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preventive measures which form a very large part of study of infantile tuberculosis, are fully dealt with, such efforts as the Graucher system being clearly the
New Inventions.
The clinical pathology in the book is disappointing and the information given on treatment ILLUMINATORS FOR OPERATIVE is not as full as it might be. An appendix of illustrative X ray plates is given, the index is good, and RADIUM WORK. bibliography will satisfy the research student. No A CLEAR operative field being of considerable illustrations are given in the text. On the whole, in those operations of access which have this is a welcome relief ; books on tuberculosis, as a importance as their object the exposure of deep-seated tumours rule, are overweighted by the large number of unin- for the insertion of radium, demands in many cases spiring reproductions of apparatus which convey special means of illumination. To facilitate this, a little to -the reader. We can recommend this book of illuminators (see figure) has been designed. It is written clearly as a piece of conscientious work. and logically and is a model of condensation. described.
series
PRINCIPLES
OF
BACTERIOLOGY.
By A. A. EISENBERG. Fourth edition. London : Henry Kimpton. 1928. Pp. 228, with 40 text figures. 10s. 6d. THIS excellent book would be better called " Elements " than " Principles " ; it is a guide across the threshold of bacteriology and has nothing to do with the general propositions to which that science may ultimately reduce itself. It has been written, primarily, for use in training schools for nurses in the United States; and devotes a good deal of space to
practical details, contemplating the possibility (already believe to some extent realised in practice) that nurses may also function as laboratory assistants. we
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Whether it will be of value for the same purpose in the more conservative English schools is perhaps open to question, but it is a good introduction to practical medical bacteriology for laboratory attendants, elementary students and anyone else who wants to get some knowledge of the subject, and is prepared to take a little trouble about it. PHARMACOTHERAPEUTICS. By S. SOLIS-COHEN, M.D., and T. S. GITHENS, M.D. London and New York : D. Appleton and Co. 1928. Pp. 2009. 63s. THE first 400 pages of this book are given up to such subjects as drug influence, assay, and the sources and preparation of drugs. Valuable chapters are included on prognostic indications, symptomatic
indications, absorption, elimination, and incompatibility. Under the heading of " Schools of Medicine we are told the theory and practice of homoeopathy, eclecticism, and dosimetry. The remaining 1600 pages are devoted to a systematic description of groups of drugs. Under each heading the history, chemistry, materia medica, therapeutics, and toxic action of the drug concerned are discussed. TheI authors have been most thorough and are up to date. For example, a critical discussion of the I use of such drugs as quinidine sulphate and phenylhydrazine hydrochloride is included, and also the value of non-specific protein therapy and the scarlet fever immunity test. The new work on the parathyroid and ovarian hormones is set out, and the photo-synthesis of vitamin D, which was not achieved "
The construction of these permits of their attachment used in the surgery of to speculse, retractors, &c., access, and to special vaginal speculae used in the treatment of cancer of the cervix. Each carries a detachable lamp, while the current (4 volts) is conducted by means of a cord, detachable as shown. The instruments are made by the Medical Supply Association, 167, Gray’s Inn-road, London, W.C. ARTHUR B. SMITH, M.B., F.R.C.S. Edin. SYDNEY M. SMITH, M.B., Ch.B. Edin.
A NEW DRAINAGE-TUBING. THE modification of drainage-tubing here illusconsists simply of a solid rib (R) of rubber on opposite sides of the tube, to enable a stitch to be passed through without puncturing the lumen. De Pezzer tubes, indeed any kind of rubber-tubing used for drainage, could be easily treated in the a same way. When z a tube training
wellItrated
_
until after the book went to press, is anticipated. Some confusion is caused by the difference in terminology of the U.S. or the British Pharmacopoeias. a jejunostomy, a sv=, Thus liquor arsenicalis (B.P.) becomes liquor -potassii or a arsenitis (U.S.X.), and we find two entirely distinct ceecostomy, bladder urinary preparations known as liquor arsenicalis pearsonii anchored by a and liquor arsenicalis clemens. It is surprising that there is often a little leakage through the the leech should be so curtly dismissed by authors which tends to grow larger by tension. The puncture, who define the rational method of therapeutics as of even a small quantity of fluid from the small escape "The giving of the right drug to the right patient a septic gall-bladder, or a severely infected in the right dose, and the right way at the right time." bowel, bladder, often causes a troublesome dermatitis urinary The British reader will be irritated by some of the and infection of the rest of the wound. This modifica" nerve but will tion to the tube is booster," expressions used, such as designed to obviate such troubles. appreciate the value of the book as a whole. It is The tubing may be obtained from Messrs. Chas. well our criticism of the and very indexed, only and Co., of Leeds. production concerns the poor quality of the paper Thackray used. H. H. GREENWOOD, F.R.C.S. Eng.
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preventive measures which form a very large part of study of infantile tuberculosis, are fully dealt with, such efforts as the Graucher system being clearly the
New Inventions.
The clinical pathology in the book is disappointing and the information given on treatment ILLUMINATORS FOR OPERATIVE is not as full as it might be. An appendix of illustrative X ray plates is given, the index is good, and RADIUM WORK. bibliography will satisfy the research student. No A CLEAR operative field being of considerable illustrations are given in the text. On the whole, in those operations of access which have this is a welcome relief ; books on tuberculosis, as a importance as their object the exposure of deep-seated tumours rule, are overweighted by the large number of unin- for the insertion of radium, demands in many cases spiring reproductions of apparatus which convey special means of illumination. To facilitate this, a little to -the reader. We can recommend this book of illuminators (see figure) has been designed. It is written clearly as a piece of conscientious work. and logically and is a model of condensation. described.
series
PRINCIPLES
OF
BACTERIOLOGY.
By A. A. EISENBERG. Fourth edition. London : Henry Kimpton. 1928. Pp. 228, with 40 text figures. 10s. 6d. THIS excellent book would be better called " Elements " than " Principles " ; it is a guide across the threshold of bacteriology and has nothing to do with the general propositions to which that science may ultimately reduce itself. It has been written, primarily, for use in training schools for nurses in the United States; and devotes a good deal of space to
practical details, contemplating the possibility (already believe to some extent realised in practice) that nurses may also function as laboratory assistants. we
-
Whether it will be of value for the same purpose in the more conservative English schools is perhaps open to question, but it is a good introduction to practical medical bacteriology for laboratory attendants, elementary students and anyone else who wants to get some knowledge of the subject, and is prepared to take a little trouble about it. PHARMACOTHERAPEUTICS. By S. SOLIS-COHEN, M.D., and T. S. GITHENS, M.D. London and New York : D. Appleton and Co. 1928. Pp. 2009. 63s. THE first 400 pages of this book are given up to such subjects as drug influence, assay, and the sources and preparation of drugs. Valuable chapters are included on prognostic indications, symptomatic
indications, absorption, elimination, and incompatibility. Under the heading of " Schools of Medicine we are told the theory and practice of homoeopathy, eclecticism, and dosimetry. The remaining 1600 pages are devoted to a systematic description of groups of drugs. Under each heading the history, chemistry, materia medica, therapeutics, and toxic action of the drug concerned are discussed. TheI authors have been most thorough and are up to date. For example, a critical discussion of the I use of such drugs as quinidine sulphate and phenylhydrazine hydrochloride is included, and also the value of non-specific protein therapy and the scarlet fever immunity test. The new work on the parathyroid and ovarian hormones is set out, and the photo-synthesis of vitamin D, which was not achieved "
The construction of these permits of their attachment used in the surgery of to speculse, retractors, &c., access, and to special vaginal speculae used in the treatment of cancer of the cervix. Each carries a detachable lamp, while the current (4 volts) is conducted by means of a cord, detachable as shown. The instruments are made by the Medical Supply Association, 167, Gray’s Inn-road, London, W.C. ARTHUR B. SMITH, M.B., F.R.C.S. Edin. SYDNEY M. SMITH, M.B., Ch.B. Edin.
A NEW DRAINAGE-TUBING. THE modification of drainage-tubing here illusconsists simply of a solid rib (R) of rubber on opposite sides of the tube, to enable a stitch to be passed through without puncturing the lumen. De Pezzer tubes, indeed any kind of rubber-tubing used for drainage, could be easily treated in the a same way. When z a tube training
wellItrated
_
until after the book went to press, is anticipated. Some confusion is caused by the difference in terminology of the U.S. or the British Pharmacopoeias. a jejunostomy, a sv=, Thus liquor arsenicalis (B.P.) becomes liquor -potassii or a arsenitis (U.S.X.), and we find two entirely distinct ceecostomy, bladder urinary preparations known as liquor arsenicalis pearsonii anchored by a and liquor arsenicalis clemens. It is surprising that there is often a little leakage through the the leech should be so curtly dismissed by authors which tends to grow larger by tension. The puncture, who define the rational method of therapeutics as of even a small quantity of fluid from the small escape "The giving of the right drug to the right patient a septic gall-bladder, or a severely infected in the right dose, and the right way at the right time." bowel, bladder, often causes a troublesome dermatitis urinary The British reader will be irritated by some of the and infection of the rest of the wound. This modifica" nerve but will tion to the tube is booster," expressions used, such as designed to obviate such troubles. appreciate the value of the book as a whole. It is The tubing may be obtained from Messrs. Chas. well our criticism of the and very indexed, only and Co., of Leeds. production concerns the poor quality of the paper Thackray used. H. H. GREENWOOD, F.R.C.S. Eng.
is
stitch,