Treatment of Some Common Diseases

advisable to devote a special article to this subject. This will prove a great boon to, seekers after truth. The surgical summaries include one on the use of refrigerated blood for blood transfusions; one on intractable sciatica due to retropulsed nucleus pulposus; one on sympathectomy and its uses; and many others of general surgical interest. Two sections are of interest to everyone. One on traffic lights, and one on pneumatic drills. The use of sudden-change traffic lights is elaborated in the light of Pavlov's work on condition reflexes. Symptoms due to this use are suggested. Treatment is also prescribed. Any person watching the pneumatic drill being used might with reason ask, "Does this not affect your workman physically?" The answer is contained herein, and indeed one is surprised at the paucity of dangers consequent on its use. The book is a goldmine of information to both consultant and general practitioner, and it can be recommended with every confidence. BOOKS devoted to, the description of modern methods of treatment and allegedly designed for the general practitioner, have shown a tendency rapidly to multiply in recent years. The large proportion of these, however, fail, although of high standards, because of attempts to include every possible condition and treatment, and to compress too much matter into a restricted compass. Dr. Rowland Hill's book evades such criticism, as he confines his book to a limited number of disease-states, in order to discuss their treatment in a full and comprehensive manner, free from condensation or abbreviation. This policy certainly makes the book easier to read and understand, and at the same time gives the reader an insight into a number of important therapeutic problems, wider and deeper than could be given by more condensed and briefer accounts. The disease-states of wvhich are met with in the daily round of general practice. Dr. Hill has done his work as editor carefully, and has kept his contributors on an even keel; the result is a book uniformly even in the standard set, and free from individual fads or fancies. Every young medical man should read it before going out on his first locum, and many an experienced practitioner could read it with advantage to himself and to his ease of mind in his daily work. THE author of this book is one of Adler's devoted disciples, and the result is a book written in full sympathy of …