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Atlas and Epitome of Otology. By GUSTAV BRUEH, M. D., Berlin, with the collaboration of DR. A. POLITZER, of Vienna. Translated by S. MCCUEN SMITH, M. D., of Philadelphia. W. B. Saunders & Co., Publishers, 1902.

The work presents one of a series of hand atlases published by the wellknown house of Saunders & Company, and designs to offer to the student of this special branch a satisfactory aid and substitute for clinical instruction. With this end in view the book contains an elaborate collection of macroscopic and microscopic colored plates, illustrative of the pathology and minute anatomy of the organ of hea ring, and its relation with surrounding important structures. In this part of the work the author has been favored by the collaboration of Prof. Politzer, whose work in the otological world is so well known that it needs no mention. The pathologic conditions portrayed by the plates are accompanied by brief and clear-cut descriptions so that the student has little difficulty in recognizing the lesions. The Epitome consists of a condensed study of the anatomy and physiology of the temporal bone and ear, and of the examination, diagnosis, and treatment of ear diseases. It is an excellent work of its kind and valuable for a practical study of otology.

DEROALDES & KING.

Quain's Dictionary of Medicine. By various writers, edited by H. MONTAGUE MURRAY, M. D., F. R. C. P. D. Appleton & Co., New York, 1902.

This is really a medical encyclopedia and can serve as a reliable and available work of reference for the practitioner as well as the student. With this, the third edition, it appears in one volume of over 1800 pages, with fourteen colored plates and numerous illustrations in the text.

The contributors are nearly three hundred in number and include many of the most favorably known names in British medicine and surgery, together with our own Flexner, Hemmeter and Osler. They sign their articles, thus adding the weight of personal opinion to the general authority of the book.

There are a large number of cross references well calculated to give additional information on most subjects.

While a large volume, it is not too bulky for convenient handling; the letter-press work and binding are good. All in all it is a valuable work and deserves a place in any medical library, private or public.

C. C.

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. Third edition, rewritten and enlarged. Illustrated. P. Blakiston's Son & Co., Philadelphia, 1901. In the ten years which have elapsed since the publication of the last edition, the subject of pediatrics has made rapid advance. We have now about reached a period when our therapeutics are rational, and our

methods of diagnosis scientific. We are, therefore, better informed concerning the dietetic treatment of diseases of infancy and childhood.

New sections on simple atrophy, infantile scurvy, rickets, lithemia, infectious follicular tonsillitis, naso-pharyngeal adenoid hypertrophy, proctitis and appendicitis have been added.

The introduction dealing with the general management of children can be read with profit by every practitioner who comes in contact with infants and children.

Regarding the treatment of intestinal worms, the author remarks: "First-For expelling the parasites, the anthelmintic to be chosen depends upon the infecting species. Second-The removal of the alkaline mucus and the restoration of the normal condition of the alimentary canal are to be accomplished by the same attention to diet and the same therapeutic measures recommended when discussing chronic gastro-intestinal catarrh."

Dr. Starr says of Tanret's pelletierine: "My own experience with this drug has been most successful, and I have relied upon it exclusively for a number of years past."

The work possesses many good qualities, but its most valuable recommendation is the fact that it is a mirror of the author's personal experience, an experience matched by few men in the world.

STORCK.

Photographic Atlas of Diseases of the Skin. By GEO. HENRY FOX, A. M., M. D. Parts X-XIII. J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia and London, 1901.

We have had so much of praise to say for this set of plates and text that we may be allowed the right to question the advice given by the author in Part X, wherein he argues the absence of danger from single cases of leprosy and inveighs against regulated isolation.

"Leprosy can be cured, has been cured, and would be cured in many cases if the patient were not given to understand that his condition is hopeless and speedy death inevitable" is indeed promising dogma. With the first of this we agree, and it is to be hoped that in time segregation will nowhere mean condemnation.

It is just this personal color which makes Dr. Fox's atlas different from and at the same time more desirable than most others. We have already said the best we know to say of the plates. Photographs first of all, colored with the utmost attention to the exact appearance of the disease presented, they come as near the clinic aspect of the case as it is possible to have in inanimate studies. DYER.

International Clinics, a Quarterly of Illustrated Clinical Lectures, etc. Edited by HENRY W. CATTELL, A. M., M. D. Volume I. Twelfth Series, 1902. J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia, 1902.

This popular digest of medical progress and clinic presentation of disease begins its new volume with a series of interesting articles more

notable for their practical usefulness than scientific value. We note with some regret that in the articles on malaria and yellow fever the work in New Orleans by Beyer, Pothier and others has entirely escaped the observation of the reviewer, although the weekly journals at the time were emphatic in declaring the great value and importance of their work.

The International Clinics, however, does not aim at an exhaustive review, but rather at a practical series of articles for the general practitioner, and that it succeeds in this object is evident in that the present volume begins the twelfth year of its existence. DYER.

International Medical Annual, 1902. E. B. Treat & Co., publishers, New York.

In the now numerous class of year-books, including the latest newcomers in the field, the veteran Medical Annual holds its own, yet, striving for the highest place in practical usefulness.

In a dictionary form, a convenient one for ready reference, this volume contains valuable selections and references on Therapeutics, Medicine, Surgery and Sanitation. Those relating to arsenical poisoning, the value of atropin in the administration of anesthetics, tuberculosis and typhoid were found particularly interesting. Twenty-two plates aside from a considerable number of figures and charts illustrate the work which we sincerely believe is worthy of commendation. DUPAQUIER.

Drug Habits and their Treatment. By T. D. CROTHERS, M. D. G. P. Engelhard & Co., Chicago, 1902.

This little volume of something less than 100 pages presents a discursive account of the several drug habits, dealing chiefly with alcohol, and suggesting the etiology and course of each type. Little or nothing is suggested in the therapy of the cases discussed and the book evidences a summary of Dr. Crothers' larger work, without any of its good points.

DYER.

American Year-Book of Medicine for 1902. W. B. Saunders & Company, Philadelphia and London.

This is volume I, including General Medicine of Saunders' American year-book, set in two volumes. It is a complete review of the progress in medicine in 1901, supplemented with invaluable annotations and criticisms of the editors, all leaders in their several specialties. The volume as usual is well illustrated. We are certain that like its predecessors it will prove of the greatest utility to us in quest of information for a case in practice, or when reading up a question. Its completeness gives it quite an advantage over other works in the same line. DUPAQUIER

A Brief of Necroscopy and its Medico-Legal Relation. Arranged by GusTAV SCHMITT, M. D. Funk & Wagnalls Company, New York and London, 1902.

This little book fulfills its title as a vade mecum for either the general practitioner who believes in post mortems or for the official whose business it is. For so small a work it is unusually comprehensive and no pains have been spared in making it explicit. Of especial value are the chapters on the poisons and on the relation of symptoms in injuries of the brain and nervous system. DYER.

Publications Received.

A Brief of Necroscopy and Its Medico-Legal Relation, by Gustav Schmitt, M. D. Funk & Wagnalls Company, New York and London, 1902.

Practical Medicine Series of Year Books, Volume VII. June, 1902. Edited by Gustavus P. Head, M. D. The Year Book Publishers, Chicago.

The 63rd Annual Catalogue Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, Baltimore, 1902-03.

A Text-Book of Practical Therapeutics, by Hobart Amory Hare, M. D. Lea Bros. & Co., Philadelphia, New York, 1902. The Johns Hopkins Hospital Reports, Volume X. The Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1902.

Gibson and Russell's Physical Diagnosis, Revised and Rewritten by Francis D. Boyd, M. D. D. Appleton & Co. Edinburgh and London: Young J. Pentland. 1902.

International Clinics, Volume II, Twelfth Series, 1902. J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia.

Treatment of Atony of the Stomach and Colon, by Fenton B. Turck, M. D.

Proceedings of the Orleans Parish Medical Society, August, 1902.

Reprints.

Is Adrenalin the Active Principle of the Suprarenal Gland? by T. B. Aldrich.

A Flap Operation for Atresia of the Vagina, by George H. Noble, M. D.

MORTUARY REPORT OF NEW ORLEANS.

(Computed from the Monthly Report of the Board of Health of the City of New Orleans.) FOR JULY, 1902.

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Still-born Children-White, 29; colored, 15; total, 44.

Population of City (estimated)-White, 223,500; colored, 81,500; total, 305,000.

Death Rate per 1000 per annum for Month-White, 15.08; colored, 33.27; total, 19.94.

METEOROLOGIC SUMMARY.

(U. S. Weather Bureau.)

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Total precipitation

Prevailing direction of wind, south.

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4.24 inches.

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