Nervous and [ental Diseases, Surgery. 
Gray on Nervous and Mental Diseases. 
A Practical Treatise on Nervous and Mental Dis- 
eases. By LANDON CaRTER GRay, M.D., Professor of Diseases of the 
Mind and Nervous System in the New York Polyclinic. Shortly. 
ss work is devoted purely to the practical aspects of nervous and mental 
diseases, especial care being taken to present the fundamental knowledge 
essential to a grasp of its subjects and to cast everything in the clearest possible 
form. The series of illustrations is rich and unique, embracing a large num- 
ber of photographic engravings of exceptional vividness and interest. By the 
employment of a style at once concise and clear, and by careful arrangement, 
the author is enabled to include an exposition of a vast and important subject 
in a condensed and convenient form. It will be an admirable work for the 
student as well as for the practitioner. 
Ross on Nervous Diseases. 
A Handbook on Diseases of the Nervous System. 
By James Ross, M. D., F.R.C. P., LL. D., Senior Assistant Physician to 
the Manchester Royal Infirmary. In one octavo volume of 725 pages, with 
184 illustrations. Cloth, $4.50; leather, $5.50. 
This admirable work is intended for | highest praise, and will no doubt be found 
students of medicine and for such medical | of the greatest value to the student as well 
men as have no time for lengthy treatises. | as to the practitioner.—Edinburgh Medical 
In every part this handbook merits the | Journal, Jan. 1887. 
Roberts’ Modern Surgery. 
The Principles and Practice of Modern Surgery. 
For the use of Students and Practitioners of Medicine and Surgery. By 
Joun B. RoBerts, M. D., Professor of Anatomy and Surgery in the Phila- 
delphia Polyclinic; Professor of the Principles and Practice of Surgery in 
the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania; Lecturer in Anatomy in 
the University of Pennsylvania. In one very handsome octavo volume of 
780 pages, with 501 illustrations. Cloth, $4.50; leather, $5.50. 
This work is a very comprehensive man- | vanced doctrines and methods of practice of 
ual upon general surgery, and will doubtless | the present day. Its general arrangement 
meet with a favorable reception by the pro- | follows this rule, and the author in his desire 
fession. It has athoroughly practical charac- | to be concise and practical is at times almost 
ter, the subjects are treated with rare judg- | dogmatic, but this is entirely excusable con- 
ment, its conclusions are in accord with | sidering the admirable manner in which he 
those of the leading practitioners of the art, | has thus increased the usefulness of his 
and its literature is fully up to all the ad-| work.—Medical Record, Jan. 17, 1891. 
Erichsen’s Surgery—Eighth Edition. 
The Science and Art of Surgery; Being a Treatise on 
Surgical Injuries, Diseases and Operations. By Joun E. ExicuseEn, F.R.S., 
F.R.C.8., Professor of Surgery in University College, London, ete. From 
the eighth and enlarged English edition. In two large 8vo. volumes of 2316 
pages, with 984 engravings on wood. Cloth, $9.00 ; leather, $11.00. 
