The Doctors' Library

"Read, not to contradict, but to weigh and consider."-BACON.

HYGIENE AND PUBLIC HEALTH. By Arthur Whitelegge, C. B., M.D., B.Sc., London, and George Newman, M.D., London. New edition, revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten. Illustrated. Chicago: W. T. Keener & Co., Publishers. (Price $1.50, net.)

This little student's manual, now in its tenth edition is written for the students of sanitary science. It is an ably written volume, and as it largely relates to the prevention of disease, should be in the hands not only of those directly concerned with medicine, but those in any way concerned with public health. All individuals are concerned with their individual health, therefore all should possess such information as this volume contains.

CLINICAL METHODS-A GUIDE TO THE PRACTICAL STUDY OF MEDICINE. By Robert Hutchison, M.D., and Harry Rainy, M.A., F.R. C. P., Edinburgh. With upwards of 150 illustrations and 9 colored plates. Ninth edition. Seventeenth thousand. Chicago: W. T. Keener & Co., publishers. (Price, $1.75.)

The authors of this volume attempt to give that knowledge which the student of medicine or the medical pracititioner should possess when examining a patient. It is intensely practical, and ranks well among the many recent volumes on clinical medicine. The work under consideration has for its advantages concise arrangement, general outline form, practical discussions and methods of laboratory analysis, and quite a good deal of helpful illustrations. These combined make this little work a very valuable one.

MANUAL OF CHEMISTRY. By W. Simon, Ph.D., M.D., Professor of
Chemistry in the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, etc.
Eighth edition. Thoroughly revised with 66 illustrations.
delphia and New York: Lea Brothers & Co., 1905.

Phila

We believe that this manual fully accomplishes the object of its author, viz., "to furnish to the student in concise form a clear presentation of the science, an intelligent discussion of those substances which are of interest to him, and a reliable guide to his work in the laboratory." Care has been taken to place in the foreground all facts and data which are of direct interest to the physician, pharmacist, and dentist. This eighth edition can not be too highly recommended.

A MANUAL OF DISEASES OF THE NOSE AND THROAT. By Cornelius Godfrey Coakley, A. M., M.D., New York. Third edition, revised and enlarged, with 118 engravings and 5 colored plates. Philadelphia and New York: Lea Brothers & Company. 1905. (Price $2.75.) This concise manual on laryngology is a student's book par excel lence. Special attention is directed to examinations, diagnosis and treatA departure of obvious value had been made in dealing with treatment. From among the multiplicity of medicinal and operative measures the author has chosen those which in his experience have proved the best

and has given full details for the benefit of those who have not had the advantage of personal and clinical instruction. The revision for this new edition has been very thorough, bringing the book fully to date in all departments. A special chapter on Therapeutics is added. There is an excellent series of illustrations, and this little volume is one of the best on the subject.

A TEXT-BOOK OF DISEASES OF WOMEN. By Barton Cooke Hirst, M.D., Professor of Ostetrics, University of Pennsylvania. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Octavo of 741 pages, with 701 original illustrations, many in colors. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders & Company, 1905. (Price, $5.00, net.)

Dr. Hirst presents one of the best written and illustrated text-books on Gynecology brought up-to-date. It is a companion volume to his textbook on Obstetrics and will probably obtain a similar success. A few of his illustrations are from old text-books and do not clearly portray the condition desired. But the microphotographs depicting the microscopical pathology of the subject are excellent. The arrangement of the text is logical, and its character well balanced. In general operative indications are clearly set down, and the author thinks that much good may be accomplished outside the domain of surgery. It is a work of great value to the general practitioner as well the student of medicine.

CARBONIC ACID IN MEDICINE. By Achilles Rose, M.D. Pp. 259. With 12 illustrations. New York and London: Funk & Wagnalls Company. (Price, cloth, $1.00. net.)

Some objection to the therapeutic use of carbon dioxid arises because it is physiologically known as an excrementitious product. It is no new agent in the healing art. It has been used largely in the form of water impregnated with the gas for both bathing and drinking, for inflation of the intestine for diagnostic purposes and as a remedial measure in chlorosis, asthma, emphysema of the lungs, whooping cough, various gynecological affections, to induce a certain circulatory effect. The presentation is made in an interesting manner and there are portraits of von Helmont, Priestley and Lavoisier. We commend this little volume to those who wish to study this agent.

THE PRACTITIONERS' VISITING LIST. Each in one wallet-shaped book, bound in flexible leather, with flap and pocket, pencil and rubber, and calendar for two years, $1.25. Thumb-letter index, 25 cents extra. By mail, postpaid, to any address. Descriptive circular showing the several styles sent on request. Philadelphia and New York: Lea Brothers & Co., Publishers, 1905.

This was known heretofore as the Medical News Visiting List for 1906. It is an invaluable pocket-sized book, containing memoranda and data important for every physician, and ruled blanks for recording every detail of practice. The weekly, monthly and 30-patient perpetual contain 32 pages of data and 160 pages of classified blanks. The 60-patient perpetual consists of 256 pages of blanks alone. Most useful to every phy

sician.

MEREDITH NICHOLSON.

THE HOUSE OF A THOUSAND CANDLES. A Novel. By Meredith Nicholson. Price $1.50. Indianapolis, Ind. : Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1905. American romance without historical background is a scarce quantity, but "The House of a Thousand Candles" is a bold stroke in that direction. Meredith Nicholson not only scorned the petty kingdoms so much exploited by others since Prince Otto and The Prisoner of Zenda established the type, but he took his own Hoosier landscape and adapted it to his purposes. 'Lake Annandale," on which the much-lighted house stands, is Lake Maxinkuckee, in Northern Indiana a pretty body of water, beside which General Lew Wallace, Booth Tarkintgon and James Whitcomb Riley, as well as Meredith Nicholson, have camped and fished. General Wallace wrote a considerable part of Ben-Hur at Lake Maxinkuckee. A beautiful gift book.

A Novel. By Jean Chamblin. New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1905. (Price $1.50.) There is a scene in Lady Bobs, Her Brother and I, by Jean Chamblin, which tells how the heroine was caught by the rising tide on a rock far out from the shore. Something very much like this actually happened to the author while she was in the Azores collecting local color for her book, only in her case no dashing English army officer came to the rescue. Miss Chamblin had begun to think that there wouldn't be any book, when a little fishing-boat appeared making slowly in a line past the reef. She succeeded in attracting the attention of the fisherman only by wading far out into the water. Then after she had convinced them that she was not a mermaid, they took her aboard and rowed her home, thus losing their night's fishing. Miss Chamblin paid them quite handsomely for their trouble and, for weeks after, fishing-boats were to be seen tacking about the reef at high tide. A pretty gift for the doctor's wife.

"OUR NEIGHBORS."-The above illustration is a reproduction of one of the excellent pen drawings in Chas. Dana Gibson's last book, which he is pleased to call "Our Neighbors." This book contains the best of the great artist's work during the past year, and a number of hitherto unpublished drawings. Size 11 by 73. Price $4.20 net. New York City: Chas. Scribner's Sons, publishers.

THE PRIZE INVALID OF THE SANITARIUM.-It seems that Mrs. Chittenden Ffollette is more than a mere woman-she is a remarkable "case," and has proved a world-wide advertisement for the sanitarium. Dr. Stanwood has almost effected a cure; her disease has had to be named and her symptoms have been written up in all the medical journals. I don't know what sort of person she was before she became a case, but she is now a greater tyrant than Caligula or Catherine of Russia. As to her disease, she has those things that she ought not to have, and she has not those things that she ought to have, and there is no health in her; or at least there was not until she came here a year ago. Now she is strong enough to perambulate in the corridor a little while each morning or be wheeled along the board-walk in the afternoon, and when she hears that some of the other patients are suffering, she sneers at their modest, uninteresting ailments and glances in at their doors with half-disguised contempt. You know the expression of the prize dog who is borne from the show hung with medals and ribbons-how he gazes on the little mongrel curs that gather with the crowd in the streets? Her name, Chittenden-Ffollette, is of as vital importance as her medical journal malady. When the third floor is in dire confusion; when Mrs. Parks has hysterics and Miss Simmons is crying for her mother and Mrs. Bell's hot-water bottle has burst in the

bed, and Miss Phipps has taken a turn, for the worse, Miss Blossom sometimes becomes flustered and hurried and calls her patient Mrs. Follett, whereupon she says, "Chittenden-Ffollette, if you please."-From "Philippa's Nervous Prostration," by Kate Douglas Wiggin, in the January Scribner's.

Literary Lore

THE CENTRAL STATES MEDICAL MONITOR, of Indianapolis, is the result of the union of the "Central States Medical Magazine," with Dr. S. E. Earp as editor, and the "Medical and Surgical Monitor," Dr. S. P. Scherer, editor, but it was believed that the joining of forces would make a strong, independent journal. There will be a number of improvements in the makeup of the journal. The merged publication will be edited by

Dr. S. E. Earp, with Dr. S. P. Scherer as associate.

DR MITCHELL'S NEW NOVEL.-Dr. S. Weir Mitchell is seventy-five years old, yet he spent his summer in writing a short novel which The Century editors consider one of the cleverest things he ever produced. The scene is laid in Paris forty years ago, and the narrative is said to be both absorbing and amusing. It is in the vein of the author's "Adventures of Francois" and "A Maderia Party.". It will appear serially in The Century beginning in February.

EVERY LITTLE BIT HELPS.-"One of the spiciest little journals that comes to the secretary is the American Medical Journalist. It contains many very readable articles, and its last issue seems to be chiefly directed against the various transactions of the American Medical Association, especially against the Journal. We rather think that there is a great deal of truth in what it has to say and advise all who wish to know both sides of the question to read it. It is published by D. A. O'Gorman, of New York."-From the Journal of the South Carolina Medical Association (published under the direction of the Publication Committee of the South Carolina Medical Association), Charleston, S. C., Sept. 21, 1905.

NEW CATALOGUE. We have just received from W. B. Saunders & Company, of Philadelphia, the widely known medical publishers, an unusually attractive illustrated catalogue of their complete list of publications. It seems to us, in glancing through this catalogue, that a list of the Saunders authors is a census of the leading American and foreign authorities in every branch and specialty of medical science. And new books are being added and new editions issued with a rapidity that speaks well for the success and progressiveness of the house. While comparisons are always odious, still we feel it but justice to say that, in the presentation of facts about the books listed that a probable buyer wishes to know, and also for beauty and durability of mechanical get-up, this catalogue surpasses anything we bave heretofore seen. It is truly representative of the house. We understand a copy will be sent free upon request.