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skin grafts, surgica1 conditions; while Part 3 deals with operative procedures. In Appendix A is an article on anesthesia by I. W. Magill, M.B., B.CH., B.A.O., of Queen’s University, BeIfast, whiIe in Appendix B the book cIoses with a consideration by the author of the eviI resuIts of paraffm injection. DISEASES OF THE MOUTH. By Sterling V. Mead, D.D.S. Prof. Oral Surgery and Diseases of Mouth, Georgetown DentaI SchooI; Prof. Diseases of Mouth, Georgetown MedicaI SchooI; Oral Surgeon to Georgetown HospitaI; Dental Surgeon to Providence Hospital, etc. $10. Pp. 478; 274 iIIus. 2g col. pl. C. V. Mosby Co., St. Louis, 1927. This excelIent book is we11 worth while to both surgeon and internist, and is we11 written. The publisher has also done his part in making the book good to feel and look at. Dr. Mead begins with a consideration of the OraI Examination and then covers the fieId of Radiograms, Diagnosis of Pulp Vitality, TransilIumination of the Teeth and Gums, Bacteriologic Examination, Disorders of Enamel, Dentin and Cementum, Dentition, AbnormaIities of the Teeth, Malocculsion, SaIiva, Dental CaIcuIus and Accretions upon the Teeth, Localization of Unerupted Teeth, Impacted Teeth and Foreign Bodies, Impacted and Unerupted Teeth, Periodental Diseases, Diseases of the DentaI PuIp, Periapical Diseases of the Teeth, PuIpIess Teeth, Specific Infectious Diseases, Infections of the FIoor of the Mouth and of the Neck, Diseases of the BIood and Blood VesseIs, Diseases of the Nerves, Diseases of the Lip, Diseases of the Tongue, Diseases of the Throat, of the Salivary GIands and Their Ducts, of the Maxillary Sinus, Congenital Clefts of the Lip and Palate, Stomatitis (done in a most thorough manner), Diseases and Disorders of the Mandibular Joint, Diseases and Injuries of the MaxiIlary Bones, Fracture, Tumors, Cysts, Temperatures, and Relationship of Oral Sepsis and Systemic Disturbances. While many physicians will read this work with profit, it is hoped that its distribution wiI1 be a Iarge one among dentists also. DEMONSTRATIONS OF PHYSICAL SIGNS IN CLINICAL SURGERY. By Hamilton Bailey, F.R.C.S. (Eng.), Surgeon, Dudley Road Hospital, Birmingham; late Honorary Assistant Surgeon, SurgicaI Registrar and Tutor, Liver-

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pool RoyaI Infirmary; Surgical Registrar and First Assistant, London Hospital; etc. $6.50. Pp. 234; 261 ilIus., some col. William Wood & Co., N. Y., 1927. As a rule a reviewer of books reads onIy parts of the work before him. He is most interested in the table of contents, the index, and the genera1 make-up of the voIume. He may read a chapter here and there, gIance and scan page after page, and so get a hazy, genera1 idea as to whether or not the book is good, very good, bad, or just terrible. If it is very good or very terribIe he delves deeper into the pages open before him. Though mediocrity simpIy bores-the extremes fascinate. This work of HamiIton BaiIey is of such merit generally that the reviewer read it “from cover to cover.” In the first chapter, the author begins with an outIine of the seven stages necessary to a surgica1 diagnosis. After enumerating them he says, “The seven stages may be termed the ‘surgical crescendo.’ It is with the second stage [the elicitation of physical signs] and the latter part of the fourth [a differential diagnosis, through a menta1 process largely of exclusion, but reinforced when possible by further physical signs] that this book is entireIy concerned.” It is a book recommended to every senior student in medicine. Every surgeon might well idIe through its pages. It covers a familiar fieId in a weII-rounded style and enriches one’s scientific knowIedge. In many ways its genera1 styIe reminded us of Cabot’s “PhysicaI Diagnosis” . . . and this is praise, indeed. LEHRBUCH DER OPERATIVE GEBURTSHILFE ~ii~ ARZTE UND STUDIERENDE. Von Professor Dr. Georg Winter, emer. Direktor der Universitats-FrauenkIinik in Konigsberg in Pr. Unter Metwirkung von Prof. Dr. W. Benthin, Priv.-Doz. Dr. H. Naujoks. Berlin: Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1927. Professor Winter is known to every English speaking obstetrician. It is another example of a man’s reputation and fame for outdistancing the man himself. In this splendidly printed and ilIustrated book of 475 pages on operative obstetrics, Professor Winter has not offered anything new, so much as correlated and presented his subject is an orderly, IogicaI and interesting manner. Unless one reads German all this is lost. But, at that, we suggest that the teacher and