BOOKS RECEIVED 343 



A Synopsis of Medicine. By Henry Letheby Tidy, M.A.. M.D., B.Ch. 

 (Oxen), FR.C.P. (Lond.). Bristol: John Wright & Sons; London: 

 Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent & Co. ; Toronto : The Macmillan 

 Company of Canada, 1920. (Pp. xv + 952.) Price 26s. net. 



It is doubtful whether books of this kind are really very useful, because 

 one cannot correctly concentrate into one brief volume all our present 

 knowledge of diseases. Authors of such books are often compelled 

 to describe diseases with which they are not familiar from information 

 given to them by other experts — real or alleged. On looking through 

 these books, we always pick out subjects which we ourselves know 

 about, and I have consequently glanced through the chapter on Malaria. 

 This, I fear, contains several errors. For instance, Grassi and Bastianelli 

 did not prove that the mosquito cycle of the human parasites is limited 

 to Anophelines, because this has not been proved yet, and it was I who 

 showed that these parasites do not develop in a number of kinds of Culex. 

 Nor did Sambon and Low's experiments in Italy prove anything of im- 

 portance ; nor did infection of Thurburn Manson in England complete 

 the proof of transmission by mosquitoes ; nor can it be said that 

 Marchiafava and Celli described the parasites fully in 1885. The 

 passage on treatment is equally unsatisfactory, and five grains of quinine 

 twice a week is not sufficient to keep off relapses. Probably, however, 

 other subjects are dealt with more correctly. R. R. 



War against Tropical Disease : being Seven Sanitary Sermons addressed to 

 all Interested in Tropical Hygiene and Administration. By Andrew 

 Balfour, C.B., C.M.G., M.D., B.Sc. (Public Health), F.R.C.P. (Edin.), 

 D.P.H. (Camb.), Director-in-Chief Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Re- 

 search. London : Bailliere, Tindall & Cox, 8 Henrietta Street, Covent 

 Garden, 1920. (Pp. 220.) Price 125. bd. net. 



Memoires sur la Respiration et la Transpiration des Animaux. Par Antoine- 

 Laurent Lavoisier. Paris : Gauthier-Villars et Cie, Quai des Grands- 

 Augustins, 55, 1920. (Pp. viii + 67.) 



Observations et Experiences Faites sur les Animalcules des Infusions. Par 

 Lazare Spallanzani. Paris : Gauthier-Villars et Cie, Quai des Grands- 

 Augustins, 55, 1920. (Vol. I, pp. viii + 105, and Vol. II, pp. 122.) 



Eugenics, Civics, and Ethics. A Lecture delivered to the Summer School 

 of Eugenics, Civics, and Ethics, on August 8, 1919, in the Arts School, 

 Cambridge. By Sir Charles Walston (Waldstein), M.A., Litt.D. Can- 

 tab., M.A., L.H.D., Col. Univ., New York, Ph.D. Heidelberg, etc. 

 Cambridge : at the University Press, 1920. (Pp. 56.) Price 4s. net. 



A Manual of Psychiatry. Edited by Aaron J. Rosanoff, M.D., Clinical 

 Director, King's Park State Hospital, N.Y.; Lieutenant-Colonel Officers' 

 Section, Medical Reserve Corps, U.S. Army. Fifth Edition, Revised 

 and Enlarged. New York: John Wiley & Sons; London: Chapman 

 & Hall, 1920. (Pp. XV + 634.) Price 22s. net. 



The Organisation of Industrial Scientific Research. By C. E. Kenneth 

 Mees, D.Sc, Director of the Research Laboratory, Eastman Kodak 

 Company, Rochester, N.Y. New York : McGraw-Hill Book Company, 

 Inc., 239 West 39th Street; and London: 6 and 8 Bouverie Street, E.C.4., 

 1920. (Pp. vii + 175.) Price 12s. net. 



The Year-Book of the Scientific and Learned Societies of Great Britain and 

 Ireland : A Record of the Work done in Science, Literature, and Art, 

 during the Session 1918-19, by numerous Societies and Government 

 Institutions. Compiled from Official Sources. Thirty-Sixth Annual 

 Issue. London : Charles Griffin & Co., Exeter Street, Strand, W.C.2. 

 1919. (Pp. 336.) 



