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Clinical electrocardiography
318
AMERICAN
HEART
JOURNAL
LOW-SODIUM DIET. A MANUAL FOR THE PATIENT. 19.51, Lea & Febiger, 103 pages. Price $2.75.
By
Thurman
B. Rice,
M.D.
The ease with which physicians today prescribe for the innocent cardiac sodium diet or the so-called salt-free diet reminds one of the early days of diabetes. The low-fat high-carbohydrate, or the high-fat low-carbohydrate, victim in a maze of difficulties, and particularly was this so for the harassed to provide the diet either for herself or for another member of the family. It how this situation led to diabetic classes, associated with large diabetic clinics.
Philadelphia,
patient the dietary control diet left the housewife who is well known
lowof poor had to all
The present volume contains the wisdom which was derived, apparently, the hard way by one who was condemned to the rigid regime of the low-sodium diet. The author pays just tribute to the marvelous job which dietitians have done in devising adequate palatable diets with this restriction. However, this is only part of the task. What may be effective in a department of dietetics of an institution is hard to translate to the kitchen of a household. The author, a physician himself and also one who has taught dietetics, pays further tribute to the key person who has made his life comfortable, namely, his wife, who, he says, is an excellent and original cook. Therefore, this book records first-hand experience of the difficulties surrounding a saltfree diet and how to surmount them. It should be on the kitchen shelf in every household where such a diet is prescribed and, perhaps of more importance, between the book ends on the desk of every physician who prescribes this diet for his patients. J.C.M. ARZNEITHERAPIE Georg Thieme
DER HERZKRANKHEITEN. Verlag, 256 pages with
By Hans-Jurgen Oettel, M.D. 15 illustrations. Price DM 27.-.
The appearance of a volume devoted to the therapy This is particularly the case when it brings to the profession of thought from which we have been so long divorced.
of heart disease is always the outlook and experience
In the present book, the author deals with the pharmacology well as other drugs which affect the circulation in particular are then applied to specific disorders and are integrated with result therefrom. ances,
For the serious student this volume contains
of the therapy much information
Stuttgart,
1951, welcomed. of a school
of the digitalis glucosides as or in general. These principles the general disturbances which
of cardiac disease and and food for thought.
its related
functional
disturbJ.M.
DIE
ORALE STROPHANTHIN-BEHANDLUNG. Enke Verlag, 382 pages. -Price
The present has, unfortunately, honored position,
DM
By 21.-.
Dr.
Berthold
Kern.
Stuttgart,
concentration upon digitalis and its glucosides in the treatment practically excluded from our concept other drugs which such as squill and strophanthus.
1951,
Ferdinand
of heart have held
disease a time-
The author makes a special plea for the latter drug and supports this with many arguments and experimental evidence. Many of the former may be open to question, but, at the same time, That strophanthus has a place in the medical treatment they are well worthy of consideration. of cardiovascular disturbances cannot be lightly discarded. This volume in the treatment
is deserving of the attention of heart disease.
of those
who
wish
to broaden
qheir
field
of vision J.M.
CLINICAL ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY. Navy. New York, 1951, $5.00. ology
Thomas
By Ashton Nelson
Graybiel, & Sons,
Captain, 198 pages
Medical Corps, United with 140 illustrations.
During the past few years, there have appeared a number of publications dealing as a whole or restricted to some aspects of its study, and the electrocardiogram
States Price
with cardihas taken a
BOOK
REVIEWS
319
prominent place among the latter. The present volume deals with electrocardiography in a simple straightforward fashion. It is introduced by three chapters in which terminology, the meaning of the electrocardiogram, and, finally, the technique and procedure are covered. The remainder of the book is devoted to the electrocardiogram in healthy persons and alterations due to physiological causes and certain drugs. Also dealt with are the changes in the electrocardiogram which are supposed to be attributable to specific types of cardiac lesions, and this portion is concise and brings up to date, as far as is possible in a book of this compass, the factual information as it is accepted today. The author has provided a book of ready and simple information for those who are not students of this phase of cardiology and who find it difficult to keep abreast of its interpretation. J.M.
THE
1951 YEAR BOOK OF MEDICINE. Edited by Paul B. Beeson, M.D., M.D., William B. Castle, M.D., Tinsley R. Harrison, M.D., and George Chicago, 1951, Year Book Publishers, Inc., 690 pages. Price $5.00.
J. Burns Amberson, B. Eusterman, M.D.
The 1951 Year Book of Medicine continues to maintain the high standard set by its predecessors. The readers of this JOURNAL will be particularly interested in Part 4 which deals with the heart, the blood vessels, and the kidneys. In this section, there is a brief synopsis covering the more important publications during the past year on these subjects; therefore, it affords a predigested diet for the busy practitioner. For this reason, it fulfills a useful purpose. It is conspicuous, however, for its poverty of reference to publications outside of North America. If some of these could be included, the book would serve all the more to arouse curiosity and to inform readers as to the work which is being done by their colleagues in other countries. J.M.
AMERICAN
HEART
JOURNAL
LOW-SODIUM DIET. A MANUAL FOR THE PATIENT. 19.51, Lea & Febiger, 103 pages. Price $2.75.
By
Thurman
B. Rice,
M.D.
The ease with which physicians today prescribe for the innocent cardiac sodium diet or the so-called salt-free diet reminds one of the early days of diabetes. The low-fat high-carbohydrate, or the high-fat low-carbohydrate, victim in a maze of difficulties, and particularly was this so for the harassed to provide the diet either for herself or for another member of the family. It how this situation led to diabetic classes, associated with large diabetic clinics.
Philadelphia,
patient the dietary control diet left the housewife who is well known
lowof poor had to all
The present volume contains the wisdom which was derived, apparently, the hard way by one who was condemned to the rigid regime of the low-sodium diet. The author pays just tribute to the marvelous job which dietitians have done in devising adequate palatable diets with this restriction. However, this is only part of the task. What may be effective in a department of dietetics of an institution is hard to translate to the kitchen of a household. The author, a physician himself and also one who has taught dietetics, pays further tribute to the key person who has made his life comfortable, namely, his wife, who, he says, is an excellent and original cook. Therefore, this book records first-hand experience of the difficulties surrounding a saltfree diet and how to surmount them. It should be on the kitchen shelf in every household where such a diet is prescribed and, perhaps of more importance, between the book ends on the desk of every physician who prescribes this diet for his patients. J.C.M. ARZNEITHERAPIE Georg Thieme
DER HERZKRANKHEITEN. Verlag, 256 pages with
By Hans-Jurgen Oettel, M.D. 15 illustrations. Price DM 27.-.
The appearance of a volume devoted to the therapy This is particularly the case when it brings to the profession of thought from which we have been so long divorced.
of heart disease is always the outlook and experience
In the present book, the author deals with the pharmacology well as other drugs which affect the circulation in particular are then applied to specific disorders and are integrated with result therefrom. ances,
For the serious student this volume contains
of the therapy much information
Stuttgart,
1951, welcomed. of a school
of the digitalis glucosides as or in general. These principles the general disturbances which
of cardiac disease and and food for thought.
its related
functional
disturbJ.M.
DIE
ORALE STROPHANTHIN-BEHANDLUNG. Enke Verlag, 382 pages. -Price
The present has, unfortunately, honored position,
DM
By 21.-.
Dr.
Berthold
Kern.
Stuttgart,
concentration upon digitalis and its glucosides in the treatment practically excluded from our concept other drugs which such as squill and strophanthus.
1951,
Ferdinand
of heart have held
disease a time-
The author makes a special plea for the latter drug and supports this with many arguments and experimental evidence. Many of the former may be open to question, but, at the same time, That strophanthus has a place in the medical treatment they are well worthy of consideration. of cardiovascular disturbances cannot be lightly discarded. This volume in the treatment
is deserving of the attention of heart disease.
of those
who
wish
to broaden
qheir
field
of vision J.M.
CLINICAL ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY. Navy. New York, 1951, $5.00. ology
Thomas
By Ashton Nelson
Graybiel, & Sons,
Captain, 198 pages
Medical Corps, United with 140 illustrations.
During the past few years, there have appeared a number of publications dealing as a whole or restricted to some aspects of its study, and the electrocardiogram
States Price
with cardihas taken a
BOOK
REVIEWS
319
prominent place among the latter. The present volume deals with electrocardiography in a simple straightforward fashion. It is introduced by three chapters in which terminology, the meaning of the electrocardiogram, and, finally, the technique and procedure are covered. The remainder of the book is devoted to the electrocardiogram in healthy persons and alterations due to physiological causes and certain drugs. Also dealt with are the changes in the electrocardiogram which are supposed to be attributable to specific types of cardiac lesions, and this portion is concise and brings up to date, as far as is possible in a book of this compass, the factual information as it is accepted today. The author has provided a book of ready and simple information for those who are not students of this phase of cardiology and who find it difficult to keep abreast of its interpretation. J.M.
THE
1951 YEAR BOOK OF MEDICINE. Edited by Paul B. Beeson, M.D., M.D., William B. Castle, M.D., Tinsley R. Harrison, M.D., and George Chicago, 1951, Year Book Publishers, Inc., 690 pages. Price $5.00.
J. Burns Amberson, B. Eusterman, M.D.
The 1951 Year Book of Medicine continues to maintain the high standard set by its predecessors. The readers of this JOURNAL will be particularly interested in Part 4 which deals with the heart, the blood vessels, and the kidneys. In this section, there is a brief synopsis covering the more important publications during the past year on these subjects; therefore, it affords a predigested diet for the busy practitioner. For this reason, it fulfills a useful purpose. It is conspicuous, however, for its poverty of reference to publications outside of North America. If some of these could be included, the book would serve all the more to arouse curiosity and to inform readers as to the work which is being done by their colleagues in other countries. J.M.