Medical Publications of The F. A. Davis Co., Philadelphia. SHOEMAKER Heredity, Health, and Personal Beauty. Including the Selection of the Best Cosmetics for the Skin, Hatr, Nails, and all Parts Relating to the Body. By John V. Shoemaker, A.M., M.D., Professor of Materia Medica, Phar- macology, 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, etc., etc. The health of the skin and hair, and how to promote them, are discussed; the treatment of the nails; the subjects of ventilation, food, clothing, warmth, bathing; the circulation or the blood, digestion, ventilation; in fact, all that in daily life conduces to the well-being of the body and refinement is duly enlarged upon. To these stores of popular information is added a list of the best medicated soaps and toilet soaps, and a whole chapter of the work is devoted to household remedies. The work is largely suggestive, and gives wise and timely advice as to when a physician should be consulted. This is just the book to place on the waiting-room table of every physician, and a work that will prove useful in the hands of your patients. Complete in one handsome Royal Octavo volume of 425 pages, beautifully and clearly printed, and bound in Extra Cloth, Beveled Edges, with side and back gilt stamps and in Half-Morocco Gilt Top. Price, in United States, post-paid, Cloth, $2.50; Half-Morocco, $3.50, net. Canada (duty paid), Cloth, $2.75; Half-Morocco, $3.90, net. Great Britain, Cloth, 14s. ; Half-Morocco, 19s. 6d. France, Cloth, 15 fr.; Half-Morocco, 22 fr. The book reads not like the fulfillment of a task, but like the researches and observations of one thoroughly in love with his subject, fully appreciating its importance, and writing for the pleasure he experiences in it. The work is verv comprehensive and complete in its scape. Medical World. The book before us is a most remarkable Eroduction and a most entertaining one. The ook is equally well adapted for the laity or the profession. It tells us how to be healthy, happy, and as beautiful as possible. We can't review this book ; it is different from anything we have ever read. It runs like a novel, and will be perused until finished with pleasure and profit. Buy it, read it, and be surprised, pleased, and improved. The Southern Clinic This book is written primarily for the laity, but will prove of interest to the physician as well. Though the author goes to some extent into technicalities, he confines himself to the use of good, plain English, and in that respect sets a notable example to many other writers on similar subjects. Furthermore, the book is written from a thoroughly American stand- point. Medical Record. This is an exceedingly interesting book, both scientific and practical in character, in- tended for both professional and lay readers. The book is well written and presented in ad- mirable form by the publisher. Canadian Practitioner. SHOEMAKER Ointments and Oleates : Especially In Diseases of the Skin. By John V. Shoemaker, A.M., M.D., Professor of Materia Medica, Phar- macology, Therapeutics, and Clinical Medicine, and Clinical Professor of Diseases of the Skin in the Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia, etc., etc. The author concisely concludes his preface as follows : "The reader may thus obtain a conspectus of the whole subject of inunction as it exists to-day in the civilized world. In all cases the mode of preparation is given, and the thera- peutical application described seriatim, in so far as may be done without needless repetition." Second Edition, revised and enlarged. 298 pages. 12mo. Neatly bound in Dark-Blue Cloth. No. 6 in the Physicians' and Students' Ready-Reference Series. Price, post-paid, in the United States and Canada, $1.50, net; in Great Britain, 8s. 6d. ; in Trance, 9 fr. 35. It is invaluable as a ready reference when ointments or oleates are to be used, and is serviceable to both druggist and physician. Canada Medical Record. To the physician who feels uncertain as to the best form in which to prescribe medicines bv way of the skin the book will prove valu- able, owing to the many prescriptions and formulae which dot its pages, while the copious index at the back materially aids in making the book a useful one. Medical News. (21)
