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Candy | Medication | by | Bernard Fantus, M. D. | Professor of Pharmacol- 

 ogy and Therapeutics College of | Medicine, University of Illinois, 

 Chicago, i St. Louis | [ornament] | C. V. Mosby Company | 1915 ] 

 Cloth, pp. 1-82. Price, ^1. 



Candy Medication by Doctor Fantus presents a method for 

 making the administration of medicine less obnoxious to children 

 by using it in the form of candy. He gives formulae for the 

 use of fifty such medicaments. These fifty pretty well cover 

 the gamut of children's ordinary ailments, and their general 

 administration in the form of candy should be hailed as a distinct 

 advance in robbing childhood of its dread of obnoxious medicine. 



The book is well written and free from any serious ob- 

 jectionable features. It is a distinct addition to the literature of 

 medicine dispensing and deserves the favor of the physician and 

 pharmacist. The dose in most cases is small, being usually about 

 one tenth the size of the average dose recommended by the 

 United States Pharmacopoeia. However, as the author states, 

 the smallness of the dose is an advantage, since it necessitates 

 frequent administration which is a good principle in practice, 

 owing to the greater activity of the vital processes of the child. 



H. C. Brill. 



Post-Mortem | Examinations | by | William S. Wadsworth, M. D. | Coroner's 

 physician of Philadelphia | with 304 original | illustrations | Phila- 

 delphia and London | W. B. Saunders Company ] 1916 | Cloth, pp. 

 1-598. Price, $6 net; half -morocco, $7.50 net. 



Wadsworth's book contains much that is praiseworthy and 

 not a little that may be criticized. The scope of a post-mortem 

 examination is so great that it is a matter of some difficulty to 

 decide what shall be included in, and what excluded from, a 

 book devoted to the subject. The author is correct in his idea 

 that a post-mortem operator should have a broad knowledge of 

 the medical sciences, but it is manifestly impossible to inclose 

 an encyclopaedia of these sciences between the covers of one book. 

 That part of the author's work that is devoted to description 

 of technique is for the most part excellent, many original 

 observations have been recorded, and the illustrations are well 

 selected and beautifully executed. The intense personal element 

 which everywhere pervades the text does not materially add to 

 the value of a book which from its very nature should derive its 

 greatest circulation among those without a large mortuary ex- 

 perience. A solved problem appears to have presented fewer 

 difficulties than before its solution was reached, and post-mortem 

 revelations are too common an incident to call for diatribes 

 against every one but the post-mortem operator. Charity toward 



