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Tuberculosis of bones and joints
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THE
BRITISH
JOURNAL
OF
TUBERCULOSIS
NOTICES OF BOOKS. TUBERCULOSIS
OF BONES
AND
JOINTS.
PROFESSOR OEHLECKER, of H a m b u r g , has provided a work on tuberculosis of bones and joints, which is so generously provided with illustrations as to be a veritable atlas. 1 T h e work is divided into two parts. In the first is provided a full and helpful discussion of pathological features, clinical manifestations, prognostic points, methods of treatment, and like general considerations. An extensive section is devoted to " R 6 n t g e n u n t e r s u c h u n g , " and there is a good account of sun and light t r e a t m e n t , in which Rollier's development of heliotherapy is discussed. T h e r e are illustrations of various forms of mercurial v a p o u r and q u a r t z l a m p s for the conduct of artificial light treatment. Good accounts are also given of orthopaedic and general surgical proceedings, hyperaemic measures a d v o c a t e d by Bier, and the so-called specific t r e a t m e n t by various forms of tuberculins and other antigens. T h e second p a r t of the volume, which is furnished with a large n u m b e r of instructive illustrations, deals in detail with tuberculous lesions as met with in the various bones and joints of the body. As m i g h t be expected, a considerable n u m b e r of the figures relate to lesions in young subjects. T h e whole w o r k is manifestly based on wide experience and a thorough study of all aspects of the subject. W e c o m m e n d this serviceable m o n o g r a p h to the consideration of all medical advisers having to deal with cases of so-called " s u r g i c a l " tuberculosis, and p a r t i c u l a r l y to those w h o desire direction in modern orthopaedic and other measures for the relief and arrest of t u b e r c u l o u s processes in early life. PULMONARY
TUBERCULOSIS.
Dr. R. C. W i n g f i e l d has contributed a really sensible and serviceable handbook on the diagnosis and t r e a t m e n t of tuberculosis of the lungs to the excellent series of " Modern Medical Monog r a p h s " edited by Professor t i u g h Maclean. 2 This series aims at providing busy practitioners and heavily burdened senior students with concise, u p - t o - d a t e , helpful m a n u a l s on scientific applied medicine. Dr. \ ¥ i n g f i e l d ' s work certainly a d m i r a b l y a t t a i n s this ideal. I t is definitely addressed to the general practitioner, and in short, compact, dogmatic chapters presents just the information and t ,, Tuberkulose der Knochen und Gelenke." Von Professor Dr. med. F. Oehlecker, Leiter der I Chirurgischen Abteilung des Krankenbauses HambulgBarmbeck. Pp. vi+4o5, with 356 illustrations. Berlin uud Wien: Urban t~nd Schwarzenberg, Friedrichstrasse, IOSB, Berlin, N. 24; Mahlerstrasse 4, Wien I. I924. Price, unbound, Swiss frs. 33.75 ; bound, Swiss Its. 4o. 2 , , Modern Methods in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Pulmonary Tuberculosis." By R. C. Wingfield, M.B., M.R.C.P., late Physician-in.Charge of the Tuberculosis Department, St. Thomas's Hospital; Medical Superintendent, Brompton Hospital Sanatorium, Frimley. Pp. xi+ i34, with 27 figures. London : Constable and Co., Ltd., Io and I2, Orange Street, Leicester Square, W.C. 2. I924. Price lOS. 6d. net.
THE
BRITISH
JOURNAL
OF
TUBERCULOSIS
NOTICES OF BOOKS. TUBERCULOSIS
OF BONES
AND
JOINTS.
PROFESSOR OEHLECKER, of H a m b u r g , has provided a work on tuberculosis of bones and joints, which is so generously provided with illustrations as to be a veritable atlas. 1 T h e work is divided into two parts. In the first is provided a full and helpful discussion of pathological features, clinical manifestations, prognostic points, methods of treatment, and like general considerations. An extensive section is devoted to " R 6 n t g e n u n t e r s u c h u n g , " and there is a good account of sun and light t r e a t m e n t , in which Rollier's development of heliotherapy is discussed. T h e r e are illustrations of various forms of mercurial v a p o u r and q u a r t z l a m p s for the conduct of artificial light treatment. Good accounts are also given of orthopaedic and general surgical proceedings, hyperaemic measures a d v o c a t e d by Bier, and the so-called specific t r e a t m e n t by various forms of tuberculins and other antigens. T h e second p a r t of the volume, which is furnished with a large n u m b e r of instructive illustrations, deals in detail with tuberculous lesions as met with in the various bones and joints of the body. As m i g h t be expected, a considerable n u m b e r of the figures relate to lesions in young subjects. T h e whole w o r k is manifestly based on wide experience and a thorough study of all aspects of the subject. W e c o m m e n d this serviceable m o n o g r a p h to the consideration of all medical advisers having to deal with cases of so-called " s u r g i c a l " tuberculosis, and p a r t i c u l a r l y to those w h o desire direction in modern orthopaedic and other measures for the relief and arrest of t u b e r c u l o u s processes in early life. PULMONARY
TUBERCULOSIS.
Dr. R. C. W i n g f i e l d has contributed a really sensible and serviceable handbook on the diagnosis and t r e a t m e n t of tuberculosis of the lungs to the excellent series of " Modern Medical Monog r a p h s " edited by Professor t i u g h Maclean. 2 This series aims at providing busy practitioners and heavily burdened senior students with concise, u p - t o - d a t e , helpful m a n u a l s on scientific applied medicine. Dr. \ ¥ i n g f i e l d ' s work certainly a d m i r a b l y a t t a i n s this ideal. I t is definitely addressed to the general practitioner, and in short, compact, dogmatic chapters presents just the information and t ,, Tuberkulose der Knochen und Gelenke." Von Professor Dr. med. F. Oehlecker, Leiter der I Chirurgischen Abteilung des Krankenbauses HambulgBarmbeck. Pp. vi+4o5, with 356 illustrations. Berlin uud Wien: Urban t~nd Schwarzenberg, Friedrichstrasse, IOSB, Berlin, N. 24; Mahlerstrasse 4, Wien I. I924. Price, unbound, Swiss frs. 33.75 ; bound, Swiss Its. 4o. 2 , , Modern Methods in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Pulmonary Tuberculosis." By R. C. Wingfield, M.B., M.R.C.P., late Physician-in.Charge of the Tuberculosis Department, St. Thomas's Hospital; Medical Superintendent, Brompton Hospital Sanatorium, Frimley. Pp. xi+ i34, with 27 figures. London : Constable and Co., Ltd., Io and I2, Orange Street, Leicester Square, W.C. 2. I924. Price lOS. 6d. net.