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Subcutaneous Symphyseotomy
BOOK UEVIEWS
The text of one thousand pages comprises one hundred and one contributions on internal medicine. Truly as one reads through this wealth of material present<'.
F.
WILLL\~113.
Thiti i;; an appreciatiiJn of J. Arthur HaNisl~ edited by the members of tile Department of Botany of the "University of Minnesota. They discuss Harrb ati a man, Harris the botanist and Harris the biometrician. A small number u! tlH: author's contributions to these two disciplint>s are given. Among these are tour whicl1 interest the gynecologist and obstetrician. One of these articles tleals with the length and weight of the newborn of Yarious nationalities. It is Lased on '1~.000 reeords of Sloane Hospital for vVomen in which only uniparous births of the "hir(• race and manied women are considered. Diffe1·ences in length to nationnlitieR (7 were considered) is exceedingly small, in the male 1.01 em., in females O.uO. The Irish were longest, the Italians shortest, the Irish heaviest., the Russians lighte~t. Another investigation deals with the relationship between the number of pregnancies and the number of births. This is based on 11.000 cases of which •±,5llfj were foreign born and 6,415 American-born mothers, the fathers always being of the same nationality. Practically no relationship hetweerl the inci<1enee ami the number of children brought to term could be found. R. ·r. FI~ANK.
Abellan has written a small monograph on Subcl~tarwoz&s Symphyseotorny,1a covnr· ing its indications, contraindications, etc. The maternal mortality was 3.2 per •:ent, the fetal 18.06 per cent. R. 'l'. FltANK.
1>J. Arthur Harris. Botanist and Biometrician. Edited by C. Otto Rosendahl, Ross Aiken Gortner and George 0. Burr. 209 pages. The University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1936. 1'La
Sinftsiotoruia En Espana. Por Dr. Angel Guerrero Abellan, Burcelona. 193!i.
The text of one thousand pages comprises one hundred and one contributions on internal medicine. Truly as one reads through this wealth of material present<'.
F.
WILLL\~113.
Thiti i;; an appreciatiiJn of J. Arthur HaNisl~ edited by the members of tile Department of Botany of the "University of Minnesota. They discuss Harrb ati a man, Harris the botanist and Harris the biometrician. A small number u! tlH: author's contributions to these two disciplint>s are given. Among these are tour whicl1 interest the gynecologist and obstetrician. One of these articles tleals with the length and weight of the newborn of Yarious nationalities. It is Lased on '1~.000 reeords of Sloane Hospital for vVomen in which only uniparous births of the "hir(• race and manied women are considered. Diffe1·ences in length to nationnlitieR (7 were considered) is exceedingly small, in the male 1.01 em., in females O.uO. The Irish were longest, the Italians shortest, the Irish heaviest., the Russians lighte~t. Another investigation deals with the relationship between the number of pregnancies and the number of births. This is based on 11.000 cases of which •±,5llfj were foreign born and 6,415 American-born mothers, the fathers always being of the same nationality. Practically no relationship hetweerl the inci<1enee ami the number of children brought to term could be found. R. ·r. FI~ANK.
Abellan has written a small monograph on Subcl~tarwoz&s Symphyseotorny,1a covnr· ing its indications, contraindications, etc. The maternal mortality was 3.2 per •:ent, the fetal 18.06 per cent. R. 'l'. FltANK.
1>J. Arthur Harris. Botanist and Biometrician. Edited by C. Otto Rosendahl, Ross Aiken Gortner and George 0. Burr. 209 pages. The University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1936. 1'La
Sinftsiotoruia En Espana. Por Dr. Angel Guerrero Abellan, Burcelona. 193!i.