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The principles and art of plastic surgery
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Practical Office Gynecology. By Albert Decker, M.D., Diplomate, American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Wayne H. Decker, M.D., DipIomate, American-Board of Obstetrics and GynecoIogy. (One of a series of monoeraohs. edited bv CIaude E. Heaton. M.D.). Cloth, 388 pages, 103 iIIustrations, rg in coIor, with bibliography and index. PhiIadeIphia, 1956. F. A. Davis Co. Price $10.50. F.A.c.s.,
YI,
The Deckers, father and son, have written a noteworthy book on offIce gynecology. It is caIIed a practical text, which is true in every sense of the word. The writing is to the point; one is impressed with the Iack of “padding.” UnIike many scientific texts the writing in this work has a styIe which approaches professiona1 authorship. The coIored iIlustrations are exceIIent. The fieId of offIce gynecoIogy is compIeteIy covered. We found certain chapters most vaIuabIe, nameIy, HysterosaIpingography, CuIde-sac Puncture, CuIdoscopy (aIthough Dr. Albert Decker, who designed or invented the cuIdoscope, describes the technic of its use, he stresses it is not an offIce procedure), AbnormaI GenitaI Tract BIeeding, InfertiIity, Psychosomatic GynecoIogy, PeIvic Tumors, Indications for GynecoIogic Surgery (every young doctor shouId memorize this) and Cancer Detection in Women. There have been other books on this subject (we have in our Iibrary a tome with the same titIe which was pubIished just ten years ago). However, during the past decade a new era of medicine has reached mature proportions, and gynecotogy is no exception to the general ruIe. Therefore it is no exaggeration to state this monograph is up-to-the-minute and modern. The mature, finished gynecoIogist might fee1 this work is not for him. However, the young practitioner, whether a third or fourth year medica student, intern or resident, or the “famiIy doctor” in genera1 practice, wiI1 find this book invaIuabIe as an aid in his every day work.
The Principles and Art of Plastic Surgery. By Sir Harold Gillies, c.B.E., F.R.C.S. and D. Ralph MiIIard, Jr., M.D., DipIomate, American Board PIastic Surgery, Assistant CIinicaI Professor, University of Miami SchooI of Medicine. Chapter on Anaesthesia by Jerome Magiel, c.v.o., F.F.H.R.C.S. Foreword by Jerome Pierce Webster, M.D., Professor of CIinicaI Surgery, College of Physicians and Surgeons, CoIumbia University. Two volumes, boxed. 652 pages, profusely iIIustrated, many in color, with biographicat data and an index. Boston, 1957. Little, Brown & Co. Price $35.00.
We beIieve a carefuI perusa1 and study of this work wiII be rewarding to a11 interested in pIastic surgery. The student, intern or resident who aims one day to confme his future career to this surgical fieId shouId own these voIumes. One might rightIy concIude this is a solid, authoritative and exceIIent writing. It might be we11 to give an outline of the contents of the two voIumes. The text of Volume One begins with The First AceCindereIIa Surgery, which deaIs with World War I, principles, anesthesia, technica tips, and skin and inIay grafting. The next heading is FIap Happy. We are instructed in rotation and direct flaps, tube pedicIes, Iymphedema, forehead flaps, pigmented nevis, hemangioma, radiation burns, and candor and ear making. VoIume Two begins with Harelip and CIeft PaIate, and is foIIowed by Rag Bag, and GenitaIia. After this comes Private Practice which deaIs with reduction and aesthetic surgery. The foIIowing chapters, under the heading Trauma in War and Peace, dea1 with WorId War II and Rooksdown House, burns, an aspect of hand surgery, Iip trauma, surgery of the mandible and maxiIIa, fractures of the mandibIe and maxiIIa, fractures of the maIarzygomatic compound, nasa1 fractures, fronta defects, eyeIids and sockets, facial paraIysis and cross-grafting. The second voIume ends with FinaI Scene, A Day in the CIinic, and EpiIogue. We estimate there are at least 200 or more haIf tones, and many iIIustrations are in color. Those iIIustrations in bIack and white are
1045
American
Journal
01 Surpqy,
Volume
03, June,
IW?
Book
Reviews
uniformly excellent; those in color are among the best we have seen in recent times. The text is to the point and we11 written. Those interested in this subject wiII tind a text that satisfies. These voIumes deserve wide distribution.
the everyday practice of medicine, whether he be genera1 practitioner, student, internist or surgical specialist. Address is speciaIIy made to those who are in want not of additiona facts but of a better organization of facts al. . . There is a growing tendready avaiIabIe ency for the average physician to be unable to organize for his use the existing knowledge of the day, and this book is an effort to organize for him surgical facts in a usable practical array.” The background for this book grew out of over ten years’ experience in the Stanford University Surgical Outpatient Clinics. In between the first chapter on Local Anesthesia and the final one on Fractures are fortyone chapters fuI1 of significant, up-to-the-minute information. One can read through this book and experience a menta1 satisfaction when the reading is finished. Mrs. Jean DunIap has done a workmanhke job in making the sketches, drawings and illustrations cIear and simpIe. Although the finished surgeon of Iong and wide experience may concIude he does not need this work, it is the reviewer’s opinion that the intern, the surgica1 resident and the general practitioner wiI1 do well to add this book to his Iibrary. He should read it from cover to cover, and from time to time reread many parts. He is sure to add to the sum total of his knowledge and thus become a better practitioner.
Fluid Balance Handbook for Practitioners. By WiIIiam D. SniveIy, Jr., M.D. and MichaeI J. Sweeney, M.D. 308 pages, inustrated, with references for additiona1 reading and an index. Springfield, III., 1956. CharIes C Thomas. Price $6.73.
AIthough much has been written on fluid balance, it is the genera1 impression that many physicians have onIy a hazy and at times an inaccurate conception of the subject. Therefore this monograph is timeIy and fiIIs a void. The authors say their goal in preparing this handbook has been to provide the practicing physician with an inviting, clear and usabIe text on clinical fluid baIance. The writers have accompIished their purpose. The book is divided into six parts: (I) (3) Foundation Facts; (2) CIinicaI Diagnosis; Therapy: Changes in Properties of Extracellular FIuid; (4) Therapy: Changes in Position of ExtraceIluIar Fluid; (5) Therapy: Changes in Nutritiona Status of Body; (6) Therapy: Routes of Administration; (7) Down to Cases. There is an Epilogue. It is true that the authors have “spoken the Ianguage of the clinician, not of the biochemist,” and that they have “viewed the subject from the standpoint of the needs of the practicing physician.” We are informed that the authors submitted the preliminary manuscript to a pane1 of forty practitioners, academic physicians and technically trained Iaymen for heIpfu1 criticism and suggestions. AI1 in a11 this monograph is an up-to-date “working manua1.”
The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy. EditoriaI Board: CharIes E. Lvght, 11I.D.,Editor, Wm. P. _Boger, M.D., Gee. A. Carden, M.D., August Gibson, KD. and Dickinson W. Richards. M.D. Ninth edition. 1.888 pages. Rahway, N. J., 1956. Merck & Co., Inc. Price $6.75 reguIar edition, $9.00 de Iuxe edition.
Authors and consultants for this edition incIude more than IOO Ieading cIinicians in the United States, Canada and abroad. With much of its contents revised, the new edition of The Merck ManuaI carries more iIIustrative materia1 than the previous edition. There are 378 principa1 chapters on the diagnosis and therapy of diseases. There are twenty main sections, each thumb-indexed, covering specific fieIds of practice. More than 1,600 prescriptions are incIuded, embodying the most up-to-date medicina1 advances. SpeciaI procedures described include Bedside, CIinicaI, Preoperative, Postoperative and OffIce Laboratory.
Surgery for General Practice. By Victor Richard, M.D., Professor of Surgery, Chairman of the Department of Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, San Francisco, CaIif. 947 pages, 476 illustrations, with an index. St. Louis, 1956. C. V. Mosby Co. Price $17.50. Dr. Richards and his seven contributors have written an exceIlent book. The contributors are Drs. Francis J. Cox, Roy B. Cohn, Frederick Howard, RusseII R. KIein, CarIeton H. Mathewson, Robert McNaught and Charles McLennan, a11 speciaIists in their chosen surgical fieIds. We read: “This book will be of value and of real usefulness to the average physician caring for the majority of surgica1 probIems in I 046
REVIEWS
Practical Office Gynecology. By Albert Decker, M.D., Diplomate, American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and Wayne H. Decker, M.D., DipIomate, American-Board of Obstetrics and GynecoIogy. (One of a series of monoeraohs. edited bv CIaude E. Heaton. M.D.). Cloth, 388 pages, 103 iIIustrations, rg in coIor, with bibliography and index. PhiIadeIphia, 1956. F. A. Davis Co. Price $10.50. F.A.c.s.,
YI,
The Deckers, father and son, have written a noteworthy book on offIce gynecology. It is caIIed a practical text, which is true in every sense of the word. The writing is to the point; one is impressed with the Iack of “padding.” UnIike many scientific texts the writing in this work has a styIe which approaches professiona1 authorship. The coIored iIlustrations are exceIIent. The fieId of offIce gynecoIogy is compIeteIy covered. We found certain chapters most vaIuabIe, nameIy, HysterosaIpingography, CuIde-sac Puncture, CuIdoscopy (aIthough Dr. Albert Decker, who designed or invented the cuIdoscope, describes the technic of its use, he stresses it is not an offIce procedure), AbnormaI GenitaI Tract BIeeding, InfertiIity, Psychosomatic GynecoIogy, PeIvic Tumors, Indications for GynecoIogic Surgery (every young doctor shouId memorize this) and Cancer Detection in Women. There have been other books on this subject (we have in our Iibrary a tome with the same titIe which was pubIished just ten years ago). However, during the past decade a new era of medicine has reached mature proportions, and gynecotogy is no exception to the general ruIe. Therefore it is no exaggeration to state this monograph is up-to-the-minute and modern. The mature, finished gynecoIogist might fee1 this work is not for him. However, the young practitioner, whether a third or fourth year medica student, intern or resident, or the “famiIy doctor” in genera1 practice, wiI1 find this book invaIuabIe as an aid in his every day work.
The Principles and Art of Plastic Surgery. By Sir Harold Gillies, c.B.E., F.R.C.S. and D. Ralph MiIIard, Jr., M.D., DipIomate, American Board PIastic Surgery, Assistant CIinicaI Professor, University of Miami SchooI of Medicine. Chapter on Anaesthesia by Jerome Magiel, c.v.o., F.F.H.R.C.S. Foreword by Jerome Pierce Webster, M.D., Professor of CIinicaI Surgery, College of Physicians and Surgeons, CoIumbia University. Two volumes, boxed. 652 pages, profusely iIIustrated, many in color, with biographicat data and an index. Boston, 1957. Little, Brown & Co. Price $35.00.
We beIieve a carefuI perusa1 and study of this work wiII be rewarding to a11 interested in pIastic surgery. The student, intern or resident who aims one day to confme his future career to this surgical fieId shouId own these voIumes. One might rightIy concIude this is a solid, authoritative and exceIIent writing. It might be we11 to give an outline of the contents of the two voIumes. The text of Volume One begins with The First AceCindereIIa Surgery, which deaIs with World War I, principles, anesthesia, technica tips, and skin and inIay grafting. The next heading is FIap Happy. We are instructed in rotation and direct flaps, tube pedicIes, Iymphedema, forehead flaps, pigmented nevis, hemangioma, radiation burns, and candor and ear making. VoIume Two begins with Harelip and CIeft PaIate, and is foIIowed by Rag Bag, and GenitaIia. After this comes Private Practice which deaIs with reduction and aesthetic surgery. The foIIowing chapters, under the heading Trauma in War and Peace, dea1 with WorId War II and Rooksdown House, burns, an aspect of hand surgery, Iip trauma, surgery of the mandible and maxiIIa, fractures of the mandibIe and maxiIIa, fractures of the maIarzygomatic compound, nasa1 fractures, fronta defects, eyeIids and sockets, facial paraIysis and cross-grafting. The second voIume ends with FinaI Scene, A Day in the CIinic, and EpiIogue. We estimate there are at least 200 or more haIf tones, and many iIIustrations are in color. Those iIIustrations in bIack and white are
1045
American
Journal
01 Surpqy,
Volume
03, June,
IW?
Book
Reviews
uniformly excellent; those in color are among the best we have seen in recent times. The text is to the point and we11 written. Those interested in this subject wiII tind a text that satisfies. These voIumes deserve wide distribution.
the everyday practice of medicine, whether he be genera1 practitioner, student, internist or surgical specialist. Address is speciaIIy made to those who are in want not of additiona facts but of a better organization of facts al. . . There is a growing tendready avaiIabIe ency for the average physician to be unable to organize for his use the existing knowledge of the day, and this book is an effort to organize for him surgical facts in a usable practical array.” The background for this book grew out of over ten years’ experience in the Stanford University Surgical Outpatient Clinics. In between the first chapter on Local Anesthesia and the final one on Fractures are fortyone chapters fuI1 of significant, up-to-the-minute information. One can read through this book and experience a menta1 satisfaction when the reading is finished. Mrs. Jean DunIap has done a workmanhke job in making the sketches, drawings and illustrations cIear and simpIe. Although the finished surgeon of Iong and wide experience may concIude he does not need this work, it is the reviewer’s opinion that the intern, the surgica1 resident and the general practitioner wiI1 do well to add this book to his Iibrary. He should read it from cover to cover, and from time to time reread many parts. He is sure to add to the sum total of his knowledge and thus become a better practitioner.
Fluid Balance Handbook for Practitioners. By WiIIiam D. SniveIy, Jr., M.D. and MichaeI J. Sweeney, M.D. 308 pages, inustrated, with references for additiona1 reading and an index. Springfield, III., 1956. CharIes C Thomas. Price $6.73.
AIthough much has been written on fluid balance, it is the genera1 impression that many physicians have onIy a hazy and at times an inaccurate conception of the subject. Therefore this monograph is timeIy and fiIIs a void. The authors say their goal in preparing this handbook has been to provide the practicing physician with an inviting, clear and usabIe text on clinical fluid baIance. The writers have accompIished their purpose. The book is divided into six parts: (I) (3) Foundation Facts; (2) CIinicaI Diagnosis; Therapy: Changes in Properties of Extracellular FIuid; (4) Therapy: Changes in Position of ExtraceIluIar Fluid; (5) Therapy: Changes in Nutritiona Status of Body; (6) Therapy: Routes of Administration; (7) Down to Cases. There is an Epilogue. It is true that the authors have “spoken the Ianguage of the clinician, not of the biochemist,” and that they have “viewed the subject from the standpoint of the needs of the practicing physician.” We are informed that the authors submitted the preliminary manuscript to a pane1 of forty practitioners, academic physicians and technically trained Iaymen for heIpfu1 criticism and suggestions. AI1 in a11 this monograph is an up-to-date “working manua1.”
The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy. EditoriaI Board: CharIes E. Lvght, 11I.D.,Editor, Wm. P. _Boger, M.D., Gee. A. Carden, M.D., August Gibson, KD. and Dickinson W. Richards. M.D. Ninth edition. 1.888 pages. Rahway, N. J., 1956. Merck & Co., Inc. Price $6.75 reguIar edition, $9.00 de Iuxe edition.
Authors and consultants for this edition incIude more than IOO Ieading cIinicians in the United States, Canada and abroad. With much of its contents revised, the new edition of The Merck ManuaI carries more iIIustrative materia1 than the previous edition. There are 378 principa1 chapters on the diagnosis and therapy of diseases. There are twenty main sections, each thumb-indexed, covering specific fieIds of practice. More than 1,600 prescriptions are incIuded, embodying the most up-to-date medicina1 advances. SpeciaI procedures described include Bedside, CIinicaI, Preoperative, Postoperative and OffIce Laboratory.
Surgery for General Practice. By Victor Richard, M.D., Professor of Surgery, Chairman of the Department of Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, San Francisco, CaIif. 947 pages, 476 illustrations, with an index. St. Louis, 1956. C. V. Mosby Co. Price $17.50. Dr. Richards and his seven contributors have written an exceIlent book. The contributors are Drs. Francis J. Cox, Roy B. Cohn, Frederick Howard, RusseII R. KIein, CarIeton H. Mathewson, Robert McNaught and Charles McLennan, a11 speciaIists in their chosen surgical fieIds. We read: “This book will be of value and of real usefulness to the average physician caring for the majority of surgica1 probIems in I 046