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Microtechniques of clinical chemistry
Volume 60 Number 6
The Study of Influenza. Translation of Ucheniye o Grippe, by V. M. Zhdanov, V. D. Solov'ev, and F. G. Epshtein (with contributions by A. S. Gorbunova, L. L. Fadeyeva, and L. Ya. Zakstel'skaya), Moscow, Medgiz, 1958. Public Health Service Publication No. 792, prepared and distributed by the Russian Scientific Translation Program, Division of General Medical Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, M d . Washington, 1960, Public Health Service, 939 pages.
Books
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Treatment of the Child in Emotional Conflict. Hyman S. Lippmann, M.D., edition 2, New York, 1962, Blakiston Division, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 367 pages. Price $9.50.
What Teen-Agers Want to Know. Florence Levinsohn, B.A., M.A., in consultation with G. Lombard Kelly, A.B., B.S.M., M.D., Chicago, 1962, Budlong Press, 88 pages. Price $1.50.
Book reviews Microtechniques of Clinical C h e m i s t r y . Samuel Natelson, Sc.M., Ph.D., edition 2, Springfield, Ill., 1961, Charles C T h o m a s , Publisher, 578 pages. Price $14.75. This second edition of Dr. Natelson's book is both an expansion and an improvement of the first. The procedures are presented in somewhat greater detail, and a number of new techniques, as well as informative sections on automation, emission spectroscopy, and osmotic pressure have been added. Microtechniques for all established clinical chemistry procedures and for many new and special analyses are readily available here. Most of the errors in editing of the first edition have been corrected and the few remaining do not detract from the usefulness of the book. The first 85 pages are devoted to the considerations fundamental to successful microanalysis in the clinical laboratory. Basis principles, instrumentation, measurement, and blood sampling are discussed in sufficient detail to enable a careful analyst to adopt the author's experience with microtechniques in his own laboratory.
Medical Genetics, 1958-1960; A n Annotated Review. V i c t o r M. M c K u s i c k , M.D., a n d contributors, St. Louis, 1961, T h e C. V. M o s b y C o m p a n y . 534 pages. Price $14.50. In 1958, the author and a number of staff members, house officers, medical students, and research fellows at the Johns Hopkins University
Refined special equipment available to the microchemist is described, but suggestions are also made for employing standard facilities whenever possible. Sources for microequipment and a list of pertinent books are included. The procedures preferred by the author are presented in detail, occasionally followed by an alternative technique. Numerous references both to methods and to clinical interpretation are given. However, it is not always clear from what established procedure the method described may have been adapted. Procedure notes contribute much pertinent information. The pediatrician who would like to see microtechniques introduced into the clinical laboratories serving his patients can probably find no better argument for this cause than that presented in Dr. Natelson's section, "The Need for Micro Procedures in the Clinical Laboratory." This book is probably the best readily available comprehensive source of information for the laboratory desiring to add microtechniques to its routine. I~ARY L. B A U I ~ I A N N , B.S.
School of Medicine organized a "journal club" for the review of the literature in medical genetics. This book represents a compilation of their reviews for 1958, 1959, and 1960, which have previously been published in the Journal o[ Chronic Diseases. The author says in his Preface, "It is hoped that the accumulation of annual reviews will prove a partial substitute for a full textbook of medical genetics . . . and will sup-
The Study of Influenza. Translation of Ucheniye o Grippe, by V. M. Zhdanov, V. D. Solov'ev, and F. G. Epshtein (with contributions by A. S. Gorbunova, L. L. Fadeyeva, and L. Ya. Zakstel'skaya), Moscow, Medgiz, 1958. Public Health Service Publication No. 792, prepared and distributed by the Russian Scientific Translation Program, Division of General Medical Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, M d . Washington, 1960, Public Health Service, 939 pages.
Books
957
Treatment of the Child in Emotional Conflict. Hyman S. Lippmann, M.D., edition 2, New York, 1962, Blakiston Division, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 367 pages. Price $9.50.
What Teen-Agers Want to Know. Florence Levinsohn, B.A., M.A., in consultation with G. Lombard Kelly, A.B., B.S.M., M.D., Chicago, 1962, Budlong Press, 88 pages. Price $1.50.
Book reviews Microtechniques of Clinical C h e m i s t r y . Samuel Natelson, Sc.M., Ph.D., edition 2, Springfield, Ill., 1961, Charles C T h o m a s , Publisher, 578 pages. Price $14.75. This second edition of Dr. Natelson's book is both an expansion and an improvement of the first. The procedures are presented in somewhat greater detail, and a number of new techniques, as well as informative sections on automation, emission spectroscopy, and osmotic pressure have been added. Microtechniques for all established clinical chemistry procedures and for many new and special analyses are readily available here. Most of the errors in editing of the first edition have been corrected and the few remaining do not detract from the usefulness of the book. The first 85 pages are devoted to the considerations fundamental to successful microanalysis in the clinical laboratory. Basis principles, instrumentation, measurement, and blood sampling are discussed in sufficient detail to enable a careful analyst to adopt the author's experience with microtechniques in his own laboratory.
Medical Genetics, 1958-1960; A n Annotated Review. V i c t o r M. M c K u s i c k , M.D., a n d contributors, St. Louis, 1961, T h e C. V. M o s b y C o m p a n y . 534 pages. Price $14.50. In 1958, the author and a number of staff members, house officers, medical students, and research fellows at the Johns Hopkins University
Refined special equipment available to the microchemist is described, but suggestions are also made for employing standard facilities whenever possible. Sources for microequipment and a list of pertinent books are included. The procedures preferred by the author are presented in detail, occasionally followed by an alternative technique. Numerous references both to methods and to clinical interpretation are given. However, it is not always clear from what established procedure the method described may have been adapted. Procedure notes contribute much pertinent information. The pediatrician who would like to see microtechniques introduced into the clinical laboratories serving his patients can probably find no better argument for this cause than that presented in Dr. Natelson's section, "The Need for Micro Procedures in the Clinical Laboratory." This book is probably the best readily available comprehensive source of information for the laboratory desiring to add microtechniques to its routine. I~ARY L. B A U I ~ I A N N , B.S.
School of Medicine organized a "journal club" for the review of the literature in medical genetics. This book represents a compilation of their reviews for 1958, 1959, and 1960, which have previously been published in the Journal o[ Chronic Diseases. The author says in his Preface, "It is hoped that the accumulation of annual reviews will prove a partial substitute for a full textbook of medical genetics . . . and will sup-