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Shock: Blood studies as a guide to therapy
EXPECTANT MOTHERHOOD. By Nicholson J. Eastman, M.D. Boston, 1940. LittIe, Brown and Company. Price $1.25.
Medical named). Thomas.
It frequentIy happens that a prospective mother has no end of questions which she asks her physician. Some of them are relevant and many seem trivia1 but every one of them demands an answer. Often the time consumed in meeting these demands takes a Iot of the physician’s time. Therefore, although severa such short books have been published during the last quarter century, this modern, sanely and beautifuhy written book IilIs the biII in every detail. It teIls the expectant mother (not to mention her husband) everything one couId want to know concerning a11 the whys and wherefores of the pregnant state. Many physicians are sure to recommend it to their patients, and in our opinion it is the best book at hand on this topic. That it is authentic goes without saying, as the author is Professor of Obstetrics at Johns Hopkins University.
Any one, surgeon or medical student, who wishes a “‘good” work on surgery, either for reference or textbook, wiI1 go far afield to find one that measures up to this book. It is nine years (1931) since the first edition appeared, and during that time Dr. Homans and his coauthors have kept their work in the front rank of surgical textbooks. It is unnecessary to go into details. Suffice it to say that basicahy the work is authentic and fuIfiIIs in every detail the requirements of a book of this type. The authors have also kept it up-to-date. Dr. Homans in his Preface to the Fifth Edition expIains how Harvey Cushing fathered the method of keeping a book alive. This book, containing 1272 pages, 530 illustrations by Willard C. Shepard, and a special bibliographica index, is worth a score of the usua1 run-of-the-miI1 surgical works usuahv written to complete a publisher’s Iists.
ATLAS OF CARDIOROENTGENOLOGY. By Hugo RoesIer, M.D., F.A.C.P. SpringfieId, III., 1940. CharIes C. Thomas. Price $8.50. This atIas is a case-history type of presentation, with the case protocoIs and a short comment making up the only text. While the atlas is primariIy one of roentgenology, it is intended more for the clinician than the radioIogist, and presents a fine correlation of clinical, Laboratory, radiographic and pathoIogic hndings. The ihustrations are excehent and are by no means co&red to radiographs. The plates of pathoIogica1 specimens are particuIarly Roesler’s method of abundant, and Dr. demonstrating the cardiac pathoIogy by Iongitudinal and window sections is of special interest. The book shouId be instructive to both the student and the cardioIogist. A TEXTBOOK OF SURGERY. By John Homans, M.D. CompiIed from Lectures and Other Writings of These Members of The Surgical Department of The Harvard
SchooI (twenty-three Springfield, 1940. Price $8.00.
authors CharIes
are C.
SHOCK: BLOOD STUDIES AS A GUIDE TO THERAPY. By John Scudder, M.D. PhiladeIphia, 1940. J. B. Lippincott Cornpan! Price $5.50. Surgeons, especially, should read, reread and digest the contents of this voIume. It deals with “the importance of the chemical approach to certain of the fundamental bioIogica1 problems encountered daiIy in our Surgical Service” (AIIen 0. Whipple in the Foreword). Dr. WhippIe further states that it gives him great pIeasure “to acknowledge the beneficia1 results of our surgical patients before and after operation because of his [Scudder] studies. These have deveIoped methods and a critique which have been of the greatest therapeutic vaIue to the SurgicaI Department of the Presbyterian Hospital.” The work is divided into four Parts. Part One deaIs with the historical and experimental; Part Two with varieties of shocktheir anaIysis and treatment; Part Three with historical development and bibliography; and
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of Surgery
Part Four with a laboratory
Book Reviews manua1. Every
section is vaIuabIe but the student with a basic background in this work wiII find Parts Two and Three especiahy interesting, whiIe the hospita1 surgical chief wiI1 put his juniors to the task of becoming famiIiar with the facts contained in Part Four. Inasmuch as every surgeon has patients who suffer from shock, notwithstanding the apparentIy endIess Iist of books and articIes that have been written on this subject, we wouId urge that this work be acquired and thoroughIy studied. FRACTURES AND OTHER BONE AND JOINT INJURIES. By R. Watson-Jones, F.R.C.S. BaItimore, 1940. The WiIIiams and WiIkins Company. Price $13.50. This is severa books in one, . . . a book for the fracture specialist, genera1 surgeon and practitioner who must meet emergencies and handIe fractures and other bone injuries. It is hard to review in as much as there is nothing to criticize. It is not our place to quibbIe over minor problems of technique. In every detail Fractures and Otber Bone and Joint Injuries is, one might say, “the Iast word on the subject.” The work covers the materia1 in detai1 and is very we11 written. We wouId draw special attention to the iIIustrations, some of which are in coIor, the work of DougIas Kid. They are far above the average. Anyone desiring a book on fractures and bone injuries would not be disappointed shouId he add this one to his Iibrary. NEOPLASTIC DISEASES. A TREATISE ON TUMORS. By James Ewing. Fourth Edition. Revised and EnIarged. With 581 IIIustrations. PhiIadeIphia, 1940. W. B. Saunders Company. What can a reviewer say of Dr. Ewing’s work, now in its fourth edition, completeIy revised and enlarged, other than that it is one of the best if not the very best book in its held. This reviewer beIieves nothing finer has been written in the English Ianguage on neoplastic diseases. The first edition appeared in rg 1g, and other editions were brought out in rgzz and 1928. During the past decade we witnessed additions in many branches of neopIastic disease, and the author, being abreast of a11new knowIedge on the subject, has virtuaIIy redone his book. It is up to the minute and that it is scientificaIIy the Iast word, goes without saying.
A Iibrary vaIuabIe
wouId be incomplete work on its sheIves.
without
this
CLINICAL UROLOGY. By OswaId Swinney LowsIey and Thomas Joseph Kirwin. Two VoIumes. BaItimore, 1940. The WiIIiams & WiIkins Company. Price $10.00. The authors have written a readable, scientificaIIy sound and worth whiIe book in two volumes. It was written for a11 physicians, the medica student, the genera1 practitioner, the genera1 surgeon, not to mention its scope as a reference work for the trained uroIogist. The subject is covered most satisfactoriIy. There is to be nothing gained by going into detail. Suffice it to say that any physician, specialist, or practitioner, who requires a work on Clinical Urology, will have his every desire fuIfiIIed with this work. We aIso noted the size of the books are such that they feel good in the hands, the print is cIear and Iarge enough to make reading easy, and the illustrations by WilIiam P. Didusch are superb. Some of them are in color. We congratuIate the authors and the pubIishers in giving the profession such an interesting and scientifically sound set of books on Clinical Urology. It is an important contribution to the Iiterature of this subject. THE HEAD AND NECK IN ROENTGEN DIAGNOSIS.By Henry K. Pancoast, M.D., Eugene P. Pendergrass, M.D. and J. Par-
sons Schaeffer, CharIes
M.D. SpringfieId, Ill., C. Thomas. Price $12.50.
1940,
This is a large book consisting of 976 pages. There are 1,23 I iIIustrations, some of which are in coIor. These iIIustrations are cIear and are necessary to the text. The paper used is of a high grade; therefore, anyone who knows the barest fundamentaIs of publishing wiI1 reaIize that the cost is modest under the circumstances. But more important, this work is beyond vaIue to the roentgenoIogist, surgeon, neurosurgeon, otoIaryngoIogist, neuroIogist, ophthalmologist, endoscopist and many others who dweI1 in circumscribed IieIds of medicine. The work is a compIete correIation and integration of anatomical, physiological, pathological, cIinica1 and roentgenoIogica1 observations. It is beautifuhy prepared and a book which we earnestly recommend.
Medical named). Thomas.
It frequentIy happens that a prospective mother has no end of questions which she asks her physician. Some of them are relevant and many seem trivia1 but every one of them demands an answer. Often the time consumed in meeting these demands takes a Iot of the physician’s time. Therefore, although severa such short books have been published during the last quarter century, this modern, sanely and beautifuhy written book IilIs the biII in every detail. It teIls the expectant mother (not to mention her husband) everything one couId want to know concerning a11 the whys and wherefores of the pregnant state. Many physicians are sure to recommend it to their patients, and in our opinion it is the best book at hand on this topic. That it is authentic goes without saying, as the author is Professor of Obstetrics at Johns Hopkins University.
Any one, surgeon or medical student, who wishes a “‘good” work on surgery, either for reference or textbook, wiI1 go far afield to find one that measures up to this book. It is nine years (1931) since the first edition appeared, and during that time Dr. Homans and his coauthors have kept their work in the front rank of surgical textbooks. It is unnecessary to go into details. Suffice it to say that basicahy the work is authentic and fuIfiIIs in every detail the requirements of a book of this type. The authors have also kept it up-to-date. Dr. Homans in his Preface to the Fifth Edition expIains how Harvey Cushing fathered the method of keeping a book alive. This book, containing 1272 pages, 530 illustrations by Willard C. Shepard, and a special bibliographica index, is worth a score of the usua1 run-of-the-miI1 surgical works usuahv written to complete a publisher’s Iists.
ATLAS OF CARDIOROENTGENOLOGY. By Hugo RoesIer, M.D., F.A.C.P. SpringfieId, III., 1940. CharIes C. Thomas. Price $8.50. This atIas is a case-history type of presentation, with the case protocoIs and a short comment making up the only text. While the atlas is primariIy one of roentgenology, it is intended more for the clinician than the radioIogist, and presents a fine correlation of clinical, Laboratory, radiographic and pathoIogic hndings. The ihustrations are excehent and are by no means co&red to radiographs. The plates of pathoIogica1 specimens are particuIarly Roesler’s method of abundant, and Dr. demonstrating the cardiac pathoIogy by Iongitudinal and window sections is of special interest. The book shouId be instructive to both the student and the cardioIogist. A TEXTBOOK OF SURGERY. By John Homans, M.D. CompiIed from Lectures and Other Writings of These Members of The Surgical Department of The Harvard
SchooI (twenty-three Springfield, 1940. Price $8.00.
authors CharIes
are C.
SHOCK: BLOOD STUDIES AS A GUIDE TO THERAPY. By John Scudder, M.D. PhiladeIphia, 1940. J. B. Lippincott Cornpan! Price $5.50. Surgeons, especially, should read, reread and digest the contents of this voIume. It deals with “the importance of the chemical approach to certain of the fundamental bioIogica1 problems encountered daiIy in our Surgical Service” (AIIen 0. Whipple in the Foreword). Dr. WhippIe further states that it gives him great pIeasure “to acknowledge the beneficia1 results of our surgical patients before and after operation because of his [Scudder] studies. These have deveIoped methods and a critique which have been of the greatest therapeutic vaIue to the SurgicaI Department of the Presbyterian Hospital.” The work is divided into four Parts. Part One deaIs with the historical and experimental; Part Two with varieties of shocktheir anaIysis and treatment; Part Three with historical development and bibliography; and
307
308
American
Journal
of Surgery
Part Four with a laboratory
Book Reviews manua1. Every
section is vaIuabIe but the student with a basic background in this work wiII find Parts Two and Three especiahy interesting, whiIe the hospita1 surgical chief wiI1 put his juniors to the task of becoming famiIiar with the facts contained in Part Four. Inasmuch as every surgeon has patients who suffer from shock, notwithstanding the apparentIy endIess Iist of books and articIes that have been written on this subject, we wouId urge that this work be acquired and thoroughIy studied. FRACTURES AND OTHER BONE AND JOINT INJURIES. By R. Watson-Jones, F.R.C.S. BaItimore, 1940. The WiIIiams and WiIkins Company. Price $13.50. This is severa books in one, . . . a book for the fracture specialist, genera1 surgeon and practitioner who must meet emergencies and handIe fractures and other bone injuries. It is hard to review in as much as there is nothing to criticize. It is not our place to quibbIe over minor problems of technique. In every detail Fractures and Otber Bone and Joint Injuries is, one might say, “the Iast word on the subject.” The work covers the materia1 in detai1 and is very we11 written. We wouId draw special attention to the iIIustrations, some of which are in coIor, the work of DougIas Kid. They are far above the average. Anyone desiring a book on fractures and bone injuries would not be disappointed shouId he add this one to his Iibrary. NEOPLASTIC DISEASES. A TREATISE ON TUMORS. By James Ewing. Fourth Edition. Revised and EnIarged. With 581 IIIustrations. PhiIadeIphia, 1940. W. B. Saunders Company. What can a reviewer say of Dr. Ewing’s work, now in its fourth edition, completeIy revised and enlarged, other than that it is one of the best if not the very best book in its held. This reviewer beIieves nothing finer has been written in the English Ianguage on neoplastic diseases. The first edition appeared in rg 1g, and other editions were brought out in rgzz and 1928. During the past decade we witnessed additions in many branches of neopIastic disease, and the author, being abreast of a11new knowIedge on the subject, has virtuaIIy redone his book. It is up to the minute and that it is scientificaIIy the Iast word, goes without saying.
A Iibrary vaIuabIe
wouId be incomplete work on its sheIves.
without
this
CLINICAL UROLOGY. By OswaId Swinney LowsIey and Thomas Joseph Kirwin. Two VoIumes. BaItimore, 1940. The WiIIiams & WiIkins Company. Price $10.00. The authors have written a readable, scientificaIIy sound and worth whiIe book in two volumes. It was written for a11 physicians, the medica student, the genera1 practitioner, the genera1 surgeon, not to mention its scope as a reference work for the trained uroIogist. The subject is covered most satisfactoriIy. There is to be nothing gained by going into detail. Suffice it to say that any physician, specialist, or practitioner, who requires a work on Clinical Urology, will have his every desire fuIfiIIed with this work. We aIso noted the size of the books are such that they feel good in the hands, the print is cIear and Iarge enough to make reading easy, and the illustrations by WilIiam P. Didusch are superb. Some of them are in color. We congratuIate the authors and the pubIishers in giving the profession such an interesting and scientifically sound set of books on Clinical Urology. It is an important contribution to the Iiterature of this subject. THE HEAD AND NECK IN ROENTGEN DIAGNOSIS.By Henry K. Pancoast, M.D., Eugene P. Pendergrass, M.D. and J. Par-
sons Schaeffer, CharIes
M.D. SpringfieId, Ill., C. Thomas. Price $12.50.
1940,
This is a large book consisting of 976 pages. There are 1,23 I iIIustrations, some of which are in coIor. These iIIustrations are cIear and are necessary to the text. The paper used is of a high grade; therefore, anyone who knows the barest fundamentaIs of publishing wiI1 reaIize that the cost is modest under the circumstances. But more important, this work is beyond vaIue to the roentgenoIogist, surgeon, neurosurgeon, otoIaryngoIogist, neuroIogist, ophthalmologist, endoscopist and many others who dweI1 in circumscribed IieIds of medicine. The work is a compIete correIation and integration of anatomical, physiological, pathological, cIinica1 and roentgenoIogica1 observations. It is beautifuhy prepared and a book which we earnestly recommend.