ANATOMICAL STUDIES ON THE MOTION OF THE HEART AND BLOOD. By William Harvey, M.D. With an English Translation and Annotations by Chauncey D. Leake. Charies C. Thomas, Springfield, Ill. and Baltimore, Md. I928. According to the postscript of the author this is the third translation into English of Harvey's work on the circulation of the blood. The first was in I653; the second was that of Robert ...

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ducing a very admirable text-book on general medicine there is not the slighest doubt. The book consists of two moderate-sized volumes in royal octavo, and is in every way admirably printed and got up, in the way we have become accustomed to associate with the books published by Mr. Young J. Pentland. A difficulty lies, however, in classifying the volumes. It has no pretensions to be a System l...

no novelty and has been done in even the earliest text-books on the subjects, still the cases are presented in such coloquial language and modern form that the types become arresting and will doubtless remain long in the memory. The maniac-depressive chapter is particularly well done, also that on paranoia and here, as in other types, the writers describe the earlier phases and demonstrate to t...

example, in the fight to the death which the wild mother will make for her offspring. The body of the book consists of two parts, the first on general, the second on special psychiatiy. In the former, the chief part is occupied by general symptomatology, considered under ten heads; thereafter follow the etiology and course, the anatomy, diagnosis, prognosis, and general treatment of mental dise...

MR. BROCK, who considers that Astley Cooper "has not received that acknowledgment wvhich he deserves," has given us a most interesting account of the work of this remarkable surgeon. From his appointment to the staff at Guy's Hospital in 1800 till his death in 1841 he held a leading place in British surgery, both as surgeon and teacher. His lectures at one time attracted as many as 400 students...