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the subject of hygiene — which, indeed, is scarcely adequately dealt with in any 

 books that we have seen. It is an extraordinary fact that scarcely any effort has 

 yet been made to investigate a matter of such importance to humanity as 

 epidemics, for instance ; and, as a consequence, sanitary works of this nature 

 resolve themselves into discourses on appliances and the elementary principles 

 of hygiene. Such books are useful ; but it is really high time that a more exalted 

 science of public health should be established. 



An Index of Symptoms with Diagnostic Methods. By Ralph Winnington 



Leftwich, M.D., Late Assistant-Physician to the East London Children's 



Hospital. [Pp. xii + 516. Fifth Edition.] (London ; Smith, Elder & Co., 



1915) 



The Introduction of this work opens with the words "Diagnosis is the most 



difficult part of the art of Medicine, and he who would excel in it must be well 



equipped both intellectually and physically." In view of this well-known fact, this 



work should prove of great assistance to medical men. It is well arranged for 



easy reference and covers a wide field of disease. The Introduction touches on 



the Classification of Patients, Fallacies, and Classification of Symptoms, while the 



symptoms themselves are tabulated under general headings such as Interrogation, 



Inspection, Palpation, Percussion, Auscultation, and Miscellaneous. The fact that 



the work has already run into a fifth edition shows how much it has already been 



appreciated. 



The Medical Annual. A Year Book of Treatment and Practitioner's Index. 

 [Pp. cxx + 959, with illustrations and 71 plates. Thirty-third year.] 

 (Bristol : John Wright & Sons. London : Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, 

 Kent & Co., 191 5. Price 10s. net.) 



This is another useful book for the Medical Faculty, containing contributions in 

 the shape of original articles by thirty-two of the most eminent specialists from all 

 parts of the world. Such well-known names as G. Lenthal Cheatle, King's College 

 Hospital, John S. Fraser of Edinburgh, Sir Leonard Rogers of Calcutta, Colonel 

 Louis La Garde of New York, figure in this long list. The volume treats not only 

 of the department of medicine but includes special articles on Naval and Military 

 Surgery, with personal experiences in the treatment of wounds. It is so arranged 

 that the practitioner can refer instantly to any disease or drug, and obtain the 

 latest knowledge available about it. The Glossary containing most of the newer 

 terms in this and recent volumes of the publication contribute to this end, and the 

 numerous illustrations and beautiful plates add to the value of the work. 



GENERAL 



The Instinct of Workmanship and the State of the Industrial Arts. By 

 THORSTEIN Veblen. [Pp. viii-f 355.] (New York: The Macmillan Co., 

 1914. Price 6s. 6d. net.) 



Mr. Veblen here puts before the reader a survey not of the detailed progress 

 of the industrial arts from prehistoric times, but of the spirit and aims which have 

 governed them, of the habits of thought with which they have been connected, 

 of the social and political contests through which they have forced their way, 

 stage after stage, and moulded the life of the most progressive communities of 

 the world. 



