BOOK REVIEWS THE PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF UROLOGY. By Frank Hinman, M.D. PhiIa. W. B. Saunders Co., 1935. This new textbook of uroIogy by Dr. Hinman presents the subject in a thorough, compIete, up-to-date and yet concise fashion by one of the outstanding authorities in the country. The point is made that the work is not written for the experienced uroIogist hut for the student and general practitioner. “What they require,” says the author, “is knowIedge which wiII enable them to recognize a urologica case when they see one.” And it is beheved that a thorough study of this book wiI1 pIace any competent practitioner in a positian to do this. The importance of genera1 knowledge of the speciaIties today cannot be over-emphasized. At the same time, it must be remembered that important decisions and detaiIs of technique must be Ieft to competent speciaIists. The presentation of Urology by Dr. Hinman might we11 be a mode1 for books on other specialties for the genera1 practitioner. ECONOMIC PROBLEMS OF MEDICINE. By A. C. Christie, M.D. N. Y., MacmiIIan Co.,
every phase-from drugs through diet therapy to x-rays and physica therapy. The chapters are written by outstanding authors on each subject and written in a concise and understandabIe manner for the use of the genera1 practitioner. This voIume is quite in keeping with the previous volumes of this set which is now nearing compIetion and promises to become one of the outstanding works of reference for the genera1 practitioner. BLOOD GROUPS AND BLOOD TRANSFUSION. By Alexander S. Wiener, M.D. SpringfieId, III., CharIes C. Thomas, 1935. The need for a standard book on this subject has long been feIt and the author in a we11 written voIume of two hundred pages has answered most of the questions regarding bIood grouping that face the average practitioner. This book wiII find a niche in the library of everyone interested in the subject. INTERNATIONAL CLINICS. VoIume IV. Forty-Fourth Series, Edited by Louis Hamman, M.D. PhiIa., J. B. Lippincott Co., 1934.
‘935. The very titIe of this voIume is apt to tempt the reviewer into a Iong discussion of one of the most important phases of medical Iife today. The subject, of course, is capabIe of aImost unhmited discussion. The author has succeeded in 12 chapters in presenting views which are those of a man who has studied his subject thoroughIy, who is conservative and who is not afraid to express his sentiments. It is sure to take a definite place in the Iiterature of the subject. THE PRACTITIONERS LIBRARY OF MEDICINE AND SURGERY. VoIume VIII, THEREditor, George APEUTICS, Supervising BIumer, M.D. and Associate Editor, AIbert J. Sullivan, M.D. N. Y., D. AppIetonCentury Co., 1935.
Volume IV of the Forty-Fourth Series Iives up to the standards set by the previous voIumes. SeIected articIes covering specia1 chapters on Medicine, Surgery, Obstetrics and Gynecology, CIinicaI Pathology, Recent Progress in Ophthaimology and DermatoIogy, the International Clinics, as usual, may be considered as suppIementing a11 current textbooks on the subject. TEXT-BOOK OF UROLOGY FOR STUDENTS AND PRACTITIONERS. By DanieI N. Eisendrath, M.D. and Harry C. RoInick, M.D., Ed. 3, Rev. PhiIa., J. B. Lippincott Co., 1934.
This is a spIendid resume of the aII-important subject of therapeutics, covering treatment in
This is the third edition, revised and brought up-to-date, the first edition having been pubIished in 1928. Three editions in six years is in itseIf proof that this textbook on this SO important subject has been a definite place for itseIf in medica literature.
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