duces to the well-being of the body and refinement is duly enlarged upon. To these stores of popular information is added a list of the best medicated soaps and toilet soaps, and a whole chapter of the work is devoted to household remedies. The work is largely suggestive, and gives wise and timely advice as to when a physician should be consulted, and is a most excellent work to place on the waiting room table, as well as in the library of every physician. PRINCIPLES OF SURGERY. By N. SENN, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Principles of Surgery and Surgical Pathology in Rush Medical College, Chicago, Ill.; Professor of Surgery in the Chicago Polyclinic; Attending Surgeon to the Milwaukee Hospital; Consulting Surgeon to the Milwaukee County Hospital and to the Milwaukee County Insane Asylum. In one handsome royal octavo volume, with 109 fine wood engravings and 624 pages. Price, in cloth, $4.50 net; sheep or one-half russia, $5.50 net. F. A. Davis, Publisher, 1231 Filbert Street, Philadelphia. 1890. This work, by one of America's greatest surgeons, is thoroughly complete; its clearness and brevity of statement are among its conspicuous merits. The author's long, able and conscientious researches in every direction in this important field are a guarantee of unusual trustworthiness, that every branch of the subject is treated authoritatively and in such a manner as to bring the greatest gain in knowledge to the practitioner and student. It has already been placed on the list of text-books of several medical colleges in the United States. Physicians and surgeons alike should not deprive themselves of this very important work. A critical examination of the wood engravings (109 in number) will reveal the fact that they are thoroughly accurate and produced by the best artistic ability. THE DAUGHTER. In Health, Education, and Wedlock. Homely Suggestions to Mothers and Daughters. By WILLIAM M. CAPP, M.D. 12mo, cloth, pp. 150. Price, $1. F. A. Davis, 1231 Filbert Street, Philadelphia. 1891. It is just such a book as a family physician would advise his lady patients to obtain and read. It answers many questions which every busy practitioner of medicine has put to him in the sick room at a time when it is neither expedient nor wise to impart the information_sought. It will not mar the most proper womanly modesty or refined feelings, and may wisely be put into the hands of any woman or girl; is a book for the family; will bear repeated readings and will be useful to refer to in emergencies. DISEASES OF THE DIGESTIVE ORGANS IN INFANCY AND CHILDHOOD, with Chapters on the investigation of Disease; the diet and general management of children, and massage in Pediatrics, by Louis STARR, M. D., late Clinical Professor of Diseases of Children in the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania; Physician to the Children's Hospital, Philadelphia; Consulting Pediatrist to the Maternity Hospital, Philadelphia, etc., 8vo, cloth, Second Edition. Illustrated. P. Blakiston, Son & Co., Publishers, Philadelphia. 1891. In this work it is the author's object to give prominence to a class of disorders constituting a large proportion of the ailments of childhood, too often briefly considered in works of this class. For the successful treatment of the diseases of the digestive organs in infancy and childhood, attention to the general regimen is quite as important as the administration of drugs, and it is upon the former that too little instruction is usually given. In preparing the second edition of this work, the author, while endeavoring to bring the subject matter thoroughly abreast of the times, has deemed it admissible to make some re-arrangement of the original text, and to add a quantity of new material. The chief additions consist of a section on alterations in the odor of the breath in disease; a section on urine alterations; a chapter on massage in pediatrics, and a detailed account of second dentition and its influence on the health in late childhood—a subject heretofore greatly neglected. It is thoroughly individual, original and earnest, and will constitute a safe and reliable, guide, and is in many ways most admirably adapted to the wants of both student and practitioner. ESSENTIALS OF SURGERY. Together with a Full Description of the Handkerchief and Roller Bandage. Arranged in the form of Questions and Answers. Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine.. By EDWARD MARTIN, A.M., M.D., Instructor in Operative Surgery, University of Pennsylvania; Surgeon to the Howard Hospital; Assistant Surgeon to the University Hospital. Illustrated. Fourth Edition. Revised and enlarged by an appendix containing full directions and prescriptions for the preparation of the various materials used in Antiseptic Surgery. Also, several hundred receipts covering the medical treatment of surgical affections, 12mo, cloth, pp. 334. Price, $1.00. W. B. Saunders, Pub lishers, 913 Walnut Street. Philadelphia. Saunders' Question Compend No. 2, does certainly contain the Essentials of Surgery so far as known and practiced at the present time. It contains much valuable information, and while prepared especially for medical students, will prove of value for quick and ready reference by practitioners who have not time or opportunity to consult more voluminous works. DIABETES: Its Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment. By Charles W. Purdy, M.D., Queen's University; Hon. Fellow of the Royal College Physicians and Surgeons, Kingston; Member of the Royal College Physicians and Surgeons, Ontario; Author of "Bright's Disease and Allied Affections," etc. With Clinical Illustrations. 12mo, cloth, pp. 184 Price, $1.25. F. A. Davis, Publisher, Philadelphia. 1890. A very excellent little work, furnishing the physician and student with the present status of our knowledge of diabetes in such practical and concise form as shall best meet the daily requirements of practice; and the result of careful study and observation on the part of the author, extending over a period of more than twenty years. THE reader of this number will please refer to the mailing wrapper, and see if it is not in order to renew his subscription. Remember $1 a year is the price of this journal. Valedictory Address at the Last Commencement of the Medical Department of, the University of Tennessee, February 24, 1891. By T. J. Dodson, M. D., of Texas. Cocaine in Urethral Surgery. By W. Frank Glenn, M.D. THE SOUTHERN PRACTITIONER. AN INDEPENDENT MONTHLY JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO MEDICINE AND SURGERY SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, ONE DOLLAR PER YEAR BY A. J. SWANEY, M. D., OF GALLATIN, ΤΕΝΝ. The dangers from retained placenta in miscarriage are hemorrhage and septicemia. When the delivery of the placenta is prolonged, ought we still to abstain, ought we to wait, or ought we to interfere actively in order to forestall these dangers which almost infallibly will result and further interfere at a time when it is far easier, than later when we may be forced to action. Such is the problem, the answer to which divides obstetricians. into two opposing forces. One insists on active intervention to deliver the placenta as soon as possible, and thus avert these dangers. The other, having a deep faith in the powers of nature, only allows interference when these complications become *Read at the fifty-eighth annual meeting of the Tennessee State Medical Society. |