Diseases of the Nose, Throat, and Ear. Part I. Diseases of the Nose and Throat. By S. H. Vehslage, M. D., Assistant Surgeon to the New York Ophthalmic Hospital (Throat Department). Part II. Diseases of the Ear. By G. De Wayne Hallett, M. D., Assistant Surgeon to the New York Ophthalmic Hospital. New York: Boericke & Runyon Co., 1900. Price, cloth, $3.00.

We are glad to receive this volume, for which we have been looking for quite a while; because it fills a vacancy in our homeopathic literature which has long needed filling.

It will be found a clearly and concisely written volume, very instructive and advantageous to the student and busy practitioner; it is not intended to be exhaustive enough for the specialist in these branches.

Among the many commendable points, we would call attention to thorough consideration of the subject of Diphtheria, and we are glad to say that the treatment of this disease is sufficiently broad to include antitoxin,—let it be rational, allopathic, or whatever we may denominate it. While, on the other hand, we regret not to see the appreciable doses of iodide of potash more highly recommended as antidotal to the syphilitic poison, when manifest in these localities.

The manner in which the general, topical, or mechanical and hygienic portion of the treatment is handled is to be strongly approved. The homeopathic indications are well written. Like almost all books by homeopathic authors, it shows the peculiar bent of the homeopathic physician’s mind is upon the therapeutics or cure of the patient rather than upon the fine development of the pathology, Ætiology, etc., of the disease.

The publishers have done well in the binding, selection of type, and leading,—making it easy to read, but we are sorry to notice a number of small typographical errors have crept in, to mar it for a somewhat critical eye.

The following books have been received and will be reviewed in the next issue of the journal.

Sajous’ “Annual and Analytical CyclopÆdia of Practical Medicine.” Vol. V., “Methyl-Blue to Rabies.” The F. A. Davis Co.

“Diseases of the Eye,” Nettleship; Sixth American from the Sixth English edition. Lea Bros. & Co.

“Injuries to the Eye in their Medico-Legal Aspect.” By S. Baudry, M. D. The F. A. Davis Co.