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Cancer and scientific research
NEW SERIES VOL. XII,
No. z
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a particular appeaI on account of its brevity. There are 627 pages with over 300 illustrations, covering the entire present-day course of study. ParticuIar mention shouId be made of the spIendid pIates accompanying the exceIIent chapter by Prof. Ha1 Downey of of the BIood.” MinneapoIis on “Diseases THE TREATMENT OF CHRONIC DEAFNESS BY THE ELECTROPHONOIDE METHOD OF ZUNDBURGUET. By George C. Cathcart, M.A., M.D. I I I pp. Ed. 2. Humphrey MiIford, Oxford Univ. Press, 193 I. The second edition comes to us with the following enthusiastic send-off by the author in his Preface: “I am of opinion from my own experience that unti1 some better form of treatment is invented or discovered no aural speciaIist can consider himseIf fuIIy equipped to undertake the treatment of chronic deafness unIess he has a Zund-Burguet eIectrophone.” Dr. Cathcart’s standing in the otoIogica1 worId is such that his opinion is entitIed to more The fact that than mere “consideration.” otoIogists are by no means a11 of one mind on this subject is indicated by the author’s quotations from reviews which criticize other books for recommending this method. The reviewer hesitates to express his own opinion on the subject matter but ventures to say that the book is so we11 written and presents its case so we11 that it is entitIed to a hearing by otoIogists so that they may form their own opinion as to the vaIue of the method. SURGERY. By Francis T. Stewart, M.D. and Waiter EsteII Lee, M.D., Ed. 6, 1307 Son & Co., Inc., pp. Phila., P. BIakiston’s ‘93’. This sixth edition of the weII-known Stewart and Lee’s “A ManuaI of Surgery” has been brought up-to-date by Dr. Lee. The author has had the advantage of having many chapters gone over by speciaIists so that proper seIection and evaIuation of the “new” in surgery has been made. The author’s hope “that this revision wiI1 be found to be conservative, safe and sound” wiI1 be found to have been fuIfiIIed. BIBLIOTHEQUE Du CANCER. CANCER DU PANCRIA. By H. Hartman & L. Berard, Directeurs, Dr. A. ChaIier Secretaire. 330 pp. Paris, Gaston Doin & Cie., 1931.
Reviews
American Journal of Surgery
339
This is the Iatest voIume of the “BibIiotheque Du Cancer” edited by professors Ch. OberIing & M. Guerin. A 330 page monograph on Cancer of the Pancreas wiI1 of course be of interest to the speciaIist. The subject is thoroughIy treated and we11 iIIustrated. There is a bibliography of over 30 pages. There is aIso a tabIe of contents but no index. PYE’S SURGICAL HANDICRAFT. BY H. W. Carson, F.R.C.S. Ed. IO, 641 pp. N. Y., WiIIiam Wood & Co., 193 I. The tenth edition of the revision of Pye’s “Surgical Handicraft” was put into the abIe hands of Dr. W. H. Carson, who died before the compIetion of the work. However, as indicated in the publisher’s preface, he lived to see every page of the MS. leaving only the Preface to be written. Many of the oIder surgeons wiI1 remember Pye’s ManuaI from their coIIege days. Revised by Carson, the book is today as practica1 as ever. DIE CHIRURGIE Urban. 85pp.,Leipzig,
DES KROPFES. By Karl Franz Deuticke, 193I.
In a monograph of 85 pages the author presents his technique on goiter operations, based on over thirty years’ experience, and over 4000 cases. A work based on such experience always makes interesting reading, even though American surgeons wiI1 not be incIined to agree with a11 the methods of the author. There are over 40 spIendid iIIustrations in this smaI1 voIume. CANCER AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH. By Barbara HoImes, PH.D. (Cantab.), 158 pp. London, SheIdon Press, 193 I. A short and interesting eIementry treatise of 158 pages. It is not intended for the cancer specialist or trained physician. To the beginning student and scientificaIIy incIined Iayman, the book wiI1 furnish an exceIIent introduction to the subject. It is one of the voIumes published in the series “SheIdon Books of PopuIar Science.” DIE
CHIRURGIE DES By Erich Staatsverlag, 1930.
VENSYSTEMS.
VEGATIVEN
Hesse.
NER-
Moscow,
This book is pubIished in Moscow and Leningrad by “StaatsverIag,” presumably, therefore, by the Soviet Government.
No. z
Book
a particular appeaI on account of its brevity. There are 627 pages with over 300 illustrations, covering the entire present-day course of study. ParticuIar mention shouId be made of the spIendid pIates accompanying the exceIIent chapter by Prof. Ha1 Downey of of the BIood.” MinneapoIis on “Diseases THE TREATMENT OF CHRONIC DEAFNESS BY THE ELECTROPHONOIDE METHOD OF ZUNDBURGUET. By George C. Cathcart, M.A., M.D. I I I pp. Ed. 2. Humphrey MiIford, Oxford Univ. Press, 193 I. The second edition comes to us with the following enthusiastic send-off by the author in his Preface: “I am of opinion from my own experience that unti1 some better form of treatment is invented or discovered no aural speciaIist can consider himseIf fuIIy equipped to undertake the treatment of chronic deafness unIess he has a Zund-Burguet eIectrophone.” Dr. Cathcart’s standing in the otoIogica1 worId is such that his opinion is entitIed to more The fact that than mere “consideration.” otoIogists are by no means a11 of one mind on this subject is indicated by the author’s quotations from reviews which criticize other books for recommending this method. The reviewer hesitates to express his own opinion on the subject matter but ventures to say that the book is so we11 written and presents its case so we11 that it is entitIed to a hearing by otoIogists so that they may form their own opinion as to the vaIue of the method. SURGERY. By Francis T. Stewart, M.D. and Waiter EsteII Lee, M.D., Ed. 6, 1307 Son & Co., Inc., pp. Phila., P. BIakiston’s ‘93’. This sixth edition of the weII-known Stewart and Lee’s “A ManuaI of Surgery” has been brought up-to-date by Dr. Lee. The author has had the advantage of having many chapters gone over by speciaIists so that proper seIection and evaIuation of the “new” in surgery has been made. The author’s hope “that this revision wiI1 be found to be conservative, safe and sound” wiI1 be found to have been fuIfiIIed. BIBLIOTHEQUE Du CANCER. CANCER DU PANCRIA. By H. Hartman & L. Berard, Directeurs, Dr. A. ChaIier Secretaire. 330 pp. Paris, Gaston Doin & Cie., 1931.
Reviews
American Journal of Surgery
339
This is the Iatest voIume of the “BibIiotheque Du Cancer” edited by professors Ch. OberIing & M. Guerin. A 330 page monograph on Cancer of the Pancreas wiI1 of course be of interest to the speciaIist. The subject is thoroughIy treated and we11 iIIustrated. There is a bibliography of over 30 pages. There is aIso a tabIe of contents but no index. PYE’S SURGICAL HANDICRAFT. BY H. W. Carson, F.R.C.S. Ed. IO, 641 pp. N. Y., WiIIiam Wood & Co., 193 I. The tenth edition of the revision of Pye’s “Surgical Handicraft” was put into the abIe hands of Dr. W. H. Carson, who died before the compIetion of the work. However, as indicated in the publisher’s preface, he lived to see every page of the MS. leaving only the Preface to be written. Many of the oIder surgeons wiI1 remember Pye’s ManuaI from their coIIege days. Revised by Carson, the book is today as practica1 as ever. DIE CHIRURGIE Urban. 85pp.,Leipzig,
DES KROPFES. By Karl Franz Deuticke, 193I.
In a monograph of 85 pages the author presents his technique on goiter operations, based on over thirty years’ experience, and over 4000 cases. A work based on such experience always makes interesting reading, even though American surgeons wiI1 not be incIined to agree with a11 the methods of the author. There are over 40 spIendid iIIustrations in this smaI1 voIume. CANCER AND SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH. By Barbara HoImes, PH.D. (Cantab.), 158 pp. London, SheIdon Press, 193 I. A short and interesting eIementry treatise of 158 pages. It is not intended for the cancer specialist or trained physician. To the beginning student and scientificaIIy incIined Iayman, the book wiI1 furnish an exceIIent introduction to the subject. It is one of the voIumes published in the series “SheIdon Books of PopuIar Science.” DIE
CHIRURGIE DES By Erich Staatsverlag, 1930.
VENSYSTEMS.
VEGATIVEN
Hesse.
NER-
Moscow,
This book is pubIished in Moscow and Leningrad by “StaatsverIag,” presumably, therefore, by the Soviet Government.