Pain and Its Indications. An Analytical Outline of Diagnosis and Treatment, by EDWARD C. HILL, M.S., M.D. G. P. Engelhard & Company, Chicago, 1904. This is indeed a most valuable vade mecum. As the author says in his foreword, to the patient pain is the most important of symptoms. It is indeed that which most often leads him to seek medical advice. The great variety of causes of regional pains and the consequent difficulty of differentiation and of rational casual treatment, are appreciated by physicians and surgeons. All sorts of pains are systematically arranged and indexed in this book, so that it is easily consulted, and great benefit may be derived from such a reference since one is at any time liable to overlook a point or two, as regards certain regions, that lead to the discovery of the cause and consequently to the proper treatment of pain. It is a safe reminder. Following this plan, a whole series of monographs on treatment could be usefully presented, each morbid process or each symptom common to a number of diseases and from which indication for treatment is derived, being systematically considered in a separate book. DUPAQUIER. Publications Received. J. B. Lippincott & Co., Philadelphia, 1904. A laboratory Manual of Human Anatomy, by Dr. D. Lewellys F. Baker. Lea Bros. & Co., Philadelphia and New York, 1904. Practical Therapeutics, Tenth Edition. Hare. W. T. Keener & Co., Chicago, 1904. Medical Laboratory Methods and Tests, by Dr. Herbert French. Frederick A. Stokes Co., New York, 1904. Physiological Economy in Nutrition, by Dr. R. H. Chittenden W. B. Saunders & Co., Philadelphia, New York and London. Diseases of the Liver, Gall Bladder and Bile Ducts, by Dr. H. D. Rolleston. Diet in Health and Disease, by Drs. Julius Friedenwald and John Ruhrah. Personal Hygiene, by Dr. Walter L. Pyle, Second Edition. Gall Stones and Their Surgical Treatment, by B. G. A. Moynihan, M.S., F.R.C.S. Hinds & Noble, New York, 1904. How to Study Literature, by Dr. B. A. Heyodrick. Third Edition. P. Blakiston's Son & Co., Philadelphia, 1904. Manual of Operative Surgery, by Dr. J. F. Binnie. Bacteriology and the Public Health, by Dr. George Newman. Clinical Hematology, by Dr. John C. Dacosta. Dictionary of New Medical Terms, by Dr. George M. Gould. Mental Defectives. Barr. D. Appleton & Co., New York and London, 1905. Normal Histology and Microscopical Anatomy, by Dr. Jeremiah S. Ferguson. F. A. Davis Co., Philadelphia, 1904. Surgical Diseases of the Genito-Urinary Tract, by Dr. G. Frank Lydston. Text Book of Insanity. Krafft-Ebing. Cloyd J. Head & Co., Chicago, 1904. Pneumonia. Pneumococcus Infections, by Dr. Robert J. Preble. Lea Bros. & Co., Philadelphia and New York, 1904. Progressive Medicine. Hare-Landis. Vol. VI. No. 4. The Laryngoscope Co., St. Louis, 1904. The Nose and Throat in Medical History, by Dr. Jonathan Wright. W. T. Keener & Co., Chicago, 1905. The Surgery of the Diseases of the Appendix-Vermiformis, and Their Complications. Battle-Corner. The Saalfield Publishing Co., Chicago, Akron, New York, 1904. The Doctor's Recreation Series.. In the Year 1800, by Dr. S. W. Kelley. Miscellaneous. Transactions of the Mississippi State Medical Association; 37th Annual Session. Annual Report of the Surgeon General of the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service of the United States for the Fiscal Year 1904. Transactions of the American Otological Society. 37th Annual Meeting. Immunity From Consumption; Cause and Treatment of Consumption; Massage Treatment for Consumption, by Dr. Cyrus L. Topliff. Shall we remove All Fibromata of the Uterus on Diagnosis; Certain Associated Disorders of the Hepatic and Pancreatic Ducts and Upper Small Intestine, and Their Treatment by Drainage of the Gall Bladder, by Dr. Thomas Eastman. Poisoning by Wood Alcohol. Buller-Wood. The History of Pedriatics and Its Relation to the Sciences and Arts, by Dr. A. J. Jacobi. Bacillus Pyocyaneus Septicaemia Associated with Blastomycetic Growth in Primary Wound, by Drs. Eastman and Keene. The Aseptic Technic of Abnominal Surgery with the Topographical and Visceral Anatomy of Male and Female Abdomen, by Dr. H. O. Walker. Regarding Hamlet's Sanity and a Few Quotations From Shakespeare Showing His Acquaintance with Medical and Other Sciences, by John W. Wainwright, M. D. The Analytical Study of Twenty-eight Cases of Arthritis, with Special Reference to Gout and Its Treatment, by Dr. Charles C. Ramson. Reprints. Primitive Medicine, by Dr. E. J. Kempf. Report on the Curricula of American Medical Colleges, by Dr. G. W. Webster. The Aseptic Technic of Abdominal Surgery, Etc., by Dr. H. O. Walker. Bacillus Pyocyaneus Septicaemia Associated with Blastomycetic Growth in Primary Wound, by Drs. Joseph R. Eastmen and Thos. V. Keene. Nonoperative Relief of Eyestrain for the Possible Cure of Epilepsy as Tested in Sixty-eight Cases at the Graig Colony, by Dr. Wm. P. Spratling. Medical Discoveries by the Non-Medical; The History and Etiology of "Migraine;" The Ill Health of Francis Parkman; The Non-Operative Treatment of Strabismus; The Ill Health of Richard Wagner; The Ill Health of the Poet Whittier; The Ill Health of Margaret Fuller-Ossoli; The Ill Health of Herbert Spencer; The Ill Health of Jane Welsh Carlyle; Some Intellectual Weeds of American Growth; Dextrality and Sinstrality; Torticollis and Spinal Curvature Due to Eyestrain;. Malposition of the Head (Torticollis, Canted or Tilted Head), With Resultant Ill Health, Spinal Curvature, Etc., Due to Eyestrain; The Reception of Medical Discoveries; Suggestions as to Postmydriatic Refraction Tests; Taine's Ill Health; Eyestrain and Civilization; The Pathologic Results of Dextrocularity and Sinistrocularity; Sixty-eight Reasons Why "Glasses Did Not Give Relief;" The New Opthalmology; Eyestrain and the Literary Life, all by Dr. George M. Gould. MORTUARY REPORT OF NEW ORLEANS. (Computed from the Monthly Report of the Board of Health of the City of New Orleans,) FOR DECEMBER, 1904. Still-born Children-White, 25; colored, 15; total, 40. Population of City (estimated)-White, 223,000; colored, 84,000; total, 317,000. Death Rate per 1000 per annum for Month-White, 17.35; colored, 30.71; total, 20.89. METEOROLOGIC SUMMARY. (U. S. Weather Bureau.) Mean atmospheric pressure Mean temperature. Total precipitation .. Prevailing direction of wind, northwest. 30.13 55. 2.37 inches. New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal VOL. LVII. MARCH, 1905. Original Articles. No. 9 [No paper published or to be published in any other medical journal will be accepted for this department. All papers must be in the hands of the Editors on the tenth day of the month preceding that in which they are expected to appear. A complimentary edition of one hundred reprints of his article will be furnished each contributor should he so desire. Covers for same, or any number of reprints may be had at reasonable rates if a Written order for the same accompany the paper.] Etiology of Acute Prostatic Inflammation and Suppuration. By G. FRANK LYDSTON, M. D., Chicago, Ill. Professor of Genito-Urinary Surgery and Syphilology, State University of Illinois; Attending Surgeon, St. Mary's and Samaritan Hospitals. Acute prostatitis is one of the most serious and painful of the acute affections of the genito-urinary system. The infection that most often gives rise to it is so prevalent that the disease is quite frequent. In a general way, while acute prostatitis may or may not be preceded by predisposing hyperemia of greater or less duration, the disease is rarely a primary affection excepting it be of traumatic or chemic origin or the result of pyogenesis produced by constitutional infection such as exists in variola and parotiditis. As usually met with, it is a complication, not a primary disease. The profound local and constitutional disturbances existing in a large proportion of cases of acute prostatitis, especially in those forms in which suppuration results, are entirely disproportionate to the size and physiologic importance of the organ involved. The |