Diseases of the Heart by Dr Edwin M. Hale, M.D, is one of the book that at present not readily available. The present day increase in the cardiovascular complaints of the so called modern society, could have been combated, may be much more judiciously, had this book been readily available. No doubt, that when this book was published, the cardiac sciences, may not have developed upto the present modern level, but till it contains the therapeutic hints which if logically and judiciously applied to a particular case, could be effective too.