This edition does not materially differ from the first, although it has been revised and to some extent enlarged and altered. It remains a good descriptive textbook. The author's strong points are delineation of clinical types and therapeutic procedures. His weak points are psychology (normal and abnormal) and, consequently, classification. The book aims to be a practical guide for students and practitioners, and it is; but with a somewhat loose or superficial psychology, and a classification here and there a bit careless, it is a guide that might occasionally lead one astray. To write about the insanity of the special fears, the insanity of indecision, and the insanity of deficient inhibition might easily mislead the inexperienced, even though the description of the patients is good, for these are not insanities at all. On page 195 the author makes the common though radical error of confusing phobia with impulse. In the chapter on psychologic interpretation of the symptoms he gives an outline of the principles and technic of freudian psychanalysis which is as fair as could be expected from an avowed oppo¬ nent. It cannot be assumed to be such as would satisfy freudians. Obviously, the chapter on treatment is the result of experience and not of theory ; consequently, it is good. Such details as methods of feeding and alternation of nurses will be of immediate and practical value to the practitioner. In conclusion, the reviewer is impelled to remark that to criticize a textbook on psychiatry is superlatively easy; to write a good one, exceedingly difficult. This book is intended to supply the demand for a work on nursing as applied to war. While nursing and the fundamental principles governing the work are the same in civil as well as in base hospitals at the front in a war, at the same time there is a decided variance not only in the radically different conditions in surroundings, but also in that all the patients are soldiers. This fact is emphasized in the first sentence of the book: the relationship between the sick man and his nurse is one that does not exist in ordinary life. Of course there is a difference in the hospital itself, and this difference is described. The nurse, like every one else, is subject to military rules and regulations, and she must accept conditions in this regard that she might not be willing to accept in private life. She must obey without protest or attempt at evasion. "She must be a good soldier, uncomplaining, unquestionably obedient." But she has her satis¬ faction in that "patients are subject to the orders of the nurse, acting under the medical officers or charge nurse." While intended specifically for war nursing, this book con¬ tains information and suggestions that will be found of very practical value to all nurses, for, as we have stated, nursing is the same to a great extent no matter whether in a war or in a civil hospital. The book is full of good, common sense, of practical instruction and of sound advice. It is also well illustrated.Oral Roentgenology. A Roentgen Study...
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