Twentieth Century History of Findlay and Hancock County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens, Part 79

Author: Jacob Anthony Kimmell
Publication date: 1910
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Hookworm Disease. Etiology, Pathology, Diagnosis, Prognosis, Prophylaxis and Treatment. By GEORGE DOCK, A. M., M. D., Professor of the Theory and Practice of Medicine, Medical Department of Tulane University of Louisiana, New Orleans, and CHARLES C. BASS, M. D., Instructor of Clinical Microscopy and Clinical Medicine, Medical Department of Tulane Univer- sity of Louisiana, New Orleans. Illustrated with fifty-nine special engravings and colored plates. Price $2.50. (St.

Louis: C. V. Mosly Company, 1910.)

So much attention has been given to the prevalence of the Hookworm Disease in the South, both by the press at large and the great numbers of articles appearing in the medical journals that we feel sure a treatise on the subject is most opportune.

In a book of 250 pages, Dock and Bass have given an excellent résumé of what is known concerning the Etiology, Pathology, Diagnosis, Prognosis, Prophylaxis and Treatment of this disease. Beginning with a most interesting historical review of the subject we find complete chapters devoted to the geographic distribution and economic importance of the disease, its zoologic features, pathologic anatomy, and symptomatology; each chapter is replete with illustrations.

To the practicing physician we particularly recommend the chapters devoted to the diagnosis and treatment of the disease. The remarkable results obtained through the use of Thymol makes this drug almost a specific.

While the book has been primarily written for physicians, hygienists, employers of labor, and others interested in sanita- tion will find valuable information within its covers.

J. S. B.

Progressive Medicine. Edited by HOBART AMORY HARE, M. D., assisted by LEIGHTON F. APPLEMAN, M. D. Vol. III. Sep- tember, 1910. (Philadelphia and New York: Lea & Febiger, 1910.)

The latest and most important papers on "Diseases of the Thorax and its Viscera, including the Heart, Lungs and Blood Vessels," on "Dermatology and Syphilis," on "Obstetrics," and on diseases of the "Nervous System " are reviewed and discussed in this volume. What makes this series valuable is first the selection of the papers out of the immense mass of material con- stantly appearing; and second, their treatment-their careful grouping, and the broad review of the subject in hand by the

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editor of the section. The different departments of medicine are well treated, and the busy practitioner can get much help out of these volumes.

International Clinics. Edited by HENRY W. CATTELL, A. M., M. D. Vol. III. Twentieth Series. (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1910.)

Out of the many interesting papers in this volume it is diffi- cult to select one as more worthy than the rest of special notice. There are articles on Diagnosis, Treatment, Teeth and Oral Cavity, Gynæcology, Medicine, Surgery, Miscellany, and A Medical Home-Coming Week, and specialists in any of these departments will find noteworthy contributions to their own line of work. These articles do not appear in other journals, so that this series records a very large number of rare clinical histories.

Diseases of Infancy and Childhood; their Dietetic, Hygienic and Medical Treatment. A Text-book designed for Practitioners and Students in Medicine. By LOUIS FISCHER, M. D., Attend- ing Physician to the Willard Parker and Riverside Hospitals, etc. Third Edition. Illustrated. Price $6.50. (Philadelphia: F. A. Davis Company, Publishers, 1910.)

A review of the first edition of this book appeared in the BULLETIN two years ago. The issue of the third edition of a work of this magnitude indicates that it has met with gratifying suc- cess. In the present issue several new chapters have been added as for example on epidemic cerebro-spinal meningitis and its treatment by the Flexner serum and lumbar puncture, on scabies indicanuria, acetonuria, and diabetes. New illustrations have also been added.

If any criticism of the book as a whole were offered it might justly be said that too much space in it is given to too many sub- jects. For instance the chapter on the bacteria of the intestines would be equally valuable if the bacteria were described in less detail and the results of more recent investigations had been embodied in it. The same objection might be urged to the account of the bacteriology of diphtheria. This information might have been much abridged without, in any manner, lessening the value of the chapter which is perhaps the strongest in the whole book. These, however, after all are minor defects and the present edition is a valuable manual for the guidance of practi- tioners who are treating the diseases of infancy and childhood.

A Manual of Hygiene and Sanitation. By SENECA EGBERT, A. M., M. D., etc. Fifth Edition. Enlarged and thoroughly revised. Illustrated. Price $2.25. (Philadelphia and New York: Lea & Febiger, 1910.)

This excellent manual has a well-deserved popularity. The fourth edition was favorably reviewed in this Journal ( December, 1907) and the new edition is an improvement on the last. We again cordially recommend it to all who desire a small work on this subject.

The Essentials of Materia Medica and Therapeutics for Nurses. By JOHN FOOTE, M. D., Assistant Professor of Therapeutics and Materia Medica, Georgetown University School of Med- icine. (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1910.)

This volume of about 200 pages is designed, as its title indi- cates, to furnish a knowledge of the essentials of Materia Medica and Therapeutics. It is the view of the author that text-books on these subjects, written for the use of nurses, have often been too complicated and the task, on the part of the pupil nurse, of selecting the essential knowledge for the performance of the work, has been rendered unnecessarily difficult. The methods given for converting apothecaries' weights and measures into metrical weights and measures are clearly given and ought to relieve the

minds of nufses of a serious burden. The descriptions of the actions of drugs and especially of the untoward effects of drugs are clear and terse. The book, as a whole, is a good one and will serve a useful purpose in the instruction of nurses.

Lippincott's New Medical Dictionary. A Vocabulary of the Terms Used in Medicine, and the Allied Sciences with their Pro- nunciation, Etymology and Signification. Including much Collateral Information of a Descriptive and Encyclopædic Character. By HENRY W. CATTELL, A. M. (Laf.), M. D. (U. of P.), etc. Freely illustrated with figures in text. Price $5. (Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Company.)

The character of modern dictionaries has very much changed from that of their early predecessors. To-day they are encyclo- pædic in character, and there is much more information to be found in them. This change, while valuable in many respects, has its dangers as well; the last edition of Webster's "New In- ternational Dictionary " is an example both of how a dictionary may be improved, and harmed by adding to it much information. which really belongs to an encyclopedia. This new medical die- tionary shows the same advantages and disadvantages. Where the simple definition, derivation and use of words are not adhered to, there is no limit to what may be added or left out of a die tionary in the way of information; and so each will vary, depend- ing on the editor. Lippincott's appears to be an excellent book. and if the user will first read the introduction (a task very few users of dictionaries will put themselves to) the use of the die tionary, and its values, will be much more readily comprehended.

Granting that the choice of his material and its use must be left to the editor, yet it may be permitted to make some reflet- tions on certain points.

Why should French words, for instance, be found in an English dictionary? e. g .- sonde, its English equivalent, is just as good and there is no need to adopt this foreign word; ai crépitant is another example, and also aboiement.

It seems mere waste of space to name all the varieties of sutures. or to give all the names of different organisms to which syphilis has been attributed under the title Bacillus of Syphilis, since to- day we know that there is one and only one organism which causes this disease.

Under the headings "regio," "abscess," " hyper," and "malig- nant" we find all sorts of combinations which any school boy ought to understand without needing to look them up in a die- tionary. To omit these would save much space.

Other compound terms like " pin-hole pupil," and "school- made chorea " might, it seems to us, be fitly omitted.

The gold-tail moth, with a reference to the Lancet, is unknown to us, while the brown-tail variety is now known to all the East- ern States and causes a dermatitis. To the latter variety there is no reference. As mere misprints we note under "sweat-fever its definition anglicus sudor [sic]; under sweating-fever, Anglicus Sudor [sic], and on page 653, under the illustration of opisthotonos. occurs " Grande hysteria " which either should be grand hysteria or grande hystérie.

The illustrations are as a whole of almost no value, but other- wise the book, as a piece of book-making, is most satisfactory.

Practical Nursing. For Male Nurses in the R. A. M. C. and Other Forces. By MAJOR E. M. HASSARD, R. A. M. C., and A. R. HASSARD. Price $1.50. (London: Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton, 1910.) Oxford Medical Publications.

This book, with slight modifications, could be well used by any army medical corps, whether male or female nurses are employed. It has been carefully prepared and covers the ground satisfac- torily. In a later edition, to make the work more generally serviceable, it would be well to omit such terms as "Higginson syringe " or "Neville cradle " as these names mean nothing to the

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reason why male nurses should when so occupied. ons for counting sponges (p. 200) before and after an .re not the best control against leaving one in the cavity. "Practical Nursing" is none the less a thor- 1 and reliable guide.

k of Pathology. By JOSEPH MCFARLAND, M. D., Pro- of Bacteriology and Pathology in the Medico-Chirurgi- llege, Philadelphia, etc. Second Edition. ( Phila- : W. B. Saunders & Co., 1910.)

ral arrangement of this book corresponds to that of ition. Aside from a differentiation into general and iology there seems to be very little selection in the subjects especially in the first half of the book. After the pathology of nutrition and circulation in such le could hardly expect to find in a book of this size, gives us a brief description of the cell and its life and by three chapters on Regenerative, Retrogressive and tissue changes. In the first of these the healing of riefly considered, in the second aplasia and hypoplasia ed by pages on infiltrations (fat, glycogen, serum, ne-under this, neoplasm-pigment) and degeneration, nchymatous, etc.) from the paragraph on atrophy. wed by necrosis. In the third hypertrophy and tumor ire discussed. Such an arrangement marks a radical rom the customary arrangement and without any ex- ote seems to offer no advantages.

nphasized later. Inflammation and repair usually con- ether are as we have seen separated. Repair is first under regenerative tissue changes and inflammation precursor of repair only follows hundreds of pages the ambiguous heading of infection and infectious Even allowing this, the chapters on inflammation isappointed for the author devotes pages to the mor- 1 cultural characteristics of the organisms concerned ess and relatively little to the parts of the subject rally discussed. Throughout the book this portion ect is unsatisfactory and cannot compare with such s of the subject as Adami and others offer.

d half of the book on Special Pathology is hardly ctory. Let us analyze the chapter on Diseases of the lar System. Without any preliminary embryological I the author plunges us into the malformations only comprehensible from a developmental aspect. follows and the presentation lacks unity and sequence :tent that the reader finds himself with a few isolated should be related but are not, and so on through the

The fatty heart which on section allows oil drop- e and which imperils the life of the individual, the >us myocarditis which results in death from cardiac e myomalacia cordis which the author emphasizes e least rare. The lack of histological description is . In this chapter histological description of an ante- ind its mode of formation is not even hinted at (this ummarily discussed in the discussion of Thrombosis 1 in the General Pathology). This is in strong con- jages devoted to pathological physiology of cardiac descriptions and tables of the murmurs.

s rather profusely illustrated. Many of these are I these are the best. On page 117 there is a very by Chase of an hemorrhagic infarct. This same pict- teproduced (p. 171) as an anæmic infarct. The

object of this is obscure. The great dearth of histological illus- trations, some 40 odd in the portion of the book devoted to Special Pathology, is striking and even these few do not compare with such illustrations as are found in Woodhead's Manual.

Briefly the arrangement of the book is original but unsatisfac- tory. The style is laborious and the excess of definitions in many places gives the book a dictionary-like aspect. In some instances the routine enumeration of causes, etc., may be of value. The attempt to cover the science of medicine in a text-book of Path- ology has resulted in chapters on Parasitology, Clinical Mi- croscopy, Bacteriology, Immunity and Clinical Diagnosis thus crowding the portions on pathological anatomy with the result that this portion of the book is inadequate. Important, even if unsettled, problems are not discussed, and the newer literature has been overlooked.

After a careful study of the work we feel that there are better pathologies for students, and that it needs careful revision to make it not only useful, but to correct its errors and bring it up to date.

A Text-Book of Pharmacology and Therapeutics or the Action of Drugs in Health and Disease. By ARTHUR R. CUSHNY, M. A., M. D., F. R. S., etc. Fifth Edition. Thoroughly Revised. Illustrated. Price $3.75. (Philadelphia and New York: Lea & Febiger, 1910.)

The fourth edition of this work was reviewed in the May, 1906, number of this journal, and its admirable qualities were pointed out. This present edition is an improvement on the last for it is brought thoroughly up-to-date, and therefore it may be endorsed with all the warmth it received before, and recommended to students and practitioners as the best work in English on this subject.

The Diseases of Women. A Hand-Book for Students and Practi- tioners. By J. BLAND-SUTTON, F. R. C. S. Eng., etc., and ARTHUR E. GILES, M. D., F. R. C. S. Edin., etc. Sixth Edition. Illustrated. Price $3.25. (New York: Rebman Company, 1910.)

The success of this manual is deserved; it was warmly reviewed in this journal (April, 1907), and this edition is an improvement on the last, as new and important chapters have been added in " Injuries to the Uterus," "Fibrosis Uteri," " Adenomatous Disease of the Uterus," "Vermiform Appendix," and "Injuries to the Ureters." It is an art to write a good manual, of which the num- ber is limited, and this is one of the best in any specialty.

Clinical Commentaries. Deduced from the Morphology of the Human Body. By PROFESSOR ACHILLE DE-GIOVANNI, Director of the General Medical Clinic, University of Padua. Trans- lated from the Second Italian Edition by JOHN JOSEPH EYRE, M. R. C. P., etc. Part-General. Price $4.50. (New York: Rebman Company, 1910.)

That the morphology of the human body should be studied as a help both in physiology and pathology will be denied by no wise physician, but that these "Commentaries " can be correctly drawn from such a study is very doubtful. The chapter on the " Mor- phological Examination of the Heart" is very typical of the author's point of view, and so it is fair to make certain extracts to indicate his methods. On pages 221-224 is described how to mark out the cardiac triangle on the surface of the body-the de- scription is vague, which is explained in the following statement (p. 224) : "I have already said more than once that I have no faith in averages, and I have given my reasons. Hence I have considered it useless to give the figures which concern the length of the sides of the cardiac triangle." Morphology, if it is to be studied like other exact sciences, must deal with figures and averages. Some of the difficulty met with in understanding the

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author may come from the very imperfect translation. On p. 225 occurs the following sentence: "The part which this contrib- utes to forming the base and the apex naturally increases some- what the proportion of the base and of the left ventricle; but at any rate in the maximal disproportion which refers to the right ventricle rests the criterion for concluding that the cause for the complexive enlargement of the heart is due both the right ventricle by reason of the entity of the disproportion of the side of the triangle which appertains to it." The author (p. 226), in italics, gives a method of measuring the fist and says if this is accurately taken "one will have the measurement of the base of the heart. This is a fact, not an opinion, .... " Throughout the work the author shows this unjustifiable (?) dogmatism. For instance, on page 96, we read "Following these conceptions, one comprehends that the external environment can modify the internal environ- ment-that the diplococcus, for instance, of the saliva can become the penumococcus of pneumonia, and another the meningcoccus

From the chapter on " Fat and Panniculus Adiposus " the follow- ing statements are taken: "and equally that the individuals in whom fat is produced beyond the ordinary amounts in some parts of their body demonstrate in these parts a morphological anomaly with a lymphatic character "; and further on " I have observed that in all ages the richness in fat coincides with a particular form of the body in which certain morphological relations that I shall indicate later on are always verified." One more quota- tion and we will close leaving it to those interested to decide as to whether the case is proven, as the author presents it, and whether so much can be deduced from morphology as he believes. "On the other hand, the growth of the trunk takes place less rapidly in the female sex than in the male, and this is in relationship with the great nervousness of females with scrofulous and rachitic con-

stitutions. Without entering now into the discussion as to the importance of these ideas, it will be sufficient to state that we are dealing with the results of researches conducted withoc: method [sic] with the sole object of finding averages [in which elsewhere the author has no faith], and not of forming series according to the requirements of the morphological method, and that, notwithstanding this, from the results we see arise the in- portance which a new study of the vertebral column must have for recognizing the variations of its development in relationship with the whole of the body, including the medulla spinalis" (p. 157).

Vaccine Therapy-Its Theory and Practice. By R. W. ALLEY. M. D., B. S. (Lond.), etc. Third Edition. Price $2. (Phila delphia: P. Blakiston's Son & Co., 1910.)

The author states in his preface to this edition that " it has been completely rewritten and brought up to date." It has filled a want and been successful, and will doubtless continue to do so. We refer our readers to the very favorable notice of it which ap peared in this BULLETIN in March, 1909.

Practical Obstetrics. By E. HASTINGS TWEEDY, P. R. C. P. I., and G. T. WRENCH, M. D. Second Edition. Price $5.50. (London. Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton, 1910.)

The first edition of this work appeared in 1908 under the title of "Rotunda Practical Midwifery " and was reviewed in this journal in December, 1909. What was said of it then applies to day. It is a mistake to have changed the title. "The chapters on the toxæmia of pregnancy, uterine inertia, and contracted pelvis have been rewritten." Some other changes have been made in the book, and it is now a smaller volume, although the number of pages remains the same.

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Oxford Medical Publications. A System of Syphilis. In Six Volumes. Edited by D'Arcy Power, M. B. Oxon., F. R. C. S. and J. Keogh Murphy, M. C. Cantab., F. R. C. S. With an Introduction by Sir Jonathan Hutchinson, F. R. S. Vol. IV. Syphilis of the Nervous System. By F. W. Mott, M. D., F. R. S., F. R. C. P. 1910. 8vo. 502 pages. Henry Frowde, London; Hodder & Stoughton, London.

Diseases of the Colon and Their Surgical Treatment. (Founded on the Jacksonian Essay for 1909.) By P. Lockhart Mum- mery, F. R. C. S. Eng., B. A., M. B., B. C. Cantab. Illustrated . by colored and other plates, and numerous figures in the text, many of which are reproduced from the author's sketches. 1910. 8vo. 322 pages. John Wright and Sons, Ltd., Bristol; Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., Ltd., London.

Light Therapeutics. A Practical Manual of Phototherapy for the Student and the Practitioner. With Special Reference to the Incandescent Electric-Light Bath. By J. H. Kellogg, M. D. 1910. 8vo. 217 pages. The Good Health Publishing Com- pany, Battle Creek, Michigan.

Education in Sexual Physiology and Hygiene. A Physician's Message. By Philip Zenner. 1910. 16mo. 126 pages. The Robert Clarke Company, Cincinnati.

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Progressive Medicine. ' A Quarterly Digest of Advances, Dir coveries and Improvements in the Medical and Surgical Sciences. Edited by Hobart Amory Hare, M. D., assisted by Leighton F. Appleman, M. D. Volume II. June, 1910. Sto. 363 pages. Lea & Febiger, Philadelphia and New York.

The Vegetable Proteins. By Thomas B. Osborne, Ph. D. 1909. 8vo. 125 pages. [Monographs on Biochemistry. Edited by R. H. Aders Plimmer, D. Sc., and F. G. Hopkins, M. A., M. B., D. Sc., F. R. S.] Longmans, Green and Co., London, New York, Bombay and Calcutta.

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Medical Education in the United States and Canada. A Report to the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. By Abraham Flexner. With an Introduction by Henry S. Pritchett, President of the Foundation. Bulletin No. 4. 1910. 4to. 346 pages. D. B. Updick, The Merrymount Press, Boston.

American Practice of Surgery. A Complete System of the Science and Art of Surgery, by Representative Surgeons of the United States and Canada. Editors: Joseph D. Bryant, M. D., LL. D. Albert H. Buck, M. D. Complete in Eight Volumes. Pro- fusely Illustrated. Volume Seven. 4to. 961 pages. William Wood and Company, New York.

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Twentieth Century History of Findlay and Hancock County, Ohio, and Representative Citizens, Part 79

Author: Jacob Anthony Kimmell Publication date: 1910 Publisher: Number of Pages: 1189

Author: Jacob Anthony Kimmell
Publication date: 1910
Publisher:
Number of Pages: 1189