The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics

John Y. Bassett through the medium of Osler's essay. Osler was impressed, and he accorded Bassett the title An Alabama Student; it seems a trifle unfair to either Osler or Alabama to change, on the title-page of the present volume, the "An" to the more definite "The." It is unfortunate, also, to note that the present text is not an exact reprinting of the paper as it appeared in its original form in the Southern Medical Reports. But neither are the excerpts from the original as presented in the Johns Hopkins Hospital Bulletin and in the "An Alabama Student" exact transcriptions, so that one more attempt to improve on the good Doctor Bassett's literary efforts is not out of order. However, too much importance must not be attached to such minor points; the fact remains that here we have the views and the philosophy of a genuine physician. A place should be made on the book-shelf for this small volume to snuggle in between Aequtimitas and An Alabama Student. GEO. H. SMITH.