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The I Practice | of | Medicine | a text-book for practitioners and students | 

 with special reference to diag- | nosis and treatment | by | James 

 Tyson, M. D., LL. D. | [4 lines] | and Mr. Howard Fussell, M. D. | 

 [4 lines] | Sixth edition, revised and rewritten ] with six plates | and 

 179 other illustrations | Philadelphia | P. Blakiston's Son & Co. | 1012 

 Walnut Street | 1913. 



The present revised edition of Tyson's Practice of Medicine 

 is quite up-to-date and it contains many new subjects. The 

 most important among these are: Diseases of the Pituitary 

 Gland, Diverticulitis, Diseases of the Thymus Gland, Hypothy- 

 roidism and Hyperthyroidism, Osteopsathyrosis, Oxicephaly, and 

 many others. It is, hovi^ever, to be regretted that the so-called 

 Tropical Diseases have not received the proper attention that 

 they deserve in their revision. The description of some of them 

 is very unsatisfactory and is not consistent with the modern 

 views that we have of them at present. With this minor ex- 

 ception there is no doubt that this book on Practice of Medicine 

 deserves to be highly recommended for its worth, and it will 

 continue to be one of the favorite textbooks among medical 

 students, on account of the preciseness and clearness with which 

 it deals with the whole subject of internal medicine. 



A. G. SiSON. 



Pathogenic j Micro-organisms | a text-book of | microbiology for physicians | 

 and students of medicine | by | Ward J. MacNeal, Ph. D., M. D., | 

 professor of pathology and bacteriology in the New York | post- 

 graduate medical school and hospital. New York | (based upon Wil- 

 liams' Bacteriology) | with 213 illustrations | Philadelphia | P. Blak- 

 iston's Son & Co. I 1012 Walnut Street | 1914 | Cloth, pp. i— xxii-i- 

 1-462. Price $2.25. 



This volume should more properly be termed a manual than 

 a textbook, and like many of its class it attempts too much, 

 rather than too little. In a hasty glance through the book the 

 following criticisms may be mentioned. That portion of Chap- 

 ter I dealing with the development and principles of the micro- 

 scope might well have been omitted. In Chapter II under test- 

 ing disinfectants no mention is made of the U. S. Hygienic 

 Laboratory method: a very important omission in the opinion 

 of the reviewer. The use of Dieudonne's medium is ignored 

 under the bacteriological diagnosis of cholera. Quite a few typo- 



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