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REVIEW% revised. New York, 1937. Company. Price $3.50.
CLINICAL ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY. By Sir Thomas Lewis, M.D. Sixth Edition. EngIand, 1937. Shaw and Sons Ltd. Price 8s. 6d. net. This we11 known book, which has gone through five previous editions, is intended to serve as an introduction to students of electrocardiography and as a guide to practitioners and hospita1 physicians in understanding curves that may be taken by others from patients in their charge. This small book (I 28 pages) covers: The EIectrocardiographic Method, The PhysiologicaI EIectrocardiogram, Rhythmic But Anomalous Electrocardiograms, AuricuIo-VentricuIar Heart-BIock, Premature Contractions or Extrasystoles, SimpIe Paroxymal Tachycardia, Auricular FIutter, AuricuIar FibriIIation, Sinus Disturbances and Atternation, and Special Conditions. There is a good Index and 109 Figures are incIuded. A TEXTBOOK OF HISTOLOGY. By Harvey Ernest Jordan, A.M., PH.D. Seventh Edition. New York, 1937. D. AppIetonCentury Company. Price $7.50. This book was first offered physicians and medica students in 1916. It is not surprising that it is now offered in a seventh edition. It had been accepted as a fixed standard in its line. And because it has fuIfiIIed its purpose it is but natural that it has had a wide distribution. This new edition adheres to the genera1 principIes along which the earIier editions were planned. Occasional brief functiona interpretations and physicochemical explanations are given, but these are not allowed to overshadow structura1 details. Thirty-nine figures have been replaced by new and improved iIIustrations. Of the total of 610 illustrations, 19 are from the coIIection of Professor Irving Hardesty of Tulane University. Brief additions to the text have been made covering newIy reveaIed functional features of periosteum, ovaries, suprarenals, thymus and pinea gland. DISEASES OF THE HEART. By Sir Thomas Lewis. New Second Edition. CompIeteIy 407
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If we were asked to name one book for a physician or medica student on the subject of heart disease for use prior to referring to Iarger works, we wouId instantly direct the questioner to Sir Thomas Lewis’ “Disenscs of the Heart.” He says: “The impuIse to write a work of reference has not stirred me, but I have had the desire to pIace at the disposa1 of students and medica practitioners the outIine of my clinical teaching on diseases of the heart, as this has deveIoped in my talks to my own hospita1 students.” The author being internationaIIy known as one of the outstanding, if not the outstanding authority in this field, a smaI1 book, (297 pages) written to the point, and covering a11 phases of diseases of the heart in such a manner that even a third or fourth year medica student can “get” the fine points, we name this book as one that shouId be owned by every medica student and medical practitioner. This should not be a burden, for the cost is most moderate. The first edition appeared in 1933. This, the second edition, is weIcome, and no doubt in the future many other editions wiI1 become necessary. Surgeons who wish a book on this subject need look no further afieId. PRACTICAL TALKS ON KIDNEY DISEASE. By Edward Weiss, M.D. Springfield, III., 1937. CharIes C. Thomas. Price $3.00. This is an interesting and very readable book, and aIthough the author teIIs us it is not intended as a monograph or a textbook, physicians will find they can read this book with profit. In the preface the author states: “If a physician has had a serious iIIness he is apt to develop a special interest in the disorder from which he has suffered. Many specialists are made this way. Ever since an attack of glomerulonephritis during my interneship I have been especiaIIy interested in kidney disease.” Hence this book of 176 pages covering Genera1 Considerations, Disturbances of Rena1 Function, Signs and Symptoms of Kidney Disease, GIomerulonephritis, Nephrosis, Pregnancy and
408
American Journal of Surgery
Book
Kidney Disease, and Nephrosclerosis. There is an Index.
Reviews
early stage of deveIopment as contrasted with that of aduIt life, and even the common neuroIogicaI disorders of this period are, to a great PRACTICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY. SYMPTOMS extent, obscure. I have attempted, therefore, to bring together and to anaIyse a11 available AND TREATMENT. By Max A. GoIdzieher, information about these conditions in the hope M.D. Second Edition. IIIustrated. New that I may be abIe to cIarify the situation to York, 1937. D. AppIeton-Century Co., some extent.” Inc. Price $5.00. The reviewer wiII not pause to seIect some From month to month something new is minor point, controversia1 in type, and resort added to this broad subject. Few physicians to a one-sided debate. It wouId be in poor taste. know more concerning this topic than they Throughout the book the author impresses one read in the “medical pamphIets” sent them by as possessing a deep knowIedge of his subject, pharmaceutical houses. Therefore, this book which he offers the reader in a styIe that is (344 pages) is welcome. And one can we11undergracefu1 and ever has the earmark of being stand why it comes to us in a Second Edition. scientificahy sound and true. Here and there Physicians in every field of medicine must have throughout the text are bibliographies. The more than a superhcial understanding of this index is ample. subject and they wouId do we11 to read careTo anyone interested in this subject this fuIIy Dr. Goldzieher’s text before going on to book will become the standard. Senior medica larger, more involved textbooks. students wiI1 find it an excellent book to own, The book thoroughly covers the subject. We and to cons& Iong after their graduation. list only a few chapter headings: Morphology of Rose & CarIess’ MANUAL OF SURGERY. the Endocrine Glands, Physiology of the EndoAmerican (Fifteenth) Edition. Edited by crine Glands, Examination of the Endocrine WiIIiam T. CoughIin, M.D., F.A.C.S. From of DeveIopment, Patient, Disturbances the Fifteenth EngIish Edition by CeciI Growth, Nutrition, MetaboIism, Fat MetaboIism, Protein MetaboIism, CaIcium MetabP. G. WakeIey and John B. Hunter. BaItiolism, SaIt and Water Metabolism, and Iron more, 1937. WiIIiam Wood and Company. MetaboIism; Disturbances of Heat ReguIation, Price $9.00. Disturbances of CircuIation, of the Digestive The first edition of this work first appeared Tract, of Locomotion, of Sex; Disturbances of about forty years ago, and since then it has been the Endocrine System in Pregnancy; Therapy; and there are chapters on the treatment of the issued in fourteen editions. The fifteenth edition, edited by WiIIiam T. Coughlin, is now many and various endocrine disturbances. offered the profession. There is a SuppIement. In every sense of the word this is a textbook of surgery (1536 pages; index, 50 pages; 900 DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM IN ilhistrations), and being such one need not go INFANCY, CHILDHOOD, AND ADOLESCENCE. into detai1 regarding the contents. Inasmuch as By Frank R. Ford, M.D. SpringfieId, III., this monumenta work has been rewritten and 1937. CharIes C. Thomas. Price $8.50. brought up to date every few years, sufhce it to This is a sohd work of 933 pages. The re- say that this edition contains the Iatest in viewer finds it an exceIIent book. AIso, it is a surgica1 thought and procedure, brieff y written, book that is timeIy and fiIIs a gap in the Iitera- presented in an orderly manner, and detaiIing the facts of the basic groundwork of the science ture. It shouId enjoy a wide distribution among and art of surgery as we11 as those of its neuroIogists, pediatricians and physicians who practice. come in contact with humans up to and through This, the fifteenth edition, has new chapters the age of adoIescence. The author in his Preface says; “The diseases added, new iIIustrations, and much of the former text has been rewritten. of the nervous system of infancy and chiIdhood Not a book to attempt to read as one wouId constitute a very difficult fieId which belongs to a monograph, but a good book to have in one’s both the neuroIogist and the pediatrician, but library to consuIt when necessary. A book which has not been cuhivated intensively by either. The neurology of chiIdhood is stiI1 in an appearing in a fifteenth edition needs no baIIy-
REVIEW% revised. New York, 1937. Company. Price $3.50.
CLINICAL ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY. By Sir Thomas Lewis, M.D. Sixth Edition. EngIand, 1937. Shaw and Sons Ltd. Price 8s. 6d. net. This we11 known book, which has gone through five previous editions, is intended to serve as an introduction to students of electrocardiography and as a guide to practitioners and hospita1 physicians in understanding curves that may be taken by others from patients in their charge. This small book (I 28 pages) covers: The EIectrocardiographic Method, The PhysiologicaI EIectrocardiogram, Rhythmic But Anomalous Electrocardiograms, AuricuIo-VentricuIar Heart-BIock, Premature Contractions or Extrasystoles, SimpIe Paroxymal Tachycardia, Auricular FIutter, AuricuIar FibriIIation, Sinus Disturbances and Atternation, and Special Conditions. There is a good Index and 109 Figures are incIuded. A TEXTBOOK OF HISTOLOGY. By Harvey Ernest Jordan, A.M., PH.D. Seventh Edition. New York, 1937. D. AppIetonCentury Company. Price $7.50. This book was first offered physicians and medica students in 1916. It is not surprising that it is now offered in a seventh edition. It had been accepted as a fixed standard in its line. And because it has fuIfiIIed its purpose it is but natural that it has had a wide distribution. This new edition adheres to the genera1 principIes along which the earIier editions were planned. Occasional brief functiona interpretations and physicochemical explanations are given, but these are not allowed to overshadow structura1 details. Thirty-nine figures have been replaced by new and improved iIIustrations. Of the total of 610 illustrations, 19 are from the coIIection of Professor Irving Hardesty of Tulane University. Brief additions to the text have been made covering newIy reveaIed functional features of periosteum, ovaries, suprarenals, thymus and pinea gland. DISEASES OF THE HEART. By Sir Thomas Lewis. New Second Edition. CompIeteIy 407
The
MacmiIIan
If we were asked to name one book for a physician or medica student on the subject of heart disease for use prior to referring to Iarger works, we wouId instantly direct the questioner to Sir Thomas Lewis’ “Disenscs of the Heart.” He says: “The impuIse to write a work of reference has not stirred me, but I have had the desire to pIace at the disposa1 of students and medica practitioners the outIine of my clinical teaching on diseases of the heart, as this has deveIoped in my talks to my own hospita1 students.” The author being internationaIIy known as one of the outstanding, if not the outstanding authority in this field, a smaI1 book, (297 pages) written to the point, and covering a11 phases of diseases of the heart in such a manner that even a third or fourth year medica student can “get” the fine points, we name this book as one that shouId be owned by every medica student and medical practitioner. This should not be a burden, for the cost is most moderate. The first edition appeared in 1933. This, the second edition, is weIcome, and no doubt in the future many other editions wiI1 become necessary. Surgeons who wish a book on this subject need look no further afieId. PRACTICAL TALKS ON KIDNEY DISEASE. By Edward Weiss, M.D. Springfield, III., 1937. CharIes C. Thomas. Price $3.00. This is an interesting and very readable book, and aIthough the author teIIs us it is not intended as a monograph or a textbook, physicians will find they can read this book with profit. In the preface the author states: “If a physician has had a serious iIIness he is apt to develop a special interest in the disorder from which he has suffered. Many specialists are made this way. Ever since an attack of glomerulonephritis during my interneship I have been especiaIIy interested in kidney disease.” Hence this book of 176 pages covering Genera1 Considerations, Disturbances of Rena1 Function, Signs and Symptoms of Kidney Disease, GIomerulonephritis, Nephrosis, Pregnancy and
408
American Journal of Surgery
Book
Kidney Disease, and Nephrosclerosis. There is an Index.
Reviews
early stage of deveIopment as contrasted with that of aduIt life, and even the common neuroIogicaI disorders of this period are, to a great PRACTICAL ENDOCRINOLOGY. SYMPTOMS extent, obscure. I have attempted, therefore, to bring together and to anaIyse a11 available AND TREATMENT. By Max A. GoIdzieher, information about these conditions in the hope M.D. Second Edition. IIIustrated. New that I may be abIe to cIarify the situation to York, 1937. D. AppIeton-Century Co., some extent.” Inc. Price $5.00. The reviewer wiII not pause to seIect some From month to month something new is minor point, controversia1 in type, and resort added to this broad subject. Few physicians to a one-sided debate. It wouId be in poor taste. know more concerning this topic than they Throughout the book the author impresses one read in the “medical pamphIets” sent them by as possessing a deep knowIedge of his subject, pharmaceutical houses. Therefore, this book which he offers the reader in a styIe that is (344 pages) is welcome. And one can we11undergracefu1 and ever has the earmark of being stand why it comes to us in a Second Edition. scientificahy sound and true. Here and there Physicians in every field of medicine must have throughout the text are bibliographies. The more than a superhcial understanding of this index is ample. subject and they wouId do we11 to read careTo anyone interested in this subject this fuIIy Dr. Goldzieher’s text before going on to book will become the standard. Senior medica larger, more involved textbooks. students wiI1 find it an excellent book to own, The book thoroughly covers the subject. We and to cons& Iong after their graduation. list only a few chapter headings: Morphology of Rose & CarIess’ MANUAL OF SURGERY. the Endocrine Glands, Physiology of the EndoAmerican (Fifteenth) Edition. Edited by crine Glands, Examination of the Endocrine WiIIiam T. CoughIin, M.D., F.A.C.S. From of DeveIopment, Patient, Disturbances the Fifteenth EngIish Edition by CeciI Growth, Nutrition, MetaboIism, Fat MetaboIism, Protein MetaboIism, CaIcium MetabP. G. WakeIey and John B. Hunter. BaItiolism, SaIt and Water Metabolism, and Iron more, 1937. WiIIiam Wood and Company. MetaboIism; Disturbances of Heat ReguIation, Price $9.00. Disturbances of CircuIation, of the Digestive The first edition of this work first appeared Tract, of Locomotion, of Sex; Disturbances of about forty years ago, and since then it has been the Endocrine System in Pregnancy; Therapy; and there are chapters on the treatment of the issued in fourteen editions. The fifteenth edition, edited by WiIIiam T. Coughlin, is now many and various endocrine disturbances. offered the profession. There is a SuppIement. In every sense of the word this is a textbook of surgery (1536 pages; index, 50 pages; 900 DISEASES OF THE NERVOUS SYSTEM IN ilhistrations), and being such one need not go INFANCY, CHILDHOOD, AND ADOLESCENCE. into detai1 regarding the contents. Inasmuch as By Frank R. Ford, M.D. SpringfieId, III., this monumenta work has been rewritten and 1937. CharIes C. Thomas. Price $8.50. brought up to date every few years, sufhce it to This is a sohd work of 933 pages. The re- say that this edition contains the Iatest in viewer finds it an exceIIent book. AIso, it is a surgica1 thought and procedure, brieff y written, book that is timeIy and fiIIs a gap in the Iitera- presented in an orderly manner, and detaiIing the facts of the basic groundwork of the science ture. It shouId enjoy a wide distribution among and art of surgery as we11 as those of its neuroIogists, pediatricians and physicians who practice. come in contact with humans up to and through This, the fifteenth edition, has new chapters the age of adoIescence. The author in his Preface says; “The diseases added, new iIIustrations, and much of the former text has been rewritten. of the nervous system of infancy and chiIdhood Not a book to attempt to read as one wouId constitute a very difficult fieId which belongs to a monograph, but a good book to have in one’s both the neuroIogist and the pediatrician, but library to consuIt when necessary. A book which has not been cuhivated intensively by either. The neurology of chiIdhood is stiI1 in an appearing in a fifteenth edition needs no baIIy-