CATALOGUE OF MEDICAL WORKS. 
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view of foods, and includes water and air, since 
they are important both in their food and sanitary 
aspects. The book contains a series of diagrams, 
displaying the effects of sleep and meals on pulsa- 
tion and respiration, and of various kinds of food 
on respiration, which, as the results of Dr. Smith’s 
SMITH. Diseases of Memory : 
own experiments, possess a very high value. We 
have not far to go in this work for occasions of 
favorable criticism ; they occur throughout, but are 
erhaps most apparent in those parts of the sub- 
ject with which Dr. Smith’s name is especially 
inked.” —London Examiner. 
An Essay in the Positive Psy- 
chology. By Ts. Riot, Author of “Heredity,” etc. Translated from 
the French by Wittiam Hountineron Smiru. 
“Not merely to scientific, but to all thinking 
men, this volume will prove intensely interesting.’ 
—New York Observer. 
““M. Ribot has bestowed the most painstaking 
attention upon his theme, and numerous examples 
of the conditions considered greatly increase the 
value and interest of the volume.’’—Philadelphia 
North American, 
“¢Memory,’ says M. Ribot, ‘is a general func- 
tion of the nervous system. It is based upon the 
faculty possessed_by the nervous elements ot’ con- 
serving a received modification, and of forming as- 
sociations.’ And again: ‘Memory is a aoe te 
fact. A rich and extensive memory is not a collec- 
tion of impressions, but an accumulation of dynam- 
STEINER. Compendium of Children’s Diseases. 
By Dr. Jouann Srerver, Professor of 
the Diseases of Children in the University of Prague. 
for Practitioners and Students. 
12mo. Cloth, $1.50. 
ical associations, very stable and very responsive to 
roper stimuli. . . . The brain is Tike a Jaboratory 
ull of movement where thousands of operations 
are going on all at once. Unconscious cercbration, 
not being subject to restrictions of time, operating. 
so to speak, only in space, may act in several 
directions at the same moment. Consciousness 
is the narrow gate through which a very smal 
art of all this work iS able to reach us.’ M. 
ibot thus reduces diseases of memory to law, 
and his treatise is of extraordinary interest.’’— 
Philadelphia Press, 
“Tt is not too much to say that in no single 
work have so many curious cases been brought 
together and interpreted in a scientific manner.” 
—Boston Evening Traveller. 
A Hand-Book 
Translated from 
the second German edition by Lawson Tarz, F. R.C.S., Surgeon to the 
Birmingham Hospital for Women. 8vo. Cloth, $350; sheep, $4.50. 
“ Dr, Steiner’s book has met with such marked success in Germany that a second edition has already 
appeared, a cireumstance which has delayed the appearance of its English form, in order that I might 
be able to give his additions and corrections. 
“T have added as an Appendix the ‘ Rules for Mana, 
the staff of the Birmingham Sick Children’s Hospital, because I think t 
ment of Infants,’ which have been issued by 
hat they have set an example, 
by freely distributing these rules among the poor, for which they can not be sufliciently commended, 
and which it would be wise for other sick chil 
ren’s hospitals to follow. 
“T have also added a tew notes, chiefly, of course, relating to the surgical ailments of children.’?— 
Extract from Translator’s Preface. 
STEVENS. Functional Nervous Diseases: Their Causes and 
their Treatment. 
Royale de Médecine de Belgique. 
Memoir for the Concourse of 1881-1883, Académie 
With a Supplement, on the Anomalies 
of Refraction and Accommodation of the Eye, and of the Ocular Muscles. 
By Grorce T. Stevens, M. D., Ph. D., Member of the American Medical 
Association, of the American Ophthalmological Society, etc. ; formerly 
Professor of Ophthalmology and Physiology in the Albany Medical Col- 
Small 8vo. 
Cloth, $2.50. 
‘A careful study of this work will undoubtedly 
clear up many hitherto illy understood cases of 
nervous troubles, and will lead. to a more success- 
lege. 
Tllustrations. 
ful treatment of such. . . — Peoria Medical 
Monthly. 
«|, We heartily commend his book to all 
thoughtful students of nervous diseases, feeling 
sure that they can not fail of finding in it most 
valuable suggestions.’”— Medical and Surgical 
Reporter. . 
217 pages. With Six Photographic Plates and Twelve 
“. .. It is fortunate for the profession that 
Dr. Stevens has done his views iull justice in a 
work to, which all can have access, for they cer- 
tainly deserve careful attention.’’— Medical Press 
of Western New York. 
‘*. . . The work is eminently suggestive 
and practical upon numerous points, and must 
rove interesting and very useful to the stu- 
ent and practitioner.’ — Southern Medicai 
Record. 
