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Chronic nasal sinusitis and its relation to general medicine
166
American
Journal
Book
of Surgery
Just as the Iayman wil1 get medica thought in understandabIe form from these pages, so wiI1 the physician himseIf (a Iaymen on so many subjects) get just what he needs aIong other Iines. In fact, a whoIe course, on any subject is avaiIabIe in these volumes. The high spots are we11 treated and the bibliographies are such that further reference is made easy. The Britannica is in reaIity a “mirror of universa1 knowledge,” and as an index to the cuIture and literature of the worId, wiI1 be found worthwhiIe in every home and offrce. BURNS. By George T. Pack, M.D., and A. Hobson Davis, M.D. 370 pp., 60 iIlus., PhiIa., Lippincott, 1930. An interesting and thorough discussion of burns based, as the authors state, not onIy on “persona1 experiences but aIso a free anaIysis of the contributions and opinions of other cIinicians and investigators.” For practica1 purposes this book is perhaps too detaiIed and elaborate but for reference it shouId be found invaIuabIe. CHRONIC NASAL SINUSITIS AND RELATION TO GENERAL MEDICINE.
ITS By
Patrick Watson-WiIIiams, 238 pp., log iIIus., New York, WiIliam Wood & Co., 1930. A splendid and compIete monograph covering a subject of increasing importance. WhiIe the subject is primariIy of interest to the nose and throat speciaIist, this voIume shouId do much to give the genera1 surgeon the information on this subject which he requires. SpIendidIy ihustrated and we11 indexed, the volume wiI1 be found an exceIIent work of reference. CONGENITAL CLUB-FOOT. Brockman, M.CHIR., F.R.C.S.
illus., New York, William
By E. 20 pp.,
Wood,
P.
g2
1930.
“The work upon which this monograph is based was carried out in the Orthopaedic Department of St. Thomas’s Hospital, London, whilst the author was working there as Chief Assistant. It was awarded The Robert Jones GoId MedaI for 1928, given by The British Orthopaedic Association.” As might be expected from a prize-winning monograph, the subject is compIeteIy covered and the iIIustrations are spIendid. It is unfortunate that there is no index.
Reviews ULTRAVIOLET RADIATIONS AND THEIR USES. By Robert Aitken, M.D., F.R.C.P.E. With a Foreword by Sir Norman WaIker. OIiver and 200 pp., 13 iIIus. Edinburgh, Boyd, 1930. The author presents in 200 pages the experience of seventeen years in uItravioIet radiation therapy. He has had a Iong experience in treatment by radiation and other methods of many conditions in which the use of radiation has been urged by some writers “whose enthusiasm outruns judgment.” UItravioIet therapy has been recommended for many diseases which it offers very IittIe IikeIihood of heIp, as for instance in the treatment of scabies. The author’s chief aim in this book evidentIy has been to adhere strictly to the practica1 benefits of light therapy. The fina chapter in&ides a very interesting discussion of radiation in dentistry and commerce. The abuses of radiations are treated a11 too briefly, considering the rather extravagant cIaims which have been made. Many writers have said that uItravioIet radiation is beneficia1 in most skin Iesions, some going so far as to remark that radiations are usefu1 in the treatment of skin diseases from A to Z (acne to zoster). DermatoIogists do not make this cIaim. Numerous photographs iIIustrate the vaIue of the author’s teaching. Many practica1 hints are described to facilitate the appIication of uItravioIet radiation in various diseases. DIE CHIRURGIE. Pt. 27. Eine zusammenfassende DarsteIIung der aIIgemeinen und der spezieIIen Chirurgie. By Prof. Dr. M. Kirschner and Prof. Dr. 0. Nordmann. 223 pp., 170 iIIus., BerIin, Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1930. The twenty-seventh part of “Die Chirurgie,” edited by Prof. Dr. Kirschner and Prof. Dr. Nordmann, contains over two hundred pages devoted to surgery of the spinal cord by Heymann. Like the other parts of this System of Surgery, it is we11 written, we11 iIIustrated and up-to-date. With the compIetion of the work, German-reading surgeons wiI1 have at their disposal an incomparable series of monographs on the surgery of today.
American
Journal
Book
of Surgery
Just as the Iayman wil1 get medica thought in understandabIe form from these pages, so wiI1 the physician himseIf (a Iaymen on so many subjects) get just what he needs aIong other Iines. In fact, a whoIe course, on any subject is avaiIabIe in these volumes. The high spots are we11 treated and the bibliographies are such that further reference is made easy. The Britannica is in reaIity a “mirror of universa1 knowledge,” and as an index to the cuIture and literature of the worId, wiI1 be found worthwhiIe in every home and offrce. BURNS. By George T. Pack, M.D., and A. Hobson Davis, M.D. 370 pp., 60 iIlus., PhiIa., Lippincott, 1930. An interesting and thorough discussion of burns based, as the authors state, not onIy on “persona1 experiences but aIso a free anaIysis of the contributions and opinions of other cIinicians and investigators.” For practica1 purposes this book is perhaps too detaiIed and elaborate but for reference it shouId be found invaIuabIe. CHRONIC NASAL SINUSITIS AND RELATION TO GENERAL MEDICINE.
ITS By
Patrick Watson-WiIIiams, 238 pp., log iIIus., New York, WiIliam Wood & Co., 1930. A splendid and compIete monograph covering a subject of increasing importance. WhiIe the subject is primariIy of interest to the nose and throat speciaIist, this voIume shouId do much to give the genera1 surgeon the information on this subject which he requires. SpIendidIy ihustrated and we11 indexed, the volume wiI1 be found an exceIIent work of reference. CONGENITAL CLUB-FOOT. Brockman, M.CHIR., F.R.C.S.
illus., New York, William
By E. 20 pp.,
Wood,
P.
g2
1930.
“The work upon which this monograph is based was carried out in the Orthopaedic Department of St. Thomas’s Hospital, London, whilst the author was working there as Chief Assistant. It was awarded The Robert Jones GoId MedaI for 1928, given by The British Orthopaedic Association.” As might be expected from a prize-winning monograph, the subject is compIeteIy covered and the iIIustrations are spIendid. It is unfortunate that there is no index.
Reviews ULTRAVIOLET RADIATIONS AND THEIR USES. By Robert Aitken, M.D., F.R.C.P.E. With a Foreword by Sir Norman WaIker. OIiver and 200 pp., 13 iIIus. Edinburgh, Boyd, 1930. The author presents in 200 pages the experience of seventeen years in uItravioIet radiation therapy. He has had a Iong experience in treatment by radiation and other methods of many conditions in which the use of radiation has been urged by some writers “whose enthusiasm outruns judgment.” UItravioIet therapy has been recommended for many diseases which it offers very IittIe IikeIihood of heIp, as for instance in the treatment of scabies. The author’s chief aim in this book evidentIy has been to adhere strictly to the practica1 benefits of light therapy. The fina chapter in&ides a very interesting discussion of radiation in dentistry and commerce. The abuses of radiations are treated a11 too briefly, considering the rather extravagant cIaims which have been made. Many writers have said that uItravioIet radiation is beneficia1 in most skin Iesions, some going so far as to remark that radiations are usefu1 in the treatment of skin diseases from A to Z (acne to zoster). DermatoIogists do not make this cIaim. Numerous photographs iIIustrate the vaIue of the author’s teaching. Many practica1 hints are described to facilitate the appIication of uItravioIet radiation in various diseases. DIE CHIRURGIE. Pt. 27. Eine zusammenfassende DarsteIIung der aIIgemeinen und der spezieIIen Chirurgie. By Prof. Dr. M. Kirschner and Prof. Dr. 0. Nordmann. 223 pp., 170 iIIus., BerIin, Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1930. The twenty-seventh part of “Die Chirurgie,” edited by Prof. Dr. Kirschner and Prof. Dr. Nordmann, contains over two hundred pages devoted to surgery of the spinal cord by Heymann. Like the other parts of this System of Surgery, it is we11 written, we11 iIIustrated and up-to-date. With the compIetion of the work, German-reading surgeons wiI1 have at their disposal an incomparable series of monographs on the surgery of today.