Many practitioners are no doubt familiar with this book which gives the pronunciations and concise definition of medical terms arranged alphabetically and with many tables which are convenient for quick reference. First published 50 years ago, it has gone through eighteen editions, so it needs no introduction. In this edition the book includes many new terms that have appeared in the literature...

is not recommended apart from a few patients in whom radical surgery is recommended. Various clinical trials are described-the use of radium only or combined with deep X-ray therapy either before or after the insertion of the radium, etc. One read with surprise that the cure rate is no better than in 1932. The better figures reported are due to the patients receiving treatment earlier. The revi...

man Dorland, a.m., m.d. London and Philadelphia : W. B. Saunders & Company. Fifth Edition, revised and enlarged. This Pocket Dictionary is a reduced edition of Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary which we have noticed so favourably above. The pocket edition has many of the good points of the larger work, and gives clear, concise and accurate definitions of all words used in medicine, surge...

Pp. viii?187. F'cap 8vo. Price 3s, net. Dr. Philip Turner, of Guy's, lias given to students of anatomy an admirable little volume dealing in small space with the elementary but important subject of osteolog}7. The descriptions are based on those given by Cunningham, Quain and Gray. The book will no doubt be found as useful by students as the companion volume?the " Pocket Anatomy"?and we expect ...

surgery have been incorporated in the book. There are 110 admirable woodcuts illustrative of surgical appliances and proceedings, and access to the information contained in the work is rendered easy by means of a full table of contents, italic titles of sections, capital page headings, and a most excellent index. The work commences with a good description of the general treatment of thu wounded...