Vol. 60, 1909 - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Book Notices.
Treatment of the Diseases of Children. By
Charles Gilmore Kerley, M. I)., I'rofessor
of Diseases of Children in the Polyclinic
Medical School and Hospital; Attending
Physician to the New York Infant Asylum
and Maternity, etc. Second edition,
revised. Octavo, pp. f)29. Price, S-S.OO.
Philadelphia and London:
ders Company, 1909.
\V. B. Saun-
This work, prepared for the general practitioner,
has met a positive want. It deals
with modern methods of management of
patients, in greater detail, than has been
attempted in other similar works.
The means and methods suggested are
not drawn frcmi the literature, but are based
upon the actual extensive experience of the
author. The book is highly commended
to the clinician.
The reception of the first edition of this
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book must be very gratifying to the author
and publisher. Many improvements have
Ha ml -Book of Diseases of the Rectum. By
l.fuiis J. Hirschman, M. C, Detroit,
Michigan, U. S. A.; Fellow American
been made in this, the second edition, and
we are sure that the book will be more appreciated
than the first edition.
rroctoiogic Society; Lecturer on Rectal Dietetics for Nurses. By Julius Frieden-
Surgery and Clinical Professor of Procwald, M. D., Professor of Gastro-Enterti>logy,
Detroit College of Medicine; Atology in the College of Physicians and
tending Proctologist, Harper Hospital;
Consulting Gynecologist, Detroit German
Surgeons, Baltimore, and John Ruhrah,
M. D.. Professor of Diseases of Children,
Polyclinic; Collaborator on Proctology, etc. Second edition revised and enlarged.
"Physician and Surgeon"; Kditor Harper
Hospital Bulletin; Chairman Section
Octavo, pp. .19.S. Price, Si. .50. Philadelphia
and London: \V. B. Saunders
on Surgery, Michigan State Medical Association,
Detroit of Medicine, etc. With
Company. 1909.
This book has been well received. The
one hundred and forty-seven illustrations, principal change in the present edition is
mostly original, including two colored the re-writing of the article on milk, and
plates. St. Louis: C. V. Mosby Medical the addition of a chapter on the simple
Book and Publishing Co. 1909. S4.00 methods used in the detection of certain
net.
food adulterations and preservatives. The
Although nothing new or startling is book will be found suggestive and useful.
brought out, yet the book fills a long felt
want, namely, an office manual-guide for
the general practitioner. As in all other
lines of medical endeavor, the author emphasizes
the importance of taking nothing
for granted, but insists upon actual examination
of the patient seeking advice. The
field and limitation of local anesthesia in
rectal surgery are thoroughly discussed.
Owing to the important information gleaned
from a careful examination of the stool, a
chapter is devoted to the requisite technique.
Above all, the subject-matter is
based upon personal observation and is not
driblets from otliers. The cuts are admirably
executed and materially simplify the
text. The printers are to be congratulated
upon the excellent workmanship, and the
author upon the thoroughness of his contribution
to the knowledge of that oft-neglected
subject, rectal diseases.
The book contains MF> pages.
International Clinics. A Quarterly Review
of Illustrated Clinical Lectures and Especially
Prepared Original Articles by
Leading Members of the Medical Profession
Throughout the World. \ol. 2, Nineteenth
Series, 1909. Philadelphia: J.B.
Lippincott Company.
The reputation of this well-known publication
is well known to all lovers of original
work. Among the articles which especially
impress us in the volume before us
are the following:
"Mineral WatersinSyphilis," by Carriere
of Paris. .\n exposition of the value of
sulphur waters in rendering mercury soluble,
in preventing mercurialism, in ennabling
the patient to take large doses.
"The Cammidge Reaction," by Goodman
of Philadelphia. Any attempt toper-
feet a test for pancreatitis is worthy of attention.
"Surgical Pneumothorax as a Treatment
for Phthisis," by Dumarest of the Hauteville
Sanatorium, Paris. In cavities he
pumps nitrogen into the pleural cavity,
compressing and immobilizing the whole
lung, after the method of I'orlanini. Three
brilliant successes are analyzed, with directions
and cautions. It looks like a good
method.
The volume is bound in its usual style
which is attractive. It is somewhat larger
than many of the former editions, and the
illustrations are unusually good
Thornton's Pocket Medical Formulary,
New (9th) edition. Containing about
2,000 prescriptions, with indications for
their use. In one leather-bound volume.
Price, SI. 50 net. Lea & Febiger, Publishers,
Philadelphia and New York,
1909.
It would be difficult to mention a more