Brooklyn Medical Journal

URINARY CALCULUS AND LITHOTOMY. By Thos. W. Kay, M. D., of Scranton, Pa. O, pamph. Reprint from Md. Med. Jour. of March 16, 1889.

TESTS FOR DIABETES MELLITUS. By Palmer C. Cole, M.D., of New York, S, pamph. N. Y.: Trow's Printing and Bookbinding Co., 1888

A CASE OF CARCINOMA OF THE EAR, having its Origin probably in the Tympanum or Mastoid Antrum. By Gorham Bacon, M.D., and A. T. Muzzy, M.D. O, pamph. Reprint from Archives of Otology, No. 1, 1888.

SECONDARY MIXED INFECTION IN SOME OF THE ACUTE INFECTIOUS DISEASES OF CHILDREN. By Bayard Holmes, M.D., of Chicago. O, pamph. Reprint from N. A. Practitioner, February, March and January, 1889.

FOOD LAWS a Paper read before the Med. Jurisprudence Society of Philadelphia. By Henry Leffermann, M. D. O, pamph. Phila., 1888.

TYPHOID FEVER AND TUBERCULOSIS. Germs of the Former Disseminated in Ice, and of the Latter through the Flesh and Milk of Cattle. Consumption a Disease of Bovine Origin. A Paper read by J. G. Johnson, M. D., before the Society of Med. Jurisprudence and Medicine, New York, November 8, 1888. O, pamph. Brooklyn, 1888.

ELMER'S HANDBOOK, which has been published for more than thirty years by the W. A. Townsend Pub. Co., has been issued for 1890 by G. P. Putnam's Sons.

It has many features not found in the other visiting-lists," containing as it does 135 pages of printed matter as well as the usual number of blank pages for calls, accounts, etc., the whole gotten up with thin fine paper so as to be no more bulky than the other books of its class in the market.

WOOD'S MED. AND SURGICAL MONOGRAPHS. Vol. II,, No. 3, is a treatise on GENERAL ORTHOPEDICS, including Surgical Operations. By DR. AUGUST SCHREIBER, Surgeon-in-Chief to the Surgical Division of the Augsburg Hospital.

A work on the treatment of deformities, a branch of the surgical art which has of late years made such marked progress, will unquestionably be welcomed; though a great many will regret that to obtain this valuable work, one is compelled to subscribe for the whole year's series, which while each has its individual value, may not be enough appreciated by the orthopædist to induce him to make the investment.

The work is very finely illustrated with nearly 400 engravings, and will by many be regarded as the best of the series.

The book will be welcomed by librarians and owners of large libraries for the reason that it at once finds its place on the classed shelves and catalogue, containing as it does but the one monograph, while many of its companions contain as many as four or five on as many subjects, puzzling the librarian to know where to place the book for future reference.

VOL. III., No. 1, of the series is an illustration of this, containing as it does five monographs, viz., a Lecture on

CANCER AND CANCEROUS DISEASES by SIR SPENCER WELLS, which makes us wish it was longer, since within thirty pages the able author has glanced at their frequency; natrue and causes; the question of removal; cauterization and hysterectomy, in which he gives credit to his American brethren for having been before the English in adopting the operation of total excision of the uterus.

The second monograph is by Prof. Dr. S. VON BASCH, on CARDIAC DYSPNEA and CARDIAC ASTHMA.

The third monograph is by Dr. L. GRELLETLY, consulting physician at Vichy, etc., on the INFLUENCE OF MENSTRUATION AND OF PATHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS OF THE UTERUS ON CUTANEOUS DISEASES. Within a few pages is concluded the doctor's fifteen years' observations upon the sympathy which he has observed between the utero-ovarian and the tegumentary systems, and concludes with cer tain considerations regarding etiology and therapeutics.

TENSION IN SURGICAL PRACTICE, INFLAMMATION OF BONE AND CRANIAL AND INTRACRANIAL INJURIES, BY THOMAS BRYANT, F.R.C.S., is the fourth monograph of this number, and ANTISEPSIS AND ITS RELATIONS TO BACTERIOLOGY BY DR. J. NEUDORFER, of Vienna, the fifth and last. Truly a varied bill of fare, to feast the reader and puzzle the librarian.

VOL. III., No. 2, AUGUST, 1889, contains

THE TREATMENT OF SYPHILIS AT THE PRESENT TIME BY DR. MAXIMILIAN VON ZEISSE, of the Vienna University.

THE TREATMENT OF INEBRIETY IN THE HIGHER AND EDUCATED CLASSES BY JAMES STEWART. The author believes that "permanent recovery need not be hoped for unless treatment be pursued systematically during an uninterrupted period of twelve months in a 'Home' from which every beverage containing the smallest quantity of alcohol is absolutely excluded," and his monograph is on the "Home Treatment."

THE MANUAL OF HYPODERMIC MEDICATION BY DRS. BOURNEVILLE AND BRICON, OF PARIS. Translated by ANDREW S. CURRIE, M.D., of Edinburgh. Rearranged and revised for the use of American practitioners, which constitutes the third monograph and greater part of the volume, really helps to fill one of the long-felt wants we hear so much of, for the subject has not been over-written, since we have little besides Bartholow's well-known and excellent book, which gives us anything like a full treatise on the subject.

This monograph possesses the advantages of being very complete and yet concise, of containing a large number of formulæ, of being well up to date, and points out the disadvantages which have accrued or are apt to accrue from the use of certain drugs by the hypodermic method.

It is supplemented by a "Table of Antidotes and Antagonisms," a "Hypodermic Posological Table," a "Therapeutic Index of Diseases," and a very full bibliography of the subject.

Among the long list of excellent instruments pictured and described, we do not observe that of Geo. R. Fowler with the platinum needle which never rusts and the solid piston which does not need to be soaked up, which has occupied a place in our pocket alongside the thermometer and pencil for the past two years, and without either of which we could do as well.

Our remarks on Shreiber's General Orthopedics will equally apply to this. We wish it had been given us as a separate treatise instead of being buried in a series of monographs.

COMPEND OF HUMAN PHYSIOLOGY, especially adapted for the Use of Medical Students. By Albert P. Brubaker, M. D. T, c. P. Blakiston, Son & Co.: Philadelphia, 1889.

This is one of the Blakiston's series of Quiz Compends, the popularity of which is shown by the fact that it has already reached the fifth edition, which is revised and enlarged with the addition of new illustrations and a table of physiological contents. While many changes that have been made will be found distributed throughout the body of the work, the principal additions besides those already noticed will be found in the sections pertaining to the nervous system.

The medical student preparing for his examination will find this a compact and convenient arrangement of the fundamental facts of human physiology.

CORRESPONDENCE.

To the Editorial Committee.

On page 142 of the March number of the Journal, in the course of the discussion of Dr. Wight's paper on "The Treatment of HouseMaid's Knee," Dr. Wackerhagen is reported inquiring "if Dr. Wight thinks the deep incision is necessary." This should read deep suture, instead of deep incision.

In the same paper, on page 144, "one to five thousand bichloride solution" should read one to five hundred.