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of placing in one volume the information necessary to diagnose 

 and treat all the usual and most of the unusual effects of ac- 

 cident and injury. 



The profession at large has become reawakened to the prob- 

 lems of accident surgery, and, incidentally, has come into a 

 new relationship with the injured because of the operation of 

 compensation and allied laws; likewise, the victims of accident, 

 and civic, judicial, legal, and other agencies are exacting from 

 the physician a higher grade of care and placing on him an 

 added burden of responsibility. 



The text also aims to state the measures which the writer has 

 found most practical in his own experience, and an effort has 

 been made to unify and standardize the treatment of such com- 

 mon injuries as wounds, infections, burns, and the usual frac- 

 tures. It will be noted that stress is placed on the routine use 

 of but few antiseptics, the drainage of all wounds, the imme- 

 diate and complete reduction of fractures, and non-reliance upon 

 complicated splints or those that hide the part or are irremovable. 



The writer believes that open air and sunshine is the best 

 treatment for any infected wound in any location from any 

 source, because purulent secretion is soon checked, there are 

 no pus-soaked or wound adhering dressings (literally pus poul- 

 tices), and the comfort of the patient is measurably increased 

 and healthy granulations and minimum scarring occur promptly. 

 For many years now this plan has been employed, and the writer 

 is convinced that its efficacy is best proved by the statement that 

 skin-grafting has not been necessary since this form of aerother- 

 apy and heliotherapy has become routine in his practice. 



Handbook of Gynecology j for Students and Practitioners | by | Henry Foster 

 Lewis, A. B., M. D. | [5 lines] | and | Alfred de Roulet, B. Sc, M. S., 

 M. D. | [3 lines] | With one hundred and seventy-seven | illustrations 

 | St. Louis j C. V. Mosby Company | 1917 | Cloth, pp. 1-452. 



Experimental j Pharmacology [ by Dennis E. Jackson, | Ph. D., M. D. | 

 associate professor of pharmacology, Washington University | Medical 

 School, St. Louis | With three hundred ninety original illustra- | tions 

 including twenty-lour full-page | color plates | St. Louis | C. V. Mosby 

 Company | 1917 | Cloth, pp. 1-536. 



Darwin was so repulsed by the study of geology because of 

 the poor presentation of the subject that he resolved never again 

 to have anything to do with it. Fortunately he revised his 

 decision. One of the reviewer's pet theories is that the first 

 presentation of a subject is the most important for the student. 

 If this theory is sound, the laboratory manual holds a responsi- 



