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(Continued from page 722.) When the members of a profession that the public are inclined to regard as rather a close corporation come forward to express their views on the practice of medicine from the layman's point of view, they are entitled to a respectful hearing ; moreover, doctors often write extremely well. Dr. Hawthorne's Short Essays on Medical Topics (Bale, Sons and Danielsson, 4s. (Id.) is a case in point. He examines such delicate subjects as " The Grip of the Specialist," refuting the charge now so commonly made, alas I that there is a system of commissions as between specialists and surgeons, consultants and sanatoria, and he discusses frankly " The Uncertainties of Therapeutics," " Sight-Testing," " Mental Science," " The Advertisements of Quack Remedies," and many other 'questions. It is a most useful little book. The same may be said of Dr. Stuart-Low's Care of the Nose, Throat and Ear (Bailliere, Tindall & Cox, 5s.), which gives the advice and instruction of a prominent specialist on those catarrhal affections which involve so many of us in discomfort, and often danger, during the winter months.
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