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Endocrine medicine
360
American
Journal
Kungl. Boktryckeriet, Sons, 1932.
of Surgery
Book
P. A. Norstedt
Reviews &
Strombeck, working in SoderIund’s cIinic in StockhoIm, offers in this monograph a carefuI study of a Iarge series of patients showing by radiographic examination caIcification of their mesenteric Iymph nodes. The work incIudes an extensive review of the Iiterature of mesenteric Iymphadenitis; aIso a report of a limited number of cases of acute Iymphadenopathies. The materia1 has been carefuIIy anaIyzed. UnfortunateIy the resuIts of this anaIysis, in terms of differentia1 diagnosis, are suffIcientIy equivoca1 to Ieave the reader with but hazy ideas as to how this study may be appIied with specific cases. The Iimited amount of pathoIogica1 study of the non-caIcified nodes Ieaves many of the concIusions open to question. WhiIe the work, for exampIe, represents a cIinica1 study of mesehteric Iymphadenitis no mention is made of Hodgkin’s disease which, in reality, affects the mesenteric nodes more than any other group within the body. Tabes mesenterica, Iikewise, receives no emphasis. The monograph must be viewed, therefor, as aImost excIusiveIy a study of calcified nodes rather than as a broad exposition on intraabdomina1 Iymphadenopathies in generaI. The section reviewing the extensive Iiterature proves the portion of perhaps greatest merit. The iIIustrations are cIear and the book is we11 edited. It shouId prove of great interest not onIy to the student of tubercuIosis but to the cIinician intent upon soIving the probIem case with abdomina1 signs and symptoms.
ENDOCRINE MEDICINE. By WiIliam EngeIbach, M.D., F.A.c.P., B.S., M.s., D.SC. With a Foreword by LeweIIys F. Barker, SpringfieId, III., Charles C. Thomas, 1932. 3 VoIs. and an Index VoI. VoI. I. Genera1 Considerations; VoI. II. The InfantiIe Endocrinopathies, The JuveniIe Endocrinopathies; VoI. III. The AdoIescent Endocrinopathies, The AduIt Endocrinopathies. As Dr. Barker we11 states in his foreword: “It is a matter of CongratuIation, that Dr. WiIIiam Engelbach shouId have been wiIIing, in the light of his Iarge persona1 cIinica1 experience, and after a painstaking study of the oIder and newer Iiterature, to provide us with a summary of endocrinoIogica1 theory and practice as known in 1931.” This work is pubIished in three voIumes of over 1800 pages to be foIIowed by an index
voIume, and containing 933 iIIustrations. As a book of reference for the cIose student who wishes his data compIete and up-to-date, there is nothing better in the EngIish Ianguage today. The subject is compIeteIy covered and we11 handIed though perhaps the average practitioner wiI1 find himseIf Iost in the mass of detail. The subject, after aI1, is new and ideas are changing. No work, therefore, however we11 done or authoritative, is to be considered as the fina word, for changes take pIace in this subject from day to day. This set wiI1 undoubtedIy take its pIace as a definite Iandmark in the history of endocrine Iiterature and wiI1 probabIy stand as the authoritative presentation of the subject to the end of 1931. It is because of the subject treated rather than any fauIt of the book itseIf that it wiI1 before very Iong need to be revised. We Iook for much more research and many more pubIications before a standardization of this subject can possibIy be achieved. In the meantime, the author and the pubIisher are to be congratuIated on the most compIete presentation of the subject to date.
DISEASES OF THE SPINAL CORD. By WiIIiams B. CadwaIader, M.D. Introduction by WiIliam G. SpiIIer, M.D. Bait., WiIliams & WiIkins Co., 1932. This book of 200 pages discusses the diseases of the spina cord in a rather eIementary manner. It wouId seem to be more suitabIe as a section of a book on nervous diseases than as a separate monograph. The work is based on the Iectures given by the author to his students at the University of PennsyIvania. DesirabIe as it might be to do so, it is doubtfu1 whether many teachers wiI1 feel justified in recommending to their students a specia1 monograph on diseases of the spina cord. The book is welIwritten, we11 printed, and we11iIIustrated. THE PRINCIPLES OF ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY FOR NURSES. By James Warren Sever, M.D. Ed. 2, N. Y., MacmiIIan Co., 1932. The second edition of Sever’s the subject thoroughIy up-to-date and practica1 manner. AI1 the needed by nurses is very apt to be voIume and Dr. Sever has avoided
book brings in a concise information foundin this the tempta-
tion, so common in many of the books on nursing, of overdoing the subject. He has toId the nurse a11 she needs to know, no more, no on his Iess, and is to be congratuIated accompIishment.
American
Journal
Kungl. Boktryckeriet, Sons, 1932.
of Surgery
Book
P. A. Norstedt
Reviews &
Strombeck, working in SoderIund’s cIinic in StockhoIm, offers in this monograph a carefuI study of a Iarge series of patients showing by radiographic examination caIcification of their mesenteric Iymph nodes. The work incIudes an extensive review of the Iiterature of mesenteric Iymphadenitis; aIso a report of a limited number of cases of acute Iymphadenopathies. The materia1 has been carefuIIy anaIyzed. UnfortunateIy the resuIts of this anaIysis, in terms of differentia1 diagnosis, are suffIcientIy equivoca1 to Ieave the reader with but hazy ideas as to how this study may be appIied with specific cases. The Iimited amount of pathoIogica1 study of the non-caIcified nodes Ieaves many of the concIusions open to question. WhiIe the work, for exampIe, represents a cIinica1 study of mesehteric Iymphadenitis no mention is made of Hodgkin’s disease which, in reality, affects the mesenteric nodes more than any other group within the body. Tabes mesenterica, Iikewise, receives no emphasis. The monograph must be viewed, therefor, as aImost excIusiveIy a study of calcified nodes rather than as a broad exposition on intraabdomina1 Iymphadenopathies in generaI. The section reviewing the extensive Iiterature proves the portion of perhaps greatest merit. The iIIustrations are cIear and the book is we11 edited. It shouId prove of great interest not onIy to the student of tubercuIosis but to the cIinician intent upon soIving the probIem case with abdomina1 signs and symptoms.
ENDOCRINE MEDICINE. By WiIliam EngeIbach, M.D., F.A.c.P., B.S., M.s., D.SC. With a Foreword by LeweIIys F. Barker, SpringfieId, III., Charles C. Thomas, 1932. 3 VoIs. and an Index VoI. VoI. I. Genera1 Considerations; VoI. II. The InfantiIe Endocrinopathies, The JuveniIe Endocrinopathies; VoI. III. The AdoIescent Endocrinopathies, The AduIt Endocrinopathies. As Dr. Barker we11 states in his foreword: “It is a matter of CongratuIation, that Dr. WiIIiam Engelbach shouId have been wiIIing, in the light of his Iarge persona1 cIinica1 experience, and after a painstaking study of the oIder and newer Iiterature, to provide us with a summary of endocrinoIogica1 theory and practice as known in 1931.” This work is pubIished in three voIumes of over 1800 pages to be foIIowed by an index
voIume, and containing 933 iIIustrations. As a book of reference for the cIose student who wishes his data compIete and up-to-date, there is nothing better in the EngIish Ianguage today. The subject is compIeteIy covered and we11 handIed though perhaps the average practitioner wiI1 find himseIf Iost in the mass of detail. The subject, after aI1, is new and ideas are changing. No work, therefore, however we11 done or authoritative, is to be considered as the fina word, for changes take pIace in this subject from day to day. This set wiI1 undoubtedIy take its pIace as a definite Iandmark in the history of endocrine Iiterature and wiI1 probabIy stand as the authoritative presentation of the subject to the end of 1931. It is because of the subject treated rather than any fauIt of the book itseIf that it wiI1 before very Iong need to be revised. We Iook for much more research and many more pubIications before a standardization of this subject can possibIy be achieved. In the meantime, the author and the pubIisher are to be congratuIated on the most compIete presentation of the subject to date.
DISEASES OF THE SPINAL CORD. By WiIIiams B. CadwaIader, M.D. Introduction by WiIliam G. SpiIIer, M.D. Bait., WiIliams & WiIkins Co., 1932. This book of 200 pages discusses the diseases of the spina cord in a rather eIementary manner. It wouId seem to be more suitabIe as a section of a book on nervous diseases than as a separate monograph. The work is based on the Iectures given by the author to his students at the University of PennsyIvania. DesirabIe as it might be to do so, it is doubtfu1 whether many teachers wiI1 feel justified in recommending to their students a specia1 monograph on diseases of the spina cord. The book is welIwritten, we11 printed, and we11iIIustrated. THE PRINCIPLES OF ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY FOR NURSES. By James Warren Sever, M.D. Ed. 2, N. Y., MacmiIIan Co., 1932. The second edition of Sever’s the subject thoroughIy up-to-date and practica1 manner. AI1 the needed by nurses is very apt to be voIume and Dr. Sever has avoided
book brings in a concise information foundin this the tempta-
tion, so common in many of the books on nursing, of overdoing the subject. He has toId the nurse a11 she needs to know, no more, no on his Iess, and is to be congratuIated accompIishment.