Elements of Physics for Medical Students

The author describes this volume as a text-book which, in conjunction with the Manual of Chemistry by Luff and Page, recently noticed in our columns, serves to cover all the chemistry and physics?both theoretical and practical?required by the Conjoint Board and the Society of Apothecaries. In reality it i^ a well-illustrated syllabus, and excellently adapted to the needs of the teacher, and just sufficient to refresh the mind of the apt and well-taught student. Without simultaneous expansion, by precept and practical demonstration, it would be unintelligible to the beginner in the science of physics. Of this no doubt the author is well aware, but the claim to be a text-book is scarcely justified. On reading the book, one is impressed with the nakedness of our school education of the present day, which sends boys into the study of medicine ignorant of the simple principles of physics which this syllabus includes, and makes it necessary to spare some of the all too short five years' curriculum in teaching such rudiments of knowledge (we forbear to designate it as a special branch of learning) as can readily be grasped by any boy of thirteen not deficient.