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 NEW BOOKS, WITH SHORT NOTICES. 



A Manual of Pathological Histology, to serve as an Introduction to 

 the Study of Morbid Anatomy. By Dr. Eduard Eindfleisch, Professor 

 of Pathological Anatomy in the University of Bonn. Vol. II. Trans- 

 lated by E. Buchanan Baxter, M.D., Lond. The New Sydenham 

 Society, London, 1873. — We are very much indebted to Dr. Baxter for 

 the extreme care he has taken in giving us this translation of Dr. 

 Kindfleisch's two admirable volmnes. AVe have not observed any part 

 of this very difficult text whose rendering into English we can find 

 fault with, and that is saying a gi'eat deal ; but our praises are due to 

 the editor also for the important alterations which he has had effected 

 in certain portions of the work. Still of course it is to the author that 

 our praises must be principally given, and we think he deserves them 

 in an especial degi'ee for the thorough absence of affectation which he 

 exhibits in his preface, and for that true recognition of the fact that 

 work is perpetually going on, and that his labours of to-day may be 

 considered as old and out of date in a considerably short time. How- 

 ever, we have very great doubts on this latter part of his statement. 

 If his work was merely a compilation, it might not prove so imlikely 

 that a very few years would render it old and unworthy of scientific 

 repute. But it being a book which contains especially the author's 

 own observations and his own reflections (carefully made, most of 

 them), it is, in our opinion, one calculated to live for a long period of 

 time. 



It may be said that the matter which these two volumes include 

 might have been easily put into a single volume ; and doubtless there 

 are some who would look with approval on such a mode of alteration. 

 For ourselves, however, we must express an opposite opinion. We 

 think the author has done well in expanding his labours, and for this 

 reason, that a book dealing with such a subject is best of an uncom- 

 pressed style. It is much better to have a fact laid before you in two 

 or three different ways than simjily in the first form alone ; this is so 

 because you often grasp a thought when it is put before you in a dif- 

 ferent manner a second time ; whereas if it were placed only in the one 

 shape you would be far longer in appreciating the author's meaning. 

 Besides, its style takes away from it the vade-mecum character which 

 is now-a-days infinitely too common. 



If one were to attempt to review this book at even a fair degree, it 

 could not be done in less than a sheet of printed matter ; for the con- 

 tents are vast and the mode of treatment is, to a certain extent, original. 

 We are sure, therefore, that both author and editor will excuse our 

 very short notice on the plea that it has never been the plan of this 

 Journal to give more than brief references to recent books. This essay 

 covers more than 500 pages, so that readers will not find its study 

 a fact of easy accomplishment, and it is divided into a general and 

 special part. The general part is exceedingly interesting even to the 

 mere scientific reader, and it contains chapters on the Retrograde 

 metamorphosis and degeneration of tissues, and Morbid growths, in- 



