CATALOGUE OF MEDICAL WORKS. 9 
BURT. Exploration of the Chest in Health and Disease. 
By 
SrerHen Suitn Burt, M. D., Professor of Clinical Medicine and Physical 
Diagnosis in the New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital ; 
Physician to: the Out-Door Department (Diseases of the Heart and 
Lungs), Bellevue Hospital. 
$1.50. 
“This handy little book has lately been re- 
ceived by us, and we can recommend its many 
virtues and its usefulness to physicians and stu- 
dents. It is well illustrated, with large, clear type, 
and handsome cloth binding. The author’s object 
in compounding this work is to aid the student in 
his efforts to learn the significance of physical 
sigos and their mode of development. He has 
utilized his own experience, as well as the common 
stock of medical teaching, to extend to others the 
knowledge of the relative position of the viscera to 
the parietes, and the piyetsel signs that can be de- 
veloped in the normal chest; for upon such a foun- 
dation rests the only true basis for a correct under- 
standing of the changes caused by disease.’’— Texas 
Courter- Record of Medicine. 
“This is a small but exceedingly comprehen- 
sive book on auscultation and percussion, and is 
evidently written by one who has given frequent 
instruction on the subject. . . . After each disease 
a summary of the prmeipal signs and symptoms is 
given. e book is well printed, with a sufficient 
number of cuts and diagrams to make it of especial 
value to students.””—Maryland Medical Journal. 
“. . . While this book was written with par- 
ticular reference to the needs of the student, we 
are sure the practitioner will find it immensely 
CAMPBELL. The Language of Medicine. 
8vo, 210 pages. With Illustrations. 
Cloth, 
useful for his needs as well. Like all of their 
books, the work of the publishers makes it a model 
of excellence.’’—Practice. 
‘The aim of this work is, as described by the 
author, to emphasize the importance of knowing 
the physiological anatomy of the heart and lungs, 
the relative position of the viscera to the parietes, 
and the physical signs that can be developed in the 
normal chest, as upon such a foundation rests the 
only true basis tor a correct understanding of the 
changes caused by disease. The difficulty encoun- 
tered in producing a good text-book for students 
has been ably surmounted in this instance. Dr. 
Burt’s intimate knowledge of his subject, utilized 
trom his own personal! expericnee and teaching, 
renders this a work at once sound and practical.’’— 
Medical Brief. 
“Dr. Burt has not attempted to establish patho- 
omonic or distinctive signs of disease, thinking 
that precision is more surely attained by treating 
each sign as subordinate to the various combina- 
tions of signs which are found in the different 
maladies. . . . The work is 2 convenient compila- 
tion of knowledge contained in various text-books 
on this subject, with the result of the author's 
personal experience interspersed.””—St. Lowis 
Medical and Surgical Journal. 
A Manual giving the 
Origin, Etymology, Pronunciation, and Meaning of the Technical Terms 
found in Medical Literature. 
By F. R. Campsert, A. M., M. D., Pro- 
fessor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics, Medical Department of 
Niagara University. 8vo, 825 pages. Cloth, $3.00. 
“A most valuable book, and no less valuable 
than charming. Upon studying these pages, we 
begin to have an idea of the manner in which the 
names of our various diseases originated. . . . 
Suffice it to say that we have here an excellent text- 
book and history combined, a work which will be 
pepo by both old and young. . . .”"—WMedi- 
cab Register. 
“. . . Certainly such a book is sadly needed 
when we reflect upon the wholesale mispronuncia- 
tion, not only by medical students, but by old prac- 
titioners of medicine. To the medical teacher, stu- 
dent, and practitioner, Campbell’s ‘Language of 
Medicine’ is indispensable.’’—Practice. 
“ This is not only a very interesting but a very 
instructive book, and fulfills the object intended by 
the author, to ‘ provide the medical student with a 
suitable means of acquiring the vocabulary of his 
science,’ Like Shakespeare, the oo waajority of 
medical students have but ‘small Latin and less 
Greek.’ It is not necessary for us to give a synop- 
sis of the work, nor to dwell at length upon any 
particular part. We can only advise our readers 
to procure the book and read it with care. We 
sincerely believe it will be useful to old and young, 
and especially to medical students.”—Columbus 
Metioa Journal, 
* We welcome with much gratification a volume 
which forms such pleasant reading for the physi- 
cian who may desire to know something of the 
grammar and orthography ot the medical portion 
of the English language, if we may so term it. It 
is a sort of guide or introduction to the dictionary, 
showing him why the words exist, or rather the 
foundation of their existence. The mere practi- 
tioner will not find in such chapters as the Origin 
of Words, The Life and Death of Words, Nomen- 
clature, etc., anything available for him in the next 
case of gastric fever or diphtheria he may be called 
upon to attend, but Dr. Campbell has given much 
tood for reflection to the earnest, thoughtful student 
of his protession.”’— College and Clinical Record. 
“This is a book that everybody will like. 
There are too few of this kind written. We think 
it is just the sort of work to be put into the hands 
of a age previous to his entry into a medical 
school. The exercises are excellent, and are of 
more use than the ordinary Latin exercises usually 
given at school, for they bear directly on future 
work. There is too little preparatory work at 
schools for those who are intended for a special 
profession. We recommend it to practitioners 
especially those engaged in literary work, asa ‘ood 
book.” —Pacifie Medical and Surgical Journal and 
Western Lancet. 
