FROM THE DOCTOR'S - NOTEBOOK
By Sir James Crichton-Browne The doctor's case book, says Sir James Crichton-Browne, remains locked in a drawer. But, happily for his readers, Sir James Crichton-Browne has kept a notebook free from the obligations of professional secrecy ; and from the mellow pinnacle of more than ninety years its author has filled it with memories, anecdotes, things heard and things seen, meditations, professional and otherwise, the harvest of a lifetime that included a period of studentship under the then scarcely known Lister in his Edinburgh days. Though there may be moderns who will disagree with some of Sir James' medical dicta, there will be very few indeed who will not discover in his book by-ways of knowledge into which they have never hitherto been lured or some memorable felicity of phrase and observation. The Doctor's Notebook (Duckworth, 7s. 6d.) is in short a very delightful bedside book.
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