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hospital or which had best lead the practitioner and student. With 
many excellent traits, the lack of an easy grasp on the topic does not 
bring the book up to the standard of Krarrr—Epinc, and we doubt 
whether it reaches that of Sprrzka which, compared to BERKLEY’s 
book is antiquated chiefly in matters of little importance to the prac- 
titioners and which in a new edition could easily incorporate many new 
acquisitions. 
I should like to repeat what I expressed at the close of a review 
of Dr. PETERSON’s book on mental diseases. We stand at a point in 
psychiatry at which it is particularly difficult to write a book which is 
up to date and clearly points the way to actual work in psychiatry and 
perhaps to problems of research. We have almost no research clinics 
in this country; hence the tendency to drift into beaten paths, lack of 
sense of proportion of what really occurs and is most stimulating for 
work in practice and in observation, and perpetuation of terminology 
of degeneracy and auto-intoxication and other topics of fascination, 
the valuation, of which belongs to the future and to hard work with 
facilities rarely offered today. ADOLF MEYER. 
Saunders’ American Year-Book.! 
The issue of the Year-Book for tgoo in two volumes met with such 
general approval from the profession that the publishers have followed 
the same plan with the Year-Book for 1901. This arrangement has a 
two-fold advantage. To the physician who uses the entire book, it 
offers an increased amount of matter in the most convenient form for 
easy consultation, and without any increase in price; while specialists 
and others who want either the medical or the surgical section alone, 
secure the complete consideration of their branch ata nominal 
sum, without the necessity of purchasing considerable material for 
which they have no special use. The section on Nervous and Mental 
Diseases in Vol. I, comprising 40 pages, is prepared by Dr. ARCHIBALD 
CuurcH, of Chicago. Some neurological papers are touched upon in 
other parts of the work, notably in the section devoted to Physiology. 
1 The American Year-Book of Medicine and Surgery for r901. A Yearly 
Digest of Scientific Progress and Authoritative Opinion in all branches of Med- 
icine and Surgery, drawn from journals, monographs, and text-books, of the 
leading American and foreign authors and investigators, Arranged with critical 
editoral comments, by eminent American specialists. In two volumes—Volume 
I, including General Medicine, Octavo, 681 pages, illustrated; Volume II, 
General Surgery, Octavo, 610 pages, illustrated. Philadelphia and London : 
W.B. Saunders & Co. 1901. Per volume: Cloth, $3.00 net; Half Morocco, 
$3.75 net. 
