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THE MEDICAL DISEASES OF EGYPT. By F. M. Sandwith, M.D., F.R.C.P., Consulting Physician to H.M. the Khedive and to Kasr-el-Ainy Hospital, Cairo; Lecturer at the London School of Tropical Medicine; formerly Vice-Director of the Sanitary Department of Egypt and Professor of Medicine and Examiner to the Egyptian Government School of Medicine. Part I. In one handsome demy octavo volume of 328 pages, Illustrated. Cloth. Price 7s. 6d. net.

"In concluding this notice of Dr Sandwith's excellent work we can only express the great pleasure we have had in perusing it, and we look forward with much interest to the completion of a treatise which should find a place in the library of every student of tropical medicine. Part I. contains three beautifully executed plates of the ankylostomum of the pellagrous skin affection, and of the pellagrous spinal cord."—Lancet.

A MANUAL OF CLINICAL DIAGNOSIS BY MICROSCOPICAL AND CHEMICAL METHODS. For Students, Hospital Physicians, and Practitioners. By Charles E. Simon, M.D., late Assistant Resident Physician, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore. New (Fifth) and Revised Edition. In one very handsome royal octavo volume of 703 pages, with 150 Engravings and 22 full-page Coloured Plates. Cloth. Price 21s net.

". . . Covering practically the same ground as the well-known work of Professor von Jaksch, the book contains in some sections even more information than does that volume. We have, after a careful review of the contents of the book, no hesitation in commending it as one of the best and most compendious manuals for the clinical laboratory that has appeared."—Lancet.

"The volume is most appropriately illustrated both by coloured plates and by woodcuts in the text. We heartily welcome the appearance of the work, which we feel sure will find a permanent place in the working literature of the profession, and will adequately supply a well-recognised deficiency."—British Medical Journal.

CLINICAL PATHOLOGY OF THE BLOOD: A Treatise on the General Principles and Special Applications of Hæmatology. By James Ewing, A.M., M.D., Professor of Pathology in Cornell University Medical College, New York City. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged. In one very handsome royal octavo volume of 496 pages, Illustrated with 43 Engravings and 18 Coloured Plates drawn by the Author. Cloth. Price 21s net.

"To anyone engaging in such researches (and every practitioner must engage in them more or less) the work of Dr Ewing will be found invaluable. The book will be found a mine of information, and, indeed, will prove indispensable to anyone investigating blood changes in disease."—Dublin Journal of Medical Science.

"As a thoroughly sound and philosophical treatise on hæmatology, free from prejudice and exaggeration, the book may be strongly recommended alike to the beginner and the advanced student."—Practitioner.

"Of the sterling merits of the book we have already spoken, and its perusal may be most heartily commended."—British Medical Journal.

INFECTIOUS DISEASES: Their Etiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment. By G. H. Roger, Professor Extraordinary in the Faculty of Medicine of Paris, Member of the Biological Society, Physician to the Hospital of Porte d'Aubervilliers. Translated by M. S. Gabriel, M.D. In one very handsome royal octavo volume of 874 pages, Illustrated with 43 Engravings. Cloth. Price 30s. net.

A TEXT-BOOK OF THE PRACTICE OF MEDICINE. For Students and Practitioners. By Hobart Amory Hare, M.D., B.Sc., Professor of Therapeutics in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia; Laureate of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Belgium; of the Medical Society of London, etc., etc. New (Second) Edition, Revised and Enlarged. In one very handsome royal octavo volume of 1132 pages, Illustrated with 131 Engravings and 11 Plates in colours and monochrome. Cloth. Price 21s. net.

"We can recommend it as one containing a vast amount of information useful to students and practitioners. The sections on tropical diseases may be especially mentioned, and the text-book will be useful to medical men practising in countries in which such diseases are likely to be met with."—Lancet.

"A valuable feature of the work is the great attention given to the important subject of the specific infective diseases. There can be no hesitation in recommending Dr Hare's work, now in its second edition, as an excellent text-book."—British Medical Journal.

PATHOGENIC MICRO-ORGANISMS. Including Bacteria and Protozoa.' A Manual for Practitioners, Health Officers, and Students. By William H. Park, M.D., Professor of Bacteriology and Hygiene in the University and Bellevue Hospital Medical College. Second Edition, revised and Enlarged. In one royal octavo volume of 556 pages, with 156 Engravings and 4 coloured Plates. Cloth. Price 18s. net.

"The work, which is well up to date throughout, and remarkably free from printers' errors, is one of the best treatises on its subject; and though it has been specially written for students and practitioners, we feel sure that it will be of equal, if not greater, value and assistance to the laboratory worker."—Edinburgh Medical Journal.

"This work possesses a distinct character and individuality which makes the appearance of a second edition very welcome. Dr Park's book, since it does not simply add to the stock of text-books but contains much special information, may be strongly recommended to the serious student of bacteriology and public health."―Lancet.

A TEXT-BOOK OF PRACTICAL THERAPEUTICS: With Especial Reference to the Application of Remedial Measures to Disease and their Employment upon a Rational Basis. By Hobart Amory Hare, M.D., Professor of Therapeutics and Materia Medica in the Jefferson Medical College of Philadelphia. With special chapters by Drs G. E. de Schweinitz, Edward Martin, and Barton C. Hirst. New (Twelfth) Edition, thoroughly Revised and greatly Rewritten. In one royal octavo volume of 939 pages, with 114 Engravings and 4 Coloured Plates. Cloth. Price 21s net.

Reviews of former editions:

"We can thoroughly recommend this book to practitioners and students."—Lancet.

"We strongly recommend the book as a useful aid to the practical work of the profession."—Scottish Medical and Surgical Journal.

"The work can be strongly recommended to English practitioners, to whom, perhaps, it is not so well known as it undoubtedly deserves to be."—Quarterly Medical Journal.

A MANUAL OF PRACTICAL HYGIENE. For Students, Physicians, and Medical Officers. By Charles Harrington, M.D., Assistant Professor of Hygiene in the Medical School of Harvard University. New (Third) Edition, Revised and Enlarged. In one very handsome royal octavo volume of 793 pages. Illustrated with 118 Engravings and 12 Plates in colours and monochrome. Cloth. Price 21s. net.

"The author conveys his meaning very clearly, and the work bears evidence of thorough handling of the subject and of his determination to bring his facts into line with modern developments. It is a pleasure to find a manual so comprehensively and lucidly written and up-to-date."—Lancet.

". . . This work is one of the best of its kind ever published."—Dublin Journal of Medical Science.

". . . We may say that the book is very agreeable reading, and that the execution of the illustrations is, as a whole, excellent."—Practitioner.

". . . The chapters on foods . . . are well done. . . . The book is nicely printed and got up."—Sanitary Record and Journal.

THE SCIENCE AND ART OF PRESCRIBING. By E. H. Colbeck, B.A., M.D. (Cantab.), F.R.C.P. (Lond.), D.P.H. (Cantab.), Physician to Out-Patients at the City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, Victoria Park, E; Physician to the Metropolitan Dispensary, etc. etc.; and Arnold Chaplin, B.A., M.D. (Cantab.), F.R.C.P. (Lond.), Physician to Out-Patients at the City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, Victoria Park, E; Physician to the Metropolitan Dispensary, etc. etc. In one foolscap octavo volume of 210 pages. Cloth. Price 3s 6d net. Handsomely bound in full leather, gilt edges. Price 5s. net.

"Can be thoroughly recommended."—Medical Review.

"This little volume should prove invaluable."—London Hospital Gazette.

"Will be cordially welcomed both by students and practitioners."—British Medical Journal.

"The book is full of useful information and excellent formulæ . . . is sure to be perused by many."―Canada Lancet.

"Is a very good little book."―Lancet.

DISEASES OF THE HEART. A Clinical Text-Book for the use of Students and Practitioners of Medicine. By Edmund Henry Colbeck, B.A., M.D. (Cantab.), F.R.C.P. (London), D.P.H. (Cantab.), Physician to Out-Patients at the City of London Hospital for Diseases of the Chest, Victoria Park, E., late House Physician at St Mary's Hospital, etc. etc. New Second Revised and Enlarged Edition. In one demy octavo volume of 366 pages, with Frontispiece and 43 Engravings. Cloth. Price 7s 6d net.

". . . Particularly useful to the busy practitioner of medicine. . . . We consider that Dr Colbeck has produced a work of more intrinsic value than some more pretentious volumes."―Lancet.

". . . A work which we can cordially commend as a well-arranged, well-written, and trustworthy text-book, suitable alike as a work of reference to the busy practitioner and to the advanced student."—British Medical Journal.

"Written by one who is evidently a master of his subject, this work will be invaluable both to the student . . . and also to the medical man desirous of refreshing his knowledge. . . . It is lucid, well illustrated, and carefully explained. . . . We congratulate the author of having compiled such a reliable and worthy manual, which we cannot praise too highly."—Quarterly Medical Journal.

A TEXT-BOOK OF PATHOLOGY AND PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY. By Dr Hans Schmaus, Extraordinary Professor and First Assistant in the Pathological Institute, Munich. Translated from the Sixth German Edition by A. E. Thayer, M.D., Instructor in Pathology in the Cornell University Medical College, New York. Edited, with Additions, by James Ewing, M.D., Professor of Pathology in the Cornell University Medical College, New York. In one very handsome royal octavo volume of 602 pages, illustrated with 351 Engravings, including 35 coloured inset Plates. Cloth. Price 21s net.

" . . . Supplies a much-felt want."—British Medical Journal.

"Can be confidently recommended."—Practitioner.

THE TREATMENT OF NEURASTHENIA. By A. Proust, Professor à la Faculté de Médicine de Paris, etc., and Gilbert Ballet, Professor agrégé à la Faculté de Médicine de Paris, etc. Authorised Translation from the French. By Peter Campbell Smith, L.R.C.P.E., L.R.C.S.E., L.F.P.S. (Glas.). In one very handsome pott octavo volume of 227 pages. Cloth. Price 5s net.

" . . . This little book is a really excellent translation of a work by Prof. A. Proust and Prof. Gilbert Ballet. . . . The treatment which is recommended in the pages of this little book is essentially common-sense in character, and may be summed up in the following words: Good Moral and Physical Hygiene, a well-considered dietary and encouragement by suggestion."—Lancet.

" . . . The work may be commended to the notice of practitioners desirous of guidance in the recognition and treatment of a very difficult class of cases. The subject is admirably treated, and the advice given is sound. We may add that the work is clearly printed, and attractively turned out."—Medical Press.

" . . . It is an eminently practical little work."—Medical News.

A PRACTICAL TREATISE ON ACUTE CONTAGIOUS DISEASES. By William M. Welch, M.D., Diagnostician to the Bureau of Health, and Consulting Physician to the Municipal Hospital for Contagious and Infectious Diseases, Philadelphia; and Jay F. Schamberg, A.B., M.D., Assistant Diagnostician to the Bureau of Health, and Consulting Physician to the Municipal Hospital for Contagious and Infectious Diseases, Philadelphia. In one handsome royal octavo volume of 781 pages, illustrated with 109 Engravings and 61 Full-page Plates in colours and monochrome. Cloth. Price 25s net.

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