The Dictionary of Medical and Surgical Knowledge. Vol. L (Houlston
and Wright.)—An excellent and simple work, which cannot but be useful to persons living at some distance from a medical man, more especially emigrants to the colonies. It treats not only of the organs of the human body, their functions and diseases, but of drugs and their operation, of food, climates, baths, and the like, and seems to us to be very carefully and accurately written. The author expressly states that he has practised as a medical man for thirty years, that he recommends no medicines which he has not tested in practice or which can be dangerous, and recommends the calling in of a medical man whenever it is Practicable. The real danger of such works is that people are so apt to mistake their symptoms, and treat themselves for the wrong disease.
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