Taber's Medical Dictionary for Nurses, edited by Clarence W. Taber; Associate Editor, Nicholas Senn, M.D., Ph.D. For sale by Lakeside Publishing Company. Price, $1.50.

So far as we know this is the first medical dictionary compiled especially for trained nurses. It is a little book of some four hundred pages, and contains a vast amount of matter for its size.

It is divided into two parts. The first part contains, Preface, Explanatory, List of Special Tabulations, List of Clinical Charts, Abbreviations Used, Dictionary, Massage, Swedish Movement.

The second part contains, Electro-Medical Terms; Operations (preparation, position, instruments); Instruments (their use and care); Poisons, Symptoms and Antidotes; Dislocations, Fractures and Sprains; Hemorrages and Wounds; Miscellaneous Emergencies; Diagnosis (signs of disease); Examinations and How to Make Them; Plexus, Sympathetic and Cerebro-Spinal Nervous System; Muscles of the Body (action, origin and insertion); Latin and Greek Medical Etymology; Tables, CrossIndex.

The sections are in turn sub-divided where necessary, and the whole book is cross-indexed in such a way that with a little practice any intelligent nurse should be able to find the required information in a very few seconds.

The tables given are particularly interesting, and while the book is called a dictionary, it is half an encyclopedia as well. We highly recommend it as a necessary part of every nurse's library.

The book is published with a stiff cover in grayish-blue with a white design; the pages are gilt edged, making a handsome little volume of about 6x3 inches.

The Human Machine, its Care and Repair; or How to Develop the Body, Preserve the Health, Meet Emergencies, Nurse the Sick and Treat Disease. By twelve authors. Edited by W. E. McVey, B.S., M.D.; illustrated, several in colors; sold only on subscription by Herbert S. Reed, 1270 Monon Building, Chicago, Ill.

It should be stated that the twelve authors

mentioned above are all properly named, with their titles on a page following the title page. As the names and titles take up a page by themselves, it would have been impossible to have arranged the title page any differently. The twelve authors are eminent physicians and professors.

It is a large and handsome book. It contains a very large and varied amount of information in its 848 pages. A great deal of this information is such as any nurse who had graduated from a training school could not help knowing, and on the other hand there is a large amount of information in the book more properly within the doctor's domain than within the nurse's. Nevertheless, especially for those nurses who live in the smaller towns where physicians are not numerous and the distances great, this work is particularly useful.

The book is divided into fourteen sections.

Sanitation, nine chapters; Materia Medica; Nursing; Emergencies, three chapters; Bacteria; Minor Surgery; General Diseases, nine chapters; Diseases of Children, four chapters; Obstetrics, four chapters; Diseases of Women, six chapters; Diseases of the Skin, four chapters; Venereal Diseases; Diseases of the Nervous System, seven chapters; Insanity.

This work is a sort of general reference book. We understand that several training schools are using it, as a book of reference, we presume, and it has received many excellent testimonials from superintendents of training schools.

My System; Fifteen Minutes' Work a Day for Health's Sake. Translated from the Danish of J. P. Muller; price seventy-five cents, paper cover; bound in red cloth, gold lettering, $1.00. For sale by the Lakeside Publishing Company.

The original work appeared on the 3d of August, 1904. Up to January 24, 1906, over 200,000 copies in nine different languages had

been sold.

It should be stated that Mr. Muller is not a professional athlete; he is not teaching physical culture, except through this book, but he is and has been for some years the champion all-round athlete of Denmark, has taken a large number

of first prizes in various lines of sport, as well as many second and third prizes.

While we do not believe that any one has yet written an absolutely ideal and perfect system of physical culture for the busy worker of to-day, whether in commercial or professional pursuits, still we think that Professor Muller's ranks with the best of the systems so far published. It differs from all others in that it makes clear that strong muscles are not the seat of life, but that the real vitality of the body resides in the internal organs.

With this in view, there are more exercises for the lungs, the heart, the stomach and the abdominal muscles than are to be found in most systems of physical culture.

Mr. Muller also insists to a pronounced extent on the exercise of the skin as being very necessary to good health. He carries this idea further than we have seen it in any other system of physical culture.

We highly recommend the book and are positive that our readers would derive benefit from it. +

We beg to acknowledge with thanks:

The Thirtieth Annual Report of the Ladies' Union Charitable Society, conducting the Lawrence General Hospital and Children's Home of Lawrence, Mass.

The Twelfth Annual Report of the Boston Floating Hospital.

The Prospectus of the Pennsylvania Orthopædic Institute and School of Mechano-Therapy. The Sixty-first Annual Report of the Montreal Maternity.

The Fifth Annual Report of the New York State Hospital for the Care of Crippled and Deformed Children.

Report of the Mercy Hospital, of Pittsburgh, Pa., for the two years ending September 30, 1904. Practical Disinfection. Circulars issued by the Illinois State Board of Health.

A Trip to the Land of the Midnight-Sun. By Flavel B. Tiffany, M.D. This description of a trip to Norway, taken by Dr. Tiffany in the summer of 1905, was originally given as a lecture to the students of the University Medical College, of Kansas City, Mo. It has now been published in book form with numerous and beautiful illustrations, and is a most delightful and instructive hour's reading.

Recent Experiences in Kidney Surgery and the Utility of Diagnostic Aids. By Charles H. Chetwood, M.D., of New York, Professor of Genito

urinary Surgery in the New York Polyclinic Medical School and Hospital; Attending Surgeon to Bellevue and St. John's Hospitals.

Introductory Notes on Massage. By Dr. Gudrun Holm, 616 Madison Avenue. An interesting little pamphlet apparently gotten up especially for trained nurses.

Dr. Holm did not inform us whether these are for sale, or whether they will be given upon request, but further information can undoubtedly be had from her at the address above given.

Prostatism Without Enlargement of the Prostate. By Charles H. Chetwood, M.D., Professor of Genitourinary Surgery in the New York Polyclinic Medical School and Hospital; Attending Surgeon to Bellevue and Saint John's Hospitals.

Surgical Nursing and the Principles of Surgery for Nurses. By Russell Howard, M. B., M. S. (London), F.R.C.S. (Eng.). The basis of this book is a series of lectures on surgical nursing given to the probationers at the London Hospital. It is an exceedingly lucid and comprehensive handbook on the subject, and contains all the most approved methods very clearly arranged. The work is very finely illustrated and also contains an appendix of valuable recipes.

Growth in Silence. By Susanna Cocroft; a series of lectures to her pupils. There are so many beautiful thoughts in these lectures, which seem to be especially applicable to a nurse's life, that we wish all might read them; we feel they would be a help and inspiration in their work.

Handbook for Attendants on the Insane. Published by the authority of the Medico-Psychological Association of Great Britain and Ireland. In the fourth edition of this little book the matter has been thoroughly revised and some additions have also been made. An appendix gives the regulations for the training and examination of candidates for the certificate of proficiency in nursing of the Medico-Psychological Association. Price, 80 cents net.

The Nursing of Sick Children. By James Burdet, M.A., M.D., M.R.C.P., Edin. The Scientific Press, London, Eng. Price, one shilling, net.