A sufferer from rheumatism gives his experience with physicians of various schools in their attempts to cure him. “Blisters and red-hot cautery” is followed by disquisitions upon Turkish and electric baths, patent medicines, liver cures, hot-water treatment, and osteopathy. The humor is so genial it will not offend even those who are ridiculed.
“Here we have a satire, a humorous, but none the less biting satire, upon the medical science of today and those who apply its principles.”
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“In genuine humorous style.”
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Leonard, Mary Finley. [Story of the big front door.] 75c. Crowell.
This volume of the “Twentieth century juveniles” tells of the doings of the Hazeltine children who lived behind the big front door, of Ikey Ford, and other boys and girls, of their aunts, uncles, and neighbors, their plays and their clubs. The children are good children who openly repent of their pranks, and the gentle strain of moralizing which runs thru the book fits it for Sunday school use.
[*] Leonard, William Samuel. Machine-shop tools and methods. $4. Wiley.
A third revised and enlarged edition of a book which represents Mr. Leonard’s “lectures on shop practice and machine design, given to the students in the Michigan agricultural college. The text is concise, comprehensive, and clear.... The description of the machines and tools is good and covers the principal details without useless words. The names of the machine parts, tools and fixtures are those used in general shop practice.”—Engin. N.
[*] “The book as a whole is undoubtedly the best one on machine shop practice that has yet appeared.” William W. Bird.