Price, in United States and Canada, Bound in Cloth, 16mo, Net, 75 Cents; in Great Britain, 3 Shillings; in France, 4 fr. 20. In our medical colleges the teachers of Obstetrics dwell upon the use of blood-letting (phlebotomy) in cases of puerperal convulsions, and to this method Dr. Michener and his fellows give their unqualified support-not to take a prescribed number of ounces, but to bleed for effect, and from a large orifice. This is plainly and admirably set forth in his book. To bleed requires a cutting instrument,-not necessarily a lancet, for Dr. M. states how in one case a pocket-knife was used and the desired effect produced. Let the young physician gather courage from this little book, and let the more experienced give testimony to confirm its teaching. We have always thought that this treatment was indorsed, approved, and practiced by physicians generally: and to such as doubt the efficacy of blood-letting we would commend this little volume. -Southern Clinic. The authors are seriously striving to restore the "lost art" of blood-letting, and we must commend the modesty of their endeavor.-North Carolina Med. Jour. The cases were ably analyzed, and this plea for venesection should receive the most attentive consideration from obstetricians.-Medical and Surgical Reporter. JUST READY. A MANUAL OF INSTRUCTION FOR GIVING Swedish Movement Massage BY Massage Treatment. PROF. HARTVIG NISSEN, Director of the Swedish Health Institute, Washington, D.C.; Late Instructor in Physical Culture and Gymnastics at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.; Author of "Health by Exercise without Apparatus." ILLUSTRATED WITH 29 ORIGINAL WOOD-ENGRAVINGS. In One 12mo Volume of 128 Pages. Neatly Bound in Cloth. Price, post-paid, in United States and Canada, Net, $1.00; in Great Britain, 6s. 3d.; in France, 6 fr. 20. This is the only publication in the English language treating this very important subject in a practical manner. Full instructions are given regarding the mode of applying The Swedish Movement and Massage Treatment in various diseases and conditions of the human system with the greatest degree of effectiveness. Professor Nissen is the best authority in the United States upon this practical phase of this subject, and his book is indispensable to every physician who wishes to know how to use these valuable handmaids of medicine. This manual is valuable to the practitioner, as it contains a terse description of a subject but too little understood in this country. The book is ve up very creditably.-N. Y. Med. Jour. The present volume is a modest account of the application of the Swedish Movement and Massage Treatment, in which the technique of the various procedures are clearly stated as well as illustrated in a very excellent manner. -North American Practitioner. This little manual seems to be written by an expert, and to those who desire to know the details connected with 16 the Swedish Movement and Massage we commend the book-Practice. This attractive little book presents the subject in a very practical shape, and makes it possible for every physician to understand at least how it is applied. if it does not give him dexterity in the art of its application. He can certainly acquire dexterity by following the directions so plainly advised in this book.—Chicago Med. Times, It is so practical and clear in its demonstrations that if you wish a work of this nature you cannot do better than peruse this one.-Medical Brief. (F. A. DAVIS, Medical Publisher, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.A.) The Latest and Best Physician's Account-Book Ever Published. THE PHYSICIAN'S ALL-REQUISITE TIME AND LABOR-SAVING Account-Book: BEING A LEDGER AND ACCOUNT-BOOK FOR PHYSICIANS' USE, MEETING ALL THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE LAW AND COURTS. DESIGNED BY WILLIAM A. SEIBERT, M.D., Of Easton, Pa PROBABLY no class of people lose more money through carelessly kept accounts and overlooked or neglected bills than physicians. Often detained at the bedside of the sick until late at night, or deprived of even a modicum of rest, it is with great difficulty that he spares the time or puts himself in condition to give the same care to his own financial interests that a merchant, a lawyer, or even a farmer devotes. It is then plainly apparent that a system of 'ookkeeping and accounts Chat, without sacrificing accuracy, but, on the other hand, ensuring it, at the same time relieves the keeping of a physician's book of half their complexity and two-thirds the labor, is a convenience which will be eagerly welcomed by thousands of overworked physicians. Such a sys tem has at last been devised, and we take pleasure in offering it to the profession in the form of THE PHYSICIAN'S ALL-REQUISITE TIME- AND LABOR SAVING ACCOUNT-Book. There is no exaggeration in stating that this Account-Book and Ledger reduces the labor of keeping your accounts more than one-half, and at the same time secures the greatest degree of accuracy. We may mention a few of the superior advantages of THE PHYSICIAN'S ALLREQUISITE TIME- AND LABOR- SAVING ACCOUNT-BOOK, as follow: Second Self-explanatory; no cipher code. Fourth-No posting; one entry only. time of year, and can be continued indefinitely until every account is filled. Sixth-Absolutely no waste of space. Seventh-One person must needs be sick every day of the year to fill his account, or might be ten years about it and require no more than the space for one account in this ledger. Eighth-Double the number and many times more than the number of accounts in any similar book; the 300-page book contains space for 900 accounts, and the 600-page book contains space for 1800 accounts. Ninth-There are no smaller spaces. Eleventh-Uniform size of leaves. To all physicians desiring a quick, accurate, and comprehensive method of keeping their accounts, we can safely say that no book as suitable as this one has ever been devised. A descriptive circular showing the plan of the book will be sent on application. NET PRICES, SHIPPING EXPENSES PREPAID. No. 1. 300 Pages, for 900 Accouuts per Year, Size 10x12, Bound in 1⁄4-Russia, Raised In U. S. $5.00 Canada (F. A. DAVIS, Medical Publisher, Philadelphia, Pa, U.S.A.) PHYSICIANS' INTERPRETER IN FOUR LANGUAGES. (ENGLISH, FRENCH, GERMAN, AND ITALIAN.) Specially Arranged for Diagnosis by M. von V. The object of this little work is to meet a need often keenly felt by the busy physician, namely, the need of some quick and reliable method of communicating intelligibly with patients of those nationalities and languages unfamiliar to the practitioner. The plan of the book is a systematic arrangement of questions upon the various branches of Practical Medicine, and each question is so worded that the only answer required of the patient is merely YES or No. The questions are all numbered, and a complete Index renders them always available for quick reference. The book is written by one who is well versed in English, French, German, and Italian, being an excellent teacher in all those languages, and who has also had considerable hospital experience. Bound in Full Russia Leather, for Carrying in the Pocket. (Size, 5x2} Inches.) 206 Pages. Price, post-paid, in United States and Canada, 81.09, net; Great Britain, 4s. 6d.; France, 6 fr. 20. To convey some idea of the scope of the questions contained in the Physicians' Interpreter, we append the Index : The work is well done, and calculated to be of great service to those who wish to acquire familiarity with the phrases used in questioning patients. More than this, we believe it would be a great help in acquiring a vocabulary to be used in roading medical books, and that it would furnish an excellent basis for beginning a study of any one of the languages which it includes.-Medical and Šurgical Reporter. Many other books of the same sort. with more extensive vocabularies, have been published, but, from their size, and from their being usually devoted to equivalents in English and one other language only, they have not had the advantage which is pre-eminent in this-convenience. It is handsomely printed, and bound in flexible red leather in the form of a diary. It would scarcely make itself felt in one's hip-pocket, and would insure its bearer against any ordinary conversational difficulty in dealing with foreignspeaking people, who are constantly coming into our city hospitals.-New York Medical Journal. In our larger cities, and in the whole Northwest, the physiolan is constantly meeting with immigrant patients, to whom it is difficult for him to make himself understood, or to know what they say in return. This difficulty will 18 be greatly obviated by use of this little work.-The Physician and Surgeon. The phrases are well selected, and one might practice long without requiring more of these languages than this little book furnishes.-Phila. Medical Times. How often the physician is called to attend those with whom the English language is unfamiliar, and many phy sicians are thus deprived of the means, save through an interpreter, of arriving at a correct knowledge on which to base a diagnosis. An interpreter is not always at hand, but with this pocket interpreter in your hand you are able to ask all the questions necessary, and receive the answer in such manner that you will be able to fully comprehend. -The Medical Brief, This little volume is one of the most ingenious aide to the physician which we have seen. We heartily com mend the book to any one who, being without a knowledg of the foreign languages, is obliged to treat those who de not know our own language.-St. Louis Courier of Medi cine. It will rapidly supersede, for the practical use of the doctor who cannot take the time to learn another language all other suggestive works.-Chicago Medical Times. (F. A. DAVIS, Medical Publisher, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.A.) An Important Aid to Students in the Study of Anatomy. THREE CHARTS OF The Nervo-Vascular System. PART I.-THE NERVES. PART II.-THE ARTERIES. PART III.—THE VEINS. ARRANGED BY W. HENRY PRICE, A.M., M.D., AND S. POTTS EAGLETON. ENDORSED BY LEADING ANATOMISTS. PRICE, IN THE UNITED STATES AND CANADA, 50 CENTS, NET, COMPLETE; GREAT BRITAIN, 2s. 6d. FRANCE, 3 fr. 60. "THE NERVO-VASCULAR SYSTEM OF CHARTS" far Excels Every Other System in their Completeness, Compactness, and Accuracy. Part I. The Nerves.-Gives in a clear form not only the Cranial and Spinal Nerves, showing the formation of the different Plexuses and their branches, but also the complete distribution of the SYMPATHETIC NERVES, thereby making it the most complete and concise chart of the Nervous System yet published. Part II. The Arteries.-Gives a unique grouping of the Arterial System, showing the divisions and subdivisions of all the vessels, beginning from the heart and tracing their coNTINUOUS distribution to the periphery, and showing at a glance the terminal branches of each artery. Part III. The Veins.-Shows how the blood from the periphery. of the body is gradually collected by the larger veins, and these coalescing forming still larger vessels, until they finally trace themselves into the Right Auricle of the heart. It is therefore readily seen that "The Nervo-Vascular System of Charts" offers the following superior advantages: 1. It is the only arrangement which combines the Three Systems, and yet each is perfect and distinct in itself. 2. It is the only instance of the Cranial, Spinal, and Sympathetic Nervous Systems being represented on one chart. 3. From its neat size and clear type, and being printed only upon one side, it may be tacked up in any convenient place, and is always ready for freshening up the memory and reviewing for examination. 4. The nominal price for which these charts are sold places them within the reach of all. For the student of anatomy there can possibly be no more concise way of acquiring a knowledge of the nerves, veins, and arteries of the human system. It presents at a glance their trunks and branches in the great divisions of the body. It will save a world of tedious reading, and will impress itself on the mind as no ordinary rude merum, even, could. Its price is nominal and its value inestiinable. No student should be without it.-Pacific Record of Medicine and Surgery. We take pleasure in calling attention to these charts, as they are so arranged that a study of them will serve to impress them more indelibly on your mind than can be gained in any other way. They are also valuable for reference.-Medical Brief. These are three admirably arranged charts for the use of students, to assist in memorizing their anatomical studies.-Buffalo Med. and Surg. Jour. This is a series of charts of the nerves, arteries, and veins of the human body, giving names, origins, distributions, and functione, very convenient as memorizers and reminders. A similar series, prepared by the late J. H. Armsby, of Albany, N. Y., and framed, long found a place in the study of the writer, and on tore than one occasion was the means of saving precicas moments that must otherwise have been devoted to tumbling the pages of anatomical works.—Med. Age. These three charts will be of great assistance to medical students. They can be hung on the wall and read across any ordinary room. The price is only fifty cents for the set. Practice. These charts have been carefully arranged, and will prove to be very convenient for ready reference. They are three in number, each constituting a part. It is a high recommendation that these charts have been examined and approved by John B. Deaver, M.D., Demonstrator of Anatomy in the University of Pennsylvania.Pacific Med. and Surg. Jour. and Western Lancet. (F. A. DAVIS Medical Publisher Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.A.) 19 DISEASES OF THE Heart and Circulation IN INFANCY AND ADOLESCENCE. With an Appendix entitled “Clinical Studies on the Pulse in Childhood." -BY JOHN M. KEATING, M.D., Obstetrician to the Philadelphia Hospital, and Lecturer on Diseases of Women and Children; Surgeon to the Maternity Hospital; Physician to St. Joseph's Hospital; Fellow of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, etc., -AND WILLIAM A. EDWARDS, M.D., Instructor in Clinical Medicine and Physician to the Medical Dispensary in the University of Pennsylvania; ILLUSTRATED BY PHOTOGRAPHS AND WOOD-ENGRAVINGS. About 225 Pages. 8vo. Bound in Cloth. Price, post-paid, in U. S. and Canada, 81.50, net; Great Britain, 6s. 6d. ; France, 9 fr. 35. There are many excellent text-books on children's diseases, but they have failed to give a satisfactory account of the diseases of the heart; and, indeed, as far as known, this work of Keating and Edwards' now presented to the profession is the only systematic attempt that has been made to collect in book form the abundant material which is scattered throughout medical literature in the form of journal articles, clinical lectures, theses, and reports of societies. The authors have endeavored, in their difficult task, to collect these valuable materials and place them within easy reach of those who are interested in this important subject. That they have succeeded will, we believe, be conceded by all who obtain and make use of their very valuable contribution to this hitherto neglected field of medical literature. An appendix, entitled "Clinical Studies on the Pulse in Childhood," follows the index in the book, and will, we are sure, be found of much real value to every practitioner of medicine. The work is made available for ready reference by a well-arranged index. We append the table of contents showing the scope of the book: CONTENTS CHAPTER I.-The Methods of Study-Instruments- CHAPTER II.-Acute and Chronic Endocarditis- CHAPTER IPL.-Acute and Chronic Pericarditis. dium-Hamopericardium-Pneumopericardium, CHAPTER V.-Myocarditis-Tumors, New Growths, and Parasites CHAPTER VI.-Valvular Disease: Mitral, Aortic, Pulmonary, and Tricuspid. Drs. Keating and Edwards have produced a work that will give material aid to every doctor in his practice among children. The style of the book is graphic and pleasing, the diagnostic points are explicit and exact, and the therapeutical resources include the novelties of medicine as well as the old and tried agents.-Pittsburgh Med. Review. A very attractive and valuable work has been given to the medical profession by Drs. Keating and Edwards, in their treatise on the diseases of the heart and circulation in infancy and adolescence, and they deserve the greatest credit for the admirable manner in which they have collected, reviewed, and made use of the immense amount of material on this important subject.-Archives of Pediatrics. The plan of the work is the correct one, viz., the supplementing of the observations of the better class of prac titioners by the experience of those who have given the subject systematic attention.-Medical Age. 0 It is not a mere compilation, but a systematic treatise, and bears evidence of considerable labor and observation on the part of the authors. Two fine photographs of dissections exhibit mitral stenosis and mitral regurgitation; there are also a number of wood-cuts.-Cleveland Medical Gazette. As the works upon diseases of children give little or no attention to diseases of the heart, this work of Drs. Keating and Edwards will supply a want. We think that there will be no physician, who takes an interest in the affections of young folks, who will not wish to consult it. -Cincinnati Med. News. The work takes up, in an able and scientific manner, disenses of the heart in children. This is a part of the field of medical science which has not been cultivated to the extent that the importance of the subject deserves Canada Lancet. (F. A. DAVIS, Medical Publisher, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.A.) |