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orders of metabolism and their external manifestations, handing on the traditions 

 of the French school, are expressed throughout his teaching, and may be specially 

 appreciated whilst reading the chapters on auto-intoxication and diathesis. The 

 quotation of one sentence will be sufficient to indicate his point of view : 



"The cutaneous secretions, therefore, in arthritic subjects play the part of 

 vicarious secretions ; hence the frequency of cutaneous eruptions in the gouty, and 

 in all those in whom nutrition is impaired." 



The classification of the volume is a simple one. After the preliminary 

 chapters dealing with elementary lesions and the general etiology of the diseases 

 of the skin, the various affections are classified on an etiological basis, such as 

 the conditions due to external non-parasitic origin, and those due to parasitic 

 influences. Then follow two groups showing especially the influence of French 

 medicine — namely toxic, medicamentous, and alimentary diseases ; and diathetic 

 disorders. Under the latter heading are considered some of the most important 

 skin diseases, such as eczema, psoriasis, lichen and acne. The other groups, 

 namely those of nervous and of congenital origin, complete the classification. 



It may be said that the chief characteristics of Prof. Gaucher's teaching are 

 first of all a certain dogmatism in statement appropriate to elementary instruction, 

 and an impatience of the fantastic opinions and methods of treatment which are 

 so apt to absorb the attention of specialists with limited general knowledge. 



The attention devoted to treatment is, indeed, somewhat meagre, but the 

 concentration on well-tried methods is specially to be commended at the present 

 time. The chapters on treatment by rays of light. X-rays and radium are short, 

 but give a sufficiently intelligible account of these modern methods for general 

 purposes. 



The illustrations in the book are numerous, and consist of reproductions of 

 photographs and of the well-known models m the Museum of the St. Louis 

 Hospital ; many of these illustrations are useful, but such blocks as Figs. 15 and 70, 

 showing practically nothing, are only disfigurements in a printed page. 



The book can be safely recommended as a text-book to the medical student in 

 his years of final study, and for post-graduate work. 



The Cambridge County Geographies : Cambridgeshire. By T. McKenny 



Hughes and Mary Caroline Hughes. [Pp. xiii -{- 271]. — Cornwall. 

 ByS. Baring-Gould. [Pp. ix -f 164]. — Derbyshire. By H. H. Arnold- 

 Bemrose. [Pp. X + 174]. — Fifeshire. By Easton S. VALENTINE, 

 [Pp. ix + 187].— Kent. By George F. Bosworth. [Pp. viii + 146].— 

 Lanarkshire. By Frederick Mort. [Pp. viii -f 168].— Westmorland. 

 By J. E. Marr. [Pp. ix + 151]. (Cambridge University Press, 1910. 

 Price IS. bd. each.) 



The Cambridge County Geographies are intended primarily for schools ; but 

 they will serve equally well as handbooks for general use. They are not guide- 

 books, but in many ways even the traveller will find them more useful and 

 certainly more interesting, than the ordinary guide-book. 



The scheme of arrangement is the same in all. From one-third to one-half 

 of the volume is devoted to the physical geography of the county, including the 

 topography, geology, natural history and climate. The remainder deals with the 

 inhabitants, industries, history, antiquities, etc. A short account of the principal 

 towns is added. Each volume is provided with two maps, one orographical and 

 the other geological ; these are pasted directly to the covers of the book, forming 



