Cox. 1910.Books nowadays often contain descriptions of so many different surgical methods that a reader more or less unacquainted with the subject finds it quite impossible to determine which is the best plan to adopt in the particular case under observation.In this book the case is not so ; the lines laid down by Lorenz are acknowledged and strictly followed. Added to this we have

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an air-tight thoracotomy wound. This is best obtained by the rib-trephining method with the application of a threaded metal tube.The particular form of suction device applied to the air-tight wound will depend upon the means at hand. BIBLIOGRAPHY, Balhineo, IT. A.: Sevan cases of thoracoplasty performed for the relief of chronic empyeinn.

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Anterior gastro-enterostomy was made on Case I, while the posterior method with a short loop (Moynihan) was used in cases II and III. All three cases recovered from the immediate effects of the operation, but case I died in three weeks of exhaustion as a result of the second and third perforations. Case II gained 44 pounds between November and February and is in excellent health at this time, October, 1905. Case III has been perfectly well ever since the operation and has no gastric symptoms whatever. He is in excellent health at present, October, 1905. SHOES AND FEET.