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Tonsil surgery
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knowIedge of the pathoIogy invoIved it wouId not be amiss to urge that this worthwhiIe book be in the hands of many of the profession. HEMORRHOIDS. The Injection Treatment and Pruritus Ani. By Lawrence Goldbacher, M.D.PhiIa., F. A. Davis Co., 1930.
In the preface the author writes: “The purpose of this book is to present to the medica1 profession certain practica1 and readabIe information regarding hemorrhoids and pruritus ani. The aim has been to make it as brief and simpIe as pcssible.” The author has succeeded. To any physician interested in these subjects we wouId be negIecting our duty if we did not write that this small book is a necessary part of the Iiterature and just what a majority of busy doctors of medicine have been looking for. TONSIL SURGERY. By Robert PhiIa., F. A. Davis Co., 1930.
H.
Fowler,
M.D.
To the true IaryngoIogist this book wil1 prove interesting and the reader will be pIeased with the exceIIence of the pubIishers’ part of bringing it out. The type is Iarge and the iIIustrations (half-tone and coIored) are we11 reproduced. To the man who thinks tonsi operations are a part of the genera1 practice of medicine we wouId Iike to be abIe to command that this book must be read ten times and then studied for two years. After this course of reading and study we fee1 he wouId be an aid to the pubIic and reaIIy know how to do tonsi surgery. That the author has accompIished his aim is sufficient recommendation to any who fee1 they want a book on this subject. TREATMENTIN GENERALPRACTICE.By Harry Beckman, M.D. Phila., W. B. Saunders Co., 1930.
This is a necessary book to most physicians. The average student graduates from a medica schoo1 we11 grounded in pathoIogy, physica diagnosis, etc., and except for a few inadequate Iectures, it is Ieft to the future for him to discover how to treat his patients. Very often this is accompIished by the Iiterature of drug houses and the beguiIing tongues of detai1 men. And so Dr. Beckman’s book is
$33
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MARCH,rg30
thrice weIcome. We wiI1 not go into detaiIs but mereIy Ieave you with this instruction: If you practice medicine and want a handy book to which you can turn to guide and find advice when in a quandary as to treatment this work is the one we hint that you wiI1 not go amiss in buying. THE TREATMENTOF COMMONDISORDERSOF DIGESTION. By John L. Kantor, PH.D., M.D. Ed. 2. St.Louis,
C. V. Mosby Co., Igzg. The second edition of this book foIIows cIoseIy the lines of the first edition. Three new chapters have been added on “Common AnomaIies of the CoIon,” “IrritabIe CoIon (CoIitis),” and “Organic Diarrheas.” There is new materia1 on the vitamines, neutra1 antacids, cardiospasm, modified Sippy diet, surgica1 treatment of uIcer, after-treatment of uIcer, etc. For a practica1 survey of the treatment of the common disorders of digestion the book may be highIy recommended, MAMMALIAN PHYSIOLOGY. A Course of PracticaI Exercises. By E. G. T. LiddeII, D.M., and Sir CharIes Sherrington, O.M., M.D., D.SC., F.R.S. Ed. 2, Oxford Univ. Press, 1929.
This is a Iaboratory book which shouId prove invaIuabIe to the student of physioIogy. Having stood the test of two editions, and written by that master physioIogist, Sir CharIes Sherrington, it may be considered today the last word on the subject. ACUTE INFECTIOUSDISEASES. By J. D. Rolleston, M.D. Ed. 2. Lond., Wm. Heinemann, 1929.
The first edition of this book was pubIished four years ago and the second edition has brought those chapters in which advances have been made up to date. The principa1 changes have been made in the chapters on diphtheria, typhoid fever, scarIet fever, measIes, smaIIpox and vaccinia. The fact that onIy one paragraph is devoted to unduIant fever and one to tuIaremia wiI1 probabIy be disappointing to American physicians. It is to be hoped that in the next edition these subjects wiI1 be more eIaborateIy treated. The systematic method of handIing the subject, the simpIe Ianguage, and the evident authority with which the author speaks make this book an interesting work of reference.
American JournaI of
Surgery
Book
knowIedge of the pathoIogy invoIved it wouId not be amiss to urge that this worthwhiIe book be in the hands of many of the profession. HEMORRHOIDS. The Injection Treatment and Pruritus Ani. By Lawrence Goldbacher, M.D.PhiIa., F. A. Davis Co., 1930.
In the preface the author writes: “The purpose of this book is to present to the medica1 profession certain practica1 and readabIe information regarding hemorrhoids and pruritus ani. The aim has been to make it as brief and simpIe as pcssible.” The author has succeeded. To any physician interested in these subjects we wouId be negIecting our duty if we did not write that this small book is a necessary part of the Iiterature and just what a majority of busy doctors of medicine have been looking for. TONSIL SURGERY. By Robert PhiIa., F. A. Davis Co., 1930.
H.
Fowler,
M.D.
To the true IaryngoIogist this book wil1 prove interesting and the reader will be pIeased with the exceIIence of the pubIishers’ part of bringing it out. The type is Iarge and the iIIustrations (half-tone and coIored) are we11 reproduced. To the man who thinks tonsi operations are a part of the genera1 practice of medicine we wouId Iike to be abIe to command that this book must be read ten times and then studied for two years. After this course of reading and study we fee1 he wouId be an aid to the pubIic and reaIIy know how to do tonsi surgery. That the author has accompIished his aim is sufficient recommendation to any who fee1 they want a book on this subject. TREATMENTIN GENERALPRACTICE.By Harry Beckman, M.D. Phila., W. B. Saunders Co., 1930.
This is a necessary book to most physicians. The average student graduates from a medica schoo1 we11 grounded in pathoIogy, physica diagnosis, etc., and except for a few inadequate Iectures, it is Ieft to the future for him to discover how to treat his patients. Very often this is accompIished by the Iiterature of drug houses and the beguiIing tongues of detai1 men. And so Dr. Beckman’s book is
$33
Reviews
MARCH,rg30
thrice weIcome. We wiI1 not go into detaiIs but mereIy Ieave you with this instruction: If you practice medicine and want a handy book to which you can turn to guide and find advice when in a quandary as to treatment this work is the one we hint that you wiI1 not go amiss in buying. THE TREATMENTOF COMMONDISORDERSOF DIGESTION. By John L. Kantor, PH.D., M.D. Ed. 2. St.Louis,
C. V. Mosby Co., Igzg. The second edition of this book foIIows cIoseIy the lines of the first edition. Three new chapters have been added on “Common AnomaIies of the CoIon,” “IrritabIe CoIon (CoIitis),” and “Organic Diarrheas.” There is new materia1 on the vitamines, neutra1 antacids, cardiospasm, modified Sippy diet, surgica1 treatment of uIcer, after-treatment of uIcer, etc. For a practica1 survey of the treatment of the common disorders of digestion the book may be highIy recommended, MAMMALIAN PHYSIOLOGY. A Course of PracticaI Exercises. By E. G. T. LiddeII, D.M., and Sir CharIes Sherrington, O.M., M.D., D.SC., F.R.S. Ed. 2, Oxford Univ. Press, 1929.
This is a Iaboratory book which shouId prove invaIuabIe to the student of physioIogy. Having stood the test of two editions, and written by that master physioIogist, Sir CharIes Sherrington, it may be considered today the last word on the subject. ACUTE INFECTIOUSDISEASES. By J. D. Rolleston, M.D. Ed. 2. Lond., Wm. Heinemann, 1929.
The first edition of this book was pubIished four years ago and the second edition has brought those chapters in which advances have been made up to date. The principa1 changes have been made in the chapters on diphtheria, typhoid fever, scarIet fever, measIes, smaIIpox and vaccinia. The fact that onIy one paragraph is devoted to unduIant fever and one to tuIaremia wiI1 probabIy be disappointing to American physicians. It is to be hoped that in the next edition these subjects wiI1 be more eIaborateIy treated. The systematic method of handIing the subject, the simpIe Ianguage, and the evident authority with which the author speaks make this book an interesting work of reference.