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graphical errors occur throughout the text, but the book on 

 the whole will undoubtedly fill the purpose for which it was 

 written. 



J. A. Johnston. 



Man a Machine | by | Julien Offray de la Mettrie | French-English | in- 

 cluding Frederick the Great's | "Eulogy" on la Mettrie and ex- | tracts 

 from la Mettrie's "the | natural history of the soul" | philosophical 

 and historical notes | by | Gertrude Carman Bussey | M. A., Wellesley 

 College I Chicago | The Open Court Publishing Co. \ 1912 | Cloth, 

 pp. 1-216. Frontispiece. 



The essays which outline La Mettrie's metaphysical doctrines 

 are chiefly of historical interest. In his argument in favor of 

 materialism, he draws on many experimental observations, some 

 original, to develop the physiological analogy between man and 

 the lower animals. In spite of the deficient physiological knowl- 

 edge of the time (1748), La Mettrie's arguments are rational, 

 and many parts of the essays read like mechanistic papers of 

 the present day. 



R. B. Gibson. 



Practical | Bacteriology, Blood Work | and | Animal Parasitology | including ] 

 bacteriological keys, zoological tables | and explanatory clinical note.? | 

 by I E. R. Stitt, A. B., Ph. G., M. D. | medical inspector, U. S. Navy; 

 graduate, London school of tropical medicine; head | [etc. 6 lines] | 

 Third edition, revised and enlarged | with 4 plates and 106 other 

 illustrations containing 513 figures | Philadelphia | P. Blakiston's Son 

 & Co. I 1012 Walnut Street | 1913 | Cloth, pp. i-xv+ 1-408. Price, 

 ?1.50. 



While the third edition of this manual is enlarged and brought 

 up to date in a general way, the most notable changes from the 

 second edition are found in the section on animal parasitology. 

 Many of the illustrations in this section are new and they 

 are excellent. This book could not replace the larger textbooks 

 upon the various subjects with which it deals, but like the 

 preceding editions it will doubtless be extremely useful not 

 only to the busy practitioner but to the student as well. 



David G. Willets. 



The American | Illustrated | Medical Dictionary | a new and complete dic- 

 tionary of I the terms used in medicine, surgery, | dentistry, phar- 

 macy, chemistry, nurs- | ing, veterinary science, biology, medi- | cal 

 biography, etc., with the | pronunciation, derivation, and definition | 

 including much collateral information | of an encyclopedic character I 

 by W. A. Newman Borland, A. M., M. D. | member of committee on 

 nomenclature, [etc. 4 lines] | together with new and elaborate tables 

 of arteries, muscles, [etc. 4 lines] | seventh edition, revised and 

 enlarged | Philadelphia and London | W. B. Saunders Company | 

 1913 I Pp. 1107, flexible leather, $4.50. 



