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Physiology of puberty
BOOK PHYSIOL~CY
Wilkins
OF PUBERTY.
Co..
Baltimore,
By 1. J. cm
Originally
REVIEW der We&en a hlonograph
Bosch und B. T. Donovan, Williams & of the Physiological Society No. 1s.
216 pp. The happy crossing
of paths by a British
Council
Scholar
(J. J. van der We&ten
Bosch)
and a Beit Memorial Fellow (B. T. Donovan) in 1954 has brought forth, 11 years later. this splendid compendium of the Western-Worlcl literature on an all-embracing. ehlsive, difficult and important subject. The clinician’s search for practical applications will be fruitless. The researcher 01 student, however. will find open untold mullhers of portals through which all conceivable aspects of the topic, some necessarily general. others very detailed, can he viewed. As one reads. again and again one is confronted with the remarkable and often confusing differences between species. Human physiology. the most complex of all. will resist ultimate lmderstanding until we can bring ourselves to conduct anthropoid and even human experimentation. Forty-eight pages of references are alluded to in this treatise. and. if the tapestrx of puberty can ever he woven, it will have been this book which supplied woof. It belongs in every scientific library.-Karl F. Rtrgurt, M.D.
NEWS
AND
the warp and th;
NOTES
Workshop in Clinical Nutrition The
11th
Annual
Conference
on Nutritional
and Metabolic
Considerations
in Diseasr
of the Philadelphia County Medical Societv will be held at the Home of the Medical Societv. 2100 Spring Garden St., November 2. 1966. The chairmen of the conference will again be Dr. Michael C. Wohl, Chairman. Committee on Nutrition and Metabolism, and Dr. Bernard B. Zamostein. President. Philadelphia Academy of General Practice. The faculty for the workshop will he drawn from the medical schools of Philadelphia. Guest participants will be Dr. Rachmiel I.evine. New York Medical College. and Dr. W. H. Sehrell. Jr,. Columbia ITniversity School of Public Health and Administrative The subject
hledicine. matter to be covered
xi11 he Nutrition
in Cardiovascular
Disease,
intestinal and Metabolic Diseases, and Nutrition in Surgery and Convalescence. For further information and enrollment write: Dr. Milton M. PerloE. Chairman, Committee, 2923 Cheltenham Ave.. Philadelphia, Pa.
<:astrcjProgram
Wilkins
OF PUBERTY.
Co..
Baltimore,
By 1. J. cm
Originally
REVIEW der We&en a hlonograph
Bosch und B. T. Donovan, Williams & of the Physiological Society No. 1s.
216 pp. The happy crossing
of paths by a British
Council
Scholar
(J. J. van der We&ten
Bosch)
and a Beit Memorial Fellow (B. T. Donovan) in 1954 has brought forth, 11 years later. this splendid compendium of the Western-Worlcl literature on an all-embracing. ehlsive, difficult and important subject. The clinician’s search for practical applications will be fruitless. The researcher 01 student, however. will find open untold mullhers of portals through which all conceivable aspects of the topic, some necessarily general. others very detailed, can he viewed. As one reads. again and again one is confronted with the remarkable and often confusing differences between species. Human physiology. the most complex of all. will resist ultimate lmderstanding until we can bring ourselves to conduct anthropoid and even human experimentation. Forty-eight pages of references are alluded to in this treatise. and. if the tapestrx of puberty can ever he woven, it will have been this book which supplied woof. It belongs in every scientific library.-Karl F. Rtrgurt, M.D.
NEWS
AND
the warp and th;
NOTES
Workshop in Clinical Nutrition The
11th
Annual
Conference
on Nutritional
and Metabolic
Considerations
in Diseasr
of the Philadelphia County Medical Societv will be held at the Home of the Medical Societv. 2100 Spring Garden St., November 2. 1966. The chairmen of the conference will again be Dr. Michael C. Wohl, Chairman. Committee on Nutrition and Metabolism, and Dr. Bernard B. Zamostein. President. Philadelphia Academy of General Practice. The faculty for the workshop will he drawn from the medical schools of Philadelphia. Guest participants will be Dr. Rachmiel I.evine. New York Medical College. and Dr. W. H. Sehrell. Jr,. Columbia ITniversity School of Public Health and Administrative The subject
hledicine. matter to be covered
xi11 he Nutrition
in Cardiovascular
Disease,
intestinal and Metabolic Diseases, and Nutrition in Surgery and Convalescence. For further information and enrollment write: Dr. Milton M. PerloE. Chairman, Committee, 2923 Cheltenham Ave.. Philadelphia, Pa.
<:astrcjProgram