follows with a paper in which the experience at Roosevelt Hospital in dealing with Visceral Injuries caused by Contusions of the Abdomen is described in extenso.

Some new instances of recovery after suture in cases of Intraperitoneal Rupture of the Bladder are recorded in a paper by Jones, of Boston, who reviews the literature of those cases since the paper of Alexander, which was also published in the Annals of Surgery some two years ago. Cumston, also of Boston, treats, in the full and comprehensive manner which readers of surgical literature have come to expect from him, of Pancreatic Cysts. Horsley, of Texas, details a case of Post-typhoidal Infection of the Ribs, making another addition to the rapidly increasing literature of the surgical complications of typhoid fever. Acute Traumatic Surgery is illustrated by a paper by Oliver, of Cincinnati, on Injuries to the Spine.

In a somewhat long and elaborate editorial article, the editor, Dr. Pilcher, reviews critically the recent literature pertaining to efforts at Intramediastinal, Bronchotomy and Esophagotomy. To these more formal articles are added the Transactions of the Surgical Societies of New York and Chicago, and a number of critical Book Reviews, the whole making a number of the highest character both from a scientific and a literary standpoint.

A VALUABLE AUXILIARY IN THE TREATMENT OF PNEUMONIA.— Pneumonia is now-a-days considered a general infectious disease, due to a special germ, and not, as was formerly believed, a local condition resulting from exposure to cold. It is therefore of the utmost importance that once it appears in the household, every precaution should be taken to prevent its spread to other members of the family. As the germ is carried through the air, this cannot be accomplished by fluid disinfectants ; an unirritating and non-poisonous antiseptic which is sufficiently powerful to destroy the infection and yet can be freely breathed by the patient, is required. There is only one safe and efficient agent of that kind and that is Vapo-Cresolene. Experiments by a member of the Pathological Department of Yale University have demonstrated its highly germicidal power. Its vapor permeates the air of the sick-room, destroys the infection at its source, and when inhaled by the patient allays cough and irritation in the air-passages, promotes expectoration, and thus aids materially in bringing about recovery.

CINCINNATI SANITARIUM.-We have received the annual report of this most excellent institution, and from a brief glance at its pages we find the important feature of a large number of recoveries is as marked a characteristic as in any of the twenty-nine years of its successful work. The vacancy in the presidency of the Board of Directors occasioned by

the death of Mr. John L. Whetstone, has been filled by the selection of Mr. John C. Sheets, who has so long and satisfactorily filled the position of Business Manager, which he will also continue. Dr. Orpheus Everts will still have charge of the Medical and Psychological treatment of the inmates. A very interesting monograph by him on "Mental Hygiene" accompanies the Annual Report. A total number of 226 patients with 5 deaths during the past year is to be noted. With well arranged and perfectly ventilated buildings, beautiful grounds, in a high and healthful locality, experienced, skilful and well-trained attendants, it offers especial advantages of the highest order.

THE NEW YORK MEDICAL CRITIC announces that each subscriber to that journal will receive a free copy of the Medical Index next month (March 1903).

The volume will contain names, place and date of publication, price, circulation and names of editor and publishers of over 600 of the princi. pal medical publications in this country and abroad, and also the titles and authors of each article published during the year 1902, arranged according to subjects and alphabetically. When it is noted that the list is complste up to January, 1903, it should prove especially valuable in bridging over the period which has elapsed since the index medicus was discontinued.

Considering the expenditure of time and money in the preparation of this volume, and the liberality of the publishers in presenting it free to the profession, the enterprise marks a new era in medical journalism and merits appreciation and success.

TROPHONINE Contains besides the nutritive elements of beef, gluten of wheat and nucleo-albumins, the enzymes of the digestive glands. For those ill-nourished, nervous individuals, brain-workers, and those requiring stimulation, if a teaspoonful of Trophonine be added to a wineglass of milk, you will have a most delicious and nutritious drink, and a true nerve food.

As it does not irritate the stomach and leaves no residue to enter the intestinal tract, it is indicated in all those conditions where artificial feeding is necessary and is especially useful in Typhoid Fever, Vomiting of Pregnancy and diseases of the Digestive System.

DR. R. B. GRANGER, for many years managing editor of the New York Medical Journal, wishes to inform his medical friends and acquaintances that he has become associated with the medical publishing house of

W. B. Saunders & Company, of Philadelphia, as its representative in New York City. A fine set of offices has been opened in the Fuller Building, at the junction of Fifth Avenue, Twenty-third Street, and Broadway, where he will be happy to receive all who will honor him by calling.

FOR SHAKING PALSY nothing excels Tinct. Aesculus Glabra, one-half drachm, CELERINA, eight ounces. Teaspoonful every two or three

hours.

Reviews and Book Notices.

SAUNDERS' MEDICAL HAND-ATLASES-ATLAS AND EPITOME OF THE MOUTH, PHARYNX, AND NOSE. BY DR. L. GRUNWALD, of Munich. From the Second Revised and Enlarged German Edition. Edited, with aditions, by JAMES E. NEWCOMB, M.D., Instructor in Laryngology, Cornell University Medical School; Attending Laryngologist to the Roosevelt Hospital, Out-Patient Department. With 102 illustrations on 42 colored lithographic plates, 41 text-cuts, and 219 pages of text. Philadelphia and London: W. B. SAUNDERS & Co., 1903. Cloth, $3.00 net.

In designing this atlas the author has kept constantly in mind the needs of both student and practitioner, and as far as possible, typical cases of the various diseases have been selected. The illustrations are described in the text in exactly the same way as a practised examiner would demonstrate the objective findings to his class, the book thus serving as a substitute for actual clinical work. The illustrations themselves are numerous and exceedingly well executed, portraying the conditions so strikingly that their study is almost equal to examination of the actual specimens. The editor has incorporated his own valuable experience, and has also included extensive notes on the use of the active principle of the suprarenal bodies in the materia medica of rhinology and laryngology. The work, besides being an excellent atlas and epitome of the diseases of the mouth, pharynx and nose, serves also as a text-book on the anatomy and physiology of these organs. Indeed, we wonder how the author has encompassed so much within such a little space. We heartily commend

the work as the best we have seen.

SAUNDERS MEDICAL HAND-ATLASES-ATLAS AND EPITOME OF HUMAN HISTOLOGY AND MICROSCOPIC ANATOMY. BY PRIVATDOCENT DR. J. SOBOTTA, of Wurzburg. Edited with additions, by G. CARL HUBER, M.D., Junior Professor of Anatomy and Histology, and Director of the Histological Laboratory, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. With 214 colored figures on 80 plates, 68 text-illustrations, and 248 pages of text. Philadelphia and London: W. B. SAUNDERS & Co., 1903. Cloth, $4.50 net.

This work combines an abundance of well-chosen and most accurate illustrations with a concise text, and in such manner as to make it both atlas and text-book. The great majority of the illustrations have been made from sections prepared from human tissues, and always from fresh and in every respect normal speci mens. The colored lithographic plates have been produced with the aid of over thirty colors, and it is evident that particular care was taken to avoid distortion and assure exactness of magnification. The text is as brief as possible; clearness, however, not heing sacrificed to brevity. The editor of the English translation has annotated and altered very freely certain portions of the sections on the adenoid tissues, blood and the blood-forming organs, muscular tissues, special sense organs, and peripheral nerve distributions, making these parts conform to the latest advances in the study of these tissues. The work will be fouud useful as an atlas, text-book, and book of reference for student and practitioner. We strongly recommend it.

INTERNATIONAL CLINICS. A Quarterly of Illustrated Clinical Lectures and especially prepared Articles on Medicine, Neurology, Surgery, Therapeutics, Obstetrics, Pædiatrics, Pathology, Dermatology, Diseases 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 HENY 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 4. Series, 12.

All who have been conversant with this series of excellent

volumes will agree with us that vast improvements have been made in the past two years, and that the editors are giving one of the most practical and economical works for the general practitioner that it is possible to conceive. During the past year we find over 1200 pages with 12 colored plates and 218 text illustrations, illuminating 98 articles, divided into 28 in the Department of Medicine, 27 in Therapeutics, 22 in Surgery, 4 in Obstetrics and Gynecology, 5 on the Eye, Ear, Nose, and Throat, 4 on Neurology, 5 special articles on subjects not mentioned above, and 3 monographs, one each on the Progress of Medicine, the Blood and the Function of the Digestive Glands. It is the aim of the editorial corps to give only such practical articles as have special bearing on the every-day practice of the physician and such as possess only a high order of merit, coming from the foremost medical men of the entire world. The mechanical excellence of the Lippincott publications is due to the fact that every part of book-making is conducted under one roof, one management, and one ownership, with the aid of every improvement and the latest and finest machinery throughout. you are in in Philadelphia call and see for yourself.

SURGICAL ANATOMY AND OPERATIVE SURGERY FOR STUDENTS AND PRACTITIONERS. By JOHN J. MCGRATH, M.D., Professor Surgical Anatomy and Operative Surgery at the New York Post-Graduate Medical School; Visiting Surgeon to the Harlem Hospital, and As. sistant Visiting Surgeon to the Columbus Hospital, New York. 8vo. half leather, gilt edge, pp. 559, with 227 Illustrations, including colors and half-tones. P. A. DAVIS CO., Publishers, Philadelphia, 1902.

In this handsome and excellent volume we have combined in a practiaal manner, surgical anatomy and operative surgery, a knowledge of the former being essential to a proper study and practice of the latter. Diagramatic drawings have been largely used, and add greatly to the value of the work. Technical considerations purely, not of practical use in the performance of surgical operations, are not included. The arrangement followed is after the plans of the author's courses in operative sargery at the Post Graduate Medical School. It is entirely modern, thoroughly up to date, and will prove of value both to the student and the active, working surgeon. The publishers have brought