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Herzschalldiagnostik in klinik und praxis
Book
Reviews
By J. W. Brown, M.D. (Lond.), CONGENITAL HEART DISEASIZ. don and New York, 1950, Staples Press, 344 pages with
F.R.C.P. 128 figures.
Second
Edition.
Lon-
This monograph may best be described as a comprehensive summary of the literature on congenital heart disease up to and including 1948, based on a foundation of the author’s extensive persona] experience. It is written in a particularly lucid manner. Historians will be pleased with the complete way in which the earliest references and the rarest anomalies have been covered. ‘The arrangement follows for the most part Maude Abbott’s classification. Presentation of embryological and developmental fact and theory is particularly good. The book’s readability will recommend it to the genera1 physician who wishes to acquire a solid background against which to view a special branch of cardiology which is rapidly developing. But rapid growth of the subject matter means also that, by the time a book such as this appears in Simple clinical and radiologic diagnosis is print, some important material is already out of date. well covered, but the cardiologist who is looking for detailed information on angiocardiography Electrocardiography is limited to the three standard and cardiac catheterization will not find it. leads. Discussion of treatment on the whole is sound, although most will agree that the urgency about operating on an infected ductus arteriosus has now been removed by antibiotics. .4 full bibliography is included: for many readers its value would have been enhanced by including the title of each article. The book is beautifully produced and well illustrated, J.P.
HERZSCHALLDIAGNOSTIK Georg Thieme
Verlag,
IK KLINIK paper
UND bound,
PRAXIS. By 116 pages.
J. Schmidt-Voigt,
M.D.
Stuttgart,
1951,
This small monograph is planned as a simple introduction into the practical and diagnostic significance of heart sound recordings. The book is written in easily readable German. It serves as a guide to the newcomer in this field and is a handy reference for the more experienced worker as to the significance, analysis, and interpretation of phonocardiograms. This objective visual method is useful for checking subjective impressions of auscultatory findings. Phonocardiography is probably a valuable method to be carried out in the clinic, but it has been largely neglected in the United States. The book covers a subject quite completely yet succinctly and in logical order. Beginning with the physical and physiological bases, it points out the limits of auscultation, describing the techniques and the apparatus and actual records of the normal heart sounds, the murmurs in general, extracardiac and intracardiac, systolic and diastolic, singly and in combinations, musical murmur, heart tones, systolic and diastolic gallop rhythms, changes in intensity of the heart sounds, intensification, and diminution of sounds, It dwells upon the significance of phonocardiographic findings in cardiac diagnostic procedure. It is true that stethocardiographic equipment is available in portable form along with the electrocardiographic recording apparatus. Internists in general have neglected this field, and it is feared that few will do otherwise. Those who can read scientific German will find that this book offers a practical guide for rounding out their cardiovascular diagnostic armamentarium. The reproductions are not as good as might be desired, yet the book is recommended. It should be of value not only to cardiologists, but also to the general internist. G.H. 798
Reviews
By J. W. Brown, M.D. (Lond.), CONGENITAL HEART DISEASIZ. don and New York, 1950, Staples Press, 344 pages with
F.R.C.P. 128 figures.
Second
Edition.
Lon-
This monograph may best be described as a comprehensive summary of the literature on congenital heart disease up to and including 1948, based on a foundation of the author’s extensive persona] experience. It is written in a particularly lucid manner. Historians will be pleased with the complete way in which the earliest references and the rarest anomalies have been covered. ‘The arrangement follows for the most part Maude Abbott’s classification. Presentation of embryological and developmental fact and theory is particularly good. The book’s readability will recommend it to the genera1 physician who wishes to acquire a solid background against which to view a special branch of cardiology which is rapidly developing. But rapid growth of the subject matter means also that, by the time a book such as this appears in Simple clinical and radiologic diagnosis is print, some important material is already out of date. well covered, but the cardiologist who is looking for detailed information on angiocardiography Electrocardiography is limited to the three standard and cardiac catheterization will not find it. leads. Discussion of treatment on the whole is sound, although most will agree that the urgency about operating on an infected ductus arteriosus has now been removed by antibiotics. .4 full bibliography is included: for many readers its value would have been enhanced by including the title of each article. The book is beautifully produced and well illustrated, J.P.
HERZSCHALLDIAGNOSTIK Georg Thieme
Verlag,
IK KLINIK paper
UND bound,
PRAXIS. By 116 pages.
J. Schmidt-Voigt,
M.D.
Stuttgart,
1951,
This small monograph is planned as a simple introduction into the practical and diagnostic significance of heart sound recordings. The book is written in easily readable German. It serves as a guide to the newcomer in this field and is a handy reference for the more experienced worker as to the significance, analysis, and interpretation of phonocardiograms. This objective visual method is useful for checking subjective impressions of auscultatory findings. Phonocardiography is probably a valuable method to be carried out in the clinic, but it has been largely neglected in the United States. The book covers a subject quite completely yet succinctly and in logical order. Beginning with the physical and physiological bases, it points out the limits of auscultation, describing the techniques and the apparatus and actual records of the normal heart sounds, the murmurs in general, extracardiac and intracardiac, systolic and diastolic, singly and in combinations, musical murmur, heart tones, systolic and diastolic gallop rhythms, changes in intensity of the heart sounds, intensification, and diminution of sounds, It dwells upon the significance of phonocardiographic findings in cardiac diagnostic procedure. It is true that stethocardiographic equipment is available in portable form along with the electrocardiographic recording apparatus. Internists in general have neglected this field, and it is feared that few will do otherwise. Those who can read scientific German will find that this book offers a practical guide for rounding out their cardiovascular diagnostic armamentarium. The reproductions are not as good as might be desired, yet the book is recommended. It should be of value not only to cardiologists, but also to the general internist. G.H. 798