The Study of the Pulse, Arterial, Venous, and Hepatic, and of the Movements of the Heart

estimate somewhat difficult. In truth it is far easier to appreciate than to criticise the outcome of such successful labour. It is no doubt impossible for any two men who have been long engaged in the study of the same or similar subjects, to hold identical views in regard to them; there is a point, nevertheless, at which differences of opinion and divergences of interpretation sink into insignificance in view of the general value of the entire residt. The work consists of three sections, devoted respectively to the arterial and cardiac movements, the venous and hepatic pulse, and the pulsations of the veins and liver in irregular action of the heart. In the first section the reader cannot fail to be struck by the originality of view shown by the author in his remarks on " the field of