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Source book of orthopaedics
NEW SEFUHSVOL. XXXVIII,
No. I
Book Reviews
text-matter (428 pages) is solid and authoritative. Doctors Ravdin and Coates have done an excellent translation. The book contains, in the main, the surgery of the head and neck exclusive of the brain and certain aspects of the surgery of the face. We are toId that “There is at present no single work which covers the exact field covered by this one.” The genera1 surgeon and the speciahst will find this work a great heIp to him. It is a book that is not pubIished every day, and one that a physician is more than fuIly satisfied with after purchasing. From every angle . . . we11 done. THE FUNDAMENTALS OF ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION. By J. Bailey Carter, M.D. Charles C. Thomas, 1937.
American ~~~~~~~~ of surgery
225
HospitaIs and Institutions. In an Appendix is given Orthopaedic PeriodicaIs. Dr. Bick has written a vaIuabIe book. Anyone interested in the various phases of medica history wiI1 find it good reading; the man who does orthopaedic surgery wiI1 find it a book that wiI1 prove a stimuIus and aid to him in his work. CARCINOMA OF THE FEMALE GENITAL ORGANS. By M. C. MaIinowsky and E. Quater. TransIated from the Russian by A. S. Schwartzman, M.D. Bruce Humphries, Inc., Boston, 1936. Price $5.00.
The origina work was written by eIeven authors, eight “ Professors,” one “ PrivatDozent,” and two “Doctors,” and has been we11 transIated by Doctor Schwartzman. It is a compact book of 235 pages, 30 figures and This is a work every internist and, in fact, two coIored pIates, and we quote from the every genera1 practitioner should read with care Foreword, “Being motivated by the desire to and thoroughIy assimilate as he goes aIong. present the probIem of carcinoma of the femaIe It is of interest to the surgeon onIy in the fact sexua1 sphere from various viewpoints, an that some of this cIass desires to have a slight acquaintance or understanding of any thing in attempt was made to discuss it on the basis of the newest data avaiIabIe at this time. In order medicine that aids in making a diagnosis. to deal with the individua1 questions not onIy Doctor Carter has written an exceIIent and on the basis of Iiterature-data (even the newest) needed book. It is just the book to give an interne beginning his medica service. It is we11 but aIso on the basis of Iarge persona1 experience, specialists in various branches of medicine illustrated (250 of them), contains an exhaustive bibIiography, a gIossary, and index. A have been invited to contribute to this work. book that shouId enjoy a large and wide We believe that such method of approach enabIes us to present to the reader, if not an distribution. exhaustive, at least a sufficiently thorough elucidation of the problem of carcinoma of the SOURCE BOOK OF ORTHOPAEDICS. By femaIe sexua1 sphere.” Edgar M. Bick, M.A., M.D. The WiIIiams & There is no index but it is that type of book Wilkins Company, 1937. Price $4.00. one reads as one does a nove1. Those concerned with this problem, especially gynecoIogists, This book of 376 pages, with a bibliography wiI1 find it time we11 spent to linger through and an index, is a comprehensive history of the the pages of this work. They wiI1 discover beginning and rise of orthopaedic surgery. fresh viewpoints, and much that will stimulate One gets a cIear conception of the struggIes of thought. the pioneers during the days when this branch of medicine was merged with medicine and THE TECHNIC OF LOCAL ANESTHESIA. surgery and not a clearly defined specialty. By Arthur E. Hertzler, A.M., M.D., PH.D., The author devotes chapters to such interLI.D., F.A.C.S. Sixth Edition. The C. V. esting subjects as Primitive Man and Ancient Mosby Company, 1937. Price $5.00. Practice, Middle Ages, Renaissance, I 7th Century, and then the Iast haIf of the book is When a book appears in a sixth edition devoted to the Modern Period and considers there is IittIe or no need of saying more than under it Physiology, Bone Surgery, Joint to hint it must be a good book, that it must Surgery, MuscIe Tendon Surgery, Non-opergive the reader that which he seeks and wishes ative Orthopaedics, and Rise of Orthopaedic
No. I
Book Reviews
text-matter (428 pages) is solid and authoritative. Doctors Ravdin and Coates have done an excellent translation. The book contains, in the main, the surgery of the head and neck exclusive of the brain and certain aspects of the surgery of the face. We are toId that “There is at present no single work which covers the exact field covered by this one.” The genera1 surgeon and the speciahst will find this work a great heIp to him. It is a book that is not pubIished every day, and one that a physician is more than fuIly satisfied with after purchasing. From every angle . . . we11 done. THE FUNDAMENTALS OF ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHIC INTERPRETATION. By J. Bailey Carter, M.D. Charles C. Thomas, 1937.
American ~~~~~~~~ of surgery
225
HospitaIs and Institutions. In an Appendix is given Orthopaedic PeriodicaIs. Dr. Bick has written a vaIuabIe book. Anyone interested in the various phases of medica history wiI1 find it good reading; the man who does orthopaedic surgery wiI1 find it a book that wiI1 prove a stimuIus and aid to him in his work. CARCINOMA OF THE FEMALE GENITAL ORGANS. By M. C. MaIinowsky and E. Quater. TransIated from the Russian by A. S. Schwartzman, M.D. Bruce Humphries, Inc., Boston, 1936. Price $5.00.
The origina work was written by eIeven authors, eight “ Professors,” one “ PrivatDozent,” and two “Doctors,” and has been we11 transIated by Doctor Schwartzman. It is a compact book of 235 pages, 30 figures and This is a work every internist and, in fact, two coIored pIates, and we quote from the every genera1 practitioner should read with care Foreword, “Being motivated by the desire to and thoroughIy assimilate as he goes aIong. present the probIem of carcinoma of the femaIe It is of interest to the surgeon onIy in the fact sexua1 sphere from various viewpoints, an that some of this cIass desires to have a slight acquaintance or understanding of any thing in attempt was made to discuss it on the basis of the newest data avaiIabIe at this time. In order medicine that aids in making a diagnosis. to deal with the individua1 questions not onIy Doctor Carter has written an exceIIent and on the basis of Iiterature-data (even the newest) needed book. It is just the book to give an interne beginning his medica service. It is we11 but aIso on the basis of Iarge persona1 experience, specialists in various branches of medicine illustrated (250 of them), contains an exhaustive bibIiography, a gIossary, and index. A have been invited to contribute to this work. book that shouId enjoy a large and wide We believe that such method of approach enabIes us to present to the reader, if not an distribution. exhaustive, at least a sufficiently thorough elucidation of the problem of carcinoma of the SOURCE BOOK OF ORTHOPAEDICS. By femaIe sexua1 sphere.” Edgar M. Bick, M.A., M.D. The WiIIiams & There is no index but it is that type of book Wilkins Company, 1937. Price $4.00. one reads as one does a nove1. Those concerned with this problem, especially gynecoIogists, This book of 376 pages, with a bibliography wiI1 find it time we11 spent to linger through and an index, is a comprehensive history of the the pages of this work. They wiI1 discover beginning and rise of orthopaedic surgery. fresh viewpoints, and much that will stimulate One gets a cIear conception of the struggIes of thought. the pioneers during the days when this branch of medicine was merged with medicine and THE TECHNIC OF LOCAL ANESTHESIA. surgery and not a clearly defined specialty. By Arthur E. Hertzler, A.M., M.D., PH.D., The author devotes chapters to such interLI.D., F.A.C.S. Sixth Edition. The C. V. esting subjects as Primitive Man and Ancient Mosby Company, 1937. Price $5.00. Practice, Middle Ages, Renaissance, I 7th Century, and then the Iast haIf of the book is When a book appears in a sixth edition devoted to the Modern Period and considers there is IittIe or no need of saying more than under it Physiology, Bone Surgery, Joint to hint it must be a good book, that it must Surgery, MuscIe Tendon Surgery, Non-opergive the reader that which he seeks and wishes ative Orthopaedics, and Rise of Orthopaedic