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Tuberculosis . A book for the patient
N, ,\ SERIES
VOL. XXIX, No. L
Book
The pathway of infection is unknown. Certain it is that the peritoneum of young girIs susceptibIe to infection with is unusuahy pneumococci. THE HEART VISIBLE. A CLINICAL STUDY IiK CARDIOVASCULAR ROENTGENOLOGY IN HEALTH AND DISEASE. By J. PoIevski, M.D. PhiIa., F. A. Davis Co., 1934.
The subtitle
of this work: “A CIinicai Study CardiovascuIar RoentgenoIogy in Health sums up the contents of this and Disease,” work. The author is a careful observer, has made a thorough study of this subject and has appended thereto a very compIete bibIiography. It is to be doubted whether this book has added to our knowledge of this subject but in these pages w-i11be found a concise statement of the present status of heart roentgenoIogy. For quick reference, the work has a definite vaIue. in
TUBERCULOSIS. A Book for the Patient. B? Fred G. HoImes, M.D. N. Y., D. Appleton-Century Co., Inc., 1935. This book, intended to instruct the tubercuIous patient on how to take care of himself, is fuIIy up-to-date and the patient mastering its contents wili have the Iatest viewpoints. How many patients wiI1 read carefully a voIume of over 300 pages is a question aIthough undoubtedly those who do so will be the It wouId seem that a few pictures gainers. scattered through the volume might add to its attractiveness.
A SYNOPSIS OF SURGICAL ANATOMY. By Alexander Lee McGregor, M.CH. With a Foreword by Sir Harold J. Stiles, K.B.E. Ed. 2, Bait., WiIIiam Wood and Co., 1934. This book, first pubIished in 1932, is abeady presented in a second edition. There are a number of new iIIustrations and a few additions which bring the work entireIy up-to-date. There are over 600 iIIustrations, a11 of them schematic drawings. The work is a handy quick reference volume. THE PRACTICE OF FRAUD. By T. Swann Harding, N. Y., Longmans Green and Co.,
‘935.
This is a most instructive and interesting book , probabIy the best that has come from
Reviews
American Journal of Surgery
167
the proIifIc pen of an unusual man. Harding began as a research chemist and Iater took to writing popuIar accounts of modern scientilic advances. He did so we11 at this that he was given the job of editing pubIications of the Department of Agriculture at Washington. Few men are abIe to read and absorb as rapidIy as he can, and few are able to gather and usefuIIy digest so huge a mass of well-documented information. Working as he does in close relation to the members of the Food and Drug Administration, Harding is constantly in touch with the work being done to protect the American pubIic from frauds of a11 kinds. His knowIedge in this Iield is encycIopedic. He has a passion for accuracy, and in writing, he has a facile and pleasant style. His books are easy to read. Anyone who wouId Iike to know something of the hundreds of frauds that are being perpetrated today on the American pubIic, especiaIIy in the field of the advertising of foods and drugs and cosmetics, cannot do better than to read this book. With its sanity, it shouId be read by some people as an antidote for the aIarms that are IikeIy to be produced by the reading of that best seIIer of recent years, “One Hundred MiIIion Guinea Pigs.” Man)medica men who read that book must ha\-e been a bit concerned to think of the way in which its perusal might serve to add to the torturing fears of that host of mildly psychopathic persons who aIready are too much afraid of a11 sorts of things, and too inclined to starve themselves. Harding’s book strikes us as being much more sane and well-baIanced and Iess Iikeiy to arouse unwarranted fears in nervous and fussy people. While the physician can easily recognize the many sins of the advertisers of foods and drugs and cosmetics, and whiIe he deprecates the ballyhoo and the misbranding, when it comes to the devising of a new food and drugs act, he cannot but feel a little sympathy for the advertisers. Granted that most of them beIong to the tribe of Ananias, one would still hate to see them handed over quite heIpIess to the mercies of bureaucrats who might perhaps get the jitters over linding, in a can of food, a IittIe sodium henzoate or a trace of aiuminum. There is no question that a man who wouId put a substance Iike lead into a food so as to increase his profit shouId be hanged, hut at
VOL. XXIX, No. L
Book
The pathway of infection is unknown. Certain it is that the peritoneum of young girIs susceptibIe to infection with is unusuahy pneumococci. THE HEART VISIBLE. A CLINICAL STUDY IiK CARDIOVASCULAR ROENTGENOLOGY IN HEALTH AND DISEASE. By J. PoIevski, M.D. PhiIa., F. A. Davis Co., 1934.
The subtitle
of this work: “A CIinicai Study CardiovascuIar RoentgenoIogy in Health sums up the contents of this and Disease,” work. The author is a careful observer, has made a thorough study of this subject and has appended thereto a very compIete bibIiography. It is to be doubted whether this book has added to our knowledge of this subject but in these pages w-i11be found a concise statement of the present status of heart roentgenoIogy. For quick reference, the work has a definite vaIue. in
TUBERCULOSIS. A Book for the Patient. B? Fred G. HoImes, M.D. N. Y., D. Appleton-Century Co., Inc., 1935. This book, intended to instruct the tubercuIous patient on how to take care of himself, is fuIIy up-to-date and the patient mastering its contents wili have the Iatest viewpoints. How many patients wiI1 read carefully a voIume of over 300 pages is a question aIthough undoubtedly those who do so will be the It wouId seem that a few pictures gainers. scattered through the volume might add to its attractiveness.
A SYNOPSIS OF SURGICAL ANATOMY. By Alexander Lee McGregor, M.CH. With a Foreword by Sir Harold J. Stiles, K.B.E. Ed. 2, Bait., WiIIiam Wood and Co., 1934. This book, first pubIished in 1932, is abeady presented in a second edition. There are a number of new iIIustrations and a few additions which bring the work entireIy up-to-date. There are over 600 iIIustrations, a11 of them schematic drawings. The work is a handy quick reference volume. THE PRACTICE OF FRAUD. By T. Swann Harding, N. Y., Longmans Green and Co.,
‘935.
This is a most instructive and interesting book , probabIy the best that has come from
Reviews
American Journal of Surgery
167
the proIifIc pen of an unusual man. Harding began as a research chemist and Iater took to writing popuIar accounts of modern scientilic advances. He did so we11 at this that he was given the job of editing pubIications of the Department of Agriculture at Washington. Few men are abIe to read and absorb as rapidIy as he can, and few are able to gather and usefuIIy digest so huge a mass of well-documented information. Working as he does in close relation to the members of the Food and Drug Administration, Harding is constantly in touch with the work being done to protect the American pubIic from frauds of a11 kinds. His knowIedge in this Iield is encycIopedic. He has a passion for accuracy, and in writing, he has a facile and pleasant style. His books are easy to read. Anyone who wouId Iike to know something of the hundreds of frauds that are being perpetrated today on the American pubIic, especiaIIy in the field of the advertising of foods and drugs and cosmetics, cannot do better than to read this book. With its sanity, it shouId be read by some people as an antidote for the aIarms that are IikeIy to be produced by the reading of that best seIIer of recent years, “One Hundred MiIIion Guinea Pigs.” Man)medica men who read that book must ha\-e been a bit concerned to think of the way in which its perusal might serve to add to the torturing fears of that host of mildly psychopathic persons who aIready are too much afraid of a11 sorts of things, and too inclined to starve themselves. Harding’s book strikes us as being much more sane and well-baIanced and Iess Iikeiy to arouse unwarranted fears in nervous and fussy people. While the physician can easily recognize the many sins of the advertisers of foods and drugs and cosmetics, and whiIe he deprecates the ballyhoo and the misbranding, when it comes to the devising of a new food and drugs act, he cannot but feel a little sympathy for the advertisers. Granted that most of them beIong to the tribe of Ananias, one would still hate to see them handed over quite heIpIess to the mercies of bureaucrats who might perhaps get the jitters over linding, in a can of food, a IittIe sodium henzoate or a trace of aiuminum. There is no question that a man who wouId put a substance Iike lead into a food so as to increase his profit shouId be hanged, hut at