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. 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