The students' handbook of gynecology : specially designed to assist those commencing the study of diseases of women.

Date:
1893
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Credit: The students' handbook of gynecology : specially designed to assist those commencing the study of diseases of women. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Demy 8vo, price 4s. 6d. net. Vaccination Eruptions: By THOMAS DOBSON POOLE, M.D., Master in Surgery, University of Edinburgh; Fclloiu ofthe ObstetricalSociety. 'The author classifies eruptions as follows:—(1) Those due to pure vaccine inoculation, (2) those due to mixed inoculation. He enters at length, and very properly, into the question of the qualities of the lymph itself, of its origin and cultivation, and here is the crux of the whole question. The question of the artificial cultivation of the lymph is a very important one, and the author suggests a method which we trust may either solve the problem or mature its consideration. The work is one well worthy of consideration.'—Glasgoio Herald. '' The title of this very interesting work concisely indicates its con- tents. A good acquaintance with the literature of the subject is shown on every page, and the cited cases are of great interest, especially those in connection with the subject of generalised vaccine eruption (vaccine generalisee). The differential diagnosis between vaccination ulcers and primary chancres, also between vaccination eruptions and secondary syphilitic manifestations, is given in extenso from Portalier's summary of Fournier's lectures. The author concludes from a study of tuber- culosis, including his own experiments, that its transmission by means of official vaccination is ' beyond the limits of possibility.' In con- clusion, this work deserves perusal by all who are interested in the subject of vaccination, therefore by all medical practitioners.—British Medical Journal. The author of this little work has made himself well acquainted with most of the realiable literature of recent date bearing on his theme, aud has put into a convenient and useful form a great deal of information that could otherwise be obtained only by hunting through a variety of medical periodicals aud other publications. The work ought therefore to be welcomed by all who have much to do with vaccination, and especially by public vaccinators, who are the only persons likely to have the opportunity of meeting with some of the very rare vaccinal sequelae of which he principally treats. A chapter is very profitably devoted to vaccine syphilis. The chapter on tuber- culosis is one of the best in the book. Other subjects shortly dis- cussed are leprosy, erysipelas, vaccinia gangrenosa, etc. The work forms a really useful addition to the literature of vaccination, and ought especially to be read by every public vaccinator in the kingdom. —Glasgow Medical Journal.