A manual on cardiac resuscitation, ed. 2

Book to his experiments from normal possibility the

with lipoproteins

and atheromatous

of finding

blood

of patients

women other

and

aortas,

the abnormal with

sclerosis. The two final chapters, Petermann

with carcinoma

coronary

L. in

by Dr. Jessie Marmorston hormone

infarction,

are of particular

the clearly

shown relationship

excretion

addition,

Petermann’s

because

between

the type

both in health

namely,

and associates

interest

of lipoprotein touches

the relationship

the

of lipoprotein

practicing

physician

by the expense

the fact that as much, relative

to

gleaned

from

thus

conclude

feel that

is limited

not

to only

but also by can

determination

research

be

of the

advances

lipoprotein

field have not yet produced

applicable

to clinical

It could therefore

practice

in the technics

to any degree.

be argued that this symposium

serves no purpose,

at least as far as satisfying

the stated objective

of the series and, therefore,

has

little

reason

to

be

published

from

proteins

determination

will certainly

in the future, provides

fields

lipo-

more widespread of this type

report in a field which will

to a much As

Dr.

is

charged

of science

greater

Mann

of the book:

research

the

provide technics that will be clinically

applicable present.

become

a symposium

an interim

eventually

chapter

and

of

degree

states

in

than the

at first

athero-

Ill.,

Resuscitation,

Hosler.

Thomas,

ed. 2,

Springfield,

1958, pp. 208, $4.00.

This

manual

on cardiac

revised and enlarged on the

same

resuscitation

edition

subject.

the practical

In

is a

of an earlier no sense

terrifying

methods

emergency

work

does

this

physician,

the surgeon,

The

a number

can

a

confront

the

or the anesthetist.

It

treatise on the subject.

book is exceptionally

contains

to

for combating

which

well organized

of practical

and

summary

tables

that can be very useful to anyone using the work for teaching. One

of the

most

interesting

features

discussion of the course in Cardiac given

by Dr.

Hosler

is no doubt by having research has

that

because

amount

this course.

any physician

this volume

received,

at hand

it concerns

up

until

of attention

is a

Resuscitation

et al. and the follow-up

case reports of those taking

There

could

benefit

for study- and

a subject

lately,

not

which

nearly

the

that it deserves. LOUIS F. BISHOP,

Advances

in Electrocardiography,

Charles E. Kossmann.

M.D.

York,

This book consists of a series of lectures given by members of the staff of New York University. It is divided into four parts:

Part I: The source of the electrical potential of brane action potential

unpleasant

and diversionary,

may yet be useful

because it spurs the search for new data.” The book will be of value to all those interested in the field of lipids and lipoprotein metabolism,

b!-

New

1958, pp. 280, $9.75.

controversy.

Few a diversity of

edited

Grune & Stratton,

with

reached from a single body of data. and contention, while sometimes

1959

on Cardiac M.

the heart is described

conclusions This heat

FEBRUARY.

A Manual by Robert

area of lipoprotein such

serum

coronary

sclerosis and other diseases. LOUIS E. SCHAFFER, M.D.

“The

contain

of

this

standpoint. Nevertheless,

relationship

of the human

development

is in no sense an exhaustive

Those who so believe would

that

these components

the

the

present

of lipo-

atherosclerosis

a simple

serum cholesterol.

to

on

if not more, information

coronary

between and

\.vith regard

work claim to be any more than a handbook

determination

of the procedure,

particularly-

In

become of increasing

proteins to the malignant state. Rfost authorities on lipid metabolism the usefulness

of

the sex

and disease.

chapter

a field which will certainly

and the

after myocardial

in the serum,

importance;

athero-

of the breast,

and

in

on lipoproteins

on steroid

Dr.

and the

fractions

one by Dr. Mary

associates

of the individual

extracted

269

Reviews

in terms of the transmemproduced

by the excess of

ionic flux of sodium into the cell.

Part ZZ: Problems conducting described.

medium Among

arising

in relation

surrounding

to the

the heart

the subjects covered

are

are the

concept of image space, lead vectors, Burger’s triangle, and the lead field concept of McFee and Johnston. Problems of vectorcardiography are