494 THE INDIAN MEDICAL GAZETTE. [Dec., 1906.

A Text-book of Human Histology, including Microscopic Technic.- -By Drs. A. A. Bohm and M. V on Dairdoff, or Munich, and G. Uarl Huber, m.d., Professor of Histology and Embryol- ogy in the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Second edition, thoroughly revised and enlarged. Handsome octavo of 525 pages with 37G original Illustrations. Philadelphia, New York, London. W, B. Saunders & Company, 1904. Flexible cloth. $ 3*50 net.

The " Text-book of Histology" by Bohm and V. Dairdoff is well-known in the German edition, and is admitted to be one of the most practically useful books on the subject ever written. The excellence of the text and illustrations of the German edition, attested by all familiar with the work and the cordial reception which it had received from both students and investigators, justified the belief that an English translation would meet with support from American and

English teachers and students. That this hope lias been fully justified is

shown by the fact that since the first edition of the English translation, two reprints have been required, and now a revised and enlarged edition has been published.

In this second American edition Dr. Huber has retained in general the same arrangement of the subject-matter as presented in the former

edition, and has added much useful matter, the practical results of his own extensive experience in histology. Extensive alterations have been made in the chapters dealing with general histol- ogy, cognizance being taken of the recent addi- tions to our knowledge of the ultimate structure of tissues and organs. Recognition has also ?? P oeen given to the results obtained by the use of precise methods of plastic reproduction. Mazi- arski's observations on the form and relation-

ship of the ultimate divisions of the tubular

systems of many of the more important glands have been embodied.

There is an addition of some forty pages and the illustrations have been increased from three hundred and fifty-one to three hundred and

seventy-seven, for convenience in the laboratory ; it has been bound inflexible cloth. We consider the present revised edition to be

one of the very best practical books of histology at present to be had, giving the more recent work in a very readable form and including all the newest methods of technic. The introductory chapter on microscopic preparations and the articles at the end of each chapter on the technic of the particular organs or tissues described are

very good and form a valuable asset of fhe

practical usefulness of the book. We have nothing but praise for the way in

which the publishers have done their share of the work of production, the illustrations and the general turn-out of the book reflecting the

greatest credit on all concerned. The book can be thoroughly recommended to all interested in

histology and histological technic.