Biographisches Lexikon der hervorragenden ärzte aller zeiten und völker. zweite aufl

interesting reading and he has succeeded in giving what is really an outIine of the history of medicine in America. As Genera1 Ireland says in the introduction, the story of this department is “a story of honest effort, of continua1 striving, of unseIfish service, of steady improvement, of very honorabIe and very great achievement, a story we shouId like for the worId to know.” Genera1 IreIand is too modest in his statements. The story is one that the worId of medica men at least should know. The story is one of organization, of scientific investigation, of heroism and seIfsacrifice. CaIIed upon in the Army posts to handIe the usua1 functions of the famiIy physician, the medica department of the United States Army is at the same time required to handIe the most intricate probIem of tropica medicine. The Iaboratory and operating room are of equa1 importance to this department. CoIoneI Ashburn teIIs his story chronologicaIIy and divides it into six parts. Part I covers the RevoIution, the War of 1812, the Indian Wars, the Mexican Wars and the CiviI War. Parts II and III take from 1873 through the Spanish-American War. Part IV covers the interim between the Spanish-American War and the WorId War. The Iatter is covered in Part v, Part VI bringing the work from the WorId War to date. This voIume offers to the surgeon of today not onIy a Iiterary treat but many surprises as to the activities and medica department.” If interest of “our this book is purchased by onIy a smaI1 number of those who should read it, a new edition wiI1 soon be caIIed for. BIOCKAPHISCHES LEXIKON der hervorragenden &zte aller Z&ten und Viilker. Zwrite Aufl. herausg. und von Dr. med. et phiI. Franz Hiibotter, bcarb. Berlin. Erster Bd. Aaskow-Chavasse. Mit 64 BiIdnissen, 936 Zeite. Berlin, Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1929.

“Hirsch’s Biographisches Lexikon,” pubIished in 1883, has Iong been the chief source dook for biographic materia1 for medica historians. Out of print for some time, it has of recent years been high priced and unavaiIabIe to most historians. The new edition is, therefore, particuIarIy welcome at the present time when interest in medica history is being stimulated in a11 directions. CarefuIIy edited, printed in a type easy to read, typographicaIIy we11 arranged and with a splendid coIIection of portraits, with biographic materia1 as to dates of birth, death and

pubIications readiIy accessibIe, the new edition wiI1 form a necessary part of the armamentarium of everyone interested in medical history. This today shouId include practicaIIy everyone practising medicine. The new edition is to be compIete in 6 voIumes, of which onIy the first is pubIished. We Iook forward with keen anticipation to the publication of the other voIumes and if thev are the equal of the one before us, the set wII1 Ieavc IittIe to be desired. Among the Americans in the present voIume are WiIIiam B. Beaumont, Gurdon B. Buck, J. M. A. AIIen, Timothy F. Allen, Henry F. CampbeII, John B. and Sam& Bard, etc., from which it w-III be seen that the“ Lexikon” is rather complete. It is unfortunate to find Sir Thomas CIifford A. AIIbutt’s name speIIed “AIibutt,” but a few misprints are unavoidabIe in a work of this kind and undoubtedIy will he taken care of in the reprints. KYKLOS. Jahrbuch des Instituts fiir Geschichte der Medizin an der Universitlt Leioziz. Band I. I72 DD. I iIIus., 1928. Band II. 299 pp. 9 iIIus., Leipzig, Georg Thieme, 1929. .&

The first volume, pubIished in January, 1928 and the second of January, 1929, give indications of year books that will be expectantIy Iooked forward to by a11 interested in medica history. That VoIume II shouId be dedicated to our own Dr. WiIIiam H. WeIch and have his portrait as a frontispiece is a particularly apt tribute at this time when the WeIch Institute for MedicaI History has ust been opened in Baltimore. The splen did dedicatory foreword to Dr. WeIch is but another exampIe of the internationaIism of science. A list of the contents of each voIume is appended. The authors and subjects need no comments. No student of the history of medicine wiI1 want to be without these voIumes and every physician wouId profit by tfleir perusal. The contents ofthe two voIumes foIIow

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Vorw-ort. I. AbhandIungen aus dem Institute. Der systematische Zusammenhang im Corpus Hippocraticum. Von Owsei Temkin. Zur Grundstruktur der paraceIsischen Naturwissenshaft. Von J. D. Achelis. Time-implied Function: an historica Aperqu. By Stephen d’Irsay. KuItur und Krankheit. Von Henry E. Sigerist. Die AlIiumarten im Gebrauch der abendllndischen Medizin. Von Kurt Hcl-ser Sapientia