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Hygiene and Public Health.

By Louis C. Parkes, M.D., D.P.H., Lt.-Col. R.A.C.M., Consulting Sanitary Adviser to the English Office of Works, and Henry R. Kenwood, M.B., D.P.H., Lt.-Col. R.A.M.C., Chadwick Professor of Hygiene in the University of London. Sixth edition, illustrated. Printed in England. Cloth, 787 pages. Sold in the United States by P. Blakiston's Son & Co., Philadelphia, Pa. Price $4.00.

This is one of the established English works on the subject, but one devoting little space to English legislation and administration, and hence the volume is just as useful in the United States as it is in England. The book is one of principles and is not devoted to propaganda work; it is a working text for the physician and sanitarian. Thorough in presentation, exact in statement, and scientific in scope and treatment, the volume is one to be confidently recommended as authoritative and practical.

This small anatomy has long been well received by the profession as serving the needs of both students and practitioners. This fifth edition has been largely reconstructed and new illustrations used. A new chapter on dental anatomy by Dr. Joseph L. Appleton is a valuable feature.

The newer anatomical terminology is used throughout, and the revision brings the work fully up to the times in every respect.

Practical Materia Medica and Prescription Writing.

By Oscar W. Bethea, M.D., Ph.G., F.C.S., Assistant Professor of Materia Medica, Tulane University of Louisiana. Second revised edition. Cloth, 562 pages, including many valuable tables. F. A. Davis Company, Philadelphia, Pa. Price $4.50 net.

This is a conservative and carefully prepared work not wholly limited to the official preparations. There is a wealth of pharmaceutical data, and the section on prescription writing is the most full and satisfactory known to the reviewer. The book possesses an especial value for reference and to the student.

The practitioner of medicine will here find much useful information, more especially a wealth of wellconstructed prescriptions and the essential pharmacopeial data; but the volume does not pretend to discuss pharmacology, simply giving a brief statement, under each drug, of therapeutic action and uses, and this with little comment or differentiation. There is a lack of clinical atmosphere, largely due to the limitations the talented author set in the de(Book Reviews continued one leaf over.)

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velopment of his task. The phrase, "Seldom prescribed," serves to close discussion in the case of many drugs concerning which the practitioner sometimes wants detailed information. For instance, this under Rheum:-"Purgative, stomachic, also astringent. Rhubarb is still a popular purgative with the laity. It is sometimes prescribed by the profession, but usually as an adjuvant for other agents. Its secondary effect is astringent." The reviewer considers such mere expression of personal predilection with a minimum of data as of much less value than would be a detailed statement of what rhubarb does, in the estimate of thousands of physicians who use it constantly.

Handbook of Gynecology.

By Henry Foster Lewis, A.B., M.D., Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Loyola University School of Medicine, and Alfred deRoulet, B.Sc., M.S., M.D., Professor of Gynecology in the same institution. Cloth, 452 pages, 177 illustrations. The C. V. Mosby Company, Metropolitan Building, St. Louis, Mo. Price $4.00.

The average physician is appalled at the excess of technic in many of the special works on gynecology, and in truth they are designed for the specialist. Most physicians, however, must handle many gynecologic cases. Increasingly are they trying to manage these cases scientifically and adequately. This work has been prepared with these men, the young practitioners and the students in view, and the principles underlying the subject are most carefully elaborated, with such surgical detail as is necessary to the completion of the text.

The long experience of the authors in teaching the subject in class and hospital qualifies them to speak with authority, and they have produced a text that should prove of the utmost value to the reader.

Especially to be singled out for commendation are the chapters on infection of the female genitals and on neoplasms.

Modern Dietetics-Feeding the Sick in Hospital and Home.

By Lulu Graves, Dietitian Lakeside Hospital, Cleveland, Ohio, with an introduction by Prof. Lafayette B. Mendel, Yale University, who also supplied some scientific data for the text. Cloth, 214 pages. The Modern Hospital Publishing Company, Metropolitan Building, St. Louis, Mo. Price $2.00.

A balanced combination of text-book and sickroom cook-book in which scientific principles, proper nutrition, careful case-management and kitchen administration are blended. Primarily written from the hospital point of view, the work offers something quite out of the ordinary in its line to the private physician and the nurse.

The whole subject of dietetics is covered briefly; but the essential value of the work lies in its concrete suggestion for actual practice, the data on special diets, the many good recipes and the clinical emphasis throughout.

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Creosote Revived

T ONE time creosote was used

rather extensively, and also empirically, as a cure for tuberculosis and in gastro-intestinal infections -especially typhoid.

Better facilities for studying the pathology of diseases soon demonstrated that creosote was far from being a specific in these diseases, that it did not cure either tuberculosis or typhoid, but that it did have some therapeutic value.

Sollman says: "Creosote is employed mainly in tuberculosis. It is generally believed to increase the appetite, nutrition and weight, and to lessen the cough, the fever and night sweats. The benefits are seen in early cases, if the use is long continued. Possibly the benefits may be referred to the local effect on the alimentary canal and on the bronchitis; and to the antipyretic action. Creosote water is sometimes given to check gastric fermentation. Bronchitis and the secretion of mucus even when taken by the pneumonia are also benefited. Creosote increases mouth. In pleureic effusions, it hastens the absorption of the exudate when it is rubbed into the chest."

Unfortunately, because of its disagreeable odor and taste, because it caused gastric irritation and distress, nausea and even vomiting, most clinicians were forced to abandon its use.

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Indications for Calcreose

Calcreose is indicated in bronchitis-particularly in cases which have progressed beyond the acute stage. Calcreose is especially useful in the treatment of bronchitis associated with pulmonary tuberculosis; in all acute infections of the respiratory

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Miss Graves knows her subject, presents it well, and the book is one that should be vastly more satisfying than is the average text-book on cooking for the sick.

Food Preparedness for the United States. By Charles O'Brien. Cloth, 118 pages. Little, Brown & Company, Boston, Mass. Price, 60 cents Everybody ought to read this thoughtful, sane and upbuilding book, especially all of those dear souls who are stampeded over the war. We have not, in a long time, read anything so reassuring, for it tells the unvarnished truth and shows us our weakness and our potential strength. Above all, it tells us about things we can really Do, not merely think about doing, to make this Nation great in the war and greater in the peace to come than if we had not gone to war. Mr. O'Brien has rendered a real service; and his readers will render a service to the Nation if they follow his teachings.

Some Personal Recollections of Dr. Janeway. By James Bayard Clark. Cloth, 36 pages. G. P. Putnam's Sons, 2 W. 45th St., New York. Price, $1.00.

An intimate and charming essay upon a man remarkable as a diagnostician, true physician and tolerant gentleman, this volume of recollections should furnish inspiration to every reader. Our present age needs the poise, the unselfishness and the strong simplicity of Edward Gamaliel Janeway, Physician.

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