REVIEWS 
The Treatment of | War Wounds | by | W. W. Keen, M. D., LL. D. | Major, 
Medical Reserve Corps, U. S. Army | emeritus professor of surgery | 
Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia | second edition, reset | Phila- 
delphia and London | W. B. Saunders Company | 1918. 434 pp., 
including index. Cloth, $4. 
This little book of 276 pages is well written, and the subject 
is clearly presented. The author shows how this war differs 
widely, from a surgical standpoint, from all other wars in five 
principal respects, as follows: 
1. The huge numbers in the armies and, therefore, of the wounded. 
2. The new means of transportation. 
8. The new weapons, especially in the artillery. 
4. Rampant infections of wounds. 
5. The conquest of infection by more efficient antiseptics and by new 
methods. 
While it is essentially a book for army doctors, yet it is in- 
valuable also for all men doing surgery as well as for general 
practitioners. The chapter on the Carrel-Dakin method of 
wound treatment is especially valuable as it goes minutely into 
the technic. The treatment of burns is not only up to date in 
technic but gives the formula for “No 7 Parraffin” of Lt. Col. 
A. J. Hull of the British Army, which he states is superior to 
the much talked of and advertised Amberine of Dr. Barthe de 
Sandfort, the preparing of which has been kept a secret in 
“absolute contravention of American Medical Ethics.” 
A. M. GIFFEN. 
A Text-book of | General | Bacteriology | by | Edwin O. Jordan, Ph.D. | 
professor of bacteriology in the University of Chicago | and in 
Rush Medical College | fully illustrated | sixth edition, thoroughly 
revised | Philadelphia and London | W. B. Saunders Company | 1918. 
691 pp. Cloth, $3.75 net. 
FROM THE PREFACE 
This book is the outgrowth of lectures given to students in 
the University of Chicago during the past few years. The sub- 
ject is one that the writer believes should find a place in every 
general scientific course. Bacteriology is chiefly of professional 
interest to the medical student, but the subject also bears tech- 
nical relations to household administration, to agriculture, to 
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