A Treatise on the Diseases of Infancy and Childhood

it, and it might reasonably be expected that the third would have been approaching perfectness. The only diseases stated to be considered for the first time are rotheln and cerebro-spinal fever, epidemics of which had occuired in New York since the appearance of the last edition in 1872. The article on diphtheria, as well as several other chapters, have been re-written. In some places a fuller description might have been desirable; as, for instance, in the reference to the use of the ophthalmoscope in diseases of the brain, no account is given of the appearances observed in tumour. The volume is well got up, printed in clear type, and numbers upwards of 700 pages. The introductory chapters are very good; that on lactation is very comprehensive, and a subject, concerning which the columns of one of the medical journals have lately presented the opinions of various writers, is shown to be no new one. Referring to the