The Mineral Waters of the United States and Their Therapeutic Uses. With an Account of the Various Mineral Spring Localities, Their Advantages as Health Resorts, Means of Access, etc., to which is added an appendix on potable waters.

The author states in his preface that a complete and discriminating work on the mineral waters of the United States has been distinctly needed. The truth of this will hardly be questioned by medical men. The treatises heretofore available have become out of date and were never complete. In preparing the present volume, he states that he has carefully examined all available literature, has addressed letters of inquiry to every spring resort accessible by the postoffice, and has corresponded not only with proprietors and agents, but with local physicians, army and navy officers and others who could give him the desired information, besides making personal visits to many important localities. As a result he has produced a handsome volume of nearly 600 pages, describing all the actually utilized springs of the country, and giving analyses of the waters and stating their medical uses. If anything in the book calls for