The temperature fell to 100 degrees. After sleeping the early part of the night the patient died suddenly on November 12th, at 3.30 A. M. Autopsy in the afternoon showed recent pleuritic adhesions, with normal lungs and abdominal viscera. The two abscesses did not communicate with each other directly; cavities in the vertebral bodies communicated with the sac of the second abscess, which extended along the anterior and lateral aspects of the vertebræ and downward behind the pleura and almost surrounded the esophagus. The pleural cavity was not invaded. There had been no paralysis; the cord was found to be pretty good in consistency all the way up. He had seen no less than six children die unexpectedly in the night with abscesses arising in this location from carious vertebræ. Autopsies had not made clear the cause of death.

Dr. Myers referred to the case (related at the meeting of March 18, 1898. See the American Practitioner and News, October 15, 1898, Vol. XXVI, page 256) of a boy seven years of age affected with vertebral disease in this location, and an abscess discharging in the posterior triangle, whose temperature, on repeated trials, rose when the boy was up and fell when his lying down faclitated the drainage of the abscess.

Reviews and Bibliography.

Lessons on the Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene of Infancy and Childhood. Consisting of extracts from lectures given at Rush Medical College. By Alfred C. COTTON, A. M., M. D., Professor of Diseases of Children; Accoucheur and Physician for Diseases of Children, Presbyterian Hospital; Staff Member of the Central Free Dispensary and the Cook County Hospital; President of the Chicago Pediatric Society; Member of the American Pediatric Society, etc. 100 illustrations; cloth, $1.50 net, postpaid. Chicago Medical Book Co., Chicago, Ill.

This book fills a long-felt want for a concise presentation of accepted. facts in this important field of study. To those who have known this eminent teacher of pediatrics during the past twenty years, no further introduction is necessary.

Wainwright's Urinary Diagnosis. By J. W. WAINWRIGHT, M. D., Member of the American Medical Association, New York State Medical Association, New York County Medical Association, etc. Illustrated with numerous engravings and colored plates.

140 pp. Price, $1.00 net.

This book gives not only all the usual methods of urinary examination, but introduces also a new feature in works of this character, viz., a discus

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Among the subjects discussed are the following: Composition and Physical Character of the Urine; Normal Constituents of Urine; Abnormal Constituents; the Microscope and Microscopical Technique; Qualitative Analysis of Urinary Calculi; Bright's Disease, Diabetes, Gout, and Other Conditions and Their Treatment; Favorite Prescriptions, etc.

We highly recommend this work as one of the very best yet published. Progressive Medicine. Volume IV, 1900. A Quarterly Digest of Advances, Discoveries, and Improvements in the Medical and Surgical Sciences. Edited by HOBART AMORY HARE, M. D., Professor of Therapeutics and Materia Medica in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. Octavo, handsomely bound in cloth, 428 pages, 69 illustrations. Per annum, in four cloth-bound volumes, $10.00. Philadelphia and New York: Lea Brothers & Co.

This volume is fully up to the high standard of its predecessors, and embraces the following subjects: Diseases of Digestive Tract and Allied Organs, the Liver, Pancreas, and Peritoneum; Genito-Urinary Diseases and Syphilis; Fractures, Dislocations, Amputations, Surgery of the Extremities, and Orthopedics; Diseases of the Kidneys; Physiology; Hygiene; Practical Therapeutic Referendum. We know of no work so valuable for ready reference when we wish the very latest information on any subject as this series of volumes.

The American Text-Book of Physiology. Second edition. In two volumes. By ten of the Leading Physiologists of America. Edited by WILLIAM H. HOWELL, Ph. D., M. D., Professor of Physiology in the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. Prices per vol.: Cloth, $3.00 net; half morocco, $3.75 net. Volume I just ready, Vol. II ready shortly. Now for sale by the trade.

Even in the short time that has elapsed since the appearance of the first edition, much progress has been made in physiology, and the work has been thoroughly revised to keep pace with this progress. The section on the Central Nervous System has been rewritten, and a chapter on Physical Chemistry has been added. Numerous new illustrations have been introduced.

Volume I of the above work is at hand. The division of it into two volumes is certainly an advantage to both student and physician, especially to the former. The chapter on the fluids and their movements is the best we have ever seen. The portion devoted to osmosis is clear and succinct, and, we may say in passing, that this is usually one of the difficult problems for beginners to understand. The philosophy of osmosis as treated gives the facts desired, and will enable the student to understand internal or tissue respiration, and with this the assimilation and incorporation of the nutrient materials, as well as their removal, after having exercised their rôle. The article on the secretions is well written, and the digestion of fats is elaborated in a way that can not but prove satisfactory and profitable. Likewise

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When the first edition of Green's Pathology appeared, it at once became the favorite text-book for medical students, and since that time it has easily maintained that position both in England and America. The frequent revisions that have been called for have enabled the author and editors to keep the book fully abreast of the times, and this ninth edition. will be found more than ever to meet all the wants of the student of medicine.

The chapter on diseases of the blood describing the different blood-tests, and clearly demonstrating the different pathological changes that take place in the blood in the different diseases that the human body is heir to, is in itself enough to compensate the student for time and money spent, and when we look at the index and see the field of pathological conditions covered, we can safely say that the work is all that the author claims for it. Essentials of Diagnosis. Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers. Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine. By SOLOMON SALIS COHEN, M. D., Professor of Chemical Medicine and Therapeutics in the Philadelphia Polyclinic; Lecturer on Clinical Medicine in the Jefferson Medical College; Physician to the Philadelphia Hospital and to the Rush Hospital for Consumptives, etc., and AUGUSTUS A. ESHNER, M. D., Professor of Clinical Medicine in the Polyclinic; Physician to the Philadelphia Hospital. Illustrated. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Price, $1.00. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders & Co.

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First, the histological make-up of the subject is mirrored in splendid form, and then an exhaustive consideration is given to the various parts and their relation with each other. In this the day of brain surgery and the morning of spinal and encephalic analgesia, it behooves us to be "up and doing" know that brain and cord and many collateral, anatomical, and physiological truths will brighten the tablets that form your storehouse of knowledge. We are free to say we will direct our advanced students in anatomy to procure this work, and, in doing this, we believe we shall be advising in the right direction.

A Manual of Surgical Treatment. By W. Watson Cheyne, M. B., F. R. C. S., F. R. S., Professor of Surgery in King's College, London; Surgeon to King College Hospital, and the Children's Hospital, Paddington Green, etc., and F. F. Burghard, M. D., and M. S. (Lond.), F. R. C. S., Teacher of Practical Surgery in King's College, London; Surgeon to King's College Hospital, and the Children's Hospital, Paddington Green, etc. In seven volumes. Volume IV, The Treatment of the Surgical Affections of the Joints (including excisions) and the Spine. Philadelphia and New York: Lea Brothers & Co. 1901.

This the fourth volume of an admirable treatise is the equal or an improvement upon the preceding volumes. It is practical and thorough in every way, and the illustrations are sufficient to aid the text. Spinal injuries of late have received much attention, and the authors have covered the field well as regards the most modern and conservative treatment.

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Students' Edition, a Practical Treatise of Materia Medica and Therapeutics. With Special Reference to the Clinical Application of Drugs. By JOHN V. SHOEMAKER, M. D., LL. D., Professor of Materia Medica, Pharmacology, Therapeutics, and Clinical Medicine and Clinical Professor of Diseases of the Skin in the Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia; Physician to the Medico-Chirurgical Hospital; Member of the American Medical Association, of the Pennsylvania and Minnesota State Medical Societies, the American Academy of Medicine, the British Medical Association; Fellow of the Medical Society of London, etc. Fifth edition. Thoroughly revised. 64 x 91⁄2 inches. Pages vii-770. Extra cloth, $4.00, net; sheep, $4.75' net. F. A. Davis Company, Publishers, 1914-16 Cherry Street, Philadelphia.

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RETROFLEXION OF THE UTERUS.-E. Schroeder (Zeitschrift f. Geburtshulfe und Gynakol., B. 43, H. 3), in view of the frequency of this condition without symptoms, publishes the following instructive statistics: First, 90 nulliparæ with 23 retroversions and 7 retroflexions. Of these, the first group, 74, had no pains in the lower segment of the body, although 19 had retroversion and 5 retroflexion; 25 were virgins, of whom 8 had version and 2 flexion; the other 49 were married or had had intercourse, 11 showing the backward version and 3 flexion. The second group with symptoms, chiefly pain in the lower part of the trunk, comprised 16 patients, with 4 suffering from version and 2 from flexion; among them 3 were virgins with 1 retroflexion uteri, and 13 were not virgins, 4 presenting version and I flexion. Second, he investigated parous women previous to menopause with these statistics, in all 276 cases, 40 versions and 31 flexions. The group without symptoms was again the larger, 191 with 25 versions and 17 flexions. The series having trouble comprised 89 women, 15 with version, 14 with flexion. His last class included all women past menopause, 45 total, 13 versions, 4 flexions, namely, 38 with no pain, among these 9 versions and 4 flexions, and 7 with pain in 4 individuals with retroversio uteri.-Medical News.

Methylene BLUE IN MALARIA.-Rottger (Deutsche Med. Woch., xxii., 237) reports favorably on the use of methylene blue in malaria. He gave it in doses of 0.1 gm. (11⁄2 grains) six or eight times a day, and found that nine days was the longest period necessary for the disappearance of the subjective symptoms, but believes that the treatment should be continued until the spleen has returned to its normal size. He observed but one relapse. His patients experienced very few secondary effects. One case suffered from polyuria with strangury, which, however, was easily controlled by nutmeg. He met with little gastric disturbance, and believes that when it occurs it is due to an impure drug. Rottger disagrees with Gutman, who claims that the slow subsidence of the subjective symptoms of malaria was the essential difference between the action of quinine and methylene blue. The former argues that if we administer quinine in small doses repeatedly we obtain the same slow defervescence that he observed to follow the administration of methylene blue. Bulletin Cleveland Ger. Hospital.