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The Diagnostics | and | Treatment of Tropical | Diseases | by | -E. R. Stitt, A. 

 B., Ph. G., M. D. | [10 lines] | second editon | revised and enlarged 

 | with 117 illustrations | Philadelphia | P. Blakiston's Son & Co. | 1012 

 " Walnut street | Copyright, 1917. Pp. i-xiii+ 1-534. Cloth, $2 net. 



The second edition of Stitt's Diagnostics and Treatment 

 of Tropical Diseases has been brought well up-to-date by the 

 addition of chapters on typhus fever and Rocky Mountain 

 spotted fever in Part I, of one chapter dealing with special 

 diagnostic problems in the tropics, and of another discussing the 

 diagnostic value of clinical manifestations of diseases in the 

 skin and organs of special sense. The work as a whole is to 

 be commended as a clear and concise description of diseases in- 

 cident to the tropics. 



J. A. J. 



Diseases | of the | Stomach, Intestines, | and | Pancreas | by | Robert Coleman 

 Kemp, M. D. | [9 lines] | third edition, revised, with 438 illustrations 

 | Philadelphia and London | W. B. Saunders Company | 1917 | Pp. 

 1-1096. Cloth, $7 net; half morocco, $8.50 net. 



From the preface to the third edition: In view of the great 

 value of the x-ray as an aid to diagnosis in the gastrointestinal 

 tract, a special section has been devoted in this new edition to 

 the radiography of gastric ulcer, gastric cancer, duodenal ulcer 

 and gall-bladder disease and in addition, there are a large number 

 of radiographs of other conditions. 



Many physicians have neither time nor opportunity to devote 

 to a practical clinical course, and next in value to this for the 

 purpose of instruction is the employment of photography to 

 demonstrate the methods of diagnosis and treatment. Of this, 

 advantage has been taken. 



As visceral displacements have recently assumed an important 

 position, their symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment, notably by 

 mechanical methods, are specially described. Typhoid fever is 

 included in this volume on account of its intestinal complications 

 and for the purpose of differential diagnosis. 



A chapter is devoted to Diverticulitis, which has become an 

 important subject. 



The endeavor has been made to indicate as clearly as possi- 

 ble the conditions that call for surgical procedure. 



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