DISEASES OF THE NOSE, THROAT, AND EAR. Part I. Diseases of the Nose
and Throat. By S. H. VEHSLAGE, M. D., Assistant Surgeon to the New
York Ophthalmic Hospital (Throat Department). Part II. Diseases of
the Ear. By G. DE WAYNE HALLETT, M. D., Assistant Surgeon to the New
York Ophthalmic Hospital. New York: Boericke & Runyon Co., 1900.
Price, cloth, $3.00.
We are glad to receive this volume, for which we have been looking for
quite a while; because it fills a vacancy in our homeopathic literature
which has long needed filling.
It will be found a clearly and concisely written volume, very
instructive and advantageous to the student and busy practitioner; it is
not intended to be exhaustive enough for the specialist in these
branches.
Among the many commendable points, we would call attention to thorough
consideration of the subject of Diphtheria, and we are glad to say that
the treatment of this disease is sufficiently broad to include
antitoxin,—let it be rational, allopathic, or whatever we may denominate
it. While, on the other hand, we regret not to see the appreciable doses
of iodide of potash more highly recommended as antidotal to the
syphilitic poison, when manifest in these localities.
The manner in which the general, topical, or mechanical and hygienic
portion of the treatment is handled is to be strongly approved. The
homeopathic indications are well written. Like almost all books by
homeopathic authors, it shows the peculiar bent of the homeopathic
physician’s mind is upon the therapeutics or cure of the patient rather
than upon the fine development of the pathology, ætiology, etc., of the
disease.
The publishers have done well in the binding, selection of type, and
leading,—making it easy to read, but we are sorry to notice a number of
small typographical errors have crept in, to mar it for a somewhat
critical eye.