Movable Kidney

papers by Dr. Suckling on this condition. The present little book is a further contribution from the same authority, wherein the author c*oes very fully i?to the subject, and attempts to prove that on it depend a very large number of the disorders usually defined as neurotic, and also some that are due to distinct changes in the tissues of a pathological nature. In the preface, Dr. budding takes Professor Osier very severely to task for certain statements in the latest edition of " The Principles and Practice of Medicine." We may say at once that we do not admire the style the author adopts in " proposing to examine these statements and point out the errors in them." On the other hand, every one agrees with Dr. Suckling that in certain cases movable kidney may give rise to very severe symptoms and may require Urgent treatment, but we cannot accept his opinions as final. Speaking from a fairly large experience of cases of this condition that were discovered "accidentally," i.e., in which the patient was suffering from some h)tallv different disease, the dropped kidney heinc discovered during the examination, m our nninTon it is notat all an uncommon condition to find both among Europeans and natives of India; and in the great majority of cases not only did ??0...* Irnnw nothing about it but made no the pafent kno "0f ^ ? u|.effects and dh.e resuU?"hat Dr. Suckling lays such great stress 0"The book is very much out of the common, its sfcvle being diametrically opposed to what one } (. fn find in a temperate, careiully-consiffi advocacy <>f a" author's opinions; in fact, it reminds one of the literature accompanying