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Inhalation anaesthesia. A Fundamental Guide
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which is perhaps better in a textbook. Most of the iIlustrations are patentIy representative of the conditions they are captioned to exhibit; in a few instances, the reviewer wouId have been more content had the author mentioned how the final diagnosis was reached. The text deserves special mention because of its conciseness. The tabmar form so often foIlowed in the work Iends itseIf admirabIy to teaching purposes. This wouId reaIIy be an exceIIent textbook for the teaching of radiological diagnosis. CLINICAL ROENTGENOLOGY OF THE CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM. By Hugo RoesIer, M.D. Springfield, III.: CharIes C. Thomas, 1937. Price $7.50. The author in his Preface reminds us that an “examination of the cardiovascuIar system by means of the roentgen rays is but one among severa methods of study.” He further states that, “The examination [of the heart] by roentgen rays has rightly been caIIed an autopsy performed on the living.” In his book, Dr. Roesler has added a vaIuabIe contribution to medical literature. The beginner may have trouble with parts of the text, but on the whoIe the man doing work in this field wiI1 find the book a practica1 aid. In this work of 343 pages the author covers Technique, Anatomy and Roentgenology, Normal Cardiovascular System, Measurement, Dynamics of the Normal CardiovascuIar System, AnatomicaLClinical-RoentgenoIogicaI Considerations, CardiovascuIar Disease from the Viewpoint of EtioIogy (and) from the Viewpoint of Structural Changes, Diseases of the Aorta, Diseases of the PuImonary and Its Branches, and Pericardial Disease. There are a Bibliography (at the end of each chapter) and an Index. The work is we11 illustrated. AI1 in all, a we11 done, practical, needed work. MEDICAL MORALS AND MANNERS. By Hubert Ashley Royster, M.D. Chapei HiII, N.C.: The University of North CaroIina Press, 1937. Price $2.50. Under the titIe, Medical MoraIs and Manners, the opening essay, Dr. Royster has incIuded the papers and addresses which he has written and pubIished during the past forty years, a period devoted by the author to
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the practice of surgery. Some of them were deIivered before Iay audiences, a number appeared in newspapers and magazines, some constitute addresses presented before medica societies, a few are entirely non-professiona1, and none of them is technica1. Dr. Royster has covered a wide variety of subjects, and writes with a faciIe pen. Personally, we enjoyed reading this book. We fee1 that others, aIso, wiI1 find it stimulating reading. A book to have in your library, to pick up at odd moments, and to return to it many times. DISEASES OF THE NEWBORN. Abraham Tow, M.D. New York: Oxford MedicaI PubIications, 1937. This is a we11 written book which is an attempt to organize the contributions made by embryologists, pathologists, chemists, surgeons, obstetricians, and pediatricians in such fashion that it wiI1 be of service to the genera1 practitioner. In genera1 the Contents cover: Genera1 Considerations, Infant Feeding, Premature Infant, Birth Injuries, SkeIetaI System, Digestive System, Respiratory System, CircuIatory System, BIood Dyscrasias, Genitourinary System, Diseases of the Nervous System, Diseases of the Eye, Nose and Ear, Infectious and Septic Diseases, Diseases of the Skin, and SpeciaI Topics, such as Thyroid, Mongolian Idiot, Vitamin Deficiency Disorders, and Offspring of Diabetic Mother. There are 32 iIIustrations, a BibIiography, and an Index. The young man early in the practice of medicine, and the genera1 practitioner, wiI1 proht immeasurably by studying its pages. INHALATION ANAESTHESIA. A FUNDAMENTAL GUIDE. By Arthur E. GuedeI, M.D. New York: The MacmilIan Company, 1937. Price $2.50. This is one of the SurgicaI Monographs edited by EIIiott C. Cutler, M.D. The author presents an outIine intended to guide the anesthetist up to and through his first few genera1 anesthetics. The writer teIIs “it is not compIete in detai1 save where &air is necessary, as in ‘Signs of Anaesthesia.“’ It intentionaIIy treats lightly and more compIicated physioIogica1 and pharmacoIogica1
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mechanisms, describing these only to the extent necessary in their clinical apphcation.” Part One considers the PrincipIes of Inhalation Anesthesia, and Part Two Anesthetic Accidents. To the physician who must at times give a patient an inhaIation anesthesia but who admits (at least, to himseIf) that often he Ioses his way, Dr. GuedeI has written just the book that man needs. He who reads it, if he applies a11 that is taught, will be a fairly safe man to administer an anesthetic in an emergy, or when an expert anesthetist is not at hand. A good book for medical students. THE LUNG. @y WiIIiam Snow MilIer, M.D. SpringfieId, III.: CharIes C. Thomas, 1937. Price $7.50. This exceIIent and vaIuabIe monograph is the resuIt of forty-seven years’ study of Iung structure by the author. He began this labor in 1887 whiIe working in the Iaboratory of the CoIIege of Physicians and Surgeons. At that time Francis DeIafieId was advancing the thesis that free communications existed between the air spaces in the Iungs. In this he was supported by J. West RooseveIt. Dr. MiIIer was so impressed that he made it the subject of his work at Clark University. Since then, at the University of Wisconsin, and in addition at Johns Hopkins and Leipzig for a year each, he has continued at this work. The book embraces chapters on The Lungs, The Trachea and Bronchi, IntrapuImonary Bronchi and BronchioIi, The Air Spaces, The BIood Vessels, The Lymphatics, The PuImonary Lymphoid Tissue, The Nerves, The PIeura, Key Points, Historica Sketch, and The Acinus. There is a comprehensive BibIiography, and an ample Index. There are 152 iIIustrations gathered from severa sources.
Reviews The internist and surgeon might this sane and authoritative work.
AUGUST, 193,
we11 read
OPERATIVE SURGERY. By J. SheIton HorsIey, M.D. and Isaac A. Bigger, M.D. With contributions by C. C. CoIeman, M.D., John S. HorsIey, Jr., M.D., Austin L. Dodson, M.D., and DonaId M. FauIkner, M.D. in two voIumes. Fourth Edition. IIIustrated by Miss HeIen Lorraine. St. Louis: TheC.V.MosbyCompany, Ig37.Price$15. This we11 known Operative Surgery is practicaIIy a new work. Dr. HorsIey invited Dr. Bigger, Professor of Surgery at the MedicaI CoIIege of Virginia, to act as co-author of the book, and he is responsibIe for the chapters on surgery of the neck, thorax, breast, hernia, nervous system, and some of the operations upon the extremities. Dr. C. C. CoIeman, Professor of NeuroIogicaI Surgery at the MedicaI CoIlege of Virginia, wrote the surgery of the centra1 nervous system and the crania1 nerves. Dr. A. I. Dodson, Professor of UroIogy at the Medical CoIIege of Virginia wrote on uroIogy, and Dr. John S. HorsIey, Jr., did the parts on pIastic surgery. Dr. Donald M. Faulkner covered orthopedic surgery. Dr. Guy W. HorsIey gave much aid in the preparation of the chapter on proctology. Many new operative procedures are described which have not heretofore been pubIished in a book. More than 500 new iIIustrations have been added to this edition by Miss HeIen Lorraine. References are at the concIusion of each chapter. The two voIumes are 1387 pages Iong. There is a good Index. This work deserves to be we11 received by the profession.
Book
Reviews
which is perhaps better in a textbook. Most of the iIlustrations are patentIy representative of the conditions they are captioned to exhibit; in a few instances, the reviewer wouId have been more content had the author mentioned how the final diagnosis was reached. The text deserves special mention because of its conciseness. The tabmar form so often foIlowed in the work Iends itseIf admirabIy to teaching purposes. This wouId reaIIy be an exceIIent textbook for the teaching of radiological diagnosis. CLINICAL ROENTGENOLOGY OF THE CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM. By Hugo RoesIer, M.D. Springfield, III.: CharIes C. Thomas, 1937. Price $7.50. The author in his Preface reminds us that an “examination of the cardiovascuIar system by means of the roentgen rays is but one among severa methods of study.” He further states that, “The examination [of the heart] by roentgen rays has rightly been caIIed an autopsy performed on the living.” In his book, Dr. Roesler has added a vaIuabIe contribution to medical literature. The beginner may have trouble with parts of the text, but on the whoIe the man doing work in this field wiI1 find the book a practica1 aid. In this work of 343 pages the author covers Technique, Anatomy and Roentgenology, Normal Cardiovascular System, Measurement, Dynamics of the Normal CardiovascuIar System, AnatomicaLClinical-RoentgenoIogicaI Considerations, CardiovascuIar Disease from the Viewpoint of EtioIogy (and) from the Viewpoint of Structural Changes, Diseases of the Aorta, Diseases of the PuImonary and Its Branches, and Pericardial Disease. There are a Bibliography (at the end of each chapter) and an Index. The work is we11 illustrated. AI1 in all, a we11 done, practical, needed work. MEDICAL MORALS AND MANNERS. By Hubert Ashley Royster, M.D. Chapei HiII, N.C.: The University of North CaroIina Press, 1937. Price $2.50. Under the titIe, Medical MoraIs and Manners, the opening essay, Dr. Royster has incIuded the papers and addresses which he has written and pubIished during the past forty years, a period devoted by the author to
American Journal of Surgery
347
the practice of surgery. Some of them were deIivered before Iay audiences, a number appeared in newspapers and magazines, some constitute addresses presented before medica societies, a few are entirely non-professiona1, and none of them is technica1. Dr. Royster has covered a wide variety of subjects, and writes with a faciIe pen. Personally, we enjoyed reading this book. We fee1 that others, aIso, wiI1 find it stimulating reading. A book to have in your library, to pick up at odd moments, and to return to it many times. DISEASES OF THE NEWBORN. Abraham Tow, M.D. New York: Oxford MedicaI PubIications, 1937. This is a we11 written book which is an attempt to organize the contributions made by embryologists, pathologists, chemists, surgeons, obstetricians, and pediatricians in such fashion that it wiI1 be of service to the genera1 practitioner. In genera1 the Contents cover: Genera1 Considerations, Infant Feeding, Premature Infant, Birth Injuries, SkeIetaI System, Digestive System, Respiratory System, CircuIatory System, BIood Dyscrasias, Genitourinary System, Diseases of the Nervous System, Diseases of the Eye, Nose and Ear, Infectious and Septic Diseases, Diseases of the Skin, and SpeciaI Topics, such as Thyroid, Mongolian Idiot, Vitamin Deficiency Disorders, and Offspring of Diabetic Mother. There are 32 iIIustrations, a BibIiography, and an Index. The young man early in the practice of medicine, and the genera1 practitioner, wiI1 proht immeasurably by studying its pages. INHALATION ANAESTHESIA. A FUNDAMENTAL GUIDE. By Arthur E. GuedeI, M.D. New York: The MacmilIan Company, 1937. Price $2.50. This is one of the SurgicaI Monographs edited by EIIiott C. Cutler, M.D. The author presents an outIine intended to guide the anesthetist up to and through his first few genera1 anesthetics. The writer teIIs “it is not compIete in detai1 save where &air is necessary, as in ‘Signs of Anaesthesia.“’ It intentionaIIy treats lightly and more compIicated physioIogica1 and pharmacoIogica1
348
American Journal of Surgery
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mechanisms, describing these only to the extent necessary in their clinical apphcation.” Part One considers the PrincipIes of Inhalation Anesthesia, and Part Two Anesthetic Accidents. To the physician who must at times give a patient an inhaIation anesthesia but who admits (at least, to himseIf) that often he Ioses his way, Dr. GuedeI has written just the book that man needs. He who reads it, if he applies a11 that is taught, will be a fairly safe man to administer an anesthetic in an emergy, or when an expert anesthetist is not at hand. A good book for medical students. THE LUNG. @y WiIIiam Snow MilIer, M.D. SpringfieId, III.: CharIes C. Thomas, 1937. Price $7.50. This exceIIent and vaIuabIe monograph is the resuIt of forty-seven years’ study of Iung structure by the author. He began this labor in 1887 whiIe working in the Iaboratory of the CoIIege of Physicians and Surgeons. At that time Francis DeIafieId was advancing the thesis that free communications existed between the air spaces in the Iungs. In this he was supported by J. West RooseveIt. Dr. MiIIer was so impressed that he made it the subject of his work at Clark University. Since then, at the University of Wisconsin, and in addition at Johns Hopkins and Leipzig for a year each, he has continued at this work. The book embraces chapters on The Lungs, The Trachea and Bronchi, IntrapuImonary Bronchi and BronchioIi, The Air Spaces, The BIood Vessels, The Lymphatics, The PuImonary Lymphoid Tissue, The Nerves, The PIeura, Key Points, Historica Sketch, and The Acinus. There is a comprehensive BibIiography, and an ample Index. There are 152 iIIustrations gathered from severa sources.
Reviews The internist and surgeon might this sane and authoritative work.
AUGUST, 193,
we11 read
OPERATIVE SURGERY. By J. SheIton HorsIey, M.D. and Isaac A. Bigger, M.D. With contributions by C. C. CoIeman, M.D., John S. HorsIey, Jr., M.D., Austin L. Dodson, M.D., and DonaId M. FauIkner, M.D. in two voIumes. Fourth Edition. IIIustrated by Miss HeIen Lorraine. St. Louis: TheC.V.MosbyCompany, Ig37.Price$15. This we11 known Operative Surgery is practicaIIy a new work. Dr. HorsIey invited Dr. Bigger, Professor of Surgery at the MedicaI CoIIege of Virginia, to act as co-author of the book, and he is responsibIe for the chapters on surgery of the neck, thorax, breast, hernia, nervous system, and some of the operations upon the extremities. Dr. C. C. CoIeman, Professor of NeuroIogicaI Surgery at the MedicaI CoIlege of Virginia, wrote the surgery of the centra1 nervous system and the crania1 nerves. Dr. A. I. Dodson, Professor of UroIogy at the Medical CoIIege of Virginia wrote on uroIogy, and Dr. John S. HorsIey, Jr., did the parts on pIastic surgery. Dr. Donald M. Faulkner covered orthopedic surgery. Dr. Guy W. HorsIey gave much aid in the preparation of the chapter on proctology. Many new operative procedures are described which have not heretofore been pubIished in a book. More than 500 new iIIustrations have been added to this edition by Miss HeIen Lorraine. References are at the concIusion of each chapter. The two voIumes are 1387 pages Iong. There is a good Index. This work deserves to be we11 received by the profession.