Brazil, Orchid of the Tropics

gations have been added. Some characteristic motor disturbances in specific disease have been discussed. The text is supplemented by 250 excellent illustrations. Most of the photographic illustrations come from the teaching film collection of the New York Neurological Institute. The book concludes with a list of teaching films on neurology and a schedule of neurological examinations. In the reviewer's opinion, Herz and Putnam's manual is the best treatise on the subject. It is recommended to anyone interested in clinical neurology. After some previous collecting trips to Mexico and Cuba, the authors spent two winter seasons in Brazil and traveled nearly 12,000 miles in that country. For the purpose of collecting rare specimens of epiphytic (air) plants, especially bromeliads and orchids, they explored the jungles and highlands of the coastal states of Rio, Sao Paulo, Espirito Santo, and Bahia and traveled dee,p into Minas Geraes and Mattto Grosso. Exploring everywhere the fascinating "air-gardens," the Fosters became acquainted with Brazil as to people, geography, and plants. Numerous new species were discovered, and thus the book makes interesting reading both for the botanist and armchair-traveler; it points out the general difficulties which are encountered when traveling in little known territory and in the preparation of scientific specimens under not always favorable conditions. Among the numerous illustrations bromeliads and other interesting plants figure profusely. One notices that some of the photographs are not skillfully retouched, but the eye rests with pleasure on drawings by Mulford B. Foster which are well distributed throughout the text. This little book of some 150 pages is thoroughly documented and is replete with quotations from contemporary French authors. The medical man of 16th century France seems to have been singularly free of virtues, or quite possibly it may be that whatever virtues he may have had are far outweighed by his malice, or perhaps his genius, in selecting the poets and the satirists as patients. Of course there is nothing essentially new in the ideas of French medicine of that period as they are here portrayed, but example is