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Snyopsis of Physiology by ::Yiain13 is offered as a text for review purposes. While it covers an enormous field, it makes no pretention to hit more than the high spots. In order to accomplish this, the author has confined himself to data applicable only to the human race. He has cut out all debatable material and confesses that tho book is dogmatic. Brief mention of some physiological disturbances in disease, however, is included. Enormous range and the compactness of the synopsis makes detailed review quite impossible. However, it may be said that for anyone acquainted with the basic facts of physiology this text is of utmost value for review purposes or refresher. The information is ac· curate and detailed, well up to date. R. T, FRANK. Cornell Conferences on Therapy (Volume I) 14 is a forum in which pharmacologic and practical therapeutic problems are discussed informally. The fifteen contributions have appeared either in the Jou1·nal of the American Medical Association or in the New York State Journal of ltle.rlicine between 1942 and 1945. Very pertinent and practical questions are discussed, such as the ''use and abuse of bed rest''; ''treatment of heart failure''; ''management of abdominal distention''; ''the Rh factor in therapy.'' The book is well worth attention. R. T. FRANK. The author, in this 8hort monograph,l-' presents a concise epitome of what is the presHe has gathered the extensive and widely scattered ent concept of essential literature, weeded out the nonessential, and gives the important facts only. that the characHe emphasizes the fact that the disease affects the whole vascular teristic lesion is a diffuse hyperplastic sclerosis of the arterioles. Clinically, the majority of cases are slow but prog-ressive, the malignant variety being uncommon. The various modes of therapy are described. The monograph is well put together and well illustrated. R. T. FRANK. 'l'his new book, Preventive Medicine and Public l:Iealth,1s is offered to introduce medical students to a new point of view in medical education; that the physician in practice in a community has a responsibility of preventing illness not only among his own patients but in the community. The author regards preventive medicine as an essential part of a physician's clinical practice. He briefly discusses environmental sanitation, gives a more extended discussion of communicable diseases, which is community public health, then proceeds and adult health protection and promotion. In these ch!tpt,ers to the subject of child there are excellent discussions of the development of child health protection, including rna· cancer, hypertension, and allerl;;tes. ternal care, and such individual problems as mental In the ~ection on public health administration there are two chapters which merit attention; "adequacy of medical care," and a "national medical care program." The author is not at all biased in his analysis of the various studies that have been made, and he feels that medieal eare programs should be developed locally, according to the needs of each community, and spread upward rather than being directed from a central source. PHILIP F. WILLIAMS.
"Synopsis of Physiology, By Rolland J. Main, Ph.D .. Professor of Physiology, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond. Illustrated. 341 pages. The C. V. Mosby Company, St. Lo,uis. 1946. 14Cornell Conferences on 'rherapy, Volume One. Edited by Harry Gold, M.D., Managing Editor; David P. Barr, M.D.; Eugene .F. DuBois, M.D.; McKeen Cattell, M.D,; Ch~.rles H. Wheeler, M.D. 322 pages. The Maemillan Company, New York. 1946. tsAn Introduction to Essential Hypertension. By Richard F. Herndon, M.D.. F.A.C.P. 88 pages. Charles C Thomas, Springfield. Illinois, 1946. '"Preventive Illedicine and Public Health. By :Wilson G. Smillie, Professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Cornell University Medical College. 584 pages, illustrated. The Macmillan Company, New York. 1946.
Snyopsis of Physiology by ::Yiain13 is offered as a text for review purposes. While it covers an enormous field, it makes no pretention to hit more than the high spots. In order to accomplish this, the author has confined himself to data applicable only to the human race. He has cut out all debatable material and confesses that tho book is dogmatic. Brief mention of some physiological disturbances in disease, however, is included. Enormous range and the compactness of the synopsis makes detailed review quite impossible. However, it may be said that for anyone acquainted with the basic facts of physiology this text is of utmost value for review purposes or refresher. The information is ac· curate and detailed, well up to date. R. T, FRANK. Cornell Conferences on Therapy (Volume I) 14 is a forum in which pharmacologic and practical therapeutic problems are discussed informally. The fifteen contributions have appeared either in the Jou1·nal of the American Medical Association or in the New York State Journal of ltle.rlicine between 1942 and 1945. Very pertinent and practical questions are discussed, such as the ''use and abuse of bed rest''; ''treatment of heart failure''; ''management of abdominal distention''; ''the Rh factor in therapy.'' The book is well worth attention. R. T. FRANK. The author, in this 8hort monograph,l-' presents a concise epitome of what is the presHe has gathered the extensive and widely scattered ent concept of essential literature, weeded out the nonessential, and gives the important facts only. that the characHe emphasizes the fact that the disease affects the whole vascular teristic lesion is a diffuse hyperplastic sclerosis of the arterioles. Clinically, the majority of cases are slow but prog-ressive, the malignant variety being uncommon. The various modes of therapy are described. The monograph is well put together and well illustrated. R. T. FRANK. 'l'his new book, Preventive Medicine and Public l:Iealth,1s is offered to introduce medical students to a new point of view in medical education; that the physician in practice in a community has a responsibility of preventing illness not only among his own patients but in the community. The author regards preventive medicine as an essential part of a physician's clinical practice. He briefly discusses environmental sanitation, gives a more extended discussion of communicable diseases, which is community public health, then proceeds and adult health protection and promotion. In these ch!tpt,ers to the subject of child there are excellent discussions of the development of child health protection, including rna· cancer, hypertension, and allerl;;tes. ternal care, and such individual problems as mental In the ~ection on public health administration there are two chapters which merit attention; "adequacy of medical care," and a "national medical care program." The author is not at all biased in his analysis of the various studies that have been made, and he feels that medieal eare programs should be developed locally, according to the needs of each community, and spread upward rather than being directed from a central source. PHILIP F. WILLIAMS.
"Synopsis of Physiology, By Rolland J. Main, Ph.D .. Professor of Physiology, Medical College of Virginia, Richmond. Illustrated. 341 pages. The C. V. Mosby Company, St. Lo,uis. 1946. 14Cornell Conferences on 'rherapy, Volume One. Edited by Harry Gold, M.D., Managing Editor; David P. Barr, M.D.; Eugene .F. DuBois, M.D.; McKeen Cattell, M.D,; Ch~.rles H. Wheeler, M.D. 322 pages. The Maemillan Company, New York. 1946. tsAn Introduction to Essential Hypertension. By Richard F. Herndon, M.D.. F.A.C.P. 88 pages. Charles C Thomas, Springfield. Illinois, 1946. '"Preventive Illedicine and Public Health. By :Wilson G. Smillie, Professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Cornell University Medical College. 584 pages, illustrated. The Macmillan Company, New York. 1946.