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Amory Hare, M. D., "A System of Legal Medicine," 

 in 2 volumes, by Allan McLane Hamilton, M. D., 

 Lawrence Godkin, and others, " Pain," by J. Leonard 

 Corning, M. D., and "The Science of Vital Force" 

 as an involuntary agency of Nature that can be har- 

 nessed and utilized, by W. K. Dunham, M. D., relate 

 to medicine in the abstract, as it were. A valuable 

 work was the " Text-Book of Animal Physiology," by 

 Wesley Mills, M. D. Joseph H. Raymond, M. D., 

 prepared " A Manual of Human Physiology " with 

 special reference to students of medicine, and Diana 

 Clifford Kimber compiled a ' : Text-Book of Anatomy 

 and Physiology for Nurses." "Diseases of the Eye " 

 was the title of a handbook of ophthalmic practice by 

 G. E. de Schweinitz, M. D. ; William F. Norris, M. D., 

 and Charles A. Oliver collaborated on an " Ophthal- 

 mology " ; A. E. Adams was the author of" Diagnosis : 

 Differential Diagnosis and Treatment of Diseases of 

 the Eye." Second editions were issued of" A Text- 

 Book on Diseases of the Eve," by Henry D. Noves, 

 M. 1)., and " Essentials of Refraction and the Diseases 

 of the Eye," by Edward Jackson, M. D., with which 

 were included "Essentials of Diseases of the Nose 

 and Throat," by E. B. Gleason, M. D., who published 

 in Saunders's " Question Compends " " Essentials of 

 Diseases of the Ear." A " Text-Book of Diseases of 

 the Ear " was written for students and practitioners 

 by Edward Bradford Dench; F. de Haviland Hall 

 treated " Diseases of the Nose and Throat " ; and 

 James Walker Downie was the author of a " Clinical 

 Manual for the Study of Diseases of the Throat," as 

 Arthur M. Corwin, M. D., was of an " Outline of Phys- 

 ical Diagnosis of the Thorax." Malcolm Morris, M. I)., 

 was an authority " On Diseases of the Skiri " Henry 

 W. Stel wagon, M. D., wrote on " Essentials of Diseases 

 of the Skin " ; and yet again " Diseases of the Skin " 

 were the theme of Charles C. Ransom, M. D. Albert 

 Mathieu, M. D., wrote on the" Treatment of the Dis- 

 eases of the Stomach and Intestines " ; Thomas H. 

 Manley, M. D., on " Hernia " ; J. Sutton Bland, M. D., 

 on " Tumors, Innocent and Malignant" ; Charles W. 

 Purdy, M. D., on " Practical Urinalysis and Urinary 

 Diagnosis " ; and the third volume of " A System of 

 Genito-Urinary Diseases." edited by P. A. Morrow, 

 M. D., appeared. A second edition is to be noted of 

 Alexander Haig's work on " Uric Acid as a Factor in 

 the Causation of Disease." Henry J. Garrigues, M. D., 

 met a special want with "A Text-Book of the Diseases 

 of Women," eminently practical and dealing little 

 with theory ; " A Text-Book of Gynaecology " was the 

 work of James C. Wood, M. D. ; and "An American 

 Text-Book of Gynaecology " was edited by J. M. Baldy, 

 M. I). E. P. Davis prepared " A Manual of Practical 

 Obstetrics " ; the " Syllabus of the Obstetrical Lectures 

 in the Medical Department of the University of Penn- 

 sylvania," by Richard C. Norris, M. D., went through 

 a third edition ; Archibald Donald, M. D., wrote " An 

 Introduction to Midwifery"; G. Ernest Herman, a 

 ii'uule to the management of " Difficult Labor " ; while 

 Walter Porter Manton, M. D., published a " Syllabus of 

 Lectures on Human Embryology " as an introduction 

 to the study of obstetrics and gynaecology. "An 

 American Text-Book of the Diseases of Children " 

 was edited by L. Starr, M. D., and Thompson S. 

 Westcott, M. D. ; " Clinical Lectures on Pediatrics," 

 delivered by A. Jacobi, M. D., in the Vanderbilt 

 Clinic during the session of 1892-'93, were published 

 from stenographic reports ; " The Care and Feeding 

 of Children" was a catechism for the use of mothers 

 and children's nurses by L. Emmett Holt,M. D. ; and 

 similar information was contained in " The Care of 

 Children," by Elizabeth Robinson Scovil. " Func- 

 tional Nervous Diseases, their Causes and their Treat- 

 ment " were the theme of a memoir written by G. T. 

 Stevens, M. D., for the " Concourse " of 1881-'83, 

 Academic Royale de Me"decine de Belgique, published 

 with a supplement on the anomalies of refraction 

 and accommodation of the eye and of the ocular 

 muscles. H. Charlton Bastian, M. D., treated of 

 " Hysterical or Functional Paralysis," C. B. Burr, 

 M. D., furnished " A Primer of Psychology and Mental 



Disease," and Edward C. Mann, M. D., " A Treatise 

 on the Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity. 1 ' In 

 surgery we have " A Manual of Modern Surgery 

 General and Operative," by John Chalmers Da Costa 

 M. D. ; " Operative Surgery," by T. Kocher, M. D. ; a 

 third edition of the " Rules of Aseptic and Antiseptic 

 Surgery," by Arpad G. Gerster, M. D. ; " An Ameri- 

 can Text-Book of Surgery," edited by William W 

 Keen, M.D., and John W. White, M. D. "Lectures 

 on Surgery," by Dayid W. Cheever, M. D. ; " Ob- 

 stetric Surgery," by Egbert H. Graridin, M. D., and 

 George W. Jarman, M. D. ; " A Manual of Nursing in 

 Pelvic Surgery," by L. S. McMurtry, M.D. ; "A 

 Manual of Orthopaedic Surgery," by James K. Young, 

 M. D. ; and " Osteotomy and Osteoclasis for the Cor- 

 rection of Deformities of the Lower Limbs," by Charles 

 T. Poore, M. D. Useful manuals were " Directions 

 for Laboratory Work in Bacteriology," for the use of 

 medical classes in the University of* Michigan, by F. 

 G. Novy, M. D. ; a " Handbook of Medical Micros- 

 copy," by James E. Reeves; and a "Laboratory 

 Manual of Elementary Chemical Physiology and 

 Urine Analysis," by Prof. John II. Long. Vol. 

 XV of the " Index Catalogue of the Library of the 

 Surgeon General's Office," at Washington, D. C., was 

 issued, covering Universidad-Vzoroff'; Vol. IV com- 

 pleted the " Illustrated Encyclopaedic Medical Dic- 

 tionary " of Frank P. Foster, M. D. ; and George M. 

 Gould gave to the profession an " Illustrated Diction- 

 ary of Medicine, Biology, and Allied Sciences." " The 

 Technique of Post-mortem Examination " was set 

 forth by Ludvig Hektoen, M. D. " Home Treatment 

 for Catarrh and Colds," by Leonard A. Dessar, M. D. ; 

 " The Hygienic Prevention of Consumption," by J. E. 

 Squire ; a new edition of " Prompt Aid to the Injured," 

 by Alvah H. Doty, M. D. ; " Accidents and Emergen- 

 cies," telling what should and should not be done be- 

 fore the doctor comes, by Thomas Blackstone, M. D. ; 

 " A Text-Book of Hygiene," by George H. Rohe, in a 

 third revised and rewritten edition, a comprehensive 

 treatise on the principles and practice of preventive 



Kellogg, M. D., were excellent each of their* kind ; 

 and HT M. Lyman, M. D., Christian Fenger, M. D., W. 

 T. Belfleld, M. D., and H. Webster Jones, M. D., col- 

 laborated to produce " The Practical Home Phy- 

 sician." 



Poetry.- A good deal of poetry was written in 1894, 

 much of which possessed merit, but none attained 

 distinctive rank. James Whitcomb Riley published 

 "Armazindy," grave and gay by turns ; Thomas 

 Bailey Aldrich's "Unguarded Gates, and Other 

 Poems" show that he has lost none of his delicacy; 

 while in quite another key is "A Lover's Diary," 

 in the form of sonnets, termed " songs in sequence," 

 by Gilbert Parker, and " Love Songs of Childhood," 

 by Eugene Field. "A Sheaf of Poems," by George 

 Perry," was collected and given to the public by his 

 widow ; Arlo Bates published " The Torch Bearers," 

 a poem delivered at the centennial of the incorpora- 

 tion of Bowdoin College, June 28, 1894; Langdon 

 Elwyn Mitchell (John Philip Varley), a son of 

 Dr. Weir Mitchell, showed in a volume of "Poems" 

 that he has inherited literary ability ; " The Flute 

 Player, and Other Poems," by Francis Howard Wil- 

 liams, and " Poems, Old and New," by William Roscoe 

 Thayer, evinced more than ordinary depth and deli- 

 cacy ; and " Songs of the Soil," by Frank L. Stantpn, 

 crossed the water to meet with as warm a recognition 

 in the mother country as at home. " Songs from the 

 Woods of Maine," by Julia H. May, and " Narragan- 

 sett Ballads," by Caroline Hazard, may be classed to- 

 gether as poetry of places, and with them also may be 

 placed "Lyrics of the Lariat," by Nathan Kirk 

 Grio-gs. "Windfall and Waterdrift," by Auberon 

 Herbert ; " The Wind in the Clearing," by Robert 

 Cameron Rogers: "Wayside Poems," by Wallace 

 Bruce- "My "Garden Walk," by William Preston 

 Johnston ; " Balder the Poet, and Other Verses," by 



