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BULGARIAN YEARBOOK the Conzqtest of Baldness DE(. 30, 1961 REVREWSREVIEWS ~~~~~~~~MEDICALBRITISCJOURNALO 1761 fore mainly for those who attended the conference. It can hardly be said to be worth over £5 of anyone else's BOOKS RECEIVED money. Review is not precluided by notice here of books recemzily received. M. C. G. ISRAELS. Lecture Notes on Pharmacology. By J. H. Burn, M.D., F.R.S. Sixth edition. (Pp. 143+viii. 8s. 6d.) Oxford: Black- well Scientific Publications. 1961. BULGARIAN YEARBOOK The Conzqtest of Baldness. The Wonderful Story of Iair. Bulletint de l'Izstiitut de Medecine Experimenitale. Volume By Gilles Lambert. (Pp. 160; illustrated. 18s.) London: lII. (Pp. 275; illustrated. No price.) Bulgaria: Edition Souvenir Press. 1961. de l'Acadimie des Sciences de Bulgarie. 1960. Fit at Forty and After. By Oscar Heidenstam. (Pp. 141; The work under review is the yearbook for 1960 of the illustrated. 16s.) London: Faber and Faber. 1961. Division of Biological and Medical Science of the The Self and Others. Further Studies in Sanity and iMad- Institute of Experimental Medicine of the Bulgarian ness. By R. D. Laing. (Pp. 186+ix. 25s.) London: Tavi- Academy of Sciences. It contains 19 papers in stock Publications. 1961. Memorandum on Immunological Procedures. Which Service Bulgarian and Russian, with summaries in English, Personnelandtheir Families may Need at Home and Abroad. Russian, French, and German. Many are predominantly Issued by the War Office. (Pp. 79. 4s. 6d.) London: H.M. theoretical in content and only those communications Stationery Office. 1961. of more clinical interest will be mentioned here. Functional Closutre of Exstrophy of the Bladder. International Among these is a paper by A. Hranova on the effect Inquiry. By Victor F. Marshall and Franco de Gironcoli of glutamic acid upon higher nervous activity in rats, (Pp. 52; illustrated. $2.) Treviso: Edizioni di "Urologia," in which it is shown that conditioned reflexes to sound Libreria Editrice Canova. 1961. and light-which had begun to diminish from lack of Some Observation on Cyclopropane Anaestkesia in Aninmals uising a Portable Closed Circuit Apparatus, with Special Refer- maintenance-could be restored by the administration ence to Conditions in CentralAfrica. Ey Alan G. Warren, B.Sc. of glutamic acid in the diet. D. Daskalov and co-workers (Lond.), M.R.C.V.S. (Pp. 79; illustrated. No price.) London: have employed the electrophoretic dermogram, a method Harrison and Sons. 1961. involving electrophoretic introduction of adrenaline and Vision of the Aging Patient. An Optometric Symposium. acetylcholine into the skin, in a study of the effect of Edited by Monroe J. Hirsch, O.D., Ph.D., and Ralph E. Wick, intravenously administered ascorbic acid on autonomic O.D. (Pp. 328 +xviii; illustrated. 52s. 6d.) London: reactivity. L. Glavcheva has investigated the effect of Hammond, Hammond and Co. 1961. chlorpromazine upon gastric secretion in dogs, using On Modern Physics. By Werner Heisenberg, Max Born, Erwin Schrodinger, and Pierre Auger. (Pp. 108. 18s.) London: the Pavlov-pouch technique. Given in doses of I to 2 Orion Press. llc61. mg. per kg. the drug inhibits the secretion of gastric Hvpnotism and the Supernornal. By Simeon Edmunds. juice, and the effect is probably mediated by the para- (Pp. 180+xi. 25s.) London: Aquarian Press. 1961. also be due to a sympathetic system and may direct Medical Physiology. Edited by Philip Bard. Eleventh effect upon the secretory cells. Other papers deal with edition. (Pp. 1,339; illustrated. £6 3s. 6d.) St. Louis: C.V. the struCture-activity relationships of derivatives of Mosby Company. London: Henr-y Kimpton. 1961. ephedrine. Appraisal of Current Concept in AnesthesioloGy. Edited D. J. BAUER. and assembled by John Adriani, M.D. (Pp. 279. 58s.) St. Louis: C.V. Mosby Company. London: Henry Kimpton. 1961. Lectures on thte Methodologv of Clinical Research. By Max LUPUS VULGARIS IN DENMARK Hamilton, M.D., D.P.M. (Pp. 139+viii. 21s.) Edinburgh and Lipls Vulgaris Cutis int Denmtagrk, 1895-1954. Its Relation London: E. and S. Livingstone. 1961. to the Epidemiology of Other Forms of Tuberculosis. By Psychology for Nutrses. By Jennifer M. Jarvis, B.A., Ole Hoi witz. (Pp. 142; illustrated. $6.50.) Copenhagen. Dip.Psych., and John Gibson, M.D., D.P.M. (Pp. 131. 15s.) 1960. Oxford: Blackwell Scientific Publications. 1961. The author has devoted five years to an exhaustive GravitationzalStress inAerospace Medicinie. By Otto ll. Gauer, survey on a statistical basis of the problem of lupus M.D., and George D. Zuidema, M.D. (Pp. 278+xvi; illustrated. vulgaris in Denmark. It is based on the work of the 97s. 6d.) London: J. and A. Churchill. 1961. Finsen Institute in Copenhagen from 1895 to 1954. Surgery. A Concise Guide to Clinical Practice. Edited by An appendix comprising nearly half the book consists George L. Nardi, M.D., and George D. Zuidema, M.D. By 23 authors. Foreword by Edward D. Churchill, M.D. (Pp. 1,033; of 76 tables of figures. They deal with age of onset; illustrated. 60s.) London: J. and A. Churchill. 1961. admission; associated diseases; occupation and agei of Manual of Refraction. By Albert E. Sloane, M.D. (Pp. 171; social status; relative activity of disease and cure ; type illustrated. 45s.) London: J. and A. Churchill. 1961. of organism; mortality rates; and all combinations of Stedman's Medical Dictionzary. Prepared by 23 Consulting these figures. The earlier chapters of this work indicate Editors and 34 Associate Editors. 20th edition. (Pp. 1,680+ the methods employed in arriving at these figures and xlvii; illustrated. £5 10s.) London: Baillitre, Tindall and Cox. the aspects of the problem investigated. It may interest 1961. the statistician but will not excite the clinician, though Abdominal Surgery. By 41 authors. Editors: Arthur W. Allen, M.D., and David Woolfolk Barrow, M.D. Foreword by it may have some value to those engaged in that field Frederick A. Coller, M.D. (Pp. 658 +xiii; illustrated. £9.) of study. New York: Paul B. Hoeber, Inc. London: Pitman Medical The factors of climate, nutrition, and the influences of Publishing Co. Ltd. 1961. stressful circumstances are not considered. It would The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Tlerapy. Edited by have been helpful to have known something of the Charles E. Lyght, M.D. Tenth edition. (Pp. 1,907. 60s.) incidence of cancer among patients with lupus treated Merck Sharp and Dohme Research Laboratories. 1961. by x rays and among those not so treated, but this is Clinical Aspects of Nuclear Medicine. Symposium with add significantly to Special Reference to Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases. By not covered. The book does not Lee E. Farr, H. W. Knipping, and William H. Lewis, in co-opera- our knowledge of the subject. tion with R. W. Felten and H. Ludes. (Pp. 486; illustrated. J. T. INGRAM. DM. 49.) Koln and Upladen: Westdeutscher Verlag. 1961. 1794 DEC. 30, 1961 MEDICAL NEWS .~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~EIAMEDICALIJOURSALJOURNA "Family Doctor" The January issue of Family Doctor is now available, BRITISH JOURNAL OF OPHTHALMOLOGY price ls. 6d. It includes articles on unwanted children, by Ocular Lesions of Onchocerciasis. F. H. Budden. Attention and Amblyopla-An Electro-encephalographic Approach to an Dr. ANN MULLINS; on bronchitis-the English disease-by Ophthalmological Problem. A. T. M. van Balen and H. E. Henkes. Dr. J. EARLE; on earache, by Dr. K. S. HOLT; and on An Operation for the Treatment of Severe Contraction of the Socket. B. W. Rycroft. toxaemia of pregnancy, by Mr. ELLIOT PHILIPP. Corticosteroids and Fibrolysin In the Prevention of Lacrinal Duct Obstruction. Y. Dayal. 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