SPOONER.-In Republic, Ohio, December 19, 1907, Dr. Henry Case Spooner, aged 70 years.

STEVENS.-In Caldwell, N. J., December 1, 1907, Dr. Frank H. Stevens, aged 82 years.

TABER. In Richmond, Va., December 14, 1907, Dr. George A. Taber, aged 54 years.

TURNER. In New York city, December 18, 1907, Dr. William B. Turner, aged 36 years.

WATERS.-In Boyd's, Md., December 19, 1907, Dr. William A. Waters, aged 81 years.

WEAVER.-In Syracuse, N. Y., December 18, 1907, Dr. Lewis F. Weaver, aged 58 years.

WELLS.-In Schenectady, N. Y., December 12, 1907, Dr. William Wells, aged 87 years.

WENTWORTH.-In Chicago, Ill., December 6, 1907, Dr. William W. Wentworth, aged 45 years.

WILSON.-In Montezuma, Iowa, December 16, 1907, Dr. George W, Wilson, aged 58 years.

AUSCULTATION AND PERCUSSION, TOGETHER WITH THE OTHER METHODS OF PHYSICAL EXAMINATION OF THE CHEST. By Samuel Gee, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, Physician to H. R. H. The Prince of Wales, etc. Fifth edition. London: Henry Frowde, Oxford. University Press, Hodder & Stoughton, Warwick Square, E. C. 1907.

This small book contains in compact form a description of the various methods, percussion, auscultation, palpation, etc., which are employed in the physical diagnosis of disease, and discusses the various conditions which variations from the normal physical signs probably indicate and the reasons for abnormal signs in morbid conditions. The author's style is very readable, and the volume should prove a useful one for the student.

THE INTERNAL SECRETIONS AND THE PRINCIPLES OF INTERNAL MEDICINE. By Charles E. de M. Sajous, M.D., Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelpia, Member of the American. Philosophical Society, the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, etc. Vol. II. 1873 pages, with 25 illustrations. Philadelphia: F. A. Davis & Co. 1907.

In this rather large volume Dr. Sajous gives us his views upon the influence of the internal secretions upon medical principles, and especially upon therapeutics. His deductions are not theoretical, but practical, and, if borne out by further observations by other clinicians, should prove of considerable value in rendering. our efforts at the treatment of disease conditions more efficient. Much of the work is taken up with a discussion of the physiologic and pharmaco-dynamic relations of the internal secretions, especially that of the supra-renal capsule, but the final chapters treat of more practical considerations, and these will be of especial interest to the practitioner-the relations of the internal secretions to pathogenesis and therapeutics. Dr. Sajous has undertaken an enormous task, and we must congratulate him upon the able way in which he has handled it.

DISORDERS OF RESPIRATION AND CIRCULATION SYMPTOMOLOGY AND DIAGNO SIS. A Series of Monographs by Prof. Dr. Edmund von Neusser, Professor of the Second Medical Clinic, Vienna. Authorized English translation by Andrew MacFarlane, M.D. Part I. Dyspnoea and Cyanosis. Octavo, 204 pp.; cloth, $1.50. E. B. Treat & Co., publishers, 241-243 West 23d street, New York.

This small volume gives us an exhaustive discussion of the different types of

dyspnoea and cyanosis and their causes. It will be found most helpful in diagnosis, and is most interesting reading for the clinician. In style it is concise and brief, a fact which is probably due as much to the translator as to the author. The section upon treatment which concludes the book might well have been omitted, for it is quite useless, and we deplore the absence of an index to the work.

PROGRESSIVE MEDICINE. Vol. III, September, 1907, and Vol. IV, December I, 1907. A Quarterly Digest of Advances, Discoveries and Improvements in the Medical and Surgical Sciences. Edited by Hobart Amory Hare, M.D., Professor of Therapeutics and Materia Medica in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. Octavo, 290 pages, with 15 engravings. Per annum, in four cloth-bound volumes, $9; in paper binding, $6; carriage paid to any address. Lea Bros. & Co., publishers, Philadelphia and New York.

These two volumes complete another year of this most valuable serial work. Volume III contains Diseases of the Thorax and Its Viscera, Including the Heart, Lungs and Bloodvessels, by William Ewart, M.D., L.R.C.P.; Dermatology, by William S. Gottheil, M.D.; Obstetrics, by Edward P. Davis, M.D., and Diseases of the Nervous System, by William G. Spiller, M.D. Volume IV comprises Diseases of the Digestive Tract and Allied Organs, the Liver and Pancreas, by J. Dutton Steele, M.D.; Diseases of the Kidneys, by John Rose Bradford, M.D., F.R.C.P.; Surgery of the Extremities, Fractures, Dislocations, Tumors, Surgery of Joints, Shock, Anæsthesia and Infections, by Joseph C. Bloodgood, M.D.; Genito-Urinary Diseases, by William T. Belfield, M.D., and Practical Therapeutic Referendum, by H. R. M.

Landis, M.D. The same editorial management is continued and the excellence. of the work is thoroughly maintained.

HEART DISEASE AND THORACIC ANEURYSM. By F. J. Poynton, M.D., F.R. C.P., London, Assistant Physician to University College Hospital, Physician to Out-Patients the Hospital for Sick Children, etc. London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, Hodder & Stoughton, Warwick Square, C. E., 1907.

This is a volume of convenient size, containing about 300 pages, in which the author describes the most important forms of cardiac disease and the methods employed in their diagnosis and treatment. The use of the sphygmomanometer receives due notice, and the employment of the Roentgen ray in the diagnosis of aneurysm is discussed. There are a number of plates and cuts which are well illustrative of the text, and the work is an excellent condensed consideration of cardiac disease in its various aspects.

Materia Medica and Therapeutics. A TEXT-BOOK OF PRACTICAL THERAPEUTICS. By Hobart Amory Hare, M.D., Professor of Therapeutics in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. New (12th) edition, thoroughly revised and rewritten. Octavo, 939 pages, with 114 engravings and 4 colored plates. Cloth, $4.50 net; leather, $5.50 net. Lea Bros. & Co., Philadelphia and New York, 1907.

The number of editions through which this work has passed in a comparatively short time is sufficient recommendation of its value to the student and practitioner. The new edition has been revised and fresh matter has been added to bring the work abreast of all that is latest in therapeusis. We would call especial attention

to the sections upon the hypodermatic treatment of syphilis and that upon the value of citric acid in the prevention of thrombosis in enteric fever. The book is too familiar to most practitioners to render a description of its arrangement necessary, but this and the subject matter are in every way thoroughly commendable. It is comforting in these days of therapeutic nihilism to meet a writer who believes that drugs are, after all, of some use and who has the courage of his convictions. We notice that the author does not adhere strictly to the official pharmacopœal nomenclature, since he gives nitroglycerine the preference over glyceryl nitrate, and writes of bicarbonate of soda, nitrate of silver, etc., instead of sodium bicarbonate and silver nitrate.

Miscellany.

THE SEXUAL INSTINCT: ITS USES AND DANGERS AS AFFECTING HEREDITY AND MORALS. By James Foster Scott, B.S., M.D., C.M. Second edition, revised and enlarged. $2. E. B. Treat & Co., 241-243 West 23d street, New York, 1908.

This book is in notable contrast to the many which have appeared, in that it is a medical book for medical men, and the 14 chapters are devoted to several phases of the questions pertaining to sexual life. While being just and reasonable, it speaks plainly and in a way that convinces the readers of the sincerity and high standard of morality which actuate the author. It should be on the bookshelves of every practitioner.

STUDIES IN THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SEX. Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence: The Psychic State in Pregnancy. By Havelock Ellis, Philadelphia. F. A. Davis Company, publishers.

The author has given us a rehash of what has already appeared in his other works on kindred topics and injected some new material. All that can be said of such books is that they are well written; that numerous quotations are made from other authors, and the entire book contains nothing of any practical value to the physician. People will read such books just as they read Zola's Germinalon account of the salacious features-and ask for another volume when this one is finished. It is in marked contrast with Scott's book on Sexual Instinct.

Dermatology.

A TREATISE ON DISEASES OF THE SKIN.

For the Use of Advanced Students and Practitioners. By Henry W. Stelwagon, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Dermatology, Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, and Clinical Professor of Dermatology, Woman's Medical College, Philadelphia. Fourth edition, revised. Handsome octavo of 1135 pages, with 258 text illustrations and 32 full-page lithographic and half-tone plates. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Co., 1905. Cloth, $6 net; sheep or half morocco, $7 net.

This edition of a standard work on dermatology contains many additions, notably upon the employment of the X-ray, high-frequency currents and the Finsen light. Many new plates of the author's own cases have also been incorporated into the book, which is a complete, authoritative and most satisfactory treatise on diseases of the skin.

Pædiatrics.

TREATMENT OF THE DISEASES OF CHILDREN. By Charles Gilmore Kerley, M.D., Professor of Diseases of Children, New York Polyclinic Medical School and Hospital, etc. Octavo vol

ume of 597 pages, illustrated. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders. Company, 1907. Cloth, $5 net; half morocco, $6.50 net.

Pædiatric therapeusis is a subject in which the usual general practitioner is often, unfortunately, wofully weak, and the profession is indebted to the author of this volume for an endeavor to remedy this defect. As is stated in the preface, the work in hand has been prepared for the family physician and not for the specialist, and should prove of great service to the former, while the latter also will find the time given to its perusal well spent. A notable section of the book is that in which the general management, clothing, bathing, hours of sleep, etc., for the healthy infant are discussed. Infant feeding receives considerable attention, as is proper, for many of the ills of early infancy are directly the result of improper diet, and the balance of the volume is taken up with a masterly discussion of the treatment of the various diseases which occur in the young. We give the work our unqualified approval and predict for it an extensive sale.

By Louis Fangeres Bishop, M.New
York. Reprinted from Medical
ord, July 13, 1907.

TEN YEARS' EXPERIENCE IN THE TREAT-
MENT OF SYPHILIS BY THE INTRA-
MUSCULAR INJECTION OF INSOLUBLE
MERCURIALS. By William S. Gottheil,
M.D., New York. Reprinted from
Journal American Medical Association,
August 3, 1907.

COLLODIAN: ITS USE WHEN THE MEMBRANA TYMPANI AND MALLEAL LIGAMENTS ARE RELAXED. By Sohier Bryant, M.D., New York. Reprinted from Transactions of American Otological Society, 1905.

MOTOR-BOAT FRACTURES. By Henry P. de Forest, M.D., New York. Reprinted from Annals of Surgery, July, 1907. CYSTOSCOPY IN TUBERCULOSIS OF THE URINARY TRACT. By Willy Meyer, M.D., New York. Reprinted from New York Medical Journal, April 27, 1907.

SCHOOL CILDREN BY MEANS OF
RESHAIR
M.D., N

York. Reprinted from Medical Journal, August

A CONTRIBUTION TO THE STUDY OF THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF ECTOPIC PREGNANCY. By Hiram N. Vineberg, M.D., New York, Reprinted from Medical Record, June 23, 1906. THE TREATMENT OF RECENT TRACHOMA. By Thomas A. Woodruff, M.D., Chicago. Reprinted from Journal American Medical Association, June, 1907. STYPTOL IN UTERINE HÆMORRHAGE. By Cuthbert Lockyer, M.D., London, Eng. Reprinted from Annals of Gynecology and Pediatry, October, 1907. SUPPERIOSTEAL SQUAMO-MASTOID ABSCESS. By Seymour Oppenheimer, M.D. Reprinted from The Laryngoscope, June, 1907. PARAPLEGIA CAUSED BY AN ANEURYSM OF THE ARCH OF THE AORTA. By Bond Stow, M.D., New York. Reprinted from Medical Record, July 13, 1907.