EXTENSILE EXPOSURE APPLIED TO LIMB SURGERY

TEtE seventh edition of this popular textbook has maintained the high standard of previous editions. By the addition of new sections, it has been kept in line with recent advances in medicine, and especially in therapeutics. Several of the older sections have been rewritten and brought up to date. It is a book which should commend itself to students and to those studying for higher examinations, who wish to revise their previous knowvledge, because diseases are set out clearly and concisely, and the reader is not burdened with a mass of irrelevant detail and conflicting theories. To obtain this result a certain amount of dogmatism is inevitable and desirable. The sections on treatment are particularly good, the drugs recommended being those of proved value only, and where necessary, diets are given in detail. The section on diseases of the skin includes a most useful collection of prescriptions, which are invaluable to students who usually find the composition of such prescriptions a difficult task. Mental illness is satisfactorily dealt with, and there is a short note on life assurance examinations. This book can be recommended to students as one of the best textbooks on general medicine at present available. Livingstone Ltd. 16s. THIS book covers a very wide field, including vascular lesions and the care of the paraplegic with retention. The text is written in short concise sentences and the many illustrations are well chosen. Good paper and good print make it a pleasure to read. Although designed primarily for nurses and physiotherapists, the final-year medical student and newly-qualified medical officer would learn much, as it is essentially a practical book; and although diagnosis, etiology, etc., may help one to pass an examination, it is on good treatment that a practice is built. Florence Nightingale probably knew little of the X-ray changes in Perthe's disease, etc., but the modern nurse must know this and much more, it would appear. If this work is meant to include physiotherapists, as the title would suggest, a few helpful hints on how and in what clinical conditions the various physical methods of radiant heat, ultraviolet light, infra-red, diathermy., shortwave therapy, etc., should be used, might, and perhaps could, be added with advantage. Livingstone, for 16s., have produced a book which one may read for pleasure and refer to with advantage. A. K. HENRY'S prescribed work, "Exposure of Long Bones and Other Surgical Measures, 1927," is …