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1004 Cross, as well as much miscellaneous information, as, for example, on the Beat Mode of Preparing Microscopic Eye Specimens by Mr. Devereux Marshall, the Varieties and Degrees of Colour-blindness by Dr. Edridge-Green, and an account of a model illustrating Tscherning’s theory of accommodation. Altogether it must be regarded as a very well edited volume. LIBRARY TABLE. A Practical Tttreatisc on Materia Medica and Therapeutics. ( By ROBERTS BARTHOLOW, M.A., M.D., Professor Emeritus of Materia Medica, General Therapeutics, and Hygiene in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. Ninth edition. London : H. K. Lewis. 1898. Pp. 866. Price 21s.-That a medical work should have reached a ninth edition is sufficient proof that its author has succeeded in his endeavour to supply a book which shall meet the require- ments of students of medicine of all grades. We need not therefore enter into the general merits of the present volume. In preparing this edition it has been found necessary to enlarge the work by forty-five pages. Additions and altera- tions have been made at all points to dispose of the new material which has accumulated by the observations made on the action of various drugs. Especially is this the case in reference to synthetical remedies which organic chemistry has produced and is producing in increasing numbers. Good descriptions of such substances will be found scattered through the work. The book, as usual, is well brought out, the general arrangement, indices, and style of printing being all that could be desired. Climactic Treatment in Grand Canary. By BRIAN MELLAND, M.Sc.Vict., M.B.Lond. London and Manchester: John Heywood. 1897. Pp. 40.-The experience gained by upwards of seven years’ medical practice in Las Palmas, the chief town of Grand Canary, has convinced the author that the climate of the island is an ideal one for the treatment of early pulmonary phthisis-that is, when there is consoli- dation but cavities have not yet formed. The island is very mountainous, rising in the centre (which is only eighteen miles from the coast) to a height of more than 6000 feet, and it is the rainless summer climate at an elevation of from 1300 ft. to 3000 ft. which he specially recommends for phthisical patients. In Teneriffe, which lies some fifty miles westward, there is considerably more rain in the course of the year than in Grand Canary. Ample information as to the means of reaching the island and the’places to stay at when there will be found in this little book. Mother, Baby, and Nursery.. a Manual for Mothers. By GENEVIEVE TUCKER, M.D. London : T. Fisher Unwin. 1897. Price 3s. 6d. - This little book has been written as a guide to mothers, particularly young and inexperienced ones. "It is not intended in any measure to take the place of a physician, but rather to aid the physician in teaching the mother to care properly for her babe when well that she may better nurse it when sick." We do not quite see how a description of tying the cord at birth will be particularly useful to the mother, but if it is to be mentioned the description should be clear. Here after saying "the cord is tied and severed," &o., we read about half a page further on that I in the meantime the cord has ceased to pulsate and is ready to be ligatured with a strong white string of coarse thread." From which the inexperienced young mother would probably understand that the cord has to be cut twice. There is a great deal of good advice, espe- cially as to feeding, in the book, but more details as to simple measures would have been desirable in describing the treat- ment of infantile constipation which is often a cause of trouble and anxiety to young mothers. The author affects what may be called the nursery style of writing ; thus we find a good deal about the little stranger " and each chapter is headed by a few lines of poetry more or less appro. priate, or otherwise, such as- Like genders like; potatoes ’taters breed; Uncostly cabbages come from cabbage seed." A curious feature of the book is the bewildering number of pictures of babies, sometimes four on a page, so that it would not be amiss to say that the book consists largely of well-worn (though useful) platitudes with illustrations of babies in photographic attitudes. But doubtless the book will be useful to those for whom it is intended. The Sanitarian. Vol. xl., No. 340. Price 35 cents. The American News Company, New York.-The volume contains amongst other articles a useful paper by Dr. Bermingham on Hygiene and Diet for the Pulmonary Invalids, and one by Dr. Meade Bolton on the Vitality of Pathogenic Germs in Water and Other Media, in which he insists that in all probability pathogenic germs have but a brief life in water. Mr. E. W. Thirkell contributes a paper of interest on the ventilation of mines, and Foetal Murder is the title of an article by Dr. H. R. Storer, in which it appears to us that the evidence adduced as to the falling off in the increase of the American population being due to premature births of infants is somewhat slender. This question of variations in the birth-rate is a complicated one and it can hardly be attributed to any one factor. In taking up this position we in no sense disagree with Dr. Storer as to the necessity of controlling this practice-apparently all too common-of sacrificing foetal life. Paolo dal Pozzo Toseanelli: una biografca da PIETRO GORI. (Paolo dal Pozzo Toseanelli: a Biography, by PIETRO GORI.) Firenze : R. Bemporad e Figlio. 1898.-Amerigo Vespucci : : narrazione storica da GIUSEPPE CONTI. (Arraerigo Vespucci : : historical narration, by GIUSEPPE CONTI.) Firenze : R. Bemporad e Figlio. 1898.-These two handy volumes appear opportunely to prepare the world for the quatercentenary commemoration of the two great Tuscan geographers and explorers to be held in Florence from April 17th to 27th. They will also be serviceable in view of the third Congress of Italian Geography, which rises just before the commemoration referred to-a congress of peculiar interest to the English-speaking world as dealing largely with the " Dark Continent" and the Malayo-Polynesian Archipelago and of not less interest to the medical calling as giving much attention to meteorology and the 11 physical conditions of climate." On this account it is to be regretted that its sittings will be almost contemporaneous with those of the International Con- gress of Hygiene and Demography to meet at Madrid. Historians of medicine vie with each other in pointing out the accessions made to materia medica by the geo- graphical discoveries, mainly due to Italians in the western hemisphere, and it is interesting to note how many of these Italians were schooled in the sciences on which the healing art rests. Signor Gori tells us, for example, that his hero, Toscanelli, was not only trained in physics, but also, with his brother Piero, graduated in Arts and Medicine at Padua- was, in fact, a 11 medico valentissimo " whose quest for new remedial agents, as for " spezie " and "droghe" in general, was a powerful incentive to maritime and inland exploration. Vespucci, also (as Signor Conti puts in evidence), was reared in a " physical and medical atmos- phere," and when reporting the results of his first voyage from the Canaries "circa mille leghe aIl’Occidente" " describes the therapeutics prevalent among the savages among whom he landed and particularly their recourse to the cold affusion " da capo a piede " in fever. The growing necessities of a re-awakened healing art and of a civilisation yearning after moral horizons and ideals ampler and nobler than those offered by a worn-out tradition evoked, in fact,
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