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Endocrinologia de la mujer
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BOOK REVIEWS
Am. J. Ob". & Gynec. September, 1957
Endocrinologia. de la mujer. By Jose Botella Llusia. Second edition, 780 pages, GGO figures. Barcelona, 1956, Editorial Cien tifico ~,1:eUica. A most extensive work in the field of female endocrinology, this book consists of forty chapters arranged in ten major sections. The author opens the book with an introductory chapter followed by sections on: the sex hormones, extragonadal factors which govern sexuality, the sexual cycle, the evolution of sex, pregnancy, labor, and puerperium, endocrine syndromes with effects on sex, pathology o:f the evolution of sex, endocrinological investigation of a patient, ovarian syndromes, enrlocrinological pathology of pregnancy, and an appendix: on the endocrine basis of genital tumorigenesis. As can be seen from the above titles, the entire subject is covere
The Queen Charlotte's Text-Book of Obstetrics. Edited by G. F. Gibberd et al. Ninth e
Neonatal Surgery. By Peter Paul Rickham. 'rhe Commonwealth Fund. 93 pages. Boston, 1957, Harvard University Press. The detailed results of painstakingly thorough metabolic studies in 9 neonatal surgical patients are presented. The studies are analyzed in detail and discussed against a back· ground of the literature on similar studies in adults and older children. The book should be of the greatest interest to pediatricians and pediatric surgeons. Clinical studies in 9 cases which are each unlike the other do not form a basis for a final assessment of the metabolic problems involved. There does appear to be some consistent difference between the responses of newborn infants to surgery and the responses of children more than 2 or 3 weeks old. The most obvious difference is in the potassium metabolism, the newborn infants losing no more potassium than can be accounted for by their starvation, and apparently losing little or no potassium as the result of the trauma of the particular operations studied.
BOOK REVIEWS
Am. J. Ob". & Gynec. September, 1957
Endocrinologia. de la mujer. By Jose Botella Llusia. Second edition, 780 pages, GGO figures. Barcelona, 1956, Editorial Cien tifico ~,1:eUica. A most extensive work in the field of female endocrinology, this book consists of forty chapters arranged in ten major sections. The author opens the book with an introductory chapter followed by sections on: the sex hormones, extragonadal factors which govern sexuality, the sexual cycle, the evolution of sex, pregnancy, labor, and puerperium, endocrine syndromes with effects on sex, pathology o:f the evolution of sex, endocrinological investigation of a patient, ovarian syndromes, enrlocrinological pathology of pregnancy, and an appendix: on the endocrine basis of genital tumorigenesis. As can be seen from the above titles, the entire subject is covere
The Queen Charlotte's Text-Book of Obstetrics. Edited by G. F. Gibberd et al. Ninth e
Neonatal Surgery. By Peter Paul Rickham. 'rhe Commonwealth Fund. 93 pages. Boston, 1957, Harvard University Press. The detailed results of painstakingly thorough metabolic studies in 9 neonatal surgical patients are presented. The studies are analyzed in detail and discussed against a back· ground of the literature on similar studies in adults and older children. The book should be of the greatest interest to pediatricians and pediatric surgeons. Clinical studies in 9 cases which are each unlike the other do not form a basis for a final assessment of the metabolic problems involved. There does appear to be some consistent difference between the responses of newborn infants to surgery and the responses of children more than 2 or 3 weeks old. The most obvious difference is in the potassium metabolism, the newborn infants losing no more potassium than can be accounted for by their starvation, and apparently losing little or no potassium as the result of the trauma of the particular operations studied.