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Epidemic | Cerebrospinal | Meningitis | by i Abraham Sophian, M. D. j for- 

 merly with New York Research Laboratoi-y | Twenty-three illustra- 

 tions I St. Louis I C. V. Mosby Company | 1913 | Cloth, pp. i-xv + 

 1-272. $3.00. 



The author's large laboratory and clinical experience has 

 enabled him to place before the medical profession a very valuable 

 book on this subject. Several typographical errors detract from 

 the appearance of the book. 



J. A. J. 



Tuberculin | in | Diagnosis and Treatment | by 1 Francis Marion Pottenger, 

 A. M., M. D., LL. D. | medical director of the Pottenger Sanatorium 

 for diseases of the lungs and | throat, Monrovia, California 1 with 

 thirty-five illustrations, | including one plate in colors | St. Louis ] 

 C. V. Mosby Company | 1913 | Cloth, pp. 1-243. 



This monograph is written by one who is so evidently an 

 optimist that at times he seems to permit his enthusiasm to over- 

 balance his judgment. It is on the whole a very good resume of 

 the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis by vaccine therapy. 

 The author lays commendable stress on the fact that this method 

 of treatment is not one which lends itself to haphazard adminis- 

 tration. In Plate I, figure 1, the explanatory legend to be 

 correct should read "left" instead of "right," as it is the left eye 

 depicted. 



J. A. J. 



Pellagra | History, Distribution, Diagnosis, Prognosis, | Treatment, Etiology | 

 by I Stewart R. Roberts, S. M., M. D. | associate professor of the 

 principles and practice of medicine, Atlanta College | of Physicians 

 and Surgeons, Atlanta, Georgia; physician to the Wesley | Memorial 

 Hospital; formerly professor of biology in Emory College | with 

 eighty-nine special engravings | and colored frontispiece i St. Louis | 

 C. V. Mosby Company | 1912 | Cloth, pp. 272. $2.50. 



Since 1907 when Searcy reported an epidemic of pellagra 

 among the inmates of the Mount Vernon Hospital for the Colored 

 Insane in Alabama, many articles relative to various phases of 

 the disease have appeared in American and European medical 

 literature. A book reviewing all this work was greatly needed by 

 the busy practitioner. Such a book is Doctor Roberts's, and the 



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