Congestive heart failure

of the book. The bibliograph>. r~o~ltains 4.i.; citations. This book is well writtell and illustrated. It should be of considerable use to those interested in the subject.

C'WXSTlvI~ %AI, is included. The book is clearly written and eaq to read and should be of interest even though only a few selected aspects of congestive heart failure can be expected to be found in a 117-page book on such a complex subject. The reader will find many interesting things in the book but he cannot expect to become an expert on the subject if he limits his reading to this short monograph.

'~‘EXTHOOR OF MEDICAL PHYSIOLOGY. By Arthur C. Guyton, M.D., Professor and Chairman, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, IJniversity of Mississippi School of Medicine, ed. 3, Philadelphia, 1966, W. B. Saunders Company, 1210 pages. Price $16. ‘l‘his third edition of a good and simplitied book contains the necessary revisions to maintain an up-to-date textbook on physiology. The book is well written and nicely illustrated in a diagrammatic manner that is particularly useful to medical students and beginners in physiology. Dr. Guyton presents the fundamental principles of physiology clearly and accurately. The discussions are made simple in the interest of teaching. Obviously, the reader will find it necessary to study the medical literature carefully for detailed information of many of the complex physiologic phenomena which were oversimplified in the interest of teaching. Not only will medical students find the book useful, but so will all physicians in medicine who wish to maintain a clear knowledge of physiology. This book is recommended as one of the best in the field.

I'H.\1~~lAcOI.~~~,~ Oi iin.: (.‘OKI bs.ilt\ (‘rncl I.~r~r)h By Natalie \‘. K.,>\ er-ina, IIcad (.I the I.,ltior;tfor> of Cardiovasc.~~lat I’harrnac~~l~qy, J~lstitute /II I’harulacologl, a1111 C’hrmother~tp! of t hc :\c on peripheral control of the cardiac circulation, aud the third on the eflccth of pharmacologic agents. The well-knowrl agcuts are discusseci, and reports from Soviet as well as from other laboratories of the world 011 strldies of thcl actions of these q,cnts are included. Xs woulrl lye expected, thl:re i:, consirlcral,le difficulty ill extrapolating strldirs in c,?cpcrimcntal :lllimalx ttr mau with cor.Piologisth, :~nd clillirians will find this book co htt interestiqK :lucJ ,L fairI!. good brief summar>. of the prcascut stale of knowledge.

FIJNDAIMENTALS OF CLINICAL HEMATOLOGY. Byrd S. Leave11 and Oscar A. Thorup, second tion, Philadelphia, 1966, W. R. Saunders Co., pages. Price $12.50.

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'I‘HE CELL. AN ATLAS OF FINE: STI~UCTUHB, ITS ORCANELLES AND I~r,us~o~s. By Don W. F:iwrett, M.D., Philadelphia, lY66, m.. H. Saunders Co., 448 pages. Price $11. OZAENA. A MANIFESTATION OF Inoh- ~~FICIENCT. By Ivan Bernat, translated by bliss Esme Hadfield, Long Island, N. E’., 196.5, Pergamon Press, 1 16 pages. Price $5.