Can imagination picture Virchow making a quo¬ lated for having made such a wise selection of his tation in a report, and expressing disapproval by contributors, and the profession may be congratu¬ ' ' The above is all bosh?' ' We doubt if Virchow lated that the editor did not assign the subject of has left footsteps, for any one to follow, in which his paper to some one else. he shows absolute intolerance and sinks almost to personal abuse of one holding an opinion op¬ Dissolution and Evolution and the Science posed to his. Dr. Billings has a great field in of Medicine: An Attempt to Co\l=o"\rdinatethe which to work, and we have no doubt that he necessary facts of Pathology and to establish will take advantage of his opportunities ; we hope, the first principles of Treatment. By C. Pit- meanwhile, that a more tolerant and scientific field Mitchell, M.R.C.S., England, etc. 8vo, spirit will pervade his future writings. pp. xvi, 246. London: Longmans, Green & Co. 1888. Chicago: W. T. Keener. A System of Obstetrics. American Au- By As we have said the remark is thors. Edited by Barton Cooke Hirst. before, though not original with us, what is worth doing at all is Volume 1, 8vo, pp. xiv\p=m-\808.With a colored worth well. A book that is worth the Plate and on wood. Phila- doing 309 Engravings is of an and it is difficult Lea Brothers & Co. 1888. printing worthy index, delphia: to conceive how any author or any publisher can can be but doubt that this work There little issue a scientific work without an index, nor do will find the same favor with the profession that we know of excuse that can such " any justify has been accorded the System of Medicine, by " negligence. American Authors," and the System of Gyne- Mr. Mitchell is a follower of Mr. Herbert house of Spen- cology," all from the well-known Lea cer. One that has read Mr. "Synthetic & Spencer's Brothers Co. Philosophy," and every one that has not should This volume contains eight articles\p=m-\wemay do knows that its elements are the " so, sustaining say monographs, the first being on the History doctrines of evolution and dissolution. The de- of Obstetrics," by Dr. George J. Engelmann, who sign of Mr. Mitchell's work " is to inquire whether has already added so much to the history of this these not be made for " may fertilizing principles department. In regard to the Physiology and large collections of the data of and of and Fertili- pathology, Histology Ovulation, Menstruation, thus the means of practice for the physician and zation: the Development of the Embyro," we surgeon." the first ofthe of this find example treatment branch To give a meagre idea of the scope of the work of obstetrics, in an obstetrical work, by a physi- in our limited space, it may be explained that the ologist The reader will scarcely need to be told author discusses inflammation and as of the character of this when suppuration anything paper it dissolutional changes, resolution and as is said the author is Dr. H. Newell repair that Martin, evolutional changes, retrograde metamorphoses as of Johns Hopkins University. In a paper of 122 dissolutional the induced ' changes, by the editor of the work ' changes pages discusses The animal and vegetable parasites as exemplifying : its Monstrosi¬ Foetus Development, Anomalies, dissolution, neoplasms as exemplifying evolution. ties, Diseases, and Premature Expulsion," abor¬ Among special diseases acute and chronic Bright's tion, miscarriage, and premature expulsion taking disease, hepatic cirrhosis, and pulmonary inflam¬ up 22 pages of this paper. Dr. W. W. Jaggard mations are as well as locomotor ataxia ' ' discussed, contributes the article on Pregnancy : its Physi¬ and other disorders of the nervous system, the ology, Pathology, Signs, and Differential Diag¬ fevers, diabetes and allied affections, and diseases nosis. ' ' The ' ' Conduct of Labor, and the Treat¬ of the mind. are discussed ment of the Puerperal State" by To a further idea of the scope of the book " Mechanism of get Dr. Samuel C. Busey, the Labor, one must read it ; and if he cannot agree with all and the Treatment of Labor based on the Mech¬ that the author says, he will have at least been in¬ anism" by Dr. R. A. F. Penrose, the "Use of terested and become the possessor of many new Anaesthetics in Labor" by Dr. J. C. Reeve, and ideas. the ' ' Anomalies of the Forces in Labor ' ' by Dr. Theophilus Parvin. The Physicians' Leisure Library. Disorders One is at a loss to know what to say of this of Menstruation. By Edward W. Jenks, volume, for fear that and merited may M.D., LL.D., Professor of Gynecology in the just praise of be mistaken for flattery. The subjects of some Michigan College Medicine and Surgery. of the papers are discussed in various works on 8vo, pp. 120. Detroit: George S. Davis. 1888. obstetrics, though not to that full extent that is Chicago: W. T. Keener. Paper, 25 cents. found in this volume. The papers of Drs. A very good account of the disorders of men- Engelmann, Martin, Hirst, and Jaggard, how¬ struation, illustrated. The size and make-up of ever, and that of Dr. Reeve, are incomparably the numbers of the "Leisure Library" make beyond anything that can be found in obstetrical them very convenient, and their price places a works. Certainly the editor may be congratu- whole series easily within the reach of every one.

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