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Lymphoproliferative Diseases
Pathology (1976). 8, pp. 174-8
BOOK REVIEWS Industrial Toxicology, 3rd edition, ALICEHAMILTON & HARRIET L. HARDY. 1974. Publishing Sciences Group, Inc. Acton, Mass. : Sydney; Butterworths. 590 pp. US$20.00. It is appropriate that the third edition of this standard reference work by two acknowledged experts in a restricted field of medicine should be released in International Women’s Year. It is intended for physicians working in industrial medicine. Hopefully it will become known to other doctors and to medical students as a reference book of the common and some less common toxic agents and hazards to which many workers in industry may be exposed today. The first section deals with diagnosis and control of occupational disease and aspects of United States Workmen’s Compensation. The other eight sections cover the metals, chemical compounds, energy, dusts and biological hazards. The text is clearly presented with a subject heading on each page and with sub-headings in the generous margin. The metals are placed alphabetically for quick reference. The book is completed by 64 pages of bibliography and references, a glossary of terms used by worker-patients and an index. The inclusion of historical references provides an interesting picture of the development and changing patterns of industrial technology over the years. For example, mercury poisoning is traced from those cases which occurred in the Roman mines in Spain to those in the British police force from the use of mercury and chalk fingerprint powder. For clinical content the authors have used many references from case histories and anecdotes from their own experiences together with a comprehensive literature review, adequate references to biological and medical monitoring, toxic effects, treatment and control. Due emphasis is given to the changing patterns of occupational diseases and the comparative rarity today with which one is presented with the classical clinical picture. The highly technical field of industrial hygiene has not been included in this book. There will be few in the practice of occupational medicine who would fail to find this a very useful book. F. G . Rainsford
Lymphoproliferative Diseases, ed. D. W. MOLANDER. 1975. Charles C Thomas, Springfield, Illinois. 570 pp., illustrated. US$39.50. This handsomely produced, substantial and expensive volume fills a definite gap as it deals almost exclusively with the non-Hodgkins lymphomas, together, for good measure, with myelomatosis, sarcoidosis and histiocytosis X. Of the twenty-four contributors
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some have produced authoritative chapters which could not be matched elsewhere ; examples are those by Tubiana, Laugier and Schlienger on radiotherapy, by Greenberg and Ariel on diagnosis with radioisotopes, by J. N. P. Davies on the pathology and diagnosis of Burkitt’s tumour and by Mannik on Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinaemia. The others, too, have on the whole done well, though there are curious omissions. Thus, in a book on lymphoproliferative diseases, one might have expected to find at least mention of the Mikulicz and the Sezary syndromes, and to have a rather extensive chapter on skin involvement without a single illustration seems strange, especially as most of the numerous figures in other chapters are excellent. The faults of the work are mainly those of a multi-author undertaking; lack of uniformity in style, duplications and occasional contradictions in adjacent chapters. Most serious is the lack of reference to recent results and ideas. With a few exceptions (notably in the radiotherapy chapter), quotations end in 1970 or at most 1971. Thus, the highly important immunological work of the past few years is not considered, and present-day thoughts on combination chemotherapy of lymphomas are only hinted at. There is an excellent subject index and a useful name index. The book is recommended for reference, especially in departmental and general medical libraries. F. W. Gunz
The Reticuloendothelial System. Internationa 4cademy of Pathology Monograph, eds JOHNW. REBUCK, COSTAN W. BERARD & MURRAY R. ABELL.1975. Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore. 328 pp., illustrated. A$31.OO. In this series of papers by an illustrious group of scientists, each of whom has made a substantial contribution to our understanding of reticuloendothelial system, we are given, as the editors state, a view from a ‘Temporary vantage point on a steep slope’. The practising surgical pathologist will be disappointed if he expects to find here the definitive answers to his daily diagnostic problems, there is, however, immense intellectual reward in browsing through it. Attempts to correlate the conventional tissue, cellular and subcellular pathology and virology with the biochemistry and immunology of the lymphoreticular system, together with the revolutionary concepts of the diverse morphological appearances assumed by lymphoid cells in response to different stimuli, introduce to us an apparently rational basis for reclassification of malignancy of the lymphoreticular system. At least half of the chapters are detailed accounts of the experimental studies of the contributions, much of the methodology of which lays the foundation of the second part of the book. Here we have such familiar names as Rappaport, Butler, Lukes, Dorfman, and others presenting an updated view of Hodgkin’s disease, the non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas, myocosis fungoides, and a rather limited approach, by Hartsock, of reactive lesions in lymph nodes. An excellent final chapter by Berard, ‘Reticulo-Endothelial System-an Overview of Neoplasia’, brings us back to earth softly but certainly. In 1948, Willis stated ‘Nowhere in Pathology has a chaos of names so clouded clear
BOOK REVIEWS Industrial Toxicology, 3rd edition, ALICEHAMILTON & HARRIET L. HARDY. 1974. Publishing Sciences Group, Inc. Acton, Mass. : Sydney; Butterworths. 590 pp. US$20.00. It is appropriate that the third edition of this standard reference work by two acknowledged experts in a restricted field of medicine should be released in International Women’s Year. It is intended for physicians working in industrial medicine. Hopefully it will become known to other doctors and to medical students as a reference book of the common and some less common toxic agents and hazards to which many workers in industry may be exposed today. The first section deals with diagnosis and control of occupational disease and aspects of United States Workmen’s Compensation. The other eight sections cover the metals, chemical compounds, energy, dusts and biological hazards. The text is clearly presented with a subject heading on each page and with sub-headings in the generous margin. The metals are placed alphabetically for quick reference. The book is completed by 64 pages of bibliography and references, a glossary of terms used by worker-patients and an index. The inclusion of historical references provides an interesting picture of the development and changing patterns of industrial technology over the years. For example, mercury poisoning is traced from those cases which occurred in the Roman mines in Spain to those in the British police force from the use of mercury and chalk fingerprint powder. For clinical content the authors have used many references from case histories and anecdotes from their own experiences together with a comprehensive literature review, adequate references to biological and medical monitoring, toxic effects, treatment and control. Due emphasis is given to the changing patterns of occupational diseases and the comparative rarity today with which one is presented with the classical clinical picture. The highly technical field of industrial hygiene has not been included in this book. There will be few in the practice of occupational medicine who would fail to find this a very useful book. F. G . Rainsford
Lymphoproliferative Diseases, ed. D. W. MOLANDER. 1975. Charles C Thomas, Springfield, Illinois. 570 pp., illustrated. US$39.50. This handsomely produced, substantial and expensive volume fills a definite gap as it deals almost exclusively with the non-Hodgkins lymphomas, together, for good measure, with myelomatosis, sarcoidosis and histiocytosis X. Of the twenty-four contributors
BOOK R E V I E W S
175
some have produced authoritative chapters which could not be matched elsewhere ; examples are those by Tubiana, Laugier and Schlienger on radiotherapy, by Greenberg and Ariel on diagnosis with radioisotopes, by J. N. P. Davies on the pathology and diagnosis of Burkitt’s tumour and by Mannik on Waldenstrom’s macroglobulinaemia. The others, too, have on the whole done well, though there are curious omissions. Thus, in a book on lymphoproliferative diseases, one might have expected to find at least mention of the Mikulicz and the Sezary syndromes, and to have a rather extensive chapter on skin involvement without a single illustration seems strange, especially as most of the numerous figures in other chapters are excellent. The faults of the work are mainly those of a multi-author undertaking; lack of uniformity in style, duplications and occasional contradictions in adjacent chapters. Most serious is the lack of reference to recent results and ideas. With a few exceptions (notably in the radiotherapy chapter), quotations end in 1970 or at most 1971. Thus, the highly important immunological work of the past few years is not considered, and present-day thoughts on combination chemotherapy of lymphomas are only hinted at. There is an excellent subject index and a useful name index. The book is recommended for reference, especially in departmental and general medical libraries. F. W. Gunz
The Reticuloendothelial System. Internationa 4cademy of Pathology Monograph, eds JOHNW. REBUCK, COSTAN W. BERARD & MURRAY R. ABELL.1975. Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore. 328 pp., illustrated. A$31.OO. In this series of papers by an illustrious group of scientists, each of whom has made a substantial contribution to our understanding of reticuloendothelial system, we are given, as the editors state, a view from a ‘Temporary vantage point on a steep slope’. The practising surgical pathologist will be disappointed if he expects to find here the definitive answers to his daily diagnostic problems, there is, however, immense intellectual reward in browsing through it. Attempts to correlate the conventional tissue, cellular and subcellular pathology and virology with the biochemistry and immunology of the lymphoreticular system, together with the revolutionary concepts of the diverse morphological appearances assumed by lymphoid cells in response to different stimuli, introduce to us an apparently rational basis for reclassification of malignancy of the lymphoreticular system. At least half of the chapters are detailed accounts of the experimental studies of the contributions, much of the methodology of which lays the foundation of the second part of the book. Here we have such familiar names as Rappaport, Butler, Lukes, Dorfman, and others presenting an updated view of Hodgkin’s disease, the non-Hodgkin’s lymphomas, myocosis fungoides, and a rather limited approach, by Hartsock, of reactive lesions in lymph nodes. An excellent final chapter by Berard, ‘Reticulo-Endothelial System-an Overview of Neoplasia’, brings us back to earth softly but certainly. In 1948, Willis stated ‘Nowhere in Pathology has a chaos of names so clouded clear