Dislocations and Joint-Fractures.

One of the most commendable features of Cotton's book is its originality. The volume embodies the results of the author's study and personal experience with a lot of material, and this lends to it a distinctive and unique value. There is a place in surgical literature for a book on joint-injuries, fractures and dislocations, especially since thex-ray in the last decade has caused many long-accepted views to be modified and revised. Every experienced surgeon will concede the importance of joint-injuries, knowing that permanent disability sometimes follows treatment by even the most expert. Dr. Cotton has covered this field of joint-injuries most completely; his style is clear and lucid, and the text is embellished by a great number of good original drawings and reproductions of radiograms. There is no question that it is of great advantage for the author to be his own artist, a circumstance which tends towards