Volume 2

An American text-book of the diseases of children ... / edited by Louis Starr ; assisted by Thompson S. Westcott.

Date:
1898
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    Part II.—Chapter I. : The Aims and Objects of Adulteration, Ostensible and Real—Fashion and Fancy in Adulteration—The Public Taste—Recent Developments—The General Effect of Food Legislation up to the present time. Chapter II. : The Relation of the Public Analyst to the Local Body appointing him and to the General Public—Hints to Food Inspectors—Collec- tion and Preservation of Samples —Analysts’ Certificates—Disputed Cases—The Government Referees. Part III.—Chemistry. “ . . . The chapters are sensibly written, clear and free from ambiguity and exaggeration, affording a valuable and indispensable collection of material to those engaged in the operation of the Food and Drugs Act, 1875.”—Lancet. “ . . . This able, well-arranged, and very useful book treats the subject in a fair and impartial spirit.”-—Pall Mall Gazette. ROSS—Intestinal Intoxication in Infants. By F. W. Forbes Ross, M.D. A short and practical treatise, well up to date, of those con- ditions usually associated with Infantile Diarrhoea, Constipation, Atrophy, Rickets, etc., comprising the newest Treatment and Methods of Feeding ; and which ought to be serviceable and useful to the general practitioner. Demy 8vo., about 150 pages. Cloth. Price 7s. 6d. Taken on the whole, we have nothing but the highest encomiums to bestow on this little book ; it is one that is worth reading and re-reading.”—Quarterly Medical Journal. SAJOUS’ Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences. Five Royal 8vo. vols. annually in the set, comprising 2,500 pages. Cloth. 87s. the set. Single vols. at 21s. net each. Just Issued. SENN.—Tuberculosis of the Genito Urinary Organs, Male and Female- By N. Senn, M.D., Ph.D., LL.D., Professor of the Practice of Surgery and Clinical Surgery, Rush Medical College ; Attending Surgeon to the Presbyterian Hospital, Chicago; Surgeon-in-Chief, St. Joseph’s Hospital, Chicago. Octavo volume of 317 pages. Illustrated. Price, cloth, 17s. Tuberculosis of the male and female genito-urinary organs is such a fre- quent, distressing, and fatal affection that a special treatise on the subject at the present time appears to fill a gap in medical literature. The bacteriology of tubercular affections of the genito-urinary tract has received due attention. The modern diagnostic resources employed in the differential diagnosis between tubercular and other inflammatory affections of the genital and urinary organs have also been fully described. The medical and surgical therapeutics of the affections of which the book treats are discussed in detail, and the opinions and view's of surgeons of large experience have been freely quoted. In appropriate places the author has related the results of his own extensive clinical observations. SENN—A Syllabus of Lectures on the Practice of Surgery. Arranged in conformity with Keen and White’s Textbook of Surgery. (Seepage 6.) By N, Senn, M.D., Ph.D. Oblong 8vo. Limp Cloth. 10s. 6d. “ We have small blame and much praise to offer for this syllabus.” Liverpool Medico-Chirurgical Journal. N. B.—This book was written to meet, in the first place, the requirements of the Teacher of Surgery as a short Guide to aid him in the Lecture Room in prose-