﻿462 The Philippine Journal of Science 1914 



Disease | and Its Causes j by | W. T. Councilman, A. M., M. D., LL. D. ] 

 professor of pathology, Harvard University | [seal] | New York | 

 Henry Holt and Company | London \ Williams and Norgate | Cloth, 

 pp. i-viii+ 1-254. 22 text fig-ures. Price, $0.50 net. 



Disease and Its Causes is an example of the exposition of a 

 subject for the laity by one of the foremost authorities on 

 that subject. In this little volume, No, 68 of the Home Univer- 

 sity Library series, Doctor Councilman has very clearly and 

 very attractively portrayed disease as "life under conditions 

 which differ from the usual." The development of the science 

 of medicine has been forcefully presented, and the causes of 

 disease have been classified and displayed as factors producing 

 reactions on the part of the body which constitute the symptoms 

 of disease. The laws of nature as exemplified in inheritance and 

 the normal growth of the body are presented, and their influence 

 is shown to be paramount. Every part of the book contains 

 something of value, and the book as a whole is one which the 

 laity can read profitably without being under the necessity of 

 mastering many technical details to understand disease and its 

 causes. As an author is mirrored in his writings, this book 

 also furnishes the medical reader with a great authority's con- 

 ception of the subject, which might not be gained by a perusal 

 of some of his more strictly technical monographs. 



B. C. C. 



A I Text-book | of \ Histology | arranged upon an embryological basis | by | 

 Dr. Frederic T. Lewis | assistant professor of embryology at the 

 Harvard Medical School | and | Dr. Philipp Stohr | formerly professor 

 of anatomy at the University of Wiirzburg | second edition, with 495 

 illustrations | being the seventh American edition of Stohr's histology | 

 from the fifteenth German edition, edited by Dr. 0. Schultze | 

 Philadelphia | P. Blakiston's Son & Co. | 1012 Walnut Street | 1913 | 

 Cloth, pp. i— ix+1 — 539. Price, $3 net. 



The seventh American edition of Stohr's classical Lehrbuch 

 der Histoligie und der mikroskopischen Anatomie des Menschen 

 has been prepared by Lewis and is published as of joint author- 

 ship. The previous editions of this work have been recognized 

 as forming a standard in histology. This edition presents cer- 

 tain modifications in the method of presentation of the subject 

 matter, and still retains much of the original text and the major- 

 ity of its figures. This edition is even an improvement on its 

 predecessors. 



B, C, C. 



