(1) Recent Methods in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Syphilis (2) Scientific Features of Modern Medicine (3) On the Physiology of the Semi-circular Canals and their Relation to Sea-Sickness (4) The Prevention and Treatment of Disease in the Tropics (5) The Doctor and the People (6) The Nervous System

Abstract

(1) OF all modern work in pathology, none has received more public attention than the work of the last seven years on syphilis; and this not only from the universal evil of the disease, but from the profound significance of the discovery of its actual cause, the Spirochoeta pallida. By this discovery, it was brought into line with other infective diseases—malaria, yellow fever, sleeping sickness. New methods of study, new tests for diagnosis, new lines of treatment, came into use. The mere literature on the subject, from 1905 to 1912, would take years to read. Among a legion of novelties, two are especially notable: the Wassermann serum reaction and Ehrlich's salvarsan. The logic of the Wassermann test is one of the most complex of all the reasoning processes in bacteriology; but it hangs on to that simpler test, Widal's reaction, which is familiar to all doctors; and, in spite of the profundity of its logic, it is practicable over a very wide and important field of work. The results of treatment with salvarsan, though it is not a drug to be played with, nor free from all possibility of risk, are amazing. None of us can doubt that, in salvarsan, we have a drug which acts directly on syphilis, as quinine acts directly on malaria.

(1) Recent Methods in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Syphilis.

The Wassermann Serum Reaction and Ehrlich's Salvarsan. By Dr. Carl H. Browning and Ivy Mackenzie. In collaboration with J. Cruickshank, C. G. A. Chislett, W. Gilmour, and H. Morton. With an introduction by Prof. R. Muir, F.R.S. Pp. xxvi+303. (London: Constable and Co., Ltd., 1911.) Price 8s. 6d. net.

(2) Scientific Features of Modern Medicine.

By Prof. Frederic S. Lee. (Columbia University Lectures.) Pp. vii+183. (New York: The Columbia University Press; London: Henry Frowde, 1911.) Price 6s. 6d. net (1.50 dollars).

(3) On the Physiology of the Semi-circular Canals and their Relation to Sea-Sickness.

By Dr. Joseph Byrne. Pp. ix+569. (New York: J. T. Dougherty; London: H. K. Lewis, 1912.) Price 12s. 6d. net.

(4) The Prevention and Treatment of Disease in the Tropics.

A Handbook for Officials and Travellers, compiled chiefly for the use of Officials in the Sudan. By Edward S. Crispin. Pp. 95. (London: Charles Griffin and Co., Ltd., 1912.) Price 1s. net.

(5) The Doctor and the People.

By H. de Carle Woodcock. Pp. xii+312. (London: Methuen and Co., Ltd., 1912.) Price 6s. net.

(6) The Nervous System.

An Elementary Hand book of the Anatomy and Physiology of the Nervous System. For the use of Students of Psychology and Neurology. By Dr. J. D. Lickley. Pp. xii+130. (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1912.) Price 6s. net.