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THE FOUR EPOCHS OF WOMAN'S LIFE. A Study in Hygiene. By ANNA M. GALBRAITH, M.D., Author of "Hygiene and Physical Culture for Women;" Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, etc. Ex-Pres't Alumnæ Ass'n Woman's Med. Col., Pa., etc. With an Introductory Note by JOHN H. MUSSER, M.D., Professor of Clinical Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. 12mo volume of 200 pages. Philadelphia and London. W. B. SAUNDERS & COMPANY, 1901. Cloth, $1.25, net.

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THE MEDICINAL PLANTS OF THE PHILIPINES. By T. H. PARDO DE TAVERA, Doctor en Medicina de la Facultad de Paris, Comisionado Cientifico de S. M. en las Islas Filipinas y Delegado General en las Mismas de la Societe Academique Indo-Chinoise de Francia, Miembro Fundado Correspondiente de la Sociedad Espanola Higiene, etc. Translated and revised by JEROME B. THOMAS, JR., A.B., M.D,, Captain and Assistant Surgeon U. S. V. Published by P. BLAKISTON'S SON & Co., 1012 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 1901. Price, $2.00, net.

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THE MEDICAL NEWS POCKET FORMULARY (4TH) EDITION. Containing 1700 prescriptions representing the latest and most approved method of administering remedial agents. By E. QUIN THORNTON, M.D., Demonstrator of Therapeutics, Pharmacy and Materia Medica in the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. New (4th) edition, carefully revised to date of issue. In one wallet-shaped volume strongly bound in leather, with pocket and pencil. LEA BROTHERS & Co., Philadelphia and New York, 1902. Price, $1.50, net.

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PROGRESSIVE MEDICINE, VOL. IV., 1901. 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, handsomely bound in cloth, 400 pages, 13 illustrations. Per annum, in four cloth bound volumes, $10.00. LEA BROTHERS & Co., Philadelphia and New York.

As usual with the volumes of this publication the contents for December are of such a varied and practical character as to appeal to all classes of medical men.

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In each section every recent advance of value in relation to the diseases described is fully written of and from the most practical standpoint. The contributors are all authorities of the highest standing. The book is not a mere compilation of recent literature, but a series of critical reviews and original papers by masters of the subjects whereof they treat.

THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF MEDICINE. Designed for the use of practioners and students of medicine. By WILLIAM OSLER, M.D., Fellow of the Royal Society, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of London, Professor of Medicine in the Johns Hopkins University, and Physician-in-Chief to the Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, etc. Fourth edition, 8mo. cloth, pages 1,100. D. APPLETON

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Commendation of a work so well and widely known as "Osler's Practice," is unnecessary. Suffice it to say that many and important changes have been made in this edition. The article. on Typhoid Fever has, in great part, been rewritten, and embodies the experience of the author's clinics. Malaria, dysentery, yellow fever, the plague, diphtheria, smallpox, cerebrospinal fever, rheumatic fever, and other acute affections have received proper attention at the hands of this able clinician and medical writer. Practically, it is an entirely new work, no part failing to receive proper attention, and many of the articles being practically new-the general arrangement of the subjectmatter and the author's peculiar facile style of expression alone giving it a resemblance to its preceding editions. It is indeed a text-book and an authority.

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AMERICAN EDITION OF NOTHNAGEL'S ENCYCLOPEDIA. Typhoid and Typhus Fevers. By DR. H. CURSCHMANN, of Leipzig. Edited, with additions, by WILLIAM OSLER, M.D., Professor of the Principles and Practice of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University. Handsome octavo of 646 pages, illustrated, including a number of valuable temperature charts and and two full-page colored plates. Philadelphia and London: W. B. SAUNDERS & Co., 1901. Cloth, $5.00 net; Sheep or Half Morocco, $6.00 net.

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SAUNDERS' QUESTION COMPENDS. ESSENTIALS OF PHYSIOLOGY. Prepared especially for Students of Medicine; and arranged with ques tions following each chapter. By SIDNEY P. Budgett, M.D., Professor of Physiology, Medical Department of Washington University, St. Louis. 16mo volume of 233 pages, finely illustrated with many full-page half-tones. Philadelphia and London: W. B. SAUNDERS & Co., 1901. Cloth, $1.00 net.

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