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The I Non-surgical | Treatment | of | Intestinal Stasis | and Constipation | 

 compiled by | Robert H. Ferguson, M. D., Sc. D. | also an important 

 announcement | regarding liquid petrolatum | published for the phy- 

 sician and surgeon by | E. R. Squibb & Sons, New York | Medical 

 Department | MCMXVI | Cloth, pp. 1-109. 



The title of this little volume is misleading. A few pages are 

 devoted to the definition of intestinal stasis, the cause of it, its 

 importance, and its remote effects. Most of the volume is 

 a collection of favorable statements concerning liquid petrolatum 

 as a remedy for intestinal stasis. The statements are excerpts 

 from published articles which may or may not include records 

 of experiments, but with the exception of the mention of four 

 cases, the book itself offers no experimental data. 



J. L. Booth. 



Diseases | of the | Digestive Tract | and | Their Treatment | by | A. Everett 

 Austin, A. M., M. D. | [11 lines] | St. Louis | C. V. Mosby Company | 

 1916 I Cloth, pp. 1-552. Price $5.50. 



A striking feature of this pretentious volume is the very 

 general lack of proportion. Nearly one third of it is taken up 

 with the various methods of examination and diagnosis, with 

 special emphasis on the X-ray. The physiology of digestion and 

 the chemistry of the digestive tract, both in health and disease, 

 are elaborately detailed. On the other hand, barring a few 

 words on the examination of the mouth, teeth, and pharynx, 

 the part of the tract above the stomach is completely ignored, 

 while the diseases of the tonsils and pyorrhoea alveolaris are 

 not mentioned. 



As a contrast, seven pages and six illustrations are given to 

 the stomach tube and its administration, while one third of a 

 page suffices for Entamoeba coli and E. histolytica and the havoc 

 wrought by them. No other protozoa are mentioned. The 

 Shiga-Flexner group of dysentery bacilli are dismissed with a 

 three-line notice. Typhoid enteritis is not discussed. 



Intestinal parasites, the diseases caused by them, and their 

 treatment occupy only six pages, of which one is considered 

 sufficient for hookworm infection. 



The illustrations of Oxyuris vermicular is and Ankylostom,a 

 duodenale, marked natural size, are two and one-half times too 

 large and do not remotely resemble these worms. 



J. L. Booth. 



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