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Traumatic surgery of the jaws including first-aid treatment
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Medical School, London, Ontario, Canada. Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania.
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141 pages, Philadelphia,
49 Pa.,
This volume embraces six lectures on medical genetics and eugenics delivered in connection with the ninetieth anniversary of the founding of the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania. Three of the lectures were delivered by the well-known geneticist Charles B. Davenport. These deal with human variability and mate selection, and some social applications of eugenics and heredity The value of animal experiments to the understanding in relation to medicine. of human genetics is contributed by Clyde E. Keeler. A lecture on cancer and heredity is included by Maude Slye, and one on the value of medical genetics to the clinician by Madge Thurlow Macklin. Davenport presents the interdependence of heredity and environment as well as the innate structural, physiological, mental and temperamental differences in people. He discusses the inheritance of body build. Macklin points out that determination and differentiation of character of genetic action does not all take place prior to birth as commonly believed. Many genetic characters may manifest themselves through all ages. It is predicted that the next half century will see a new field opened up, that of combating hereditary diseases through genetic control. The teaching of genetics in medical schools is advocated as a means of producing a healthy race. By Kurt H. !I’raumatic Surgery of the Jaws Including First-Aid Treatment: Thoma, D.M.D., Professor of Oral Surgery and Brackett Professor of Oral Pathology, Harvard University ; Oral Surgeon to Brooks Hospital ; Consulting Oral Surgeon to New England Baptist Hospital ; Visiting Oral Surgeon, Beth Israel Hospital ; Surgeon, Dental Department, and ConWith 282 Illustrations, 315 sultant to Tumor Clinic, Boston Dispensary. pages, St. Louis, The C. V. Mosby Company, 1942. War injuries of the jaws are essentially traumatic in character. It is from this standpoint that Thoma approaches the subject. This volume is intended to assist the dentist and the student in his preparation for first-aid and emergency treatment of jaw injuries. New procedures are presented for the dental and oral surgeons on the treatment of unusual cases. A feature of the book is the section dealing with injuries of the temporomandibular joint and condylar fractures which are especially common. Thoma does not stress plastic operations which he considers to be not of immediate concern to those who give the initial treatment to the injured. In the chapter on first-aid treatment, attention is paid to the general condition of the patient; treatment of shock, arrest of hemorrhage, bandaging, and transportation. Descriptions are presented on examination of the patient and treatment planning. The various injections for local anesthetics are described and unusually well illustrated. A description of war wounds about the face and oral cavity is presented, and various methods of treatment are Fixation of given. Injuries of the teeth are considered as a separate entity. “Totally luxated teeth,” luxated teeth is recommended as a basic procedure. the author advises, “may be replanted, but it is necessary t,o remove the pulp and fill the root canal.”
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A method of construction and using splints for the fixation of luxated The chapter on fractures of the mandible presents a teeth is described. classification and methods of treatment within the dental arch which employ Treatment of fractured mandibles by extrainterdental wiring and splinting. oral skeletal fixation is described in detail. This method is used in the British Maxillofacial Hospitals when there is an inadequate number of teeth or a considerable displacement of fragments and may be applied immediately to any fracture giving perfect control to all fragments by allowing them to be adjusted in correct anatomic position. This method does not require intermaxillary The dangers of intermaxillary wiring ligation, permitting use of the mandible. of the jaws of soldiers who are transported by sea, and subject to seasickness, are thus minimized. The principle of this apparatus is the use of universal movement clamps. Various extraoral appliances such as the Berry screw implantation method or the Griffin appliance, consisting of screw pins, ball socket bars, and adjustment bars, are described. These appliances can also be used to effect favorable alignment of markedly displaced condyles. Fractures of the maxilla, often superficially cited in books on traumatic The skull cap, as surgery of the jaws, are here given full consideration. advised by Ivy and Curtis, is described, as is the Woodard appliance and intraoral metallic splints. The book is well illustrated with halftones, showing practical cases under treatment. A Textbook of Bacteriology: By Thurman B. Rice, A.M., M.D., Professor of Bacteriology and Public Health at the Indiana IJniversity School of Medicine. Ed. 3, Revised, 560 pages, Philadelphia, W. B. Saunders Company, 1942. This text is designed to meet the needs of those who desire full understanding of the subject and who do not have or cannot find the time to go It is especially intended to serve as a over all the fine points of theory. practical textbook. Morphologic and cultural descriptions of the organisms are briefly presented and the text material is extremely condensed. Vincent’s angina is the name given by Rice to what is familiarly known to dentists as Vincent’s infection. Dentists are wont to consider Vincent’s angina as that phase of the infection which occurs about the tonsils and throat. Medical dictionaries agree with Rice’s nomenclature, while dental dictionaries differentiate between Vincent’s angina and Vincent’s infection. The etiology and bacteriology of dental caries are presented. “lt is now pretty well agreed,” says Rice, “that bacteria play an important role and not, unlikely are more important than all other causes together. Many of these other causes (of dental caries) seem to exert an effect through other influences upon bacterial flora. ” The author cites W. D. Miller, Kligler, and other authorities in support of his contention of the importance of bacteria in the etiology of dental caries. The flora of the mouth and pharynx are described including those of the normal tissues as well as the pathogenetic organisms. An important appendix of
ABSTRACTS
AND
Medical School, London, Ontario, Canada. Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania.
REVIEWS
141 pages, Philadelphia,
49 Pa.,
This volume embraces six lectures on medical genetics and eugenics delivered in connection with the ninetieth anniversary of the founding of the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvania. Three of the lectures were delivered by the well-known geneticist Charles B. Davenport. These deal with human variability and mate selection, and some social applications of eugenics and heredity The value of animal experiments to the understanding in relation to medicine. of human genetics is contributed by Clyde E. Keeler. A lecture on cancer and heredity is included by Maude Slye, and one on the value of medical genetics to the clinician by Madge Thurlow Macklin. Davenport presents the interdependence of heredity and environment as well as the innate structural, physiological, mental and temperamental differences in people. He discusses the inheritance of body build. Macklin points out that determination and differentiation of character of genetic action does not all take place prior to birth as commonly believed. Many genetic characters may manifest themselves through all ages. It is predicted that the next half century will see a new field opened up, that of combating hereditary diseases through genetic control. The teaching of genetics in medical schools is advocated as a means of producing a healthy race. By Kurt H. !I’raumatic Surgery of the Jaws Including First-Aid Treatment: Thoma, D.M.D., Professor of Oral Surgery and Brackett Professor of Oral Pathology, Harvard University ; Oral Surgeon to Brooks Hospital ; Consulting Oral Surgeon to New England Baptist Hospital ; Visiting Oral Surgeon, Beth Israel Hospital ; Surgeon, Dental Department, and ConWith 282 Illustrations, 315 sultant to Tumor Clinic, Boston Dispensary. pages, St. Louis, The C. V. Mosby Company, 1942. War injuries of the jaws are essentially traumatic in character. It is from this standpoint that Thoma approaches the subject. This volume is intended to assist the dentist and the student in his preparation for first-aid and emergency treatment of jaw injuries. New procedures are presented for the dental and oral surgeons on the treatment of unusual cases. A feature of the book is the section dealing with injuries of the temporomandibular joint and condylar fractures which are especially common. Thoma does not stress plastic operations which he considers to be not of immediate concern to those who give the initial treatment to the injured. In the chapter on first-aid treatment, attention is paid to the general condition of the patient; treatment of shock, arrest of hemorrhage, bandaging, and transportation. Descriptions are presented on examination of the patient and treatment planning. The various injections for local anesthetics are described and unusually well illustrated. A description of war wounds about the face and oral cavity is presented, and various methods of treatment are Fixation of given. Injuries of the teeth are considered as a separate entity. “Totally luxated teeth,” luxated teeth is recommended as a basic procedure. the author advises, “may be replanted, but it is necessary t,o remove the pulp and fill the root canal.”
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ORTHODONTIC
ABSTRACTS
AND
REVIEWS
A method of construction and using splints for the fixation of luxated The chapter on fractures of the mandible presents a teeth is described. classification and methods of treatment within the dental arch which employ Treatment of fractured mandibles by extrainterdental wiring and splinting. oral skeletal fixation is described in detail. This method is used in the British Maxillofacial Hospitals when there is an inadequate number of teeth or a considerable displacement of fragments and may be applied immediately to any fracture giving perfect control to all fragments by allowing them to be adjusted in correct anatomic position. This method does not require intermaxillary The dangers of intermaxillary wiring ligation, permitting use of the mandible. of the jaws of soldiers who are transported by sea, and subject to seasickness, are thus minimized. The principle of this apparatus is the use of universal movement clamps. Various extraoral appliances such as the Berry screw implantation method or the Griffin appliance, consisting of screw pins, ball socket bars, and adjustment bars, are described. These appliances can also be used to effect favorable alignment of markedly displaced condyles. Fractures of the maxilla, often superficially cited in books on traumatic The skull cap, as surgery of the jaws, are here given full consideration. advised by Ivy and Curtis, is described, as is the Woodard appliance and intraoral metallic splints. The book is well illustrated with halftones, showing practical cases under treatment. A Textbook of Bacteriology: By Thurman B. Rice, A.M., M.D., Professor of Bacteriology and Public Health at the Indiana IJniversity School of Medicine. Ed. 3, Revised, 560 pages, Philadelphia, W. B. Saunders Company, 1942. This text is designed to meet the needs of those who desire full understanding of the subject and who do not have or cannot find the time to go It is especially intended to serve as a over all the fine points of theory. practical textbook. Morphologic and cultural descriptions of the organisms are briefly presented and the text material is extremely condensed. Vincent’s angina is the name given by Rice to what is familiarly known to dentists as Vincent’s infection. Dentists are wont to consider Vincent’s angina as that phase of the infection which occurs about the tonsils and throat. Medical dictionaries agree with Rice’s nomenclature, while dental dictionaries differentiate between Vincent’s angina and Vincent’s infection. The etiology and bacteriology of dental caries are presented. “lt is now pretty well agreed,” says Rice, “that bacteria play an important role and not, unlikely are more important than all other causes together. Many of these other causes (of dental caries) seem to exert an effect through other influences upon bacterial flora. ” The author cites W. D. Miller, Kligler, and other authorities in support of his contention of the importance of bacteria in the etiology of dental caries. The flora of the mouth and pharynx are described including those of the normal tissues as well as the pathogenetic organisms. An important appendix of