Guide in the Sick Room. By R. Barwell, F.R.C.S., Assistant-Surgeon
to the Charing Cross HospitaL (Macmillan and Co.)—This is a revised
edition of the author's well-known little work on the " Care of the Sick." It is a set of directions as to the best mode of performing certain offices about the sick which are, as the writer says, simple and practical. They are also singularly clear and, what is of equal import- ance, minute. It is not easy to apprehend accurately the public ignorance on these points. How many people know that a person in a fit should be placed in a horizontal position, and that only fits which are accompanied by flushing of the face are treated properly by raising the head ? • And we particularly admire the chapter on the best modes of changing the bed-linen of a patient without disturbing him, and similar operations. These are just the expedients which from their very simplicity never occur to inexperienced nurses, and young wives) are almost necessarily inexperienced. We sincerely recommend Mr. Barwell's book to all whom it may concern. The only thing we wish
away is the short diatribe against quackery. It is all true enough, but it is out of place here. And a surgeon abusing quacks is like a clergyman preaching against dissent.
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