Reviews and Book Notices
“Pellagra.” By George M. Niles, M.D., Gastro-enterologist to the Georgia Baptist Hospital, Wesley Memorial Hospital and Atlanta Hospital, Atlanta, Ga. Octavo of 261 pages, illustrated. Philadelphia and London. W. B. Saunders Co., 1916. Cloth, $3 net. W. B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia. London.
We are in receipt of the second edition of this work upon a subject that has of late attracted a great deal of attention from the profession. Pellagra has in recent years sprang up in an unaccountable manner, especially in the southern section of the United States, and it behooves every practicing physician to equip himself with such knowledge as will enable him to recognize the disease when encountered in his practice and to handle it in a scientific manner. This work in its second edition, although following the appearance of the first edition so closely has undergone many changes and had numerous additions so that it has been brought fully up with the present state of knowledge. The chapter on etiology contains the results of the recent investigations of Dr. Joseph Goldberger, Special U. S. Agent for the study of the disease, and Thompson-McFadden Commission on Pellagra. The work is that of a southern physician and should receive the warm support of southern physicians everywhere.
“A Practical Treatise on Infant Feeding and Allied Topics.” For Physicians and Students. By Harry Lowenberg, A.M., M.D., Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Medico-Chirurgical College of Philadelphia; Pediatrist to the Mt. Sinai Hospital; Pediatrist to the Jewish Hospital; Assistant Pediatrist to the Medico-Chirurgical Hospital and to the Philadelphia General Hospital; Formerly Instructor of Pediatrics, Jefferson Medical College. Illustrated with Sixty-four Text Engravings and Thirty Original Full Page Plates, Eleven of which are in color. Philadelphia. F. A. Davis Co., Publishers. English Depot. Stanley Phillips, London. 1916.
Our thanks are due the obliging publishers for a copy of this exceedingly valuable book. The author’s long experience and intimate acquaintance with the subjects treatedof eminently qualify him to present a work that will prove of most valuable assistance to physician and students. The work is eminently practical and presents throughout the subject matter in an easily accessible form. The arrangement of the text is systematically perfect and only such material is used as may render the work available for the needs of practitioners and students. The importance of breast-feeding is emphasized and artificial alimentation discussed thoroughly so as to furnish the best schemes for obtaining the best results. The article upon “Surgical Treatment of Infantile Pyloric Obstruction” is by the celebrated surgeon, Dr. John B. Deaver, a chapter that adds much to the value of the work. A feature of the work is the presentation of a number of plates showing in colors the appearance of stools in various conditions of alimentary disturbances. We are greatly pleased with this work and can conscientiously recommend it to students and practitioners.
“Annual Report of the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service of the United States.” For the Fiscal Year 1911. Washington. Government Printing Office. 1914.
This is the forty-third annual report of the operations of the Public Health Service, in the one hundred and sixteenth year of its existence, issued by the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service of the United States. This treats of the seven divisions of the bureau under the following heads, viz. (1) Scientific Research and Sanitation; (2) Foreign and Insular Quarantine and Immigration; (3) Domestic (Interstate) Quarantine; (4) Sanitary Reports and Statistics; (5) Marine Hospitals and Relief; (6) Personnel and Accounts; (7) Miscellaneous. The report contains a great deal of interest to the general reader, especially to those interested in sanitary matters, and shows the methodical and systematic manner in which the affairs of the bureau are administered.