PRACTICAL POINTS IN ANESTHESIA. By Frederick-Emil Neef, B.S., B.L., M.L., M.D., New York. Price, semi-de luxe cloth, 60 cents, post paid. Library. Flexible leather, $1.50, post paid. New York: Surgery Publishing Co., 92 William St.

This very practical monograph presents the author's impressions on the correct use of chloroform, ether, etc., and is a simple and coherent working method, and is of particular value to those general practitioners who are so situated that the services of a trained anesthetist cannot be secured. Among the subjects covered are: Induction of Anesthesia, Cardiac and Respiratory Collapse, When Shall the Patient be Declared Ready for Operation, Maintenance of the Surgical Plane of Anesthesia, Important Reflexes, Vomiting During Anesthesia, Obstructed Breathing, Use of the Breathing Tube, Indications for Stimulation, Influence of Morphine on Narcosis, General Course of Anesthesia, Awakening, Recession of Tongue After Narcosis, PostOperative Distress, Minor Anesthesia with Ethyl Chloride, Intubation Anesthesia, etc., etc.

This extremely practical and useful little book is condensed to about fifty pages, but every page is replete with valuable data. Printed upon heavy India tint special Cheltenham paper with Cheltenham type, with marginal headings in contrasting colored ink.

ANATOMY, DESCRIPTIVE AND SURGICAL. By Henry Gray, F.R.S., Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons; Lecturer on Anatomy at St. George's Hospital Medical School, London. Seventeenth edition. Thoroughly revised and re-edited, with additions by John Chalmers Da Costa, M.D., Professor of the Principles of Surgery and of Clinical Surgery in the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia; and Edward Anthony Spitzka, M.D., Professor of General Anatomy in the Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia. Illustrated with 1,149 engravings. 1908. Philadelphia and New York: Lea & Febiger.

This new American edition of Gray's Anatomy is dedicated to William W. Keen, M.D., LL.D., Hon. F.R.C.S. (Eng. and Edin.), the distinguished Professor of Surgery in Jefferson Medical College, as an evidence of the admiration, the affection and the gratitude of his colleague and former assistant, the editor.

The early death of Henry Gray has enlisted in successive revisions of this work the services of many leading anatomists. Passing over the intervening editions, and bearing in mind the close relations between anatomy and surgery, it is scarcely necessary to allude to the advantage of uniting in this new issue the knowledge of so eminent a surgeon as Dr. DaCosta, and of Dr. Spitzka, equally eminent as a specialist in anatomy. Professor Spitzka also possesses the ability of a skilful artist, and his delineations, therefore, convey his grasp of structure directly to the eye of the reader.

As simple directions are given for dissecting, this single volume will serve every requirement of the student throughout his course.

The new nomenclature and that still in common use have been introduced in a manner rendering the work universal in the prime essential of terminology. The table of contents is so arranged as to give a complete conspectus of anatomy, a feature of obvious value. The whole book is thoroughly organized in its headings and the sequence of subjects, so that the student receives his knowledge of the parts in their anatomical depend

ence.

In this new edition, following so speedily its predecessor, there have been many alterations, eliminations, and some additions of important anatomical facts, as well as changes and improvements of equal extent in the illustrations. Histology and embryology have been treated by résumés, as heretofore. Free quotations have been made from numerous treatises, monographs and reports, proper credit to the authors being carefully given. Owing to its accuracy and simplicity, the Latin or International nomenclature is destined eventually to displace older methods. Such a desirable transition will, of necessity, be gradual, because in the minds of many the older names are not only fixed, but also cherished. Hence, in this edition the custom previously adopted is still pursued, and the names according to the new nomenclature have been introduced in parentheses following those still in current use in English-speaking countries.

The section on the Nerve System has been largely rewritten, with due regard to the advances recently made in the morphological and embryological aspects of the subject. The more important physiological and pathological data have been presented in their anatomical bearings in order to demonstrate with greater clearness the mutual relations of the structure and functions of the nerve system. Special effort has been bestowed on combining

the features visible to the naked eye with those seen only under high magnifying powers. By the knowledge of macroscopic and microscopic structures, the attentive student is enabled to resolve or reconstruct, in the three dimensions of space, and see with his mental eye the opaque interior resolved into intricate yet welldefined projecting and associating mechanisms. Such study is assisted by new illustrations depicting hidden structures in accordance with this principle. Much that could not be described in detail within the confines of a text-book has been summarized in such a way as to be of assistance even to advanced students.

POINTS OF PRACTICE IN MALADIES OF THE HEART. By James Sawyer, Knt., M.D. (Lond.), F.R.C.P., F.R.S. (Ed.), F.S.A.; Consulting Physician to the Queen's Hospital, lately a Professor of Medicine in the Queen's College. 1908. Birmingham: Cornish Brothers, Limited.

This brochure consists of the three Lumlein lectures delivered at the Royal College of Physicians of London at various times during the months of March and April, 1908. It is well to have these classical lectures bound and thus preserve a valuable contribution in connection with diseases of the heart in permanent form.

CLINICAL TREATISES ON THE SYMPTOMATOLOGY AND DIAGNOSIS OF DISORDERS OF RESPIRATION AND CIRCULATION. By Prof. Edmund. VonNeusser, M.D., Professor of the Second Medical Clinic, Vienna; Associate Editor Nothnagel's Practice of Medicine. Authorized English translation. By Andrew MacFarlane, M.D., Professor of Medical Jurisprudence and Physical Diagnosis, Albany Medical College; Attending Physician to St. Peter's and Child's Hospital and Albany Hospital for Incurables. Part II. Bradycardia and Tachycardia, with Bibliography. 1908. New York E. B. Treat & Co.

The heart as the fons et origo of the circulation must be considered seriously in practically every disease from the point of view of prognosis as well as an index as to the cause of the malady. This little volume of one hundred and fifty pages on Bradycardia and Tachycardia ably presents all the factors involved in the decrease and increase of the cardiac action. Dr. Andrew MacFarlane is to be congratulated as an able translator and editor

PHYSICAL METHODS IN THE TREATMENT OF HEART DISEASE. By Arthur G. Dampier-Bennett, M.R.C.S. (Eng.), L.R.C.P. (Lond.); author of the Re-education of Co-ordination by Movements, Thermal Methods of Treating Chronic Arthritis, etc., etc.; Visiting Physician to the Royal Marine Hotel and Medical Baths, Kingstown; late Physician and Medical Superintendent St. Anne's Hydropathic Establishment; Fellow of the British Balneological and Climatological Society, etc., etc. 1907. Bristol: John Wright & Co. London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co.

Much of the subject matter of the present work first appeared as a series of articles in the pages of the PRACTITIONER. It is regrettably short, only of five chapters, but these, dealing with Rest and Massage, Electrical Applications, Diet, Drugs, and the Nauheim Bath, are well worth study and thoughtful consideration.

THE CAUSE AND PREVENTION OF BERI-BERI. By W. Leonard Bradden, M.B., B.S., F.R.C.S., State Surgeon Negri Sembilan, Federated Malay States. 1907. $6.00. London and New York: Rebman, Limited.

This work consists, as the preface states, very largely of an official report to the Colonial Office in 1904, with excerpts from the literature on beri-beri to bring it up to date. The author has dealt with every phase of the subject in a thoroughly scientific manner, and this volume is the last word on the disease.

Third and enlarged

ON MEANS FOR THE PROLONGATION OF LIFE. edition of a lecture delivered before the Royal College of Physicians, on December 3rd, 1903, by Sir Hermann Weber, M.D., F.R.C.P., Consulting Physician to the German Hospital, the National Hospital for Consumption, Ventnor, and the Mount Vernon Hospital for Consumption. 1908. 1908. London: Jno. Bale, Sons & Danielsson, Limited, Oxford House, 83-91 Great Titchfield St., Oxford St. W.

In 1904 we had the pleasure of reviewing and commenting upon this lecture of Sir Hermann Weber, which was first published in the British Medical Journal. The author then, as now, had nothing but the sanest advice to offer, and gave a careful review of the rules of living he had found most helpful and

practical. Sir Hermann, who has himself already passed the Psalmist's span, now publishes a third enlarged edition of this lecture, with a table of the digestibility of the common foods added a work which we can heartily recommend as an epitome of modern personal hygiene.

ATLAS OF CLINICAL SURGERY, with special reference to Diagnosis and Treatment for Practitioners and Students. By Dr. Ph. Bockenheimer. English Adaptation by C. F. Marshall, M.D., F.R.C.S., with 150 colored figures. New York: Rebman Company, 1123 Broadway.

The three volumes before us of "Clinical Surgery" are undoubtedly the best system of clinical surgery extant. The name of Von Bergmann carries with it, beyond any dispute, the highest advance in surgery, and the illustrations, taken from models made by F. Kolbow of Berlin, are the nearest to nature of any illustrations it has been our pleasure to see. The process of reproduction is as nearly accurate as will be attained in many long years.

Each volume is in itself a grand series of clinics, the illustrations accurately depicting the condition, the letter press description being concise, yet full, the operative description brief and accurate.

The editor, Prof. Bockenheimer, assistant of the late Prof. Von Bergmann, has undertaken and accomplished in a very excellent manner a work that is to fill a large place in surgery. The study of surgery to-day must be largely clinical. In the smaller places, and with those not connected with large institutions, clinical material must necessarily be scarce; a system like this fills that want so admirably that one can really advance with the times by having in his possession a work such as this, while those connected with large hospitals have a most elaborate aid to their research.

This work first appeared in Germany a few years ago, and has been brought absolutely up to date by the translator, Dr. C. F. Marshall of London, who certainly deserves the approbation of the profession. It is impossible to criticize a work of this kind on account of its accuracy of detail, thoroughness in handling the subject, and the personnel of the editors and authorthan whom no greater surgeon graced the profession.

There are in the three volumes 150 plates, dealing with surgery from its clinical standpoint, from the simplest to the most