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

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THE CHARLOTTE MEDICAL JODKNAL.
opportunity to connect school and society, views as to aphasia have been inserted and 'I
The book also tells to some extent, the ele- amaurotic family idiocy and congenital 1
mentary actual history. This is in order hypotomia have been considered. A short ;j
that the work may in part supply a connect" sketch of zherpes zoster is included. Was- [•
iug link of the primary grades and the sermann's reaction is inserted under syphilis '|
biology of the high school. of the nervous system because received too ;j
Altogether, we think that the writing of late for insertion under syphilis. ;l
this book will be the cause of a great deal The price of the book is $5.50 net. It J
of good. contains 1438 pages, It is completely in- 1
dexed, beautifully bound, and contains ;
The Practice of Medicine—A text- book for mauv attractive illustrations. The work is ;
practitioners and students with special certainly up-to-date, and is complete in every ;
reference to diagnosis and treatment, By detail as any work of the size now on the i
James Tyson, M. D., Professor of Medi- market. i
cine in the Universitv of Pennsylvania
and Phvsician to the Hospital of the Uni- Atlas and Epitome of External Diseases of '
versify; Physician to the Pennsylvania the llye. By Professor Ur. O. Haab, of <
Hospital; President of the College of Phy- Zurich. Edited, with additions,by George •;
sicians of Philadelphia; Member of the E. deSchweinitz, M. D., Professor of i
Association of American Physicians, etc. Ophthalmology, University of Pennsyl- i
Fifth edition, revised and enlarged with vania. Third Revised Edition. With J
five plates and 245 illustrations. Phila- 101 colored lithographic illustrations on :>
delphia, P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1012 46 plates and 244 pages of text. Philasi
Walnut Street. 1909. delphia and London: W. B. Saunder- j
The usual effort has been made to place Company, 1909. Cloth, $3.00 net.
this edition abreast of the requirements of a This book filled a well defined want when i
new edition. This has not been altogether it was first published a few years ago. It I,
easy. In the first place, it is most import- still meets this demand and its continued )
ant to keep a text-book within reasonable and well deserved popularity is attested by i;
limits, while the literature on the disease the publication of anew edition. The sub- f
considered has become so large that it is ject matter has been brought up to date and a
often difficult to decide what is truly new some nev chromo-lithographs have been t
knowledge and worth including. It takes added. This volume has proved of great •
quite a long while to see a book of the size value both to those who study and those •
of this through the press, and it not rarely who teach ophthalmology and no doubt this r;
happens that new facts arise too late to be new edition will continue to be equally val- :
availed for a given edition. uable. Not only is the book excellent as :
As to actual additions, the infectious dis- to illustrations and subject matter, but it is I
eases have been revised, diseases of the published at a very reasonable price so that :
blood have been worked over, and the treat- it readily comes within the reach of medical i
ment of tuberculosis has been modernized; students, while the majority of other atlases ,
that with tuberculin has been elaborated by are so expensive that the price is prohibit- I
the assistance of Ur. Trudeau and Dr. Bald- ive to most students and many physicians. .
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received as much attention as it seemed to Abstracts of the Leading articlCS I
deserve. The importance ef blood cultures £
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has been emphasized. '
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The subject of diseases of the stomach i ,
has been enlarged and a section on testing The Treatment of Lupus Erytliematosus,
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for occult blood bv the late lamented Dr. —Morns, m the London Medical Lancet, J
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Dutton Steele added. Cammidge's pancre- says that there is no specific for lupus ery- J
tic reaction has been inserted. Additions thematosus. The guiding principle is that,!
to diseases of the circulatory system are internal remedies should oe used when thfe,.
many and include an elaboration of the disease is associated with vasomotor dis-f
Adams-Stokes syndrome, and enlargement turbance in the extremities, and where
of the space devoted to pericarditis. there is evidence of autointoxication by
poisonous substances circulating in the
Tetany and Exophthalmic Goiter have been blood. External applications are to be i_
largely rewritten, with the assistance of lied upon only when no signs of systemic
Drs. John Rogers and Silas P. Beebe on disturbance exist. The treatment is therethese
affections. Dr. Rogers has himself fore constitutional or local; often both maj
written the paragraphs on the treatment be required. Any disorder of metabolism,
of Graves' disease by the anti-serum. or disease of the kidney or liver, must^l)t
In the nervous diseases, Marie's new dealt with by appropriate measures. *^'^
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