Translated from the Original German Edition, with an Introduction by Victor C. Vaughan, M.D., Ann Arbor, Mich. Being a complete code of instructions as to the different foods and how they can be best employed. Royal Octavo. 425 pages. Handsomely Bound in Cloth (uniform with “Old Age Deferred”). $3.00, net.

Introduction, with remarks upon the importance of the Appetite and the Object of the Processes of Nourishment.

Many people naturally sidestep books on diet because they expect to be warned against their pet dietary follies. This is not the Lorand way. In a most entertaining manner Dr. Lorand explains to the reader the advantages, disadvantages and nutritive values of different foods so clearly that a person of ordinary intelligence can exercise good judgment. Obviously, no person of reasonable common sense deliberately follows the path of error in diet; if he has the facts he can go ahead and choose for himself; Dr. Lorand’s book provides the facts.

Journal of the American Medical Association (Chicago, Ill.).

Methods of cooking are described and interesting remarks are made as to the size and distribution of the ill effects arising from various special and one-sided diets. It is full of valuable hints from which all can profit. It may be recommended to the layman as well as to the practitioner.

Most families unfortunately give little attention to the prevention of Consumption until the subject has been brought to their notice in a menacing way. The author with great clearness has set forth the cardinal principles not only of the prevention of the disease, but of its hygienic treatment when established.

This work provides much valuable information as to climates, diet, exercise, environment and family safeguards identified with the treatment of a case in the family when once established.

New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal.

Dr. Davis has written a thoroughly practical book. He handles the subject in such a way that the intelligent victim of consumption can read it with profit. It is the kind of book which the physician can recommend to his patients and their relatives.

Any defect in the sight, hearing, or organs of speech tremendously reduces a person’s efficiency. A neglected child therefore may reasonably be expected to later on blame the parents who failed in their duty. Adults who are careless about colds affecting the ears, or who defer the use of glasses when necessary, may rightly expect the onset of defective hearing or cataract in their later years.

It is said that probably 50 per cent. of the practice of specialists is made up of attempts to remedy the results of these forms of neglect.

The Boston Medical and Surgical Journal.

Such a book as this should find an especially useful place among the laity as well as in the profession. In fact, the simplicity of style is such that persons of small medical training would find it entirely understandable.

This work is based upon an enormous experience not only as a specialist in skin diseases, but as a physician engaged in general practice. The contents of the book are therefore authentic and founded upon actual knowledge rather than theory.

There may be good health without good looks, but seldom good looks without good health. This treatise tells you how these two highly desirable conditions may be co-existent. There is a place in every family library for a book of this kind.

CONFESSIONS OF A NEURASTHENIC is designed to show the mental absurdities of that extremely cautious and anxious individual who wishes under any and all circumstances to take extraordinary good care of himself.

The hero of this sketch has always found real, continuous effort too severe a tax upon his health. Therefore, he shifts from one occupation to another. His various adventures in search of a calling at once congenial and devoid of mental and physical strain are not only very amusing to read, but point a most useful moral.

The remarkable reduction in the death rate among infants in New York City is the answer to what physicians there have been doing in recent years. They have given extraordinary attention to the care of children. Dr. Theron W. Kilmer has been closely identified in this good work and in compiling his book for the public, he was guided not only by an extensive personal experience, but by a thorough knowledge of what numerous other specialists in the Care of the Infant and Young Child have been doing.

Kilmer’s “Care of the Baby” is a thoroughly safe counsellor in the family, the clear text and numerous fine illustrations fulfilling every requirement.