D. APPLE TON & CO.'S MEDICAL WORKS. 37 



PARALYSES: CEREBRAL, BULBAR, AND SPINAL. 



A Manual of Diagnosis for Students and Practitioners. By H. CHARLTON 

 BASTIAN, M. A., M. D., F. R. S. ; Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians; 

 Examiner in Medicine at the Royal College of Physicians ; Professor of 

 Clinical Medicine and of Pathological Anatomy in University College, 

 London, etc. 



With 136 Illustrations. Small 8vo, 671 pages. Cloth, $4.50. 



" The work is designed to facilitate diagnosis of " This is ' a manual of diagnosis for students 



the various forms of paralysis. . . . The book sup- and practitioners,' and as a special work on the di- 



plies a want long felt ; to come from this celebrated agnosis on localization of a paralyzing lesion we do 



author makes it much more valuable." Buffalo not know of its equal in any language." Virginia 



Medical and Surgical Journal. Medical Monthly. 



"We deem the work to be one of immense value <(We can strori ly rec ommend Dr. Bastian's 



which must add greatly to its author s already large wQrk tfae student and practitioner as a monument 



reputation, and we are heartily glad to see it . repro- f leaming exceedingly well put together."-^i/. 

 duced by an American publishing house." Medical 



Press of Western New York. H For di fe Bastian , s work will take the high . 



" Throughout the work the author's mastery of est rank. It is remarkable for its philosophical tone 



the subject is constantly apparent, and it must take and for the author's critical comments on numerous 



rank as without a superior in its special department." obscure problems on neurology." American Jour- 



Medical and Surgical Reporter. nal of the Medical Sciences. 



ELEMENTS OF PRACTICAL MEDICINE. By ALFRED 



H. CARTER, M. D., Member of the Royal College of Physicians, London ; 

 Physician to the Queen's Hospital, Birmingham, etc. 



Third edition, revised and enlarged, i vol., I2mo, 427 pages. Cloth, $3.00. 



"Although this work does not profess to be a wisely, perhaps, since we know so little about it ; 



complete treatise on the practice of medicine, it is and of that other almost unknown quantity in 



too full to be called a compend ; it is rather an in- medicine, scrofula, the author has with equal pru- 



troduction to the more exhaustive study embodied dence abstained from saying much. He admits 



in the larger text-books. An idea of the degree to such a condition as scrofulosis, but thinks it has no 



which condensation has been carried in it can be necessary connection with tuberculosis. He is a 



gathered from the statement that but twenty-one believer in the germ-theory of disease, and speaks 



pages are occupied with the diseases of the circula- of Koch's investigations and discoveries as very im- 



tory system. If the reader gets the impression that portant, to him almost conclusive, 



the physical sigris are given somewhat too meager- " Notwithstanding the condensed make-up of 



ly, it is to be said that, by way of compensation, the book, it is quite comprehensive, including even 



the symptomatology in general is considered with cutaneous and venereal diseases. It contains much 



admirable perspicuity and good judgment. valuable information, and we may add that it is 



" Leucocythamia is dismissed with one page very readable." New York Medical Journal. 



THE MINERAL SPRINGS OF THE UNITED STATES 



AND CANADA, with Analysis and Notes on the Prominent Spas of 

 Europe and a List of Sea-side Resorts. An enlarged and revised edition 

 By GEORGE E. WALTON, M. D., Lecturer on Materia Medica in the Miami 

 Medical College* Cincinnati. 



Second edition, revised and enlarged. I vol., I2mo, 414 pp. With Maps. $2. 



The author has given the analysis of all the springs in this country and those of the principal 

 European spas, reduced to a uniform standard of one wine-pint, so that they may readily be com- 

 pared. He has arranged the springs of America and Europe in seven distinct classes, and de- 

 scribed the diseases to which mineral waters are adapted, with references to the class of waters 

 applicable to the treatment ; and the peculiar characteristics of each spring as near as known are 



fiven also the location, mode of access, and post-office address of every spring are mentioned, 

 n addition, he has described the various kinds of baths and the appropriate use of them in the 

 treatment of disease. 



" Precise and comprehensive, presenting not only use as intelligently and beneficially as they can other 

 reliable analysis of the waters, but their therapeutic valuable alterative agents." Sanitarian. 

 value, so that physicians can hereafter advise their 



