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Modern views on digestion and gastric disease
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For that reason SteindIer is now advocating treatment by the deveIopment of compensatory curves. PosturaI scoliosis, its prophylaxis and treatment, are adequately deaIt with, and there is a chapter on congenitaI, rachitic and paralytic scoliosis. This is a weIcome addition to recent surgical monographs. It is sound in substance, interesting in styIe, and attractive in typography and illustrations. MODERN VIEWS ON DIGESTION AND GASTRIC
DISEASE. By Hugh MacLean, M.D., D.SC., ~a.mc.p., Professor of Medicine, University of London, and Director of the MedicaI CIinic, St. Thomas' HospitaI; Honorary Consulting Physician to the Ministry of Pensions; ConsuIting Chemical Pathologist to St. Thomas' HospitaI. 8 vo. Pp. 17o; 14 charts and 23 figures. Price g4.oo. New York: PauI B. Hoeber, Inc., 1926. This little monograph on digestion and gastric diseases wilI prove interesting to students and practitioners, although its analysis of the subject presents no originaIity. A large number of the references are to pubIications from the United States. Fractional analysis of the stomach contents is stiII given an importance which Americans are beginning to discount. The chapter on x-ray diagnosis is satisfactory; but the section on flatulence is unconvincing. MacLean ignores the subject
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of visceraI reflexes in diagnosis. Gastroenterostomy is recommended, but its disadvantages are not mentioned, and subtotaI gastrectomy is not referred to. A modification of Sippy's diet is described but without credit. PROGRESSIVEMEDICINE. A QuarterIy Digest of Advances, Discoveries and Improvements in the Medical and SurgicaI Sciences. Edited by Hobart Amory Hare, M.D., EL.I)., Professor of Therapeutics, Materia Medica and Diagnosis in the Jefferson Medical ColIege, Philadelphia; Physician to the Jefferson Medical Coiiege Hospital; etc.; assisted by Leighton F. Appleman M.D., Instructor in Therapeutics, Jefferson MedicaI College, Philadelphia; OphthaImologist to the Frederick DougIas Memorial Hospital and to the Burd School; Attending Surgeon to the Wills Eye Hospital. VoIume II. June, 1926. 8 vo. Pp. 4o8. Philadelphia and New York: Lea & Febiger, 1926. This voIume of Progressiv e Medicine contains a spIendid %sum~ of the year's accomplishment in the fieIds covered: hernia; surgery o f the abdomen; gynecology; disorders of nutrition and metabolism; diseases of the glands of internal secretion; diseases of the blood and spIeen and ophthalmoIogy. There is more than customary obtrusion of personal opinion and accomplishment in the review of abdominal surgery; and in this section there are numerous annoying misprints. ~
*~o~io~. J .....
1oe Surge,y
Book Reviews
For that reason SteindIer is now advocating treatment by the deveIopment of compensatory curves. PosturaI scoliosis, its prophylaxis and treatment, are adequately deaIt with, and there is a chapter on congenitaI, rachitic and paralytic scoliosis. This is a weIcome addition to recent surgical monographs. It is sound in substance, interesting in styIe, and attractive in typography and illustrations. MODERN VIEWS ON DIGESTION AND GASTRIC
DISEASE. By Hugh MacLean, M.D., D.SC., ~a.mc.p., Professor of Medicine, University of London, and Director of the MedicaI CIinic, St. Thomas' HospitaI; Honorary Consulting Physician to the Ministry of Pensions; ConsuIting Chemical Pathologist to St. Thomas' HospitaI. 8 vo. Pp. 17o; 14 charts and 23 figures. Price g4.oo. New York: PauI B. Hoeber, Inc., 1926. This little monograph on digestion and gastric diseases wilI prove interesting to students and practitioners, although its analysis of the subject presents no originaIity. A large number of the references are to pubIications from the United States. Fractional analysis of the stomach contents is stiII given an importance which Americans are beginning to discount. The chapter on x-ray diagnosis is satisfactory; but the section on flatulence is unconvincing. MacLean ignores the subject
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of visceraI reflexes in diagnosis. Gastroenterostomy is recommended, but its disadvantages are not mentioned, and subtotaI gastrectomy is not referred to. A modification of Sippy's diet is described but without credit. PROGRESSIVEMEDICINE. A QuarterIy Digest of Advances, Discoveries and Improvements in the Medical and SurgicaI Sciences. Edited by Hobart Amory Hare, M.D., EL.I)., Professor of Therapeutics, Materia Medica and Diagnosis in the Jefferson Medical ColIege, Philadelphia; Physician to the Jefferson Medical Coiiege Hospital; etc.; assisted by Leighton F. Appleman M.D., Instructor in Therapeutics, Jefferson MedicaI College, Philadelphia; OphthaImologist to the Frederick DougIas Memorial Hospital and to the Burd School; Attending Surgeon to the Wills Eye Hospital. VoIume II. June, 1926. 8 vo. Pp. 4o8. Philadelphia and New York: Lea & Febiger, 1926. This voIume of Progressiv e Medicine contains a spIendid %sum~ of the year's accomplishment in the fieIds covered: hernia; surgery o f the abdomen; gynecology; disorders of nutrition and metabolism; diseases of the glands of internal secretion; diseases of the blood and spIeen and ophthalmoIogy. There is more than customary obtrusion of personal opinion and accomplishment in the review of abdominal surgery; and in this section there are numerous annoying misprints. ~