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New Head of the Navy Dental Corps
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NEW HEAD OF THE NAVY DENTAL CORPS
As we go to press, we learn that Captain Alexander Gordon Lyle has been commissioned Rear Admiral in the Navy to become head of the Navy Dental Corps. A fuller notice of this momentous event will be made in a subsequent issue of T h e Journal.
D E A T H O F DR. H EN R Y W. G IL L E T T
It is with m uch sadness that we announce the death .of D r. Henry W. Gillett, of N ew Y ork City. A n obituary notice of D r. G illett will be published in an early issue of T
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BIBLIOGRAPHICAL Stedm an’s Practical M edical Dictionary. 15th Edition. By S t a n l e y T h o m a s G a r b e r , B.S., M.D., University of Cincinnati, College of Medi cine. 1257 Pages, illustrated. Price, with thumb index, $7.50; without thumb index, $7.00. Baltimore: The Williams and Wil kins Company, 1942. S t e d m a n ’ s Practical Medical Dictionary, for nearly thirty years recognized as a stan dard reference book, has been completely revised by Stanley T. Garber, of the Uni versity of Cincinnati, College -of Medicine. The author has brought this edition up to date, and included many of the terms asso ciated with recent medical discoveries. For example, about one page (1061) is devoted to definitions and chemical formulae of the sulfonamides. The definitions of dental terms are usually clear and adequate, although not too criti cal. For example, caries is defined “a gradual decay with excavation of the dentine of a tooth, due possibly to the action of Lepto-
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thrix buccalis, commonly present in the mouth.” The leptothrix has not, to this re viewer’s knowledge, been seriously accused of causing caries since 1926. The pronun ciation of gingiva is given as “jin-ji’-vah,” which sounds odd, at least to midwestern dentists. No definition of “Vincent’s infec tion” is given. The Greek sources for words are printed in Roman letters, making it possible for the student to read without a knowledge of Greek. A helpful discussion of medical ety mology is included in the preface. Other features include 23 full page plates, innu merable diagrammatic sketches and about 190 tables. The book has been entirely reset in new type, which was chosen for its legi bility and clearness. Every one reading scientific literature should refer constantly to a modern medical dictionary. Rather than try to guess the meaning of a strange word, one can find its exact definition quickly and easily in a good dictionary such as Stedman’s Practical Medi cal Dictionary. M. K. H in e .
T
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Journal
of th e
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m e r ic a n
D
ental
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NEW HEAD OF THE NAVY DENTAL CORPS
As we go to press, we learn that Captain Alexander Gordon Lyle has been commissioned Rear Admiral in the Navy to become head of the Navy Dental Corps. A fuller notice of this momentous event will be made in a subsequent issue of T h e Journal.
D E A T H O F DR. H EN R Y W. G IL L E T T
It is with m uch sadness that we announce the death .of D r. Henry W. Gillett, of N ew Y ork City. A n obituary notice of D r. G illett will be published in an early issue of T
he
Jo u rn al.
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL Stedm an’s Practical M edical Dictionary. 15th Edition. By S t a n l e y T h o m a s G a r b e r , B.S., M.D., University of Cincinnati, College of Medi cine. 1257 Pages, illustrated. Price, with thumb index, $7.50; without thumb index, $7.00. Baltimore: The Williams and Wil kins Company, 1942. S t e d m a n ’ s Practical Medical Dictionary, for nearly thirty years recognized as a stan dard reference book, has been completely revised by Stanley T. Garber, of the Uni versity of Cincinnati, College -of Medicine. The author has brought this edition up to date, and included many of the terms asso ciated with recent medical discoveries. For example, about one page (1061) is devoted to definitions and chemical formulae of the sulfonamides. The definitions of dental terms are usually clear and adequate, although not too criti cal. For example, caries is defined “a gradual decay with excavation of the dentine of a tooth, due possibly to the action of Lepto-
Jour. A .D .A ., Vol. 30, April 1, 1943
thrix buccalis, commonly present in the mouth.” The leptothrix has not, to this re viewer’s knowledge, been seriously accused of causing caries since 1926. The pronun ciation of gingiva is given as “jin-ji’-vah,” which sounds odd, at least to midwestern dentists. No definition of “Vincent’s infec tion” is given. The Greek sources for words are printed in Roman letters, making it possible for the student to read without a knowledge of Greek. A helpful discussion of medical ety mology is included in the preface. Other features include 23 full page plates, innu merable diagrammatic sketches and about 190 tables. The book has been entirely reset in new type, which was chosen for its legi bility and clearness. Every one reading scientific literature should refer constantly to a modern medical dictionary. Rather than try to guess the meaning of a strange word, one can find its exact definition quickly and easily in a good dictionary such as Stedman’s Practical Medi cal Dictionary. M. K. H in e .