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American Journal of Surgery
Book
Reviews
UROLOGICAL ROENTGENOLOGY. A Roentgen AtIas of The Genitourinary Tract with Case Histories and an OutIine of UroIogy in Its Relations to Roentgenology. By Hugh H. Young, M.D., and CharIes A. Waters, M.D., Assisted by Mary A. GoIdthwaite. 111~s. by WiIIiam P. Didusch. Ed. 2 Revised. New York, PauI B. Hoeber, Inc., 1931. This magnificent work of some 500 pages and some 600 illustrations forms VoIume 7 of the well known series of monographic atIases in roentgenology edited by James T. Case. In a11 propriety it can be designated a monumenta work, both because of its conspicuous supremacy as a text and atIas in urologica roentgenoIogy and because it stands as a veritable monument to the cIinic from which it emanates. The book serves essentiaIIy a twofold purpose. First, it brings to the reader practicaIIy everything in the way of a post-graduate course in urologica roentgenoIogy that is possibIe through the medium of words, photographs and sketches. IncidentaIIy, much of the text extends to considerations quite outside the scope of roentgenology, though the cIose reIationship is ever obvious. Again incidentaIIy, its medium of photographs makes of the course provided by this book one pecuIiarIy cIose to a persona1 course since roentgenoIogy is, after aI1, primariIy a study of photographs. Second, the book is a diagnostic reference guide, to which one might turn as readiIy and aImost as profitabIy as to a persona1 consuItation with the authors. This feature is especiaIIy faciIitated by the diagnostic index to case histories. Here one can find numerous histories and a weaIth of data on cases similar to any particuIar case of his own that may present certain diagnostic puzzIes. The division of subjects into chapters is as follows: technica considerations; norma IandnormaI measurements and norma marks, functiona findings; renaI anomaIies; obstructive conditions; infections; tuberculosis, Iithiasis; tumors; traumatisms and foreign bodies; neuroIogica1 disorders; intravenous urography; arteriography; recent progress in technique. The case histories are so concise, so limited to essentiaIs, and so much use is made of we11 understood abbreviations that the histories have been very convenientIy pIaced SO as to fiI1 about one-third of a page at the bottom of each illustration.
One of the finest features of the book is the superb art of Mr. WiIIiam Didusch, who has contributed the sketches and coIored pIates. A view of Mr. Didusch’s work makes quickIy apparent the reason why he is so generaIIy esteemed as having no peer in America in this field of art.
DISEASES OF THE GUMS AND ORAL Mucous MEMBRANE. By Sir Kenneth Goadby, K.B.E., M.R.c.s., L.R.c.P., D.P.H. Oxford Univ. Press, 193 I, 496 pp. The author in his Preface points out that at the time of the pubIication of the first edition “ foca1 infection as the origin of serious disease was regarded as academic, though interesting.” And he adds the folIowing statement which should be indeIibIy inscribed in the memory of every physician and surgeon: “Now foca1 sepsis is bIamed for we11 nigh every variety of affection. The truth Iies between the two extremes.” To emphasize the point, the author cites cases throughout the voIume showing the danger of drawing concIusions based on incompIete investigations. It is probabIy too much to expect every surgeon to study in detai1 a voIume like this, but those who read it and digest its contents wiI1 find themseIves better practitioners as a resuIt. We consider this book one of the cIassics of present-day medica Iiterature. AIDS TO SURGICAL ANATOMY. By Richard H. Hunter, M.D., M.CH., PH.D. New York, William Wood, 1931, 184 pp. This book is quite up to the standard set by the other voIumes of the Students’ Aids Series and may be recommended for a rapid survey preparatory to examination.
MODERN PROCTOLOGY. By Marion C. Pruitt, M.D., L.R.c.P., s. (Ed.), F.A.C.S. St. Louis, Mosby, 1931, 404 pp. The author, Iike most proctologists, feeIs that the practitioner is incIined to treat diseases of the anus, ana cana1, and rectum too lightly, and he has in a IittIe over four hundred pages set forth the detaiIs he considers necessary for them to handIe these cases properly. Of course, the book is too smaI1 and superIiciaI for the speciaIist. For the genera1 practitioner, it covers the ground fairIy well.
American Journal of Surgery
Book
Reviews
UROLOGICAL ROENTGENOLOGY. A Roentgen AtIas of The Genitourinary Tract with Case Histories and an OutIine of UroIogy in Its Relations to Roentgenology. By Hugh H. Young, M.D., and CharIes A. Waters, M.D., Assisted by Mary A. GoIdthwaite. 111~s. by WiIIiam P. Didusch. Ed. 2 Revised. New York, PauI B. Hoeber, Inc., 1931. This magnificent work of some 500 pages and some 600 illustrations forms VoIume 7 of the well known series of monographic atIases in roentgenology edited by James T. Case. In a11 propriety it can be designated a monumenta work, both because of its conspicuous supremacy as a text and atIas in urologica roentgenoIogy and because it stands as a veritable monument to the cIinic from which it emanates. The book serves essentiaIIy a twofold purpose. First, it brings to the reader practicaIIy everything in the way of a post-graduate course in urologica roentgenoIogy that is possibIe through the medium of words, photographs and sketches. IncidentaIIy, much of the text extends to considerations quite outside the scope of roentgenology, though the cIose reIationship is ever obvious. Again incidentaIIy, its medium of photographs makes of the course provided by this book one pecuIiarIy cIose to a persona1 course since roentgenoIogy is, after aI1, primariIy a study of photographs. Second, the book is a diagnostic reference guide, to which one might turn as readiIy and aImost as profitabIy as to a persona1 consuItation with the authors. This feature is especiaIIy faciIitated by the diagnostic index to case histories. Here one can find numerous histories and a weaIth of data on cases similar to any particuIar case of his own that may present certain diagnostic puzzIes. The division of subjects into chapters is as follows: technica considerations; norma IandnormaI measurements and norma marks, functiona findings; renaI anomaIies; obstructive conditions; infections; tuberculosis, Iithiasis; tumors; traumatisms and foreign bodies; neuroIogica1 disorders; intravenous urography; arteriography; recent progress in technique. The case histories are so concise, so limited to essentiaIs, and so much use is made of we11 understood abbreviations that the histories have been very convenientIy pIaced SO as to fiI1 about one-third of a page at the bottom of each illustration.
One of the finest features of the book is the superb art of Mr. WiIIiam Didusch, who has contributed the sketches and coIored pIates. A view of Mr. Didusch’s work makes quickIy apparent the reason why he is so generaIIy esteemed as having no peer in America in this field of art.
DISEASES OF THE GUMS AND ORAL Mucous MEMBRANE. By Sir Kenneth Goadby, K.B.E., M.R.c.s., L.R.c.P., D.P.H. Oxford Univ. Press, 193 I, 496 pp. The author in his Preface points out that at the time of the pubIication of the first edition “ foca1 infection as the origin of serious disease was regarded as academic, though interesting.” And he adds the folIowing statement which should be indeIibIy inscribed in the memory of every physician and surgeon: “Now foca1 sepsis is bIamed for we11 nigh every variety of affection. The truth Iies between the two extremes.” To emphasize the point, the author cites cases throughout the voIume showing the danger of drawing concIusions based on incompIete investigations. It is probabIy too much to expect every surgeon to study in detai1 a voIume like this, but those who read it and digest its contents wiI1 find themseIves better practitioners as a resuIt. We consider this book one of the cIassics of present-day medica Iiterature. AIDS TO SURGICAL ANATOMY. By Richard H. Hunter, M.D., M.CH., PH.D. New York, William Wood, 1931, 184 pp. This book is quite up to the standard set by the other voIumes of the Students’ Aids Series and may be recommended for a rapid survey preparatory to examination.
MODERN PROCTOLOGY. By Marion C. Pruitt, M.D., L.R.c.P., s. (Ed.), F.A.C.S. St. Louis, Mosby, 1931, 404 pp. The author, Iike most proctologists, feeIs that the practitioner is incIined to treat diseases of the anus, ana cana1, and rectum too lightly, and he has in a IittIe over four hundred pages set forth the detaiIs he considers necessary for them to handIe these cases properly. Of course, the book is too smaI1 and superIiciaI for the speciaIist. For the genera1 practitioner, it covers the ground fairIy well.