THE SEXUAL DISABILITIES OF MAN AND THEIR TREATMENT.-By Arthur Cooper, Consulting Surgeon to the Westminster General Dispensary; Formerly House Surgeon to the Male Lock Hospital, London. Paul B. Hoeber, 69 East 59th Street, New York. Price, $2.00 net. Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged.

As long ago as 1889, the distinguished gynecologist, Matthews Duncan, called attention to the frequency of the part played by the male in the phenomenon of barren marriage, and laid down a rule that no woman should be subjected to prolonged, painful or dangerous treatment for sterility until the potency of the male, both as regards connection and as to the semen had been assured by proper examination. Since that time the subject of male impotence and sterility has grown in importance and in intelligence, until nowadays it is almost, if not quite, as large a subject as sterility in the female. The whole matter is considered from all its various standpoints, but chiefly from its professional and practical aspect, in Dr. Cooper's little book, which is altogether one of the most sensible and useful books of this kind that we know anything about. He goes into the physical and psychical pathology sufficiently to make clear points which he wishes to elucidate, but not so as to obscure and weaken his real aim, which is to help the practitioner in dealing with these cases in his every-day experience. Patients of this kind are among the most difficult with which the general practitioner has to do, and we can readily understand why the first edition of Dr. Cooper's very helpful and practical little work has exhausted itself in a single year.

FOUR EPOCHS OF LIFE.-By Elizabeth Hamilton-Muncie, Ph. M., M. D., Brooklyn, N. Y. 12-mo., 272 pages, illustrated. New York: The Greaves Publishing Company. Cloth, $1.50 net. When we complained, in our last month's review of certain books, that the

authors ignored the principle of indirection, and pointed out how much more effective those books would have been had they been put into the form of a story, we did not expect to receive quite so prompt a response to our plea. Dr. Hamilton-Muncie has evidently perceived the comparative uselessness of battering Gibraltar from the sea by a frontal attack, and realizes that the only method that offers any chance of taking the position lies in a flank movement. There are, of course, many features of the book which we might criticize. We think, for instance, that it is just a little too inclined to be "preachy." But its minor faults all sink into insignificance beside the central fact that it grasps and applies the principle of indirection in sexual education. For one that will read a cut-anddried lecture on the subject, there will be a hundred that will read and profit by this human, homely little story, which brings the truths it seeks to instil into vital, intimate relation with the concrete experiences of everyday life. We congratulate Dr. Hamilton-Muncie upon her intuition, or her knowledge of human nature, or whatever faculty it may be that has made her a pioneer in this style of writing, and we earnestly commend. her book to the attention of those physicians who are seeking for some adequate yet delicate way of reaching their young clientele.

THE ECLECTIC PRACTICE OF MEDICINE. With Special Reference to the Treatment of Disease.-By Finley Ellingwood, M. D., Professor of Materia Medica and Therapeutics in Bennett Medical College, Chicago, from 1900 to 1907; Editor of "Ellingwood's Therapeutist." In two volumes, bound as one. Chicago: Ellingwood's Therapeutist Publishing Company. 1910.

No matter what we may think of the relative status of the various sectarian schools of medicine, no fair-minded man can gainsay that medical science has been essentially and permanently enriched by contributions from all of

them. From the eclectic school it has derived, more than anything else, a wealth of experimental and clinical knowledge concerning the therapeutic action of drugs; and to this sum of drug lore Finley Ellingwood has contributed no small quantum. We are always talking very loudly about there being no sects or schools in medicine. Let us, then, be consistent, and acknowledge that the principal works both ways, and that whatever the eclectic men furnish us in the way of therapeutic knowledge is grist to our mill. If there is one thing in which the modern text-book of regular medicine is lacking, it is drug therapy; and this is precisely the thing that Ellingwood's book supplies. We think he has done well to bind the two volumes in one cover; but we believe he has made a mistake in changing the title. The old title, "The Treatment of Disease," was much more appropriate. But, under whatever title, the book is crammed full of valuable and helpful matter, and will be found an inestimable aid to the general practitioner, by whatever name or sign he calls himself.

TREATMENT OF RINGWORM. Essential Oil of Sassafras Superior to Generally-Employed Antiseptics.

The British Medical Journal considers the several antiseptics advocated for outward application in cases of ringworm. far from satisfactory, the prolonged duration of the disease proving their inefficiency. In dealing with the numerous cases of pediculosis in fever wards, E. Lynn Jenkins reports that he and his associates always employ the essential oil of sassafras, which, without exception, they find acts as a specific in such cases.

When both pediculosis and ringworm occurred in the same scalp, it was noticed that the latter disease also reacted favorably to this preparation.

This led them to test the possible usefulness of the oil for ordinary cases of ringworm, and so far the results have

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THE ILLY-NURTURED BABY.

N the course of daily practice the physician is frequently called upon

for advice as to the management and treatment of the child that fails to thrive. Many such babies, while not marantic, and while apparently happy and healthy in other respects, seem to remain in statu quo without evidencing the normal growth and gain in size and weight. Very naturally, the first thing to be investigated is the character of the child's food, the frequency of feeding, etc., and attention to the food factor is imperative, if improvement is to be expected. In addition to this, however, the little patient often. requires some "fillip" to vitality in the form of a mild general tonic and reconstructive. For this purpose nothing is more generally beneficial than PeptoMangan (Gude), in doses proportionate to age. Being palatable, even young children take it readily. As it is free from irritant properties, it is readily tolerable and absorbable, without disturbing the digestion or producing constipation.

Mr. G. B. Self, manager in this city, reports a wide-spread interest on the part of the St. Louis doctors in the active principles and the popular specialties of The Abbott Alkaloidal Co., and a growing business.

Any sort of inquiry addressed to Mr. Self as above will bring a prompt response-telephone and mail orders filled from this office on short notice.

CERTAINLY NOT.

“Oh, mamma, I'm to travel with Edgar in Egypt-land of the pyramids and hieroglyphics!"

"Well, dear, remember I can't have you bringing those things home with you."-Fliegende Blaetter.

HEART SPELLS OF THE AGED "For the heart spells of the aged, such as palpitation or sudden weakness more or less dependent on the arterial condition, Cactina Pillets is admirable and can be administered without the slightest fear of untoward action."

hot, will offer unmeasurable relief in those cases of bronchitis, tonsillitis, laryngitis, pleurisy and other throat and chest affections you will be called upon

to treat.

Satisfactory therapeutic results invariably follow the application of Antiphlogistine, and to guard against substitution it is well to specify an original package, thus protecting your patient as well as yourself.

PATH TO PEACE.

The trainer was explaining his system. "In training," he said, "the strictest obedience is required. Whenever I think of the theory of training I think of Dash, who, after eighteen years of married life, is one of the best and happiest husbands in the world. 'Dash,' I once said to him, 'Dash, old man, how do

you take married life?' 'According to directions,' he replied."

CATHARTICS AND PURGATIVES. "The evil effects arising from the indiscriminate use of cathartics and drastic purgatives, generally brought on by the pill habit, and for which the patient is most frequently responsible, is well known to every practitioner. Drastic cathartics, while producing the effect. which the patient thinks is desirable, leaves the secretory functions of the liver in an enfeebled and exhausted condition, so that a return to the constipated state is certain. In such conditions the physician will find Chionia a most valuable assistant combining the remedy with an occasional cathartic when indicated and gradually diminishing the dose of the cathartic employed."

FORCE OF HABIT.

"You know that pretty salesgirl I took home from the dance?"

"Yes."

"Well, I stole a kiss." "What did she say?"

"Will that be all?”—Judge.

NORMAL SECRETIONS.

"Prunoids produce their results by stimulating normal secretions, rapidly increasing the fluid content of the feces and gently increasing peristalsis. They are extremely palatable, easily taken by even young children and when brought in contact with the secretions rapidly disintegrate and produce their specific medicinal effect."

PRECAUTION.

"May I see my father's record?" asked the new student. "He was in the class of '77."

"Certainly, my boy. What for?"

"He told me when I left home not to disgrace him, sir, and I wish to see just how far I can go."-Buffalo Express.

CALMINE IN SEA-SICKNESS.

The number of sedatives advocated is large, but many of them are of doubtful value. The most commonly employed drugs are the bromides and valerian, while in severe cases morphine is deemed necessary.

I have used veronal with good results, but it appears the sodium compound, sodium diethylbarbiturate (Calmine) is much better. It is more rapidly absorbed. This is certainly a great advantage where there is a constant desire to vomit everything introduced into the stomach.

The introduction of large quantities of fluid will by itself favor emesis, but sodium diethylbarbiturate (Calmine) may be given with very little fluid. The prompt action of the drug is also strongly in its favor.

During long-continued stormy weather I give 15 grains within twenty-four hours. If the patient can retain the drug for ten minutes (which is usually the case) it is likely there will be no distress for the next ten or twelve hours. In mild cases it is necessary to give the drug but once, preferably before retiring.

Sodium diethylbarbiturate (Calmine) may be had in tablet form; the tablets

are handy, but should be crushed to insure rapid disintegration.

The drug gives relief in the large majority of cases. It therefore deserves first place among the drugs carried on board of ship.-GALLER in Therap. der Gegenwart, Feb., 1910.

HAD 'EM WORKING OVERTIME.

A young man who lived in Chicago was drinking more than was good for him. His friends tried to stop him, but were unsuccessful. Finally, one of them took him to Peoria, Ill., where there are many distilleries. They arrived about 8 o'clock one evening and walked around.

"Now, look here, Jim," said the friend, "all these big buildings you see are distilleries. I just brought you down here to show you that your idea that you can mop up all the whiskey they make is foolish. You can't beat them. You can't consume what they make and you'd better quit."

"Maybe I can't consume all they make," the young man returned, "but you notice I've got them working nights. just the same."

THE GRAPE-FRUIT HABIT. Every physician recognizes the beneficent effects of the mild vegetable acids in the gouty, rheumatic and febrile conditions, not only as refrigerants, but what is yet more fundamental, as eliminants. And if these acids can be obtained in their natural state, and administered in the form of a pleasant, refreshing repast, the results are many times the better, both by reason of the nascent character of the juices themselves and also because of the psychic enjoyment that attends their ingestion.

No fruit so ideally meets these conditions as the grape fruit. Yet it must be borne in mind that all grape fruits are not equally available, either as foods or as medicines. Like every other product of the kind, they must be carefully and intelligently cultured so that the desir

able qualities may be in the ascendant, equally appealing to the taste and promoting healthy function.

In his treatment of fever cases the physician will find in the Atwood Grape Fruit an invaluable aid, and the patient a grateful, cooling refreshment for his thirsty tissues. For those of his clients who are troubled with rheumatic, gouty, or calculary tendencies, the Atwood Grape Fruit, taken each morning at breakfast, is a splendid "habit" which, once formed, will never be abandoned, and for the suggestion of which the physician will be unceasingly thanked.

HIS PROVOCATION.

"What's the charge against this man?" asked a Kentucky judge of a constable who brought in a negro prisoner.

"Cuttin' his wife with a razor."
"Did you do it?" asked the judge.

"Yassir, I reckon I done it," the prisoner replied. "I massacreed a hull lot. You see, Mistuh Jedge, I kotch dis yer wife ob mine eatin' ice-cream cones, tuhn and tuhn about, wif a man I doesn't laik, an' I draws my razzer an' just desperadoed 'roun'."

BATTLE & Co., of St. Louis, have just issued No. 14 of their series of Charts on Dislocations. This series forms a most valuable and interesting addition to any physician's library. They will be sent free of charge on application, and back numbers will also be supplied. If you have missed any of these numbers write Battle & Co. for them.

IT LOOKED DANGEROUS. A deaf but pious English lady, visiting a small country town in Scotland, went to church armed with an ear trumpet. The elders had never seen one, and viewed it with suspicion and uneasiness. After a short consultation one of them went up to the lady just before the opening of the service and, wagging his finger at her warningly, whispered: "One toot and ye're out."-Human Life.