mending the first edition of Dr. C. W. Allen's work. In his preface to this, the second edition, the author says: "It is most gratifying that a comparatively large edition of the 'Manual' has thus early been exhausted. It indicates his surmise that there was room for a work of this kind, intended chiefly for the busy practitioner, was not without foundation.' The size of the volume has been considerably increased. The alphabetical arrangement of the various subjects, or diseases considered, facilitates reference, yet a full and copious index is added. New chapters have been added upon Gastroptosis, Meralgia Paresthetica, Mongolism, the Fourth Disease, Singultus, Splenitis, Mediterranean Fever, Blackwater Fever, Enteroptosis aud Poliomyelitis in the adult. The fine, clear, large print, and handsome mechanical execution of the publishers, is very gratifying to one who has for near half a century been trying to keep pace with the many advances n medical literature, this being quite a valuable addition thereto. INTERNATIONAL CLINICS. A Quarterly of Illustrated Clinical Lectures and especially prepared Articles on Medicine, Neurology, Surgery, Therapeutics, Obstetrics, Pediatrics, Pathology, Dermatology, Dis-. eases of the Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat, and other Topics of Interest to Students and Practitioners by leading Members of the Medical Profession throughout the World. Edited by HENRY W. Cattell, A.M., M.D., Philadelphia, U. S. A., with the Collaboration of John B. Murphy, M.D., Chicago; Alexander D. Blackader, M.D., Montreal; H. C. Wood, M.D., Philadelphia; T. M. Rotch, M.D., Boston; E. Landolt, M.D., Paris; Thomas G. Morton, M.D., Philadelphia; James J. Walsh, M.D., New York; J. W. Ballantyne, M.D., Edinburgh, and John Harold, M.D., London, with Regular Correspondents in Montreal, London, Paris, Leipsic and Vienna. J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, Philadelphia and London. Cloth, $2.00. Volume I, 12 Series, 84 illustrations, 3 colored plates. The new series (12) vol. I. of the International Clinics is as much an improvement as is possible. This volume is particularly rich in illustrations, and the articles are all written specially for the clinics, and are not reprints or extracts from medical periodicals. Two brief biograpical sketches, one of Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, and the other of Prof. John A. Wyeth, M.D., begin the volume, and after a series of most valuable articles from able and instructive writers, a very comprehensive review of the "Progress of Medicine" duriug 1901, make a most valuable addition to the Clinics. THE NEUROSES OF THE GENITO-URINARY SYSTEM IN THE MALE, With Sterility and Impotence. By DR. R. ULTZMANN, Professor of GenitoUrinary Diseases in the University of Vienna. Second Edition. Revised, with notes and a supplementary article on Nervous Impotence, by the Translator, GARDNER W. ALLEN, M.D., Surgeon in the Genito-Urinary Department of the Boston Dispensary; Instructor in Genito-Urinary Surgery in Tuft's Medical College, Illustrated. Pages 198. 12mo. Price, extra cloth, $1.00, net, delivered. F. A. DAVIS COMPANY, Publishers, 1914-16 Cherry Street, Philadelphia. This little volume comprises two very excellent monographs of Prof. Ultzmann on the management of very difficult and refractory conditions. His experience, sound and comprehensive pathological views are most worthy of a wide circulation, and we can commend the work to any interested therein. Dr. Allen, in addition to his excellent discharge of duty in the translation, has added a number of notes and a supplementary article on Nervous Impotence. A SYSTEM OF PHYSIOLOGIC THERAPEUTICS. A Practical Exposition of the Methods, other than Drug-Giving, Useful in the Prevention of Disease in the Treatment of the Sick. Edited by SOLOMON SOLIS COHEN, A.M., M.D., Professor of Medicine and Therapeutics in the Philadelphia Polyclinic; Lecturer on Clinical Medicine at Jefferson Medical College; Physician to the Philadelphia Hospital, etc. Vol. III, Climatology, Health Resorts, Mineral Springs. By F. Parkes Weber, M.A., M.D., F.R.C.P. (Lond.), Physician to the German Hospital, Dalston; Assistant Physician North London Hospital for Consumption, etc., with the Collaboration for America of Guy Hinsdale, A.M., M.D., Secretary of the American Climatological Association, etc. In two Books. Book I, Principles of Climatotherapy, Ocean Voyages, Mediterranean, European and British Health Resorts. Book II, Mineral Springs, Therapeutics, etc. Illustrated with Maps. Price for the complete set, $22.00 net. These are the third and fourth volumes of Cohen's System of Physiologic Therapeutics, whose timeliness has already been commented upon. The first part treats of the factors of climate, with their effect on physiologic functions and pathological conditions, and describes the fundamental principles that underlie the application of climates, health resorts and mineral springs in the prevention of disease, and to promote the comfort and reof the sick. covery The second part describes health resorts; and the third part discusses in detail the special climatic treatment of various diseases and different classes of patients. Book II also describes the health resorts in Africa, Asia, Australasia and America. In Book I ocean voyages are first treated of with considerable detail and their advantages and disadvantages, indications and counter-indications as a therapeutic measure, are pointed out. The subject of altitude is treated in a similarly full and definite manner. In addition, the sea coast and inland health resorts of the Mediterranean countries, those of Continental Europe and those of the British Islands, including mountain stations of various elevations, plains and mineral water spas, are described, with no waste of words, but with a fullness of detail unusual in medical books. Not only geographic and climatic features are pointed out, but also social and other characteristics so important in selecting a resort that shall be suitable to the tastes and means of the individual patient, as well as beneficial in his disease. The existence of sanatoriums for special diseases, as those at seaside resorts for scrofulous and weakly children, and in various regions for consumption, nervous affections, diseases of women, and the like, are specified; and the mere lists of such places, as found in the index, are likely to prove invaluable for reference. We know none other so complete. PROGRESSIVE MEDICINE.-A Quarterly Digest of Advances, Discoveries and Improvements in the Medical and Surgical Sciences. Edited by HOBART AMORY HARE, M.D., Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in Jefferson Medical College, etc., assisted by H. R. M. LANDIS, M.D., Assistant Physician to the Out-Patients' Department, Jefferson Medical College Hospital. Vol. 1, March, 1902, 8vo. cloth, pp. 462. A mere summary of the articles contained in this volume should suffice to apprize our readers of the very excellent character and invaluable subject matter of so widely and well known a publication. Surgery of the Head, Neck and Chest, by Charles H. Frazier, M.D.; Infectious Diseases, by Fred. A. Packard, M.D.; Diseases of Children, by Floyd M. Crandall, M.D.; Pathology, by Ludvig Hektoen, M.D.; Laryngology and Rhinology, by St. Clair Thompson, M.D., M.R.C.P. (Lond.), F.R.C.S., Eng.; Otology, by Robert L. Randolph, M.D., afford an intellectual menu of a most appetizing character. The treatise on anyone of the above subjects alone, is well worth the modest price asked for the entire volume. As with its predecessors, we can and do, commend it most heartily. MOSQUITO BRIGADES AND HOW TO ORGANISE THEM. By RONALD ROSS, Dr. Ross, who is an authority on the mosquito as a carrier of diseases, endeavors to show in this little volume, the best and most practical manner of waging war against these pests. His results are based upon his wide and extended experience and many years' study of the subject in various parts of the world. He gives an account of the effects already made in different localities. CERTAIN PROBLEMS RELATING TO SURGICAL OPERATIONS, the Alvarenza Prize Essay. By GEORGE W. CRILE, A.M., M.D., Ph. D., Professor of Clinical Surgery, Medical Department Western Pennsylvania University; Surgeon to the St. Alexis Hospital, etc., 8vo. cloth, pp. 200. After an introduction and a chapter on mode of Annotation and Investigation, the following subjects are considered in a very able manner: The effect of severing and mechanically irritating the vagi; effects of intravenous injection of saline solution; the physiologic action of cocain and eucain; and the effect of temporary closure of the carotid arteries. SANDER & SONS' Eucalyptol (pure Volatile Eucalypti Extract).— Apply to Dr. Sander, Belle Plaine, Iowa, for gratis supplied sample and literature of Sander's Eucalyptol. It is invaluable in inflammations of the mucous membranes and in all septic and infectious diseases. Meyer Bros. Drug Co., St. Louis, Mo., sole agents. . Becords, Becollections and Reminiscences. ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ASSOCIATION OF MED. ICAL OFFICERS OF THE ARMY AND NAVY OF THE CONFEDERACY. (Concluded from June number). MORNING SESSION-THIRD DAY. DALLAS, TEX., April 23, 1902. DR. J. C. ABERNATHY, of Birmingham, Ala., read his paper, "Comments on a Manual of Military Surgery," issued by Surgeon General S. D. Moore in 1863. The Doctor exhibited a copy of the manual. DR. EVANS, of South Carolina: I used a hypodermic syringe in '62, very frequently in lumbago, and the soldiers used to say I relieved them. Another thing with regard to microbes and antiseptics. I was in the army with Dr. Knott, and we were discussing the reason why we had erysipelas, etc., in some battles and in others we had none. Dr. Knott said, "I am infused with the idea that it all comes from our inattention to cleanliness, introducing poison into wounds by reason of not washing our hands;" and I have often thought that if he had had the means to demonstrate it, that there we would have antedated this germ theory 20 At the battle of Spottsylvania we had a man who was shot in the face. We washed it carefully and stitched it with a needle, and in five days it had healed. Drs. Knott and Mitchell saw that, it healed with first intention. years. DR. Cowan, of Tullahoma, Tenn.: Mr. President, I was excused yesterday on account of a bad cold and being very hoarse, but I am better to-day. When I received the request to write a paper I was very busy. I had not time to write that paper, so had to sketch it. I sketched it with a pencil thinking I could get it type-written here, but failed to have it done yesterday. I will offer as a prelude to it, that it is on a subject I have neither seen written upon nor heard discussed. We haxe talked a good deal of supplies in the army and our destitution in surgical appliances, and say a good deal about our enemy making these things contraband of war. I want to say that so far as that was concerned it made no difference with the command I was with. We made the Federal Government the Commissary and the Purveyor for our medical stores, and drew as we required. DR. COWAN then read his paper. |