“William E. Johnson, familiarly called ‘Pussyfoot,’ as special agent of the government is said to have put more saloons out of business in a given time than any other man on earth. At one time he and his assistants secured convictions for the illegal sale of intoxicating liquors at the rate of 100 a month, month after month. How he did this and other points in his career are set forth in a book entitled ‘Pussyfoot Johnson, crusader—reformer, a man among men,’ by F. A. McKenzie, with introduction by Dr Wilfred T. Grenfell.”—Springf’d Republican
“Lovers of adventure will enjoy this book.” F. W. C.
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“The book sets forth the chief facts of Johnson’s life but fails to give an idea of the man’s mind and how it works.” A. P. Kellogg
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MACKENZIE, SIR JAMES. Future of medicine. (Oxford medical publications) *$5 Oxford 610
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“‘The future of medicine’ is a plea for the simplification of medicine, a reaction from the over-elaboration of ‘laboratoryism’—i.e., the instrumental and other laboratory aids to diagnosis. Not that Sir James denies the usefulness of these methods in research work, but he maintains that, while in some conditions it may be necessary even in ordinary clinical work to use elaborate instruments, it should be the constant aim of the medical man to learn how to discard such instrumental aids, and claims that he is now able to do so in much of his clinical work on diseases of the heart. What the author is so strongly opposed to are the laboratory ideals outlined in the syllabus for students recommended by the professor of clinical medicine at the world-famous Johns Hopkins university, Baltimore, reprinted in this book, and occupying more than four closely printed pages.”—Spec