A System of Medicine, by Many Writers

subject. Dr. Hutchison has largely revised his article on diebetics, and includes the important experiments of Professor Chittenden on the excess consumption of proteids, which will probably considerably modify our views on the amount of proteid which the body requires daily, and cause us to revise the figures which for years past we have been content to use, following Voits' experiments. The article by the late Professor Leech in the first edition is rewritten now by Sir Lauder Brunton. Professor Adamis' chapter on inflammation is a masterly one. Others on Massage, Electricity in Medicine, X-Rays, Life Assurance, Nutrition and New Growths are all good. The second division of this volume includes some of the infections, e.g., Watson-Cheyne on Septicaemia, and Erysipelas ; Dr. Goodhart 011 Influenza; Dr. Woodhead on Tetanus, Drs. Diesfield and Lorrain-Smith on Typhoid (or as it is here called enteric fever). Other articles