dinner and went home to see what I could do. I found a very sick mother with a baby one week old. An acute attack of Bright's in a chronic condition. I followed the doctor's directions regarding her care, put the baby on modified milk, helped the father with the children and made myself generally useful. At the end of a week the mother was out of bed for one hour, and I was called to the city. But I wish to explain that this week was one of the happiest I ever spent. The father was so loyal and devoted, the children bright and well-trained, the home so neat and comfortable, and such appreciation. The patient and her husband took my hands and with tearful eyes tried to thank me for what I tried to do and insisted upon paying me, but I could not take one cent. I came away a much wiser nurse and never so thoroughly felt I had done my duty. I think we need just these experiences in our nursing to show us the other side of life. We need to work where our services are appreciated and needed, as it serves to broaden our ideas of nursing. E. H.

My Experience with the Binder DEAR EDITOR: In answer to Buda in March number would say:

In my experience as a trained nurse, I have always found the binder very essential in my obstetrical cases. I do not know of a single case in all my work that the binder was not used. All the physicians I ever nursed for indorsed the

use of it as a support to the abdomen, especially

in stout women. I have known of several cases where the binder was not used and it was almost a year before the patient was her natural size again. Of course, some physicians maintain that it is just as good to disregard it, but I have always had good results from its use. T. R.

An Obstetric Case

DEAR EDITOR: I attended a very interesting obstetric case recently and I thought it would be valuable to your magazine. The patient was a woman of twenty-eight years; she had been an obstetric nurse for six years. She had never worn corsets and had always been very healthy. During pregnancy she took plenty of exercise and long walks out in the air. Her pains began on Wednesday and continued until Monday morn

ing. They were not very severe and lasted from three to five minutes. On Monday morning at 7.30 A. M. the membranes ruptured and the pains became a little more severe, but they were not bearing-down pains. The doctor tried to assist nature by giving twenty grains of quinine by mouth and he also inserted a small piece of absorbent cotton saturated with a solution of cocain into the cervix. He then gave two hypodermics of ergotole. But all these things seemed to have no effect on the uterus, whatever, and as the patient was growing weak under the strain, the doctor decided to use forceps. I administered the anesthetic, which was chloroform, and as soon as the patient was completely under its influence, the doctor began his work. With the use of the Davis forceps and a good deal of strength on his part the baby was born. It was marked quite badly with the forceps, but these marks all disappeared in a few days. The baby weighed eight pounds and was quite healthy. The placenta was expelled just ten minutes after the birth of the child. There was a laceration of the perineum and the doctor performed a perineorrhaphy. We then made the patient comfortable in bed and in a very short time she became conscious. She said she preferred chloroform to ether, as it did not leave such an unpleasant taste in the mouth; she had taken ether once to have an appendectomy performed.

The patient progressed very well the first two days, and on the third night she became very warm and perspired a good deal, and after the

perspiration ceased she felt very chilly, and these sensations slated throughout the night. On the right thigh she had some varicose veins that were very much swollen and very tender. I had kept the whole limb bandaged and I called the doctor's attention to the swollen veins and he said she had a phlebitis and it was to be dressed with lead water and laudanum and bandaged, and an ice cap placed on top of it. He said it was the phlebitis that caused the perspiration and chilly sensations. It did not take very long for the tenderness to disappear and the swelling also, under that treatment. On the eighth day the stitches were removed. On the twelfth day the patient sat up in bed and on the fourteenth day she got out of bed and she improved very rapidly. Just one week later I left my patient and baby doing very well. S. WILDER.

Massage and the Original Swedish Movements. -Their Application to Various Diseases of the Body. Lectures before the Training Schools for Nurses connected with the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, German Hospital, Woman's Hospital, Philadelphia Lying-in Charity Hospital, the Philadelphia Polyclinic and College for Graduates in Medicine, and the Kensington Hospital for Women, of Philadelphia, by Kurre W. Ostrom, from the Royal University of Upsasla, Sweden; sixth edition, revised and enlarged, with one hundred and fifteen illustrations. Price $1.00. For sale by the Lakeside Publishing Company.

The first edition of this book was published only a little over fifteen years ago; since then the author has gained a better and wider knowledge of massage and each one of the six editions through which this book has passed has been enlarged and improved.

In preparing this, the sixth edition, the whole text has been carefully gone over and revised in accord with the most recent methods. Six new subjects have been added, including sections on the Prostate Gland, Headache, Colds, Affections of the Bladder, Varicose Veins and Hernia.

The success of this book, the fact that a sixth edition was necessary, is all that we need to say in praise of the work.

A Laboratory Manual of Physiological Chemistry. By Elbert W. Rockwood, M.D., Ph.D., Professor of Chemistry and Toxicology and Head of the Department of Chemistry in the University of Iowa, etc. Second edition, revised and enlarged. With one colored plate and three plates of microscopic preparations. Large 12mo, 229 pages, extra cloth. Price, $1.00.

This is the second edition of this valuable work. It is meant to cover the year usually devoted to medical chemistry in the majority of medical schools. But the experiments are so simple, and the amount of apparatus required so small, that the book can be recommended to any nurse who has an interest in chemistry, and desires either to read up on it, or to study it through experiments at her own home.

Black's Medical Dictionary. Edited by John D. Comrie, M.A., B.Sc., M.B., M.R.C.P., Edinburgh, with over 350 illustrations. 855 pages. Size of page, 7 by 4. Just out. For sale by Lakeside Publishing Company. Price, $2.50, postpaid.

It would be impossible to describe this book and its object better than is done in its own preface, from which we quote liberally:

"In the preparation of this book the object sought has been to produce a work which would occupy a position somewhere between that of a technical dictionary of medicine and one intended merely for the domestic treatment of commoner ailments. An endeavor has accordingly been made to give information in simple language upon medical subjects of importance and general interest. The text consists partly of some of the medical articles originally contributed by Dr. J. O. Affleck to the ninth edition of the Encyclopedia Brittanica, which have been revised, brought up to date, and in some cases largely rewritten. These constitute less than one-fifth of the book, and in the remainder the general plan of these articles, so far as possible, has been followed.

"Definitions are given of most of the terms commonly used in medical science. Brief notices upon anatomy and physiology precede the lists of diseases to which the various bodily organs are liable. They have been designed mainly with the object of making clear to the reader what are the normal functions and how these are affected by disease. With regard to such practically important matters as those in which unskilled persons can safely be trusted to render aid to the injured, and to increase the comfort of the sick, full details have been given. It is hoped, therefore, that these articles will be found useful to district nurses, ship captains, dwellers in remote districts, and others who may be called upon to treat the suffering in the absence of trained supervision. Those subjects, on the contrary, which are of a more theoretical and intricate nature are sketched only in outline. In this connection, too, it may be noted that almost no reference has been made to diagnosis, a highly technical matter,

which lies entirely within the province of the trained medical man. Special attention has been given to subjects in which medical science has made recent advances, but care has been taken to avoid speculative and debatable views, and to keep as closely as possible to what are generally the principles upon which the measures of treatment are based and have been explained, but the details of operations are quite foreign to the scope of this book."

Walking for Exercise and Recreation; with Rules and Special Exercises for Overcoming Common Faults in Walking. Illustrated by W. R. C. Latson, M.D., editor of Health Culture. Price, 15 cents.

The value of walking as an exercise depends entirely on its being properly done. There is walking that is harmful as well as that which is helpful. Dr. Latson indicates clearly the evils of improper walking and how to walk correctly, all of which is made clear by half-tone illustrations, showing correct and incorrect ways. A set of exercises for promoting ease and grace in walking is given with illustrations. There is no better means for the promotion of health and also grace of movement and carriage than is found in proper walking.

Diseases of Infancy and Childhood. By Dr. L. Emmett Holt, Professor of Diseases of Children in the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University. Third edition just out. Price, $6.00 in cloth binding.

This standard text-book has now passed its fiftieth thousand, a most remarkable showing for a book upon this subject. This, the third revised edition, has been brought up to date in all departments. Many chapters have been enlarged and others entirely rewritten. In this edition the author, appreciating the value of good illustrations, has taken advantage of the opportunity and added many new ones and a number of the old illustrations have been replaced by better

Wilson, Professor of Medicine at the Jefferson Medical College, of Philadelphia.

This volume is equal to the one which preceded it and is characterized by the same exhaustiveness of treatment. The translation and general editing has been carefully done by Dr. Julius L. Salinger, and the many annotations made throughout the work by Dr. Cabot are of especial value. When we consider that the original work was written by such eminent clinicians as Gerhardt, Ewald, Ehrlich, Grawitz, Leube, Litten, v. Noorden, Naunyn and Jaksch, little need be said as to the standard of the teaching herein presented. It bears the stamp of direct, simple, clinical teaching, such as characterized the instruction of those above mentioned.

The work may be regarded as setting forth the most advanced teaching in medicine. It is an epitome of the latest researches in a field hitherto regarded as obscure and almost unexplored. The work is unexcelled in any language and should have a place in the library of every physician. The busy practitioner both in medical centres and in remote hamlets may here find his inspiration and guide. One of the distinguishing features of the work, which renders it especially valuable to the practitioner, is the very full discussion of treatment, embracing full diet lists, as well as all the modern aids, such as organotherapy, medical gymnastics, massage, hydrotherapy and electrotherapeutics, without subordinating actual drug treatment. We predict for this book as favorable a reception as was given to "Infectious Diseases."

The third volume, that upon "Diseases of the Digestive Tract," edited by Dr. Frank Billings, of Chicago, will be published at an early date.

We acknowledge with thanks:

Nursing: Hints to Probationers on Practical Work. Edited by Miss Mary H. Annesley Voysey. The Scientific Press, London, Eng.

Medical Electricity and Light Treatment. A practical handbook for nurses, by Miss Kate Neale. Illustrated. Price, two shillings, sixpence. The Scientific Press, London.

It is a most useful book for those nurses who desire knowledge of light therapy.

Transactions of the American Pediatric Society. Sixteenth session held at Detroit, Mich., May 30, 31 and June 1, 1904. Reprinted from Archives of Pediatrics, 1904-1905.