Sendziak, John (Warsaw).-The Malignant Laryngeal Tumours [Carcinomaia, Sarcomata): their Diagnosis and Treatment. IN our last issue we published the conclusions, in all forty-five in number, at which Dr. Sendziak had arrived in this important work. The issues, however, are of such importance that it is impossible to pass over this treatise with a mere reference to the conclusions at which he has arrived, and so we deem it advisable to draw the attention of workers in our special department to a

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... more detailed reference to some of the conclusions. The author has collected much valuable information relating to four hundred and fifty-two cases of carcinoma, and fifty of sarcoma, and has laid the profession under a deep obligation for the great labour he must ha\ r e undergone to put such magnificent material on record. The first chapter is devoted to a somewhat brief historical record of the subject, the second deals with the etiology, the third with the pathological anatomy, the fourth with the symptomatology, the fifth deals with the course of the affection, the sixth with the diagnosis, the seventh with the prognosis, the eighth with the therapeutics. The work is divided into two sections, the first dealing with carcinoma and the second with sarcoma, and he has pursued a similar course in the following chapters, from the history of the affection to the therapeutics in referring to the latter affection. Following this we have a reference to the works bearing upon the subject, and literature generally, amounting in all to six hundred and forty-four different names. In addition, Dr. Sendziak has compiled tables of statistics bearing upon thyrotomy, partial and unilateral extirpation, total extirpation, comparisons of the results of different operations in sarcoma ; and following the same order of the general arrangement of the book, he also gives us tables bearing upon these different points in sarcomatous affections. Last of all, we have tables giving comparative results of operations m sarcoma and carcinoma of the larynx. When we say that throughout the work the same interest is exhibited in arrangement, compilation of tables, references to literature, and deductions from the valuable facts which he has placed before the profession, one can get some idea of the enormous task which Dr. Sendziak took upon himself, and we are bound to acknowledge at once the success which has attended him in his labours. A tie collection of such a mass of material in itself, as we all know, must have entailed an amount of labour which can only be fully appreciated by the author ; but he has his reward in the fact that he has placed before the profession an historical work which is bound to have an immense influence, not only in the literature of the subject for all time to come, but in the practice of laryngeal surgery. Dr. Sendziak will understan us when we say that there are certain parts of the work about which something more could be said with advantage, such as in the chapter on the history of these affections. The etiology has been well written, but, Journal of Laryngology,