BULLETIN OF MEDICAL PUBLICATIONS: W. B. SAUNDERS, PHILADA. 



BOOKS -RECENTLY ISSUED. 



TEXT-BOOK OF THE PATHOGENIC BACTERIA. 



Specially written for students of medicine. By JOSEPH McFAR- 

 LAND, M. D., Professor of Pathology and Bacteriology in the 

 Medico- Chirurgical College of Philadelphia, etc. 359 pages, 

 finely illustrated. Cloth. Price, $2.50 net. 



The book presents a concise account of the technical procedures 

 necessary in the study of Bacteriology. It describes the life-history 

 of pathogenic bacteria, and the pathological lesions following invasions. 

 The illustrations have been gathered from standard sources, and com- 

 prise the best and most complete aggregation extant. 



" The author has rendered a great service to the profession in bringing out this 

 work at this opportune time." The American Therapist, Aug.. 1896. 



PRACTICAL POINTS IN NURSING. For Nurses in 

 Private Practice. By EMILY A. M. STONEY, Superintendent 

 of the Training-school for Nurses, Carney Hospital, South Boston. 

 456 pages, handsomely illustrated with 73 engravings and 9 

 colored and half-tone plates. i2mo. Cloth. Price, $1.75 net. 



A vade mecum for the private nurse, and an efficient teaching-book 

 for training-schools. Instructions for quickly improvising needed sick- 

 room appliances constitute a valuable feature of the book. The 

 Appendix contains, in compact form, much information that will be 

 of great value to the nurse, including General Rules for Feeding the 

 Sick ; Recipes for Invalid Foods and Beverages ; Tables of Weights 

 and Measures ; Table for Computing Date of Labor ; List of Abbre- 

 viations; Dose-List; and a Glossary of 64 pages. 



" The author's ^tyle is most agreeable, and she handles her subject in a way that 

 clearly shows her complete familiarity with it." New York Polyclinic, Aug. 15, 1896. 



" There are few books intended for non-professional readers which can be so cor- 

 dially endorsed by a medical journal as can this one." Therapeutic Gazette, Aug. 15, 

 1896. 



" This is a well-written, eminently practical volume." American Journal of 

 Obstetrics, Aug., 1896. 



THE PICTORIAL ATLAS OF SKIN DISEASES AND 

 SYPHILITIC AFFECTIONS (American Edition). 

 Translation from the French. Edited by J. J. PRINGLE, M. B., 

 F. R. C. P., Assistant Physician to, and Physician to the depart- 

 ment for Diseases of the Skin at, the Middlesex Hospital, London. 

 Photo-lithochromes from the famous models of dermatological and 

 syphilitic cases in the Museum of the Saint-Louis Hospital, Paris, 

 with explanatory wood-cuts and text. In 12 Parts, at $3.00 per 

 Part s Parts I. to IV. now ready. 



" The plates are beautifully executed." JONATHAN HUTCHINSON, M. D. (London 

 Hospital). 



