Chronic Bronchitis. By E. Headlam Greenhow, M.D. (Longman.) —Dr. Greenhow
here publishes some clinical lectures which he delivered at the Middlesex Hospital. By clinical—literally, bedside—it is to be understood that the lectures were delivered on the cases of individual patients. This form of medical teaching and writing is now much employed by some of the best physicians. In so far as it tends to keep both teacher and student close to the actual facts of disease, and to remind them that they have to treat individual men and women, and not the Latin or Greek names in a system of nosology, this method is to be commended. The author deals with several of the causes and complications of chronic bronchitis, but especially directs attention to the relation of the gouty taint to this disease. He says, "Although it has been mentioned in express terms by Sir Henry Holland, and several other eminent physicians, it has never, I think, been so prominently or specifically brought forward as to secure for it in ordinary medical
practice the attention its importance deserves." We must leave the value of the book to be discassedelay the medical journals, but we are glad to see some special attention being directed to bronchitis, as it is a disease extensively prevalent and largely fatal.
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