O.CT. I0~908.] NOTES ON BOOKS. THz Blmsi 1107 mueh of the high regard in which he was held by his countrymen to his zeal in furthering the welfare and the education of medical men. He was well equipped for public work, as he was a strong maan, full of energy, and of firm belief in his own ideals, but though, as Dr. Dana states, most militant, he received during Ihis life many tributes of widespread esteem. From the contents of this book a good idea may be gained of the importance of the New

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... Polyclinic and the extent of the opportunities it affords for efficient postgraduate instruction. The writers, about fifty in number, are all members of the teachina staff, and those dealing with clinical subjects have evidently found in the hospital attached to the school abundant and varied material. The contributions are, as a rule, devoted to subjects of practical interest, and refer to such kinds of disease and injury as are most likely to be met with in ordinary practice. The ground covered -by the writers is wide, as the list of contents includes, with the usuaLi subjects of a work of this kind, papers on the feeding of infants and on the moral responsibility of inebriates. Gynaecology is well represented in this list, and, as is fitting in this dedicatory work, there are several excellent articles on diseases of the eye and ear. Dr. Brooks, the editor of the volume, has collected much useful and instructive material. The papers for the most part are very practical, concise, and pithy. In the contributions to surgical subjects there is little, if any, reference to rare cases and to operations of the heroic and radical tyr e. There are, -we think, some omissions in this collection of papers. Taking it as a summary of work done in the wi-ards of the post-graduate hospital, and a review of modern treatlmlent in its application to common affections, we might have expected among other things some reference to cancer of the breast and the prospects of its cure by free operation. The absence of any paper of purely scientific import, and the scanty notes of laboratory work, tend to colnfirm the statement made by Dr. Douglass in his interestineg paper on the post-graduate studcent, tllat while real and earnest wvork can be done best in the post-graduate schools of the United States, there can be no doubt that pathological and laboratory work is better done in some other countries. This book, though bulky, has no ilndex andl no list of illus--trations. It needs, moreover, a suitable and informing introduction in the shape of an editorial preface. DERMATOLOGY. DR. W. A. PUSEY of Chicago lhas entered the dermatoloaical lists with a work on The Principles and Practice of Dermatology.10 The first part is devol ed to a survey of -the principles, and is well done, especially as regards tlle anatomy, wlhichl is illustrated by diagrams, etc., from various sources and by very good preparations from the author's collection. As to the practice, which makes up the greater part of the present work, taking them all round the descriptions of the various diseases and morbid conditions are terse and to the point, and the clinical illustrations very satisfactory, muany of Them, indeed, being extremely good. The text includes a short review of the acute exanthemata, which is useful, altlhough belonging strictly to purely medical textbooks; yet from the point of view of differential diagnosis an account of them with tlle conlparative table is niot out of place here. In the remarks on the treatment of syphilis the author recomimiends the injectioln of soluble rather than insoluble preparations of mnercury; he injects them hypodermically and not into the muscle. Notwithstanding Dr. Pusey's personal preference, tllere can be no doubt about the great value of intramuscular injections of insoluble preparations. In ally case the hypoderiuic method, as opposed to intramuscular, cannot be recolumenlded. Among the atlases devoted to diseases of the skin that of ir. GEORGE HENRY Fox of New York"1 is destined to occupy a position in the front rank, both fromii the point of view of the excellent coloured photographs and the terseness of 10 The Priwinples and Practice of Dermatology. Comlpany. (Demy 4to. Price 25s. each vol.) the text accompanying them. Photographs such as these, representing actual living cases, and beautifully coloured as they are, give a better idea of morbid conditions than either coloured drawings or reproductions of models. It is only possible to repeat now what was said in reviews of earlier editions-namely, that the work, both in its conception and in its carrying out, reflects great credit on the author and all concerned in its production. The plates, it may be observed, are mainly devoted to a portrayal of the common forms of skin diseases, but representations of a few rare but well-known diseases, such as mycosis fungoides, etc., have been added. In the present edition an attempt has been made to show as many of the varying clinical appearances of individual affections as possible, with very good results for the atlas as a work of reference. Further, various diseases affecting certain portions of the body have been grouped in order to assist in diagnosis. The atlas can be strongly recommended. NOTES ON BOOKS. THE first volume of the eighteenth series of International Cliinics for 1908 12 contains a group of papers, of which most, if not all, are of considerable interest. Among others especially deserving of attention are one on the value of the opsonic test for diagnosis and of the employment of vaccines in certaini infective conditions in children by Dr. A. Dingwr,=all Fordyce; one on the paratyphoid fevers by Dr. James Wilsoni; one on the normiial temperature of the body by Dr. R. D. Rudolf; one on fracture of the spine by Dr. George Walton; and one on the etiolog,y of haemoglobinuric fever by Dr. W. H. Deadericl. The volume contains also an abstract of Sir Dyce Duclkworth's views on textural proclivities and iimmunity, the personal factor in medicine. Besides the original papers there is an epitome of the progress of medicine during 1907, dealing not only with medicine proper, but also with surgery. The second volunme is chiefly interesting on account of a series of papers oni treatimlent: one on the treatment of scarlet fever, includilng the prophvlactic measures necessary to prevent comlplications, by Dr. Louis Fischer; one on the treatment of syphilis by atoxyl by Dr. H. Hallopeau; one on the use of bacterial vaccinies by Dr. E. Turton; one oni the seruim treatm-lenit of bacillary dysentery b-y Dr. Vaillard and Dr. Dopter; andI one oni the treatlmienit of haem--oglobinuric fever by Dr. AV. H. Deaderick. Other sections include paperson m'nedicine, surgery, gyrnaecology, ophthalmology and pathology, but no one of lilore than orldinary importance. A Supplemient to the Britis7h P7harm?aceutical Codex13 has recently been issued containing the newT mliatter necessary to bring the original issue of the work up to dlate. This Suppleinent embodies the results gathered from the large amount of criticism, conistructive alndI otherw-ise, to wlich the wvork has been subjected since its appearance, and comprises corrections of a number of errors, mostly of minor importance-alterations in a few% of the formulae which experience has shown to be desirable, a considerable number of new formulae, and information with regard to new substances which have come into use since the Codex was published. It has evidently been the aim of the compilers to include every adldition or alteration which can be considered an ilmprovement, with the result that the Supplement contains a good deal of mnatter; very little of this, however, points to any real inaccuracy in the original work. The continual introdluctioni of new substances inlto mnedicine, and of imp-Xprovelments in the preparation of established remedies, malie very desirable the appearanice at short intervals of a compact sumnimary of recent w-ork. For those -who w-ish to have their reference book on medicin-es brought up to date a copy of this Supplement is indispensable; it is in the form of a papercovered pamphlet, the pages being of the same size as those of the Codex, so that it can conveniently be attached inside the cover of the latter. 1l2niter7zational Clinics. Edited bi, W. T. Longcope, M.D. Vols. i and ii. Eighteenth Series. 1908. Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Comipany. 1908. (Roy. 8vo, pp. 322 and 312 respectively. Four quarterly vols. 35s.) 13 Supplemevt to t7he British Ph7arm)zaceittical Coder, 1907, including additions, alterations, and corrections. Ptiblished by the Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain at 72, Great Russell Street, London, W.C. 1908. (Demy 8vo, pi). 62. Price Is.) HIs MIAJESTY has granted pernlission to Dr. Vincent Dickinson to accept and wear the Order of Chevalier of the Crown of Italy, conferred upoln him by the King of Italy in recogniition of his services as Physician to the Italian Hospital.