JENNINGS. A MANUAL OF OPHTHALMOSCOPY.

For Students and General Practitioners. By J. E. JENNINGS, M.D. (University of Pennsylvania). Author of "Color-Vision and Color-Blindness," etc., formerly Clinical Assistant, Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, London; Member of the American Medical Association, etc. With 95 Illustrations and 1 Colored Plate. Published by P. BLAKISTON'S, SON & Co., 1012 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 1902. Large 12mo. Price, $1.25 net.

This manual is an elaboration of a series of lectures on Ophthalmoscopy, delivered before the graduating class of the Beaumont Hospital Medical College of St. Louis. The text is systematically arranged and profusely illustrated with a colored frontispiece and many original drawings. It is offered to students and practitioners with the hope that it may prove of use in enabling them to obtain a practical knowledge of the Ophthalmoscope.

HAND-BOOK OF PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY, with an introductory Section on Post-Mortem Examinations and the Methods of Preserving and Examining Tissues. By FRANCIS DELAFIELD, M.D., LL.D., Professor of Practice of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York; and T. MITCHELL PRUDDEN, M.D., LL.D., Professor of Pathology and Director of the Department of Pathology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York. Sixth Edition, pp. 819, with 13 fullpage Plates and 453 Illustrations in Black and Colors. WILLIAM WOOD & Co., Publishers, New York, 1902.

We have here the knowledge essential for making autopsies and obtaining satisfactory information therefrom, the preservation of the tissues and their preparation for study, and the character and methods of study of micro-organisms. The sections on the blood, and the chapter on the nervous system are most excellent. The work has been revised thoroughly. Many sections have been wholly rewritten, and a large number of new illustrations have been added to supplement the old. In fact, the work is exceedingly rich in graphic delineations, the advances in this art rendering the text so much more easy of comprehension. We have had on previous occasion opportunity of speaking most highly of this work, which in its present shape is far more valuable than ever.

SURGICAL TREATMENT OF DISFIGUREMENTS AND DEFORMITIES OF THE FACE. BY JOHN B. ROBERTS, A.M., M.D., Professor of Surgery in the Philadelphia Polyclinic; Surgeon to the Methodist Hospital. Second Edition with a chapter on the reconstruction of Syphilitic Noses. Illustrated with 62 Figures. 8vo. Cloth, pp. 72. PHILADELPHIA MEDICAL PUBLISHING COMPANY, 1901.

This little, well-written treatise, is an abstract of the Mutter Lectures delivered by the author at the College of Physicians of Philadelphia; and its excellent details will be very satisfactory and useful to surgeons having to deal with facial conditions that may be improved by plastic surgery.

HEMMETER. DISEASES OF THE INTESTINES. Their Special Pathology, Diagnosis and Treatment. With Sections on Anatomy and Physiology, Microscopic and Chemic Examination of the Intestinal Contents, Secretions, Feces, and Urine; Intestinal Bacteria and Parasites; Surgery of the Intestines; Dietetics; Diseases of the Rectum, etc. By JOHN C. HEMMETER, M.D., Philos. D., Professor in the Medical Department of the University of Maryland; Consultant to the University and Director of the Clinical Laboratory, etc. In Two Volumes. Volume I, Anatomy, Physiology, Intestinal Bacteria, Methods of Diagnosis, Therapy and Materia Medica of Intestinal Diseases, Dirrahea, Costipation, Enteralgia and Enterodynia, Meteorism, Dystrypsia, Enteritis, Colitis, Dysentery, Intestinal Ulcers, Intestinal Neoplasms, etc. With many original Illustrations, some of which are in colors. Published by P. BLAKISTON'S SON & Co., 1012 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, 1901. Large Octavo, 740 pages. Price, $3.00 per volume.

As Prof. Hemmeter has given us one of the most complete works on the diseases of the stomach he has added to his well won laurels by this, the most complete and comprehensive addition to the literature of Diseases of the Intestinal tract, an area of so much importance and as to its pathology and therapeutics just such a work was greatly needed.

A number of eutirely original methods of diagnosis, chemic researches and histologic studies of certain intestinal diseases are here fully set forth for the first time, doing full and ample justice to the work of American and English clinicians in this department.

It furnishes the practitioner with a complete work from which he may fully instrust himself as to the most approved and modern methods of diagnosis and treatment of intestinal diseases.

In addition to his own earnest and thorough efforts, he has been aided very efficiently by some of his colleagues in the University of Maryland and other points.

The mechanical execution of the work is the very best specimen of typographical and illustrative efforts, and Messrs. Blakiston's Son & Co. have done full justice to the part entrusted to them.

GYNECOLOGICAL PATHOLOGY. A Manual of Microscopic Technique and Diagnosis in Gynecologic Practice for Students and Physicians. By CARL ABEL, Privat-Docent, Berlin. Translated and Edited by SAMUEL WYLLIS BANDLER, M.D., Adjunct Gynecologist to the Beth Israel Hospital, New York; With a Chapter on the Embryology of the Female Genitalia and the Pathological Growths developing from Embryonal Structures. Royal 8vo., cloth, pp. 237, illustrated with 100 Engravings. WILLIAM WOOD & Co., Publishers, New York, 1901.

So important, especially in successful gynecologic work, is correct diagnosis, that an excellent and practical treatise like this, cannot but be hailed with welcome and delight. Dr. Abel and his careful and satisfactory translator and editor, have placed before the profession a most valuable addition to its literature. The drawings are, with few exceptions, taken from the author's specimens, and afford a true microscopical picture of the condition or structure under consideration. Messrs. Wood & Co., have presented the volume in a most attractive style.

A PRACTICAL MANUAL OF INSANITY. For the Student and General Practitioner. By DANIEL R. BROWER, A.M., M.D., LL.D., Professor of Nervous and Mental Diseases in Rush Medical College, in Affiliation with the University of Chicago, and in the Post-Graduate Medical School, Chicago; and HENRY M. BANNISTER, A.M., M.D., formerly Senior Assistant Physician, Illinois Eastern Hospital for the Insane. Handsome octavo of 426 pages, with a large number of fullpage inserts. Philadelphia and London: W. B. SAUNDERS & Co., 1902. Cloth, $3.00 net.

No graduate in medicine is thoroughly equipped to practice his profession unless he is acquainted with at least the rudiments of the science of psychiatry. Broad though its domain and difficult to master, yet every one may readily acquire knowledge of those principles upon which depend a successful treatment of

those cases of mental disorder that form a part of every physician's practice.

This work, intended for the student and general practitioner, is an intelligible, up-to-date exposition of the leading facts of psychiatry, and will be found of invaluable service, especially to the busy practitioner unable to yield the time for a more exhaustive study. The work has been rendered more practical by omitting elaborate case records and pathologic details, as well as discussions of speculative and controversial questions. Certain special features of the work, also broadening its field of usefulness, are the mention of the forms of insanity not usually met with in hospitals, and the including of a comparative table of classification and a chapter on some of the ethical questions relating to insanity as they may arise in the practice of medicine. Indeed, we know of no work of its scope that covers the field so completely, yet concisely and clearly.

MORPHINISM AND NABCOMANIA from Opium, Cocain, Ether, Chloral, Chloroform, and other Narcotic Drugs; also the Etiology, Treatment, and Medicolegal Relations. By T. D. CROTHERS, M.D., Superintendent of Walnut Lodge Hospital, Conn.; Professor of Mental and Nervous Diseases, New York School of Clinical Medicine, etc. Handsome 12mo of 351 pages. Philadelphia and London: W. B. SAUNDERS & Co., 1902. Cloth, $2.00 net.

The alarming increase, in the last few yeors, of morphomania and the associated various narcomanials imperatively demands immediate attention by the medical profession. Every year the increasing prominence of this psychosis calls for more exact studies, with a fuller recognition of the conditions and causes of the disease. Medicolegally, questions of responsibility have been asked with increasing frequency, and there has been no literature and no study of the subject to afford an intelligent answer until this present volume was initiated.

The special object of this work has been to group the general facts and outline some of the causes and symptoms common to most cases, and to suggest general methods of treatment and prevention. The object could not have been better accomplished. The work gives a general preliminary survey of this new field of psycopathy, and points out the possibilities from a larger and more accurate knowledge, and so indicates degrees of curability at present unknown. The author shows his absolute familiarity with his subject in the clear, concise, and in every way admirable work whiche he has given to the profession, whom he has placed under merited obligations.

Becords, Recollections and Bęminiscencęs.

A SPECIAL COMMUNICATION.

My Dear Doctor :

MEMPHIS, TENN., March 20, 1902.

The time for the Reunion of the United Confederate Veterans, April 22-25 prox., to be held at Dallas, Tex., is near at hand. The Association of Medical Officers of the Army and Navy of the Confederacy will hold its annual meeting at the same time, in the Judicial Chamber of the City Hall, corner of Akard and Commerce streets, Dallas, and will be called to order at 12 o'clock noon, Tuesday, April 22nd. From the Constitution and By-Laws I quote as follows:

"The object of said organization is to cultivate a friendly feeling among the members of the profession who served in the Medical Department of the Army and Navy of the Confederacy. Also to collect through its members all material matter pertaining to the medical service of the Army and Navy of the Confederacy.

"All members of the medical profession who served as Surgeon, Assistant Surgeon, Contract Physician, or Acting Assistant Surgeon, Hospital Steward, or Chaplain, during the late war between the States, shall be eligible to membership as members, and the Secretary shall be instructed to enroll their names as such when application in writing is furnished, together with a statement of the official position and rank held in the Army or Navy of the Confederacy by the applicant.

All Confederate veterans who are regular doctors of medicine are eligible to membership as associate members; and all sons of Confederate veterans who are regular doctors of medicine shall be eligible to membership as junior members."

The principal object of our meeting in addition to greeting each other once again socially, is to take a look back into that