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BOOK REVIEWS. 
Medicinal plants of the Philippines." - 
says, “‘The robust who smoke and drink to excess and meet with an ace 
dental death on a railroad or from an acute disease that overtakes o- 
the midst of robust health, serve as arguments for the defenders of 
tobacco habit) to prove the innocence of the custom.” And agaim, 
antiseptic power of tobacco is undoubted, but it is intolerable that 4 Ph*™ 
under the pretext of avoiding self-infection should enter the house of 
patient and continue smoking at the bedside.” As the author 
of the information regarding medicinal properties of plants and 
is obtained from the Filipino herb doctors (curanderos). The co 
names are given. The botanical descriptions are simple and quite! 
The book is timely, and it will assist American botanists ™ 
themselves with the flora of their new possessions.- -ALBER Pee 
, 
THE reviewing of so-called popular scientific books is usually 
because one has so often to say disagreeable things; butin t 
task is quite the reverse. Miss Huntington’s Studies of trees ™ * 
certainly aid very materially in developing a love for nature study 
The book is unique in that it is a guide for the study of our m0 
trees in a season which, though popularly supposed unsuitable * 
plants, is one that, as the book shows, has certain very markeé *” 
he absence of foliage brings out much more clearly the 
; "PARDO DE Tavera, T. H.—The medicinal plants of the Pht 
_ from the Spanish into English by Jerome B. Thomas, Jr., captain ane 
geon, U.S.A. 8vo, pp. 269. Philadelphia: P. Blakiston, Son & CO 
* ANNIE OAKES HUNTINGTON: Studies of trees in winter. - 
pages, 75 full page half-tone illustrations and colored plates and f€ 
Knight & Millet. 1902. $2.50. oe ae 
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