Medical Publications of The F. A. Davis Co., Philadelphia. KEATING and EDWARD S 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; Physician to St. Joseph's Hospital; Fellow of the College of Physicians; formerly Assistant Pathologist to the Philadelphia Hospital, etc. Illustrated by Photographs and Wood-Engravings. About 225 pages. Oc- tavo. Bound in Cloth. Price, post-paid, in the United States and Canada, $1.50, net; in Great Britain, 8s. 6d. ; in France, 9 fr. 35. 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 hook is graphic and pleasing, the diagnostic points are explicit and exact, and the therapeutical resources include the novel- ties of medicine as well as the old and tried agents. Pittsburgh Med. Review. It is not a mere compilation, hut 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 regurgita- tion ; there are also a number of wood-cuts. Cleveland Medical Gazette. LIEBIG and ROSE Practical Electricity in Medicine $ Surgery. By O. A. Liebig, Jr., Ph D., Assistant in Electricity, Johns Hopkins University ; Lecturer on Medical Electricity, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Baltimore ; Member of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, etc. ; and George H. Rohe, M.D., Professor of Obstetrics and Hygiene, College of Physi- cians and Surgeons, Baltimore ; Visiting Physician to Bay View and City Hos- pitals ; Director of the Maryland Maternite ; Associate Editor "Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences," etc. Profusely Illustrated by Wood-Engravings and Original Diagrams, and published in one handsome Royal Octavo volume of 383 pages, bound in Extra Cloth. The constantly increasing demand for this work attests its thorough relia- bility and its popularity with the profession, and points to the fact that it is already the standard work on this very important subject. The part on Ph} r sical Electricity, written by Dr. Liebig, one of the recognized authorities on the science in the United States, treats fully such topics of interest as Storage Bat- teries, Dynamos, the Electric Light, and the Principles and Practice of Electrical Measurement in their Relations to Medical Practice. Professor Rohe, who writes on Electro-Therapeutics, discusses at length the recent developments of Electricity in the treatment of stricture, enlarged prostate, uterine fibroids, pelvic cellulitis, and other diseases of the male and female genito-urinary organs. The applica- tions of Electricity ki dermatology, as well as in the diseases of the nervous system, are also fully considered. Price, post-paid, in the United States and Canada, $2.00, net ; in Great Britain, lis. 6d. ; France, 12 fr. 40. Any physician, especially if he be a beginner in electro-therapeutics, will be well repaid by a careful study of this work by Liebig and Rohe. For a work on a special subject the price is low, and no one can give a good ex- cuse for remaining in ignorance of so impor- tant a subject as electricity in medicine. Toledo Medical and Surgical Reporter. The entire work is thoroughly scientific and practical, and is really what the authors have aimed to produce, "a trustworthy guide to the application of electricity in the practice of medicine and Surgery." New York Medical Times. In its perusal, with each succeeding page, we have been more and more impressed with the fact that here, at last, we have a treatise on electricity in medicine and surgery which amply fulfills its purpose, and which is sure of general adoption by reason of its thorough excellence and superiority to other works in- tended to cover the same field. Pharmaceu- tical Era. After carefully looking over this work, we incline to the beiief that the intelligent physi- cian who is familiar with the general subject will be greatly interested and profited. American Lancet. (12)
