1816 nuts as food, and a string of figures purporting to show the chemical composition and nutritive value of food. Mr. Broadbent, it appears, suffered for ten years from biliousness, "so much eventually that his friends said he had cancer of the stomach." Some months ago, he informs us, he added to a diet "largely makeshift-white bread, potatoes, and a little butter "-a fourth meal" of not more than four or five ounces bread and butter and a simple beverage eaten immediately before retiring."

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... pparentlywe say apparently, for Mr. Broadbent is not a pellucid writer-his symptoms of cancer have abated and the "dandruff which he had has vanished." " It would be easy to quote from this book passages to show that Mr. Broadbent has no particular qualifications or knowledge justifying him to aspire to instruct the public on such a topic as the prevention of disease by diet. ne Dentists Register. London : Spottiswoode and Co. 1903. Price 3s. 4d.-The Dentists Register for 1903 shows that the names of 46 L7 dentists now appear on the official roll. Of these 2106 hold qualifications from the different corporations-viz., from the Royal College of Surgeons of England (1243), the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (421), the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (274) , and the Faculty of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (168) ; while 2466 practise upon their declaration that they were in bonâ.fide practice of dentistry before July 22nd, 1878. The small residue of names are those of dentists I practising in right of medical degrees and diplomas and 1 of dentists with colonial or foreign degrees. It will be J seen that the number of dentists practising upon diplomas ] obtained by examination now amounts to over 45 per cent. of i the total number of the roll. Health and Home Nursing. By FLORENCE L. MATHER. London : James Clarke and Co. 1903. Pp. 122. Price ls. I -The articles of which this book is composed have I appeared in serial form in the Newcastle T6'eekl,y Ckroniclt. t We can understand that for publication in such form s they were very well fitted, and on the whole we think t that they are worth re-issue in a volume, for although their a information is very elementary and is contained in books u already published, still it is put in an extremely clear t1 and readable manner, while the large extent of ground li indicated by the title is covered as far as essentials are t] concerned. a .it n English Handbook to the Paris Medical School. By A. A. WARDEN, Visiting Physician to the Hertford British Hospital, Paris. London: J. and A. Churchill. 1903. Pp. 74. Price 2s.-The design of this little book is to enable the étranger to find at once the post-graduate or special medical work that he has come to Paris to pursue, and as it is written on a very comprehensible and orderly plan it should prove very useful. All the more important hospitals of Paris are set out, the names of the medical staffs are given, together with their special subjects, and the hours when they operate or lecture. A daily diary is compiled for the post-graduate student from this information, while information is added about various museums and libraries. Lord Lister and Professor W. W. Keen testify in prefatory letters to their belief that Dr. Warden's little book is wanted and we agree with them. The information is often asked for and it has Co. 1903. Pp. 59.-Surgeon-General Beatson, late Deputy-Surgeon-General of the Lahore Division, has republished in book form an interesting article upon his distinguished service which appeared last year in the Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Revie,7v. He tells the story of the early ships and chirurgeons of the East i111A1Z4 %-)VLLIPULly cum suuwa 11G vafiuc Vi UI1G acivjucs iuuuuiuu by Gabriel Broughton, surgeon of the ship Hopemell, to his country when he asked as a reward for his medical and diplomatic services at the Moghul Court liberty for the English to trade free of duty with Bengal. Broughton's talents and self-sacrificing zeal must always be regarded as having laid an essential part of the foundation of our Indian Empire. Other famous members of the Indian Medical Service whose exploits are narrated in full are J. Z. Holwell, the historian of the Black Hole," and Surgeon Fullerton, the survivor of the Taka massacre.