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The Art of Anesthesia
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a bibliography which concludes the volume, because this book is not only useu by medical students, but is of utmost value to physicians in looking up the fundamental morphology. The concept of the endocrine glands is somewhat loo~ely drawn as many will still take exception to including the carotid and coccygeal glands among the endocrine organs, and would prefer to have the pancreas as well as the male and female gonads more closely associated with the endocrines. Erwh e
The first Chilean Surgical Congress2< was held in 1939. Its proceedings arP contained in a large, handsome volume of 565 pages. 'fhe three themes officially assigned were acute pancreatitis, treatment of uterine fibroids (surgical, radio· thera.peutic, as well as experimental, the latter based on the fundamental observa· tions of Nelson made in 1937), and fractures of the neck of the femur. In arldition, a series of articles covering various surgical and gynecologic-obstetric subjects were reported. The participants in this activity were mainly from Chile and Argentina although other South American state~ were repre;o;entf'· ment to provide promptly available services to meet the existing asphyxial mortality of the 1,000 deaths a week in the United States, and that such an organization he the leaders in directing resuscitation teams. There is a critical review of the latest views relating to the agents commonly employed as basal anesthetics. This section should be of interest in the consideration of the various methods of relieving pain in labor which are eommonly employed. Flagg states in regard to chloroform that it should cease to be used as an anesthetic in obstetrics and regards gas-oxygen as valuable only as an analgesic in obstetric.s. He says that full-term babies in utero are more susceptible to ethylene gas than their mothers; therefore, the gas is not safe for operative obstetrics. There is an excellent chapter on the p08toperative nursing of the patient wh<• has had various types of inhalation anesthesia. For the benefit of students, as well as anesthetists, he has provided a new chapter on preanesthetie physical examina" tions. Obstetric anesthesia forms the subject of a well-thought-out section. In connec· tion witll the suggestion that anesthetists direct resuscitation efforts, the chapter on artificial respiration has been entirely rewritten. In the chapter on the cau>
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27Primer
Congreso
Chileno y
Santiago de Chile, 1939.
Ameri•·ano de Clrurgla.
Imprenta, Unlversitaria.
By Paluel J. Flagg, M.D .• Visiting Anaesthetist to Manhattan Eye and Flar Hospital, etc., New York. Sixth edition, revised. With 161 Illustrations, 491 pages. J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia, 1939. "'Manual of Public Jlealth Nursing. Prepared by the National Organization fol' Public H-ealth NUr~Sing. Third edition, 529 pages. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1939. "'The Art of Anesthesia.
l300K REVIEWK
a bibliography which concludes the volume, because this book is not only useu by medical students, but is of utmost value to physicians in looking up the fundamental morphology. The concept of the endocrine glands is somewhat loo~ely drawn as many will still take exception to including the carotid and coccygeal glands among the endocrine organs, and would prefer to have the pancreas as well as the male and female gonads more closely associated with the endocrines. Erwh e
The first Chilean Surgical Congress2< was held in 1939. Its proceedings arP contained in a large, handsome volume of 565 pages. 'fhe three themes officially assigned were acute pancreatitis, treatment of uterine fibroids (surgical, radio· thera.peutic, as well as experimental, the latter based on the fundamental observa· tions of Nelson made in 1937), and fractures of the neck of the femur. In arldition, a series of articles covering various surgical and gynecologic-obstetric subjects were reported. The participants in this activity were mainly from Chile and Argentina although other South American state~ were repre;o;entf'
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~~~.
27Primer
Congreso
Chileno y
Santiago de Chile, 1939.
Ameri•·ano de Clrurgla.
Imprenta, Unlversitaria.
By Paluel J. Flagg, M.D .• Visiting Anaesthetist to Manhattan Eye and Flar Hospital, etc., New York. Sixth edition, revised. With 161 Illustrations, 491 pages. J. B. Lippincott Co., Philadelphia, 1939. "'Manual of Public Jlealth Nursing. Prepared by the National Organization fol' Public H-ealth NUr~Sing. Third edition, 529 pages. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1939. "'The Art of Anesthesia.