This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1876. Excerpt: ... Ruckert's Klinische Erfahrangen, by Dr. Oehme, 2d Lieferung von 1860 to 1870; Therapeutics of Diphtheriiis, by F. O. Oehme, M.D. Boericke j-Tafel, 1876.--Our good friend from Staten Island gives us here two pamphlets, and we thHnk him most heartily for both. Riiekert has been for years a book on the table and not on the shelves with most of our older physicians, and they will hail with pleasure the continuation of it; we only hope that Dr. Oehme will be kind enough to give it to us in an English dress, so as to make it intelligible to our own physicians. The Therapeutic of Diphtheritis appeared first in the pages of the North American, and that ought to be a full guarantee for its intrinsic worth. We perfectly agree with Prof. Jones that a library of interleaved copies of such monographs would be such an arsenal as is not now accessible to many of us. Prico 50 cents, just tho price of two decent cigars. Moral: Smoke less and buy more books. Ophthalmic Therapeutics, by T. F. Allen, M.D., and O. S. Norton, M.D. Boericke j-Tafel, 1876.--The skilful surgeons of the New York Ophthalmic Hospital give us here the results of their many years' experience, and it will be of great aid to the professional oculist, but alas for those poor devils who are not up in the pathology of eye diseases, who hardly know the difference between a scleritis and a choroiditis, who neither know refraction nor accommodation, and who still have to cure their eye patients from the subjective more than from the objective symptoms of the case. Excellent as the work is, as far as it goe-, we need a repertory to it, and we hope that Dr. Norton, who has begun this labor of love, will soon enrich our library with such a much-needed repertory. A Treatise on Diseases of the Skin, by S. Lil...