A practical treatise on sexual disorders of the male and female / by Robert W. Taylor.

  • Taylor, Robert W. (Robert William), 1842-1908
Date:
1897
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    and squalor. The former we can only hope to remedy by the better instruction of ignorant mothers, and this by medical men whose therapeutic range is not entirely limited to grey powder and circumcision. We notice with pleasure a praiseworthy absence of the numerous formulae of food-stuff's that make most text-books uureadable ; while the graphic chart method brings the essentials of composition readily to recognition. We quite agree with Dr. Holt that artificial feeding, as at present ignorantly practised, is the most fertile cause of infantile disease, and fully endorse his experience that 4 it is exceedingly rare to find a healthy child who has been reared in a tenement house, and who has been artificially fed from birth.5 A most instructive chapter is that on the ‘ Peculiarities of Disease in Children,5 while another of no less value is devoted to a discussion of Rickets, with copious illustrations of the incident bony deformities. We should have said that the antero posterior curvature of the lower third of the tibia was much more frequent than the author suggests, and not necessarily associated with bow legs ; indeed, it is the common and usually the only curvature in those children who, while kept off their legs have been nursed on their mother’s lap with the leg supported in such a way as to incur the bending strain of the full weight of the foot. The carbo- hydrate phantom, too, is relegated to the subservient position it really occupies in the aetiology of the disease. The handling of the system diseases, one and all, leaves but little to be desired. True to the intention expressed on the title-page, the author caters at once both for the student and the practitioner, the general principles of treatment are so explained as to be most helpful to the uninitiated, while many practical hints of the highest value are to be found on every page. We miss many old friends—to wit, the fallacies and misstatements handed from author to author—and we welcome many new ones that are usually conspicuous by their absence. On the whole, the chapters on diseases of the lungs attract us most in this portion of the book. The statistics of pneumonia and broncho-pneumonia point to a much greater frequency of pneumonia in infancy than is generally imagined to be the case. In the first twelve months of life the highly bronchial texture of the lung favours the peribronchial variety, but after this period, as the vesicular element becomes relatively more abundant, we find at first a tendency to a mixed process, and after the third year a great preponderance of the croupous type. Thus it is that though the pneumococcus is the infective agent in almost every case of pneumonia and primary broncho- pneumonia, the anatomical distinction is maintained. In secondary broncho- pneumonia, however, there is nearly always a mixed infection, and with the familiar streptococcus are often found Friedlander’s bacillus and staphylococci, of the specific germ of influenza, diphtheria, pneumonia, or tuberculosis. Dr. Holt is certainly much to be congratulated on his discussions of the bacterial agencies at work in the production of disease. We have said enough to convey the very high opinion we have formed of the whole volume, and we confidently expect that it will rank in the estimation of the profession as one of the best of many good books that have come to us from across the Atlantic.55 —Practitioner. HYDE AND MONTGOMERY.—A Manual of Syphilis and the Venereal Diseases. By James Nevins Hyde, M.D., Pro- fessor of Skin and Venereal Diseases, Rush Medical College, Chicago, and Frank H. Montgomery, M.D., Lecturer on Dermatology and Genito- urinary Diseases, Rush Medical College, Chicago. Profusely illustrated. Price 12s net. This Manual is intended as a thoroughly practical guide, and represents the latest knowledge of the Venereal Diseases which are included under the heads of Syphilis, and Gonorrhoea and its complications, with very complete instruc- tions for their diagnosis and carefully prepared instructions for their treatment, cure, and alleviation
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