing for examinatien, and its large sale is richly deserved. J. E. J. IT IS a pleasure to see one's professional friends in the role of authorship, and a double pleasure when they produce a deserving and valuable book. This book before us, therefore, DISEASES OF CHILDREN. A Manual for Stu- is of more than passing interest, dents and Practitioners. By GEORGE M. TUTTLE. M. D., Attending Physician to St. Luke's Hospital, Martha Parson's Hospital for Children, and Bethesda Foundling Asylum, St. Louis. Illustrated with Five Plates in Colors and Monochrome. Cloth. 12 Mo., 386 Pages. $1.50 Net. LEA BROTHERS & CO., Philadelphia and New York. because its author is our friend, Dr. George M. Tuttle, and because we especially enjoy works pertaining to disease of children. Dr. Tuttle shows his thoroughness in his excellent compilation and his appreciation of the essentials of pediatrics, by his judicious commentaries on the clinical facts which are of value to the student. The general practitioner can find in this manual the latest views on applied and clinical and laboratory investigations in infant feeding, a subject. which of all problems in pediatrics, is the most neglected by general practitioners. We can say without fear of contradiction, that not one physician in a hundred, can properly estimate the food needs of an infant in sickness or in health, nor plan a suitable dietary for children. Tuttle briefly, but thoroughly, covers the whole field of clinical medicine as found in infants and children. Of especial interest and up-to date are the chapters on nervous diseases, infectious diseases and diseases of the digestive system. We congratulate Dr. Tuttle on his well executed literary effort. F. P. N. THIS book is a classic in anatomy. It represents the advanced inquiry of today into the minute anatomy of the nervous system as based on the epoch marking, neuron theory. This theory is elaborated and proven by the precise investigations of the author and other noted investigators. Again, the literature of the world on this subject has been closely studied, and in this book is found the results and correct conceptions of the neuron theory, which briefly in part is, that every cell is an independent unit-an independent part of the nervous system. These cells are the so-called neurones made of a cell-body, the protoplasmic processes-the deudrites and the axones. There are varieties of neurones, the deudrites, varying in their characteristics, while the axones (the commonly called axis cylinder)-differ markedly from the deudrites, both as to origin from the cell-body and in histological structure, being, indeed, an attenuated projection of the body to the nerve cell. These neurones have complex relations to each other, and complex functions of the neurones are specialized and are constant. Disease or accident affecting one part of a neurone destroys the function of the whole, thus showing it is an anatomical unit. Again, the nervous systems are many and varied in their structure and function; independent systems in fact, yet they are grouped and THE NERVOUS SYSTEM AND ITS CONSTITUENT NEURONS, designed for the use of Prac titioners of Medicine and of Students of Medicine and Psychology. By LEWELLYS F. BARKER, M. B., Toronto; Associate Professor of Anatomy in the Johns Hopkins University, and Assistant Resident Pathologist to the Johns Hopkins Hospital. 8vo. cloth, pp. 1122, with two colored plates and 676 illustrations in the text. Price $5.00. New York: D. APPLETON & CO., Publishers, 1899. chained together in one harmonious whole The motor, sensory, special sense and other divisions of the central nervous system, together with the great sympathetic, are interwoven in their special functions, being independent, yet dependent, in their associated functions. The elaboration of this theory from the standpoint of laboratory inquiry; its physiological and pathological verification is the object of this great work. It is presented in style by this talented author calculated to arouse interest and a desire to know more concerning this radical departure from the common accepted views of the morphology of the nervous system. It is of great clinical value to the practitioner, as it affords a basis for investigation, giving rational conclusions as to the results of lesions and suggestions as to therapeutic advances. Taken as a whole, this is a most valuable book, and, as before stated, it is a classic in this new field of investigation, and reflects great. credit upon the author, the university with which he is associated and the great publishing house, which has produced so artistic and elaborate a book. The work must be seen and studied to be appreciated in its real value. F. P. N. THIS manual is designed to promote the modern methods of teaching by laboratory investigations and experiments. LABORATORY MANUAL OF PHYSIOLOGIC- It is by this method that the true and lasting knowledge of chemistry is acquired. Didactic instruction gives principles, but laboratory instruction gives facts which with the aid of the graphic method of demonstration, lays the true foundation of physiological chemistry. Rockwood's book fills acceptably a need in the modern methods of medical instruction. F. P. N. THIS most comprehensive text-book impresses the reviewer as the leading one of recent years, adapted for the student and general practitioner. The A TEXT-BOOK OF DISEASES OF THE NOSE AND THROAT-By D. BRADEN KYLE, M. D., Clinical Professor of Laryngology and Rhinology, Jefferson Medical College; Consulting Laryngologist, Rhinologist and Otologist St. Agnes' Hospital; Bacteriologist to Philadelphia Orthopedic Hospital and Infirmary for Nervous Diseases; Fellow of the American Laryngological Association, etc. Philadelphia: W. B. SAUNDERS. Price $4.00 net. points of special value are its thoroughness, each chapter being complete itself; its concise, yet clear, consideration of the pathology of diseases of the nose and throat; its classification, based on pathology; its lucid and specific modes of treatment; all of which are the necessary adjuncts of a book designed for students. The author's style is that of a scholarly teacher who believes in brevity, but not at the sacrifice of imparting knowledge. The making of the book is well worthy of praise, because of the illustrations, the printing and general make-up. It is a timely and useful book, and both author and publisher deserve merited congratulations on its value and appearance. THIS book compries an excellent collection of Mr. Harrison's later writings -those published since the presentation of his book in 1893. The subjects embraced are: Vesical Stone and Prostatic Disorders; A Further Contribution to the Surgery of Stone in the Bladder; the Treatment of Prostatic Obstruction, with Special Reference to Vasectomy; Saccules and Pouches of the Urinary Bladder; Cases in which a Non-malignant Communication Existed between the Bladder and Intestines; A New Operation for Extroversion of the Bladder; Treatment of Albuminuria by Reni-puncture; Some Suppurations of the Urinary Organs; Stricture of the Urethra; Some Advanced Forms of Urethral Stricture Treated by a Combined External and Internal Urethrotomy; Some Forms of Acute Urine Fever; On a Mode of Stretching Some Urethral Strictures; Notes on Hematuria; Hemorrhage Causing Great Distension of the Urinary Bladder; Large Pelvic Hydatid Treated by Perineal Incision and Drainage; and Urethral Irrigations. As may readily be seen, the book forms a valuable collection of desultory writings. They are in Mr. Harrison's unfailingly interesting and logical style, and are illustrated with some especially instructive drawings, notably those portraying a sacculated bladder and a pouched bladder. The contributions on hemorrhage into the bladder are among the best of the series. STONE. PROSTATE AND URINARY DIS- B.L. A VISITING LIST is an indispensable convenience for the active practitioner. Its carefully adapted blanks enable him at once to note clinical details of every day work, as well as charges and receipts, and to unburden his memory from what can better be carried on paper. It also furnishes him with a legal record necessary for the collection of delinquent bills. Prominent among the many books of this nature stands the Medical News Visiting List. Its blank pages are arranged to classify and record memoranda and engagements of every description occurring in the practice of the physician, surgeon or obstetrician. The work opens with 32 pages of printed data of the most useful sort, including an alphabetical Table of Diseases with Approved Remedies, a Table of Doses, Sections on Examination of Urine, Artificial Respiration, Incompatibles, Poisons and Antidotes, a Diagnostic Table of Eruptive Fevers, and a full-page plate showing at a glance the incisions for ligation of the various arteries, an invaluable guide in such emergencies. The Medical News Visiting List is issued in four styles, adapted to any system of records and any method of keeping professional accounts. It is printed on fine, tough paper, suitable for pen or pencil and durably and THE MEDICAL NEWS VISITING LIST FOR 1900-Weekly (dated, for 30 patients; Monthly (undated, for 120 patients per month); Perpetual (undated, for 30 patients weekly per year); and Perpetual (undated, for 60 patients weekly per year). The first three styles contain 32 pages of data and 160 pages of blanks. The 60-patient Perpetual consists of 256 pages of blanks. Each style in one wallet-shaped book, with pocket, pencil and rubber. Seal Grain Leather, $1.25. Thumb-letter Index, 25 cents extra. Philadelphia and New York: LEA BROTHERS & CO. handsomely bound in the size of a wallet for the pocket. When desired a ready reference thumb-letter index is furnished, which is an economizer of time. This useful visiting list has become one of our personal necessities. We have had the News list for several years. THE name of Henryk Sienkiewicz, author of "Quo Vadis," is familiar to every reading American, yet, so far as we know, it has never been signed to anything in an American magazine. In the December Century, how ever, will be found a prose-poem of his authorized translater Jeremiah Curtin, and not yet published even in Polish. It is called "The Judgment of Peter and Paul on Olympus. THE books of the seasons really worth knowing about are discussed in the eleventh annual book number of The Outlook (December Magazine number) under the three general heads, "In the Field of Fiction," "History and Biography," and " Books and Art," while the same issue contains also three personal literary articles, "Weimar and Goethe," by Hamilton W. Mabie; "Reminiscences of Thoreau," by bn inmate of Thoreau's family, and "A Visit to Jokai," by Edward A. Steiner. All six of these articles are illustrated. $3.00 a year. The Outlook Publishing Company, New York. FIFTY STORIES of the FAR WEST-The Rev. Cyrus Townsend Brady, author of "For Love of Country" and "For the Freedom of the Sea," is writing his experiences and adventures as "A Missionary in the Far West" for early publication in The Ladies' Home Journal. Mr. Brady was stationed in the far West for eight years as a missionary. In that time he had some most stirring and exciting and often humorous experiences, and fifty of the most thrilling and unusual of these he will relate in a series of articles. He has never before told these experiences. He will do so now. They will have to do with encounters, with cyclones and blizzards, prairie fires, unusual weddings, funerals and baptisms. THE war in South Africa between the British and the Boers is awakening an intense interest in the dark continent, the land toward which the world's immigration of coming years will be directed. Most opportunely comes the announcement that William Harding, New York Cable editor of the Associated Press, has a book on Africa nearly ready, entitled "War in South Africa : The Dark Continent from Savagery to Civilization," to be published this month by the Dominion Company of Chicago. Mr. Harding should be eminently qualified to prepare a comprehensive and valuable work on this subject. Not only has he traveled extensively in the dark continent, but for years all cable information from Africa and the old world has passed through his hands before given to the American public. The forthcoming volume will contain a full account of Africa from the earliest ages to the present day including a detailed account of the causes and events of the British-Boer war. |