This monograph is the outcome of the careful study of about 250 cases of varicocele seen in hospital and private practice, and of a large number of dissections and post mortem examinations. The two most important points insisted upon by the author are: (1) That one cause only is concerned in the actual origin of the affection, viz.?congenital abnormality; and (2) That the best mode of operating...

"Unripe" Cataract.By William A. McKeown, m.d., m. ch., Surgeon to the Ulster Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, Belfast, London: H. K. Lewis, Gower Street, 1898. Illustrated by 9 Plates, containing GO original drawings. Royal 8vo. 125. Gel. net. It is just fourteen years since Dr. McKeown introduced his treatment of immature cataract by intra-ocular injection and irrigation, bringing it to the notic...

ably reproduced, whilst the numerous photographs and micro-photographs are excellent. The style of the book indeed far exceeds anything which could have been published in India, and the medical profession in India may well take pride in the publication of such a book, written by an Indian medical research worker of long experience, and published in so admirable a fashion by British publishers. ...

nosis. With this one exception the entire range of clinical diagnostic methods is fully and thoroughly discussed, the various modifications of the Washerman test being described with a completeness which shows that the author has kept abreast of the times. Tropical diseases receive somewhat uneven treatment. Malaria is fully dealt with, but the parasite of Kala-Azar is not even mentioned and th...

In contrast, therefore, to the publisher's note of ".... easily understood levels-of-organization approach" and an ". . . enlivening and enlightening prologue to any introductory biology course," beginning students may possibly be baffled by the breadth and intangible nature of biological science. The value of the book resides more, if not exclusively, as the ". . . profitable epilogue" to biol...

The aim of this critical analysis is to present the medical ethics of Galen in his treatise "The Best Physician is Also a Philosopher").Galen opens with the example of Hippocrates as a paradigm of his medical ethics, and continues by saying that the knowledge of the human body must be profound. In the third part of the treatise he stresses the importance of logic, precise use of language, study...

This paper contains an analysis and appreciation of one of Moses Maimonides' authentic medical works, his Treatise on Asthma. After a brief biographical section, passages from the work are cited and analysed to illustrate the approach of this medieval physician who organised the knowledge of Greeks and others who preceded him. Maimonides presents a logical and systematic approach to the prevent...