Diseases of the Upper Respiratory Tract

as to make it a complete work of reference for the student or practitioner. In such a work we naturally find prominence given to such subjects as "throat affections of infectious fevers, gout, and rheumatism" chronic infective diseases," such as syphilis, tuberculosis, and leprosy; and " neuroses of the larynx accordingly there are useful chapters on each of these topics, while shorter descriptions are given of the more purely manipulative and operative procedures such as tracheotomy, tonsillotomy, and thyrotomy. We notice, however, a very good and practical description of intubation, of which the author speaks with discriminative approval, especially recommending it for laryngeal obstruction the result of acute laryngitis in children in all cases "where medical aid can be summoned within half-an-hour should the tube be coughed up." Comparatively little space is devoted to the subject of diphtheria, inasmuch as it " is treated at length in every text-book of general medicine." We think, however, that any work on