American Journal of Surgery
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of the invasion and sojourn of the syphihs organism in man. In this work, which discards nothing from our cIinica1 heritage, the Iaboratory’s contribution is given intensive and judicial description. The styIe is fascinating and the Iarge number of origina ihustrations capture attention and point the Iessons in the text. Just as no practice escapes contact with syphiIis, so no physician or surgeon can afford to be unfamiIiar with the facts and opinions nowhere so fascinatingIy and authoritativeIy stated as in this spIendid textbook.
Reviews merits reading at ‘this time, when the master Freud is being betrayed by so many of his discipIes. LEHRBUCH DER PIIYSIOLOGIE. By EmiI AbderhaIden, 0.6. Prof. und Direktor des physioIogischen Instituts der UniversitM HaIIe a. S. Part III. SINNESFUNKTIONEN. 8~0. Price, mk. 33. Pp. 650, with 304 iIIus. and 20 CoIored Plates. BerIin: Urban & Schwarzenberg, r 926.
This is a series of lectures on the physioIogy of the specia1 senses with spIendid iIIustrations, PRINCIPLES ANDPRACTICE OF CHEMOTHERAPY. suitabIe for students or practitioners. It is a spIendid exampIe of German schoIarship and With SpeciaI Reference to the Specific and industry. Genera1 Treatment of SyphiIis. By John A. KoImer, M.D., D.P.H., D.SC. (Hon.); Professor HYGIEIA OR DISEASE AND EVOLUTION. By of PathoIogy and BacterioIogy in the GraduBurton Peter Thorn, M.D. r2mo. Cloth. ate SchooI of Medicine of the University Price, $1.00. Pp. 107. N. Y.: E. P. Dutton & of PennsyIvania, and Member of the Co., 1926. Research Institute for Cutaneous Medicine. 8~0. CIoth. Price, $12.00. Pp. I 106, iIIus. THE MEANING OF DISEASE. An Inquiry in the PhiIa.: W. B. Saunders Co., 1926. FieId of MedicaI PhiIosophy. By WiIIiam A. White, A.M., M.D. r2mo. CIoth. Price, Wherever syphihs is seriousIy studied this $3.00. Pp. 220. BaItimore: WiIIiams & WiIkins voIume wiI1 be needed for reference and as a Co., 1926. spur to further contributions to a subject which, though stiI1 in its infancy, has made These two IittIe books deIightfuIIy marsha Brobdingnagian strides. Professor Kolmer’s facts in support of phiIosophica1 theses. book is a monument to his industry and hIIs Hygieia’s accompIishments and promises are a need in English medical literature. recounted by Thorn for Iaymen though phyIn the strictest sense a11 drug therapy is sicians may we11 spend with her a pIeasant chemotherapy. KoImer chooses the steriIizahour. tion of the bIood stream as his heId. The severa White’s voIume is more profound. He parts treat of the PrincipIes of Chemotherapy, emphasizes the importance of the psyche in Chemotherapy of Bacteria1 and Mycotic a11 disease states and concIudes that “disease Diseases, Chemotherapy of TrypanosomaI is regressive; disease is an attempt at energy Diseases, of SpirochetaI Diseases other than equiIibrium.” SyphiIis, of Protozoan and Metazoan Diseases PROGRESSIVE MEDICINE. A QuarterIy Digest other that TrypanosomaI and SpirochetaI of Advances, Discoveries and Improvements Diseases, of Diseases of DoubtfuI or Unknown in the MedicaI and SurgicaI Sciences, Edited EtioIogy, Infection, Immunity, and PathoIogy by Hobart Amory Hare, M.D., LL.D., Professor of SyphiIis in ReIation to Treatment, etc. of Therapeutics, Materia Medica and DiagTHE NORMAL CHILD AND How TO KEEP IT nosis in the Jefferson MedicaI College, NORMAL IN MIND AND MORALS. SuggesPhiIadeIphia, etc., assisted by Leighton F. tions for Parents, Teachers and Physicians; AppIeman, M.D., Instructor in Therapeutics, With a Consideration of the Inffuence of Jefferson MedicaI CoIIege, PhiIadeIphia, PsychoanaIysis. By B. Sachs, M.D. r6mo. etc. Vol. iii. Sept., 1926. VoI. iv, Dec., 1926. Price, $1.50. Pp. I I I. N. Y.: PauI B. Hoeber, PhiIa.: Lea & Febiger, 1926. Inc., 1926.
With such an abundant evidence of saneness and counse1, it is regrettabIe that Sachs has written with such brevity. The chapter on The EviIs of PsychoanaIysis particuIarIy
These voIumes maintain the tradition of a usefu1 digest of medica Iiterature. The reviews are compIete and weII-baIanced summaries of progress during the preceding year.