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LITERATURE, AMERICAN, IN 1899. 



Question Compends. A third edition of Maurice 

 N Miller, M. D.'s, Student's Histology was re- 

 vised by Herbert U. Williams, M. D., and John 

 Clement Heisler, M. D., wrote A Text-book of Em- 

 bryology for Students of Medicine. A Manual of 

 ModenTGastric Methods (chemical, physical, and 

 therapeutical) came from A. Lockhart Gillespie, 

 M D.; Herman Partsch, M. D., investigated 

 Ills of Indigestion: Their Causes ami their Cures 

 in three essays; and A. Symons Eccles, Difficult 

 Digestion due to Displacements. A new revised 

 edition was sent out of Intestinal Obstruction: 

 Its Varieties, with their Pathology, Diagnosis, 

 and Treatment, by Frederick Treves, M. D. ; Clif- 

 ford Mitchell, M.'n.. wrote on Renal Therapeu- 

 tics; Louis Heitzmann, M. D., on Urinary Analy- 

 sis and Diagnosis: The Surgical Diseases of the 

 Genito-urinary Tract: Venereal and Sexual Dis- 

 eases were gone over by Prof. G. Frank Lydston, 

 M. D. : Charles Jewett. M. D., edited The Practice 

 of Obstetrics by American Authors ; a second, re- 

 vised and enlarged, edition was sent out of A 

 Text-book on Practical Obstetrics, by Egbert H. 

 Grandin. M. D., and George W. Jarman, M. D.; 

 and James Compton Burnett, M. D., devoted his 

 attention to The Change of Life in Women and 

 the Ills and Ailings Incident Thereto. George M. 

 Tuttle, M. D., was the author of a Pocket Text- 

 book of Diseases of Children. Hare on Typhoid 

 Fever gave the views of Hobart Amory Hare, 

 M. D., on the medical complications, accidents, 

 and sequelae of that disease, and a fourth edition 

 was also made of the same author's work on 

 Practical Diagnosis. F. H. Lutze, M. D., supplied 

 the Therapeutics of Facial and Sciatic Neuralgia ; 

 Pulmonary Tuberculosis was the theme of the 

 Alverenga prize essay of the College of Physicians 

 of Philadelphia in 1898, revised and enlarged into 

 a volume, by S. A. Knopf, M. D. ; and Acromegaly 

 of an essay by Guy Hinsdale, M. D., to which 

 was awarded the Boylston prize of Harvard Uni- 

 versity for the same year. Interstitial Gingi- 

 vitis; or, So-called Pyorrhrea Alveolaris, was in- 

 vestigated by Eugene S. Talbot, M. D., and from 

 Arthur P. Luff came Gout: Its Pathology and 

 Treatment. Louis A. Stimson, M. D., wsis the 

 author of A Treatise on Fractures and Disloca- 

 tions, Lewis Stephen Pilcher, M. D., wrote on The 

 Treatment of Wounds, and John B. Roberts, 

 M. D., made Notes on the Modern Treatment of 

 Fractures. A Text-book of Diseases of the Nose 

 and Throat was by D. Braden Kyle, M. D. ; Seth 

 Scott Bishop, M. D., sent out a second edition, 

 thoroughly revised and enlarged, of his work on 

 Diseases of the Ear, Nose, and Throat, and their 

 Accessory Cavities; and a third revised edition 

 was made of a Treatise on Diseases of the Ear, 

 by Albert H. Buck, M. D. Edward Allen Fay 

 made an inquiry into the results of Marriages of 

 the Deaf in America. Edward Jackson was an 

 authority upon Diseases of the Eye; An Amer- 

 ican Text-book of Diseases of the Eye, Ear, Nose, 

 and Throat came from George E. de Schweinitz, 

 M. D., and B. Alexander Randall, M. D. ; Alexan- 

 der W. Stirling, M. D., discoursed of Glaucoma: 

 Its Symptoms, Varieties, Pathology, and Treat- 

 ment; and William Norwood Suter was the au- 

 thor of a Handbook of Optics for Students of 

 Ophthalmology. Dan Bennett St. John Roosa, 

 M. D., went into the principles of the relief of 

 Defective Eyesight by glasses. The Nervous Sys- 

 tem and its Constituent Neurones were treated 

 of by Lewellys F. Barker, M. D.; H. Campbell 

 Thomson, M. D., prepared An Introduction to 

 Diseases of the Nervous System; Nervous and 

 Mental Diseases were the theme of a volume by 

 Archibald Church, M. D., and Frederick Peterson, 



M. D. ; Mental Affections : An Introduction to the 

 Study of Insanity came from John Macpherson, 

 M. D.; and Mind and Body, by A. C. Halphide, 

 considered hypnotism and suggestion applied in 

 therapeutics and education. J. Sanderson Chris- 

 tison, M. D., discoursed of Brain in Relation to 

 Mind. Bacteria Especially as they are Related to 

 the Economy of Nature, to Industrial Processes, 

 and to the Public Health was the contribution 

 of George Newman, M. D., to the Science Series ; 

 Thomas Bowhill published A Manual of Bacterio- 

 logical Technique and Special Bacteriology; and 

 A. C. Abbott, M. D., was heard from on The Hy- 

 giene of Transmissible Diseases. Harry Camp- 

 bell, M. D., advised Respiratory Exercises in the 

 Treatment of Disease, notably of the Heart, 

 Lungs, Nervous and Digestive Systems; Thomas 

 Stretch Dowse, M. D., edited The Treatment of 

 Disease by Physical Methods; and Anders Wide 

 provided a Handbook of Medical Gymnastics. A 

 fifth edition of Essentials of Medical Chemistry, 

 Organic and Inorganic, by Lawrence Wolfe, M. D., 

 was thoroughly revised by Smith Ely Jelliffe, 

 M. D., and a fifth revised edition of Saunders's 

 Pocket Formulary was the work of William M. 

 Powell, M. D. Thomas Lindsley Bradford wrote 

 the History of the Homcepathic Medical College 

 of Pennsylvania. Shall we Drink Wine? by John 

 Madden, M. D., was a physician's study of the 

 alcohol question, and from James K. Crook, M. D., 

 we had a review of The Mineral Waters of the 

 United States, and their Therapeutic Uses. 



Surgical works included Surgery: A Treatise 

 for Students and Practitioners, by Thomas Pick- 

 ering Pick, M. D. ; Outlines of Practical Surgery, 

 by Walter G. Spencer; Surgical Treatment, the 

 first of six volumes which will contain the entire 

 work, by W. Watson Cheyne and F. F. Burchard, 

 M. D. ; a Manual of Surgery, by William Rose 

 and Albert Carless; Lectures upon the Principles 

 of Surgery, delivered at the University of Michi- 

 gan by Charles B. Nancrede, M. D., with an ap- 

 pendix containing a resume of the principal views 

 held concerning inflammation by William A. 

 Spitzley, M. D. ; Railway Surgery, by Clinton B. 

 Herrick, M. D. ; Orthopaedic Surgery, by J. Jack- 

 son Clarke; a Manual of Orthopsed'ic Surgery, by 

 Stewart L. McCurdy; a second edition of The 

 Surgery of the Head and Neck, by Levi Cooper 

 Lane; Electro-hsemostasis in Operative Surgery, 

 by Alexander J. C. Skene, M. D., supplementary 

 to his Treatise on the Diseases of Women; An 

 Experimental Research into Surgical Shock, by 

 George W. Crile, M. D. ; a students' one-volume 

 edition of Surgery, by Roswell Park, M. D. ; and 

 An American Text-book of Surgery for Practi- 

 tioners, edited by William W. Keen, M. D., and 

 J. W. White, M. D., in a third revised edition. 

 Anna M. Fullerton, M. D., gave a small volume 

 to Surgical Nursing. Vol. IV of the Index-Cata- 

 logue of the Library of the Surgeon General's 

 Office, United States Army, second series, was 

 sent out during the year, covering D-Emulsions. 



Poetry. There were 14 more books .of poetry 

 published in 1899 than in the previous prolific 

 year. The poem which aroused most comment, 

 The Man with the Hoe, by Edwin Markham, was 

 given to the public in book form w r ith other 

 poems by the same author. Several well-known 

 names were represented: Louise Chandler Moul- 

 ton, by a book of sonnets and lyrics, entitled At 

 the Wind's Will; Robert Cameron Rogers, by 

 For the King, and Other Poems; Madison Julius 

 Cawein, by Myth and Romance, a book of verses; 

 Edward Rowland Sill, by Hermione, and Other 

 Poems; Louise Imogen Guiney, by The Martyr's 

 Idyl, and Shorter Poems; Arlo Bates, by Under 



