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Malignant disease and its treatment by radium
SelectedIBookIReuSeurs URING the past few months many exceIIent books on various medica topics have been published. This month, instead of a Iong review of onIy one book, we are offering short, thumbnail reviews of what we beIieve are recent outstanding pubIications. In gynecoIogy we have Novak’s “ GynecoIogy and FemaIe In about 600 pages the author has given us one EndocrinoIogy.“* of the best and most satisfying works on these subjects to date. AIthough the student may refer to severa exceIIent books on gynecoIogy, we pIace Novak’s work at the head of the Iist. It has been cut to the bone and has not a singIe page of padding; nevertheIess, it is compIete and is very we11 written. The profuse iIIustrations truIy iIIustrate the text and the coIored pictures are spIendid. PurposeIy, the author has omitted the detaiIs of operative technic. Worth-whiIe and recent references are at the end of each chapter and the index is adequate. Both author and pubIishers are to be congratulated in offering at this time, when the world is topsyturvy, an up-to-the-minute, readabIe, authoritative and scientific work on gynecoIogy and female endocrinoIogy.
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ShouId one wish for a compIete work on “MaIignant Disease and Its Treatment by Radium ” we refer him to a book of that titIe by Stanford Cade.t It is a Iarge book (nearly 1,300 pages) and has 623 iIIustrations, many in coIor. The author writes: “SuccessfuI treatment (of cancer) depends upon three main factors: a sound knowIedge of the disease; a wise seIection of the method of treatment; and accurate and skiIIfu1 technique.” Covering a period of fifteen years the author saw about 4,000 cases of maIignant disease; of these about 3,000 patients were treated by radiation either as the soIe method of therapy or in combination with surgery. A record of each case was kept from the very beginning. The materia1 * GynecoIogy and FemaIe EndocrinoIogy. By EmiI Novak, A.B., M.D., D.SC. (Hon. DubIin), F.A.C.S. Boston, 1941. Little, Brown and Company. t Malignant Disease and Its Treatment by Radmm. By Stanford Cade, F.R.C.S. BaItimore, 1940. The WilIiams and Wilkins Company. Price $18.00. 5’8
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thus gathered Iaid the foundation for this vohrme. If one can afford the price, this voIume is worth owning. A carefuI study of its pages wiII bring one up-to-date on the diagnosis and treatment of maIignant disease. “ PreecIamptic and EcIamptic Toxemia of Pregnancy”* is a book for the man who does obstetrics. It is a short, concise work (398 pages) by Lewis Dexter and Soma Weiss. Dr. Dexter is Research FeIIow in Medicine at the Harvard MedicaI SchooI. Soma Weiss, aIso of Harvard, died recentIy. He was one of the “great” physicians and he died a very young man. The book was written in collaboration with FIorence W. Haynes, Herbert S. Sise and James V. Warren. This monograph is based on an investigation of preeclamptic and ecIamptic toxemia of pregnancy conducted over a period of three years. The investigation was stimuIated by many confusing probIems confronting one of the authors during the fourteen years he acted as the medica cons&ant of the Obstetrica Service of the Boston City HospitaI. The student wiI1 find a fuI1 bibhography at the end of each chapter and obstetricians would do we11 to read this text carefully. The Iay press gave Gregory ZiIboorg’s “A History of MedicaI PsychoIogy”t high praise. No author couId wish for more Iaudatory reviews, and from a professiona viewpoint we can echo these praises. The titIe teIIs us what the book is about, and a perusa1 of its contents wiI1 convince the reader that he is deep in the pages of a rare and deIightfu1 work. One need not be a physician to enjoy this history of man’s Iong struggIe with menta1 iIIness, but physicians are sure to get the “something more” from its pages than any Iayman. We recommend this work for reading during that half hour before bedtime. If we had our way we would have every surgica1 intern, resident and young physician in practice own a copy of Ferguson’s “Surgery of the AmbuIatory Patient.“$ When one considers the thousands * Preeclamptic and EcIamptic Toxemia of Pregnancy. By Lewis Dexter, A.B., M.D. and Soma Weiss, LB., M.D. Boston, 1941. LrttIe Brown and Company. Price $5.00. t A History of Medical PsychoIogy. By Gregory ZIIboorg, M.D. In CoIIaboration with George W. Henry, M.D. New York, 1941. W. W. Norton Co., Inc. Price 965.00. $ Surgery of the AmbuIatory Patient. By L. Kraecr Ferguson, M.D., F.A.C.S. PhiladeIphia, 1942. J. B. Lippincott Co. Price $10.00.
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ShouId one wish for a compIete work on “MaIignant Disease and Its Treatment by Radium ” we refer him to a book of that titIe by Stanford Cade.t It is a Iarge book (nearly 1,300 pages) and has 623 iIIustrations, many in coIor. The author writes: “SuccessfuI treatment (of cancer) depends upon three main factors: a sound knowIedge of the disease; a wise seIection of the method of treatment; and accurate and skiIIfu1 technique.” Covering a period of fifteen years the author saw about 4,000 cases of maIignant disease; of these about 3,000 patients were treated by radiation either as the soIe method of therapy or in combination with surgery. A record of each case was kept from the very beginning. The materia1 * GynecoIogy and FemaIe EndocrinoIogy. By EmiI Novak, A.B., M.D., D.SC. (Hon. DubIin), F.A.C.S. Boston, 1941. Little, Brown and Company. t Malignant Disease and Its Treatment by Radmm. By Stanford Cade, F.R.C.S. BaItimore, 1940. The WilIiams and Wilkins Company. Price $18.00. 5’8
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thus gathered Iaid the foundation for this vohrme. If one can afford the price, this voIume is worth owning. A carefuI study of its pages wiII bring one up-to-date on the diagnosis and treatment of maIignant disease. “ PreecIamptic and EcIamptic Toxemia of Pregnancy”* is a book for the man who does obstetrics. It is a short, concise work (398 pages) by Lewis Dexter and Soma Weiss. Dr. Dexter is Research FeIIow in Medicine at the Harvard MedicaI SchooI. Soma Weiss, aIso of Harvard, died recentIy. He was one of the “great” physicians and he died a very young man. The book was written in collaboration with FIorence W. Haynes, Herbert S. Sise and James V. Warren. This monograph is based on an investigation of preeclamptic and ecIamptic toxemia of pregnancy conducted over a period of three years. The investigation was stimuIated by many confusing probIems confronting one of the authors during the fourteen years he acted as the medica cons&ant of the Obstetrica Service of the Boston City HospitaI. The student wiI1 find a fuI1 bibhography at the end of each chapter and obstetricians would do we11 to read this text carefully. The Iay press gave Gregory ZiIboorg’s “A History of MedicaI PsychoIogy”t high praise. No author couId wish for more Iaudatory reviews, and from a professiona viewpoint we can echo these praises. The titIe teIIs us what the book is about, and a perusa1 of its contents wiI1 convince the reader that he is deep in the pages of a rare and deIightfu1 work. One need not be a physician to enjoy this history of man’s Iong struggIe with menta1 iIIness, but physicians are sure to get the “something more” from its pages than any Iayman. We recommend this work for reading during that half hour before bedtime. If we had our way we would have every surgica1 intern, resident and young physician in practice own a copy of Ferguson’s “Surgery of the AmbuIatory Patient.“$ When one considers the thousands * Preeclamptic and EcIamptic Toxemia of Pregnancy. By Lewis Dexter, A.B., M.D. and Soma Weiss, LB., M.D. Boston, 1941. LrttIe Brown and Company. Price $5.00. t A History of Medical PsychoIogy. By Gregory ZIIboorg, M.D. In CoIIaboration with George W. Henry, M.D. New York, 1941. W. W. Norton Co., Inc. Price 965.00. $ Surgery of the AmbuIatory Patient. By L. Kraecr Ferguson, M.D., F.A.C.S. PhiladeIphia, 1942. J. B. Lippincott Co. Price $10.00.