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1907
The Lancet
815 from an anatomical and a surgical standpoint. Lecture I. is M divided into two parts, (1) The Temporal Bone at Birth ; and tl (2) The Surgical Anatomy of the Labyrinth. Under the " first heading the bone as a whole, as it appears at birth, It is minutely described and subsequently the middle-ear tract w and the consistence of the outer antral wall are dealt with. w The author points out the paths by which infection may h pass from the middle ear to the meninges and also explains tl why
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... thrombosis is so rare at this time of life. In g discussing the surgical anatomy of the labyrinth the operative b treatment of Meniere's disease is referred to and the writer h takes the hopeful view that in the future sufferers from this b disease will receive relief at the hands of the surgeon. In si Lecture II. the changes that occur in the bone during growth are set forth at length and amongst other things ]E the reason of the comparatively late development of the I mastoid process is explained. Then follow three most e instructive chapters on the relation of the lateral sinus to n the surface, the consistence of the outer antral wall and a mastoid process, and the variations in the middle ear and a antrum. From the surgeon's point of view these chapters t are quite the best in the book and the illustrations, repro-f duced from photographs, are beyond criticism. The third I lecture is devoted to the surgical anatomy of the structures l met with in the performance of the radical mastoid opera-E tion. It contains much useful and valuable information i relating to guides to the antrum, precautions in opening the antrum, and the relations of the facial nerve in the adult. A brief but concise account of Wallace's and Parry's opera-1 tions for division of the auditory nerve brings the chapter to 4 a successful termination. The book is profusely illustrated by photographs of the specimens shown at the Hunterian lectures and should prove -of great value to the anatomist and to the surgeon. LIBRARY TABLE. Duke of Connaught, has, the author says, been demanded much sooner than he had dared to anticipate and he adds that he is indebted for the demand to two factors: first, that a few regiments have ordered a large number of copies for distribution amongst the men of the regiment ; and secondly, to favourable notices in the press. He has included in this edition a special lecture on "Health and Fitness," which he delivered to the recruits of the cavalry regiments stationed in Ireland during the year. Since Dr. Maccabe first delivered the lectures contained in this little book he has repeated them to the officers of the Staff College in Camberley. For this audience he went a little more deeply into the scientific reasons for the suggestions made. He has now amplified these parts and has reproduced the lectures as he delivered them at the Staff College. He has added as a second part of this book the introductory lectures which he gave to his ambulance section, in the hope that medical officers of both -Yeomanry and Volunteer regiments may adopt the idea of making their ambulance classes of greater use to the regiment and to the public generally than mere renderers of first aid can ever hope to be. Dr. Maccabe has certainly made his chapter on anatomy most interesting and as he says " alive,' but we venture to think that he must be joking when he writes that " my South of Ireland Yeomanry class knew their anatomy at the close of the course as well as the average medical student." In commenting on the extracts from Surgeon-General Havard's Report on the Russian Camps in :anchuria, the author selects three special points : First, te use of soup in camp and on the march, for, as he says, Hard-working men must have liquid in some form or other. i is to be hoped that in all manoeuvres in future the rush ill be for the soup-cart and not for the too-often poisoned ater-cart." The second point he dwells on is the use of ot, to say nothing of vapour, baths at the front. As his iird point he asks medical officers to use their influence to et the hard, indigestible, and very constipating ration iscuit abolished in favour of brown bread, as the Russians ave done with such good results. We consider the book to e a valuable one. Each page is well written and the different objects are presented with a pleasing freshness. Disseetions nl1tstrated. By C. GORDON BRODIE, F.R.C.S. :ng. With plates drawn and lithographed by PERCY IIGHLEY. In 73 coloured plates and 37 diagrams. Second dition, revised. London: Whittaker and Co. Price 25s. Let.-Gordon Brodie's "Dissections Illustrated" is an atlas .lready familiar to many medical men; to those not .cquainted with it its nature may best be indicated by saying hat the lithographic plates of which it consists closely ollow in appearance, colouring, and range the well-known )lates of Professor G. V. Ellis but are on a reduced scale. Most of the drawings are from original dissections by the author. In form the atlas is handy and portable and the llustrations convey a very good idea of the head, the neck, md the limbs as seen in ordinary dissections. In comparison with certain atlases of more recent date the illustrations of bhe thorax and abdomen leave very much to be desired. The central nervous system and the joints and bones are not illustrated at all. Traité des Variations des Os de la Face de l'Howme et de leur Signification a1t Point de Vue de l' Anthropologie Zoolo-giq1te. (Treatise on the Variations of the Bones of the Face in Man and their rSignifacatien front the Point of View of Cootparcttive Anthropology.) By Dr. A. F. LE DOUBLE, Professor of Anatomy at the School of Medicine of Tours. Paris : Vigot Freres. 1906. Pp. xx. -471. Price 25 francs.- The results of an immense amount of painstaking investigation and of wide reading are embodied by Professor le Double in this monograph. The exhaustive way in which the subject is treated will be appreciated when it is realised that a bulky volume of over 450 pages is devoted to the variations and abnormalities of the bones of the face alone. The descriptions are minute and exhaustive ; many tables of measurements are given, collected from various sources, and numerous illustrations in the text add to the value of the work. The bearing of the facts of comparative anatomy on the variations met with is discussed at length in every case. There is included a short appendix to a former treatise by the same author on the variations of the bones of the cranium in man. The book is provided with full indices, and to those interested in the subject will prove a veritable mine of information. The author claims, and we believe correctly, that it is the only work of the kind which at present exists. Hygrornedry. By HENRY EMERSON WETHERILL, M.D. Philadelphia: Published by the Author (Press of W. Ellis Johnson and Co.). Fourth edition. 1906. Pp. 82. Price $2.50.-The new word in the title of Dr. Wetherill's book denotes what he elsewhere calls medical hygroscopy, or the quantitative estimation of the water vapour given off from limited areas of the skin. He uses two instruments for this purpose. One of them, called the hygromed or medical hygroscope, is a small shallow circular box of aluminium, with eight holes in the bottom. It has a transparent celluloid top and contains a graduated scale over which a pointer is moved by the contraction and elongation of a hygroscopic membrane. The perforated portion of the instrument is placed over the area of skin to be tested and the water vapour entering the box moves the pointer
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