SHERRATT & HUGHES MANCHESTER UNIVERSITY PUBLICATIONS. MEDICAL SERIES. No. IX. HANDBOOK OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES. By R. W. Mabsden, M.D. Crown 8vo, pp. vi. 296. 5s. net (Publication No. 39, 1908.) "This book aims at giving a practical account of the various infectious diseases, suitable for ready reference in everyday work, and the author has, on the whole, succeeded admirably in his attempt." — The Lancet. "Throughout the book the information given seems thoroughly adequate, and especial attention is paid to diagnosis." — Scottish Medical Journal. "The subject matter is well arranged and easy of reference." —The Mediial Officer. No. X. LECTURES ON THE PATHOLOGY OF CANCER. By Chaeles Powell White, M.A., M.D., F.R.C.S. Imperial 8vo, pp. X. 83, 33 plates. 3s. 6d. net. (Publication No. 42, 1908) "The volume is a model of scientific self-restraint. In four chapters the author covers in simple language much that is of main interest in the present phase of investigation of cancer . . . "The volume ... is well illustrated with statistical charts and photomicrographs, and its perusal must prove profitable to all who wish to be brought up-to-dite in the biology of cancer." — Nature. "Full of scholarly information and illustrated with a number of excellent black-and-white plates." — Medical Press. " These lectures give a short resume of recent work on the subject in an easily assimilable form." — St. Bartholomew's Hospital JoumA. No. XI. SEMMELWEIS : HIS LIFE AND HIS DOCTRINE. A chapter in the history of Medicine. By Sir William J. Sinclaie, M.A., M.D., Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the Univer- sity of Manchester. Imperial 8vo, pp. x. 369, 2 plates. 7s. 6d. net. (Publication No. 46, 1909.) " Semmelweis has found a worthy biographer who has made a noteworthy contribution to medical literature, and whose understanding of the work and sympathy for the trial of his subject are obvious." — Dublin Journal of Medical Science. "Das wahrhaft vornehm geschriebene Buch des auch bei uns in Deutschland hochverehrten englischen Kollegen spricht fur sich selbst. £s ist berufen, in dem Vaterlande Lister's auch dem grossen Martyrer Semmelweis Gerechtigkeit zuteil werien zu lassen." — Zentralbldtt filr Gynakologie. "There should be a wide public, lay as well as medical, for a book as full of historical, scientific and human interest as this 'Life of Semmelweis.' . . . Sir William Sinclair's book is of the greatest interest and we are glad to welcome an adequate English appreciation of Semmelweis, who certainly ranks among the 'heroes of medicine.' " — Nature. "It is a book all obstetricians and research men should read." — Scottish Medical Journd. "A most instructive and interesting biography of the discoverer of the cause of puerperal fever. . . . The book is well printed and bound." — Medical Beview. , Soho Square, Londoa, W. 19
