Our thanks are due the obliging publishers for a copy of this exceedingly valuable book. The author’s long experience and intimate acquaintance with the subjects treated of eminently qualify him to present a work that will prove of most valuable assistance to physician and students. The work is eminently practical and presents throughout the subject matter in an easily accessible form. The arrangement of the text is systematically perfect and only such material is used as may render the work available for the needs of practitioners and students. The importance of breast-feeding is emphasized and artificial alimentation discussed thoroughly so as to furnish the best schemes for obtaining the best results. The article upon “Surgical Treatment of Infantile Pyloric Obstruction” is by the celebrated surgeon, Dr. John B. Deaver, a chapter that adds much to the value of the work. A feature of the work is the presentation of a number of plates showing in colors the appearance of stools in various conditions of alimentary disturbances. We are greatly pleased with this work and can conscientiously recommend it to students and practitioners. * * * * * “Annual Report of the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service of the United States.” For the Fiscal Year 1911. Washington. Government Printing Office. 1914. This is the forty-third annual report of the operations of the Public Health Service, in the one hundred and sixteenth year of its existence, issued by the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service of the United States. This treats of the seven divisions of the bureau under the following heads, viz. (1) Scientific Research and Sanitation; (2) Foreign and Insular Quarantine and Immigration; (3) Domestic (Interstate) Quarantine; (4) Sanitary Reports and Statistics; (5) Marine Hospitals and Relief; (6) Personnel and Accounts; (7) Miscellaneous. The report contains a great deal of interest to the general reader, especially to those interested in sanitary matters, and shows the methodical and systematic manner in which the affairs of the bureau are administered. Publisher’s Department “IN PARTICULAR CASES.” Therapeutic efficiency in the use of the bromides is often as dependent on the avoidance of untoward effects as on the attainments of maximum physiologic activity. For this reason Peacock’s Bromides offer the most satisfactory bromide therapy, for not only does this happy combination of carefully selected bromide salts insure all the benefits of the most active bromide preparation, but it does so with the great advantage that gastric disturbance and all tendencies to bromism are reduced to a minimum. This is why in “particular cases” so many physicians are in the habit of insisting on the use of Peacock’s Bromides. * * * * *