THE DICTIONARY OF PRACTICAL MEDICINE. The Dictionary of Practical Medicine,
edited by Sir Malcolm Morris, K.C.V.O., Frederick Langmead, M.D., F.RC.P., and Gordon M. Holmes, C.M.G., C.B.E., M.D., F.R.C.P. In 3 volumes. (Cassell. £5 5s. net.)—All engaged in the practice of medicine should be grateful to the editors of these volumes for under- taking so important. and necessary a work as editing a new dictionary of practical medicine. With the apparently rapid advances being made in the knowledge of medicine there is frequently a feeling among would-be purchasers that such a dictionary will soon be out of date, but these fears are for practical purposes quite groundless. Advance is frequently more apparent than real, and the practical side of medicine has been kept so well in the foreground by the majority of the very numerous contributors that the purchaser, basing his ideas of maladies and their treatment on what he finds stated in these volumes, will be fortified against the majority of difficulties to be actually encountered. Of course, not all the articles could be expected to be of equal merit, and one has to confess that some hardly reach the standard of helpfulness such a dictionary should maintain, but having had ample opportunity of making practical use of this work the present writer can affirm that as a whole it maintains a very high standard and is worthy of a place of honour on every medical practitioner's bookshelves. The printing, on excellent paper, is good, and the beautiful illustrations leave nothing to be desired.
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