Growth and Development of the Young Child

Growth and Development of the Young Child

512 THE JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS general practitioners and those in other specialties who want to know what is being done :for various surgical conditi...

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THE JOURNAL OF PEDIATRICS

general practitioners and those in other specialties who want to know what is being done :for various surgical conditions arising during childhood. This book supports the observation t h a t much can be said in a few words.

unusually fine technical study of the veins of the upper extremities of the normal subject made by means of phlebograms. Beautifully illustrated. Of special r a t h e r t h a n general interest.

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The Medical Assistant. Miriam Bredow~ New York, 1958, McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 430 pages. Price $7.50. The author, Dean of Women at the E a s t e r n School for Physicians' Aides in N e w York, is the author of an excellent earlier t e x t entitled Handbook for the Medical Secretary. This volume is planned for the medical assistant in the doctor's office and covers the material which, in her experience, the medical assistant must know: physical therapy, sterilization, first aid, office surgery, and similar topics. I t is a timely subject as medical assistants are being increasingly used in physicians' offices. The duties of an assistant will vary according to the particular specialty, and many physicians therefore have trained their own office assistants to meet their needs.

~tude radiologique de la circulation veineuse du membre sup6rieur (sujet normal). E. Lavizzari and V. Ottolini, Paris, 1958, Masson et Cie, 122 pages. Price 2,400 fr. (French). A monograph ~from the I n s t i t u t e ()f Radiology at the U n i v e r s i t y of Milan. An

Our Nuclear Adventure. D. G. Arnott,. New York, 1958, Philosophical Library~ 170 pages. Price $6.00. Those interested or worried about the "possibilities and perils" of nuclear power r as the subheading of the book states, will find a lot of information in this volume. The author is British and is decidedly censorius of the political and social aspects of the development of nuclear power in his country.

Cleft Palate and Speech, ed. 4. Murlel E. Morley, Edinburgh, 1958, E. & S. Livingstone, Ltd., 271 pages. Price $6.50. (Williams & Wilkins Co., U.S. agents.) A new revised edition. published in 1954.

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Growth and Development of the Young Child, ed. 6. Marian E. Breckenridge and Margaret N e s b i t t Murphy, Philadelphia, 1958, W. B. Saunders Co., 548 pages. Price $5.50. A new revised edition (last in 1953) o f this well-known text used in many college courses on chihl development.

Erratum In tile article entitled " P e d i a t r i c Use of Antibacterial Agents ~ by C. Henry Kempe, M.D., which appeared in the July issue of the Journal, the following corrections should be made in Table I: On page 21, Ristoeetin dose should read 12 reg./lb./day. On page 22, ]isouiazid dose should read 8 reg.~lb.~day (in 2 doses), i~ttranmscLdar should read 5 reg./lb./day (ill 2 doses).