Journal of Ophthalmology, Otology and Laryngology (Volume 10)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1898. Excerpt: ... BOOK REVIEWS. The American Yer Book Of Medicine And Surgery, being a yearly digest of scientific progress and authoritative opinion in all branches of medicine and surgery, drawn from journals monographs and text-books of the leading American and foreign authors and investigators, collected and arranged with critical editorial comments by Sam'l W. Abbott, M. D.; Jno. J. Abel, M. D.; J. M. Baldy, M. D.; Chas. H. Burnett, M. D.; Archibald Church, M. D.; J. Chalmers Da Costa, M. D.; W. A. Newman Dorland, M. D.; Louis A. Duhring, M. D.; Virgil P. Gibney, M. D.; Hoover W. Gibney, M. D.r Henry A. Griffin, M. D.; Jno. Guiteras, M. D.; C. A. Haymann, M. D.; Howard F. Hansell, M. D.; Barton Cooke Hirst, M. D.; E. Fletcher Ingals, M. D.; Wyatt Johnston, M. D.; W. W. Keen, M. D.; Henry G. Ohls, M. D.; Wm. Pepper, M. D.: Wendell Reber, M. D.; David Reesman, M. D.; Louis Starr, M. D.; Alfred Stengel, M. D.; G. N. Stewart, M. D.; J. R. Tillinghast, Jr., M. D.; Thompson S. Westcott, M. D. Under the general editorial charge of Geo. M. Gould, M. D. Illustrated. Phila.: W. B. Saunders, 925 Walnut Street, 1898. Pp. 1077. This valuable work, in praise of which too much cannot be said, has among its many useful attributes one which will be especially appreciated by the profession. We refer to its prompt appearance at the beginning of the year. Covering all departments thoroughly, it is difficult to see how a greater amount of valuable information could be compressed into the space occupied. The editorial comments are clear, concise, and very much to the point. While the general departments are profusely treated, a considerable space is devoted to the specialties covered by the Journal--sixty-seven pages imperial octavo being devoted to ophthalmology, thirty-eight to otology, ...