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

BOOK NOTICES 405
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This book is intended for students and from the standpoints of the symptoms, the
practitioners of physical training, for teach- disease, the bimanual and microscopic finders
of the youth, for students of medicine ings, and the general physical and nervous
and for practitioners, with the purpose to state.
give a comprehensive view of the space ex- The knowledge gained by studying the
ercise should hold in a complete scheme of diseases of women from fhese different
education and in the treatment of abnormal points of view gives a more distinct mental
or diseased conditions.
l^xercise has so many points of contact
picture and hirnishes logical co-ordinated
conclufions. Tliii second edition has been
with education, it is so intricately related thoroughly revised and the chapters on
to menial, moral and social training, each electricity and hydrotherapy have been enof
which alone is so partial and incomplete larged. Several chapters on Head Zones
that the progressive educationalist is now have been added as an aid to diagnosis, and
comijelled to study its bearing on all three, various other additions have not interfered
The author of this book has striven to, with the purpose of keeping this book withand
has well brought out the comparison in the limits which tend to make a practical
between medical science and exercise. It working compendium.
gives us a great deal of pleasure to recom- This volume is beautifully and neatly
mend tiiis book to instructors in colleges bound in cloth ur half morocco. It is well
and high schools. Indexed ard contains 702 pages, witli 150
This book contains 406 pages, with 34G original illustrations. Price: Cloth, $5.00
illusirations, iscarefully indexed and neatly net; half morocco, $6!50 net.
bound. I'rice, cloth S.^.50 net: Half Morocco
55.00 net. Surgical Diagnosis. By Daniel N. Eisen-
A Text-Book of Obstetrics. Bv Barton drath, A. B., M. D., Professor of Surgery
('"..ke Hirst, M. I)., Professor of Obstet- bi the Medical Department of the Unii:i
the University of Pennsylvania: versily of Pennsylvania ' College of Phyologist
to the I'loward, the Oillio sicians and Surgeons'; .\lieiiding Sur-
, and the Philadelphia Hospitals, geon to the Michael Reese and Cook
ir Sixth edition, revised and enlarged County Hospitals, Chicago. Second edi-
.r,li ^47 illustrations, 43 of them in col- lion, thoroughly revised and enlarged,
IS. Philadelphia and London: W. B. with 574 original illustration.s, 25 of them
Saunders Company, 1909. i" colors. Philadelphia and I^ondon:
This volume is the result of the experi- W. B. Saunders Company. 1909.
lence of a practice devoted for the last twelve 'I'l'e popularity of this book on Surgical
iyears exclusivclv to gynecology in both its Diagnosis is evident by the fact that the
Ibranches—obstetrics and gvnecic surgery, second edition has been called for by so
IThe author has served during this period as many people within two years after the
IcoiisuUing and attendant gynecologist and publication of the first edition. The text
Ustetrician in eight of the principal hospi- of the previous edition has been thoroughly
kals of Philadelphia. His experience in revised and much new subject matter has
obstetrical complications and operations »'een added. Every effort has been made
has consequently been exceptionally large, to include the newer methods of diagnosis
It has been the aim of the author to con- and to amplify those which were taken up
dense the text as far as is consistent with previously, especially the chapters on cystothe
comprehen'sive treatment of the subject, scopy and ureteral catheterization Many
The volume contains 992 pages, is well sections have been entirely rewritten,
indexed and is neatly bound in cloth and Many additions have been made m the
__lf morocco. Prices: Cloth, $5.00 net; section on acute abdominal conditions.
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lalf morocco $6.50 net.
section upon diagnosis of renal lesions
has been entirely rewritten in order to keep
Medical Gynecology. By Samuel Wyllis pace with the rapid advances of this field.
Handler, M. I)., I'ellow of the American This book is well bound, well indexed
Association of Olistetricians and Gyne- and contains 885 pages of reading matter,
cologists; Adjunct Professor of Diseases Prices: Cloth, $6.50 net;
of Women, New York Post-Graduate $,s.00 net.
Half Morocco,
Medical School and Hospital; Associate
Attending Gynecologist to the Berth
Israel Hospital, New York City. Second
revised edition, with original illustrations.
Piiiladelphia and London: \V. B. Saunders
Company. 1909.
The various topics, which are so thormghly
discussed iu this volume are viewed
Clinical Examination of the Urine and
Urinary Diagnosis. A Clinical Guide for
the Use of Practitioners and Students of
Medicine and Surgery. By J. Bergen
Ogden, M. D., New York, N. Y;, Medical
Chemist to the Metropolitan Life In-
surance Company, New York; Late In-