Part 30

From the BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL: "The books are short and practical, and are founded upon the most recent clinical and laboratory experience."

THE TREATMENT OF INFECTED WOUNDS. By A. Carrel and G. Dehelly. Translated by Herbert Child, Capt. R.A.M.C., with Introduction by Sir Anthony A. Bowlby, K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., F.R.C.S., Surgeon-General Army Medical Service. With 97 illustrations in the text and six plates. Second Edition, with additions. Price 6/- net

Is as fine an example of correlated work on the part of the chemist, the bacteriologist, and the clinician as could well be wished for, and bids fair to become epoch-making in the treatment of septic wounds.

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THE PSYCHONEUROSES OF WAR. By Dr. G. Roussy, Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, Paris, and J. Lhermitte, sometime Laboratory Director in the Faculty of Medicine, Paris. Edited by Colonel William Aldren Turner, C.B., M.D., and Consulting Neurologist to the Forces in England. Translated by Wilfred B. Christopherson. With 13 full-page plates. Price 6/- net

"The Psychoneuroses of War" being a book which is addressed to the clinician, the authors have endeavoured, before all else, to present an exact semeiology, and to give their work a didactic character. After describing the general idea of the psychoneuroses and the methods by which they are produced, the authors survey the various clinical disorders which have been observed during the war.

THE CLINICAL FORMS OF NERVE LESIONS (Vol. I). By Mme. Athanassio Benisty, House Physician of the Hospitals of Paris (Salpêtrière), with a Preface by Professor Pierre Marie. Edited with a Preface by E. Farquhar Buzzard, M.D., F.R.C.P., Captain R.A.M.C.(T.), etc. With 81 illustrations in the text, and seven full-page plates. Price 6/- net

In this volume will be found described some of the most recent acquisitions to our knowledge of the neurology of war. But its principal aim is to initiate the medical man who is not a specialist into the examination of nerve injuries. He will quickly learn how to recognise the nervous territory affected, and the development of the various clinical features; he will be in a position to pronounce a precise diagnosis, and to foresee the consequences of this or that lesion.

THE TREATMENT AND REPAIR OF NERVE LESIONS (Vol. II). By Mme. Athanassio Benisty. Edited by E. Farquhar Buzzard, M.D., F.R.C.P., Capt. R.A.M.C.(T.), etc. With 62 illustrations in the text and four full-page plates. Price 6/- net

This volume is the necessary complement of the first. It explains the nature of the lesions, their mode of repair, their prognosis, and above all their treatment. It provides a series of particularly useful data as to the evolution of nerve-wounds--the opportunities of intervention--and the prognosis of immediate complications or late sequelae.

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"The importance of this comprehensive series can hardly be exaggerated. The French genius in its application to scientific medicine will be discovered here at its best and it will be found to be a distinct gain to have had this method of collaboration applied to so important an enterprise."

THE TREATMENT OF FRACTURES. By R. Leriche, Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, Lyons. Edited by F. F. Burghard, C.B., M.S., F.R.C.S., formerly Consulting Surgeon to the Forces in France. Vol. I.--"Fractures Involving Joints." With 97 illustrations from original and specially prepared drawings. Price 6/- net

The author's primary object has been to produce a handbook of surgical therapeutics. But surgical therapeutics does not mean merely the technique of operation. Technique is, and should be, only a part of surgery, especially at the present time. The purely operative surgeon is a very incomplete surgeon in time of peace; "in time of war he becomes a public disaster; for operation is only the first act of the first dressing."

Vol. II.--"Fractures of the Shaft." With 156 illustrations from original and specially prepared drawings. Price 6/- net

Vol. I. of this work was devoted to Fractures Involving Joints; Vol. II. (which completes the work) treats of Fractures of the Shaft, and is conceived in the same spirit--that is, with a view to the production of a work on conservative surgical therapeutics.

The author strives on every page to develop the idea that anatomical conservation must not be confounded with functional conservation. The two things are not so closely allied as is supposed. There is no conservative surgery save where the function is conserved. The essential point of the treatment of diaphysial fractures consists in the early operative disinfection, primary or secondary, by an extensive sub-periosteal removal of fragments, based on exact physiological knowledge, and in conformity with the general method of treating wounds by excision. When this operation has been carefully performed with the aid of the rugine, with the object of separating and retaining the periosteum of all that the surgeon considers should be removed, the fracture must be correctly reduced and the limb immobilised.

FRACTURE OF THE LOWER JAW. By L. Imbert, National Correspondent of the Société de Chirurgie, and Pierre Réal, Dentist to the Hospitals of Paris. With a Preface by Medical Inspector-General Février. Edited by J. F. Colyer, F.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., L.D.S. With 97 illustrations in the text and five full-page plates. Price 6/- net

Previous to the present war no stomatologist or surgeon possessed any very extensive experience of this subject. Claude Martin, of Lyons, who perhaps gave more attention to it than anyone else, aimed particularly at the restoration of the occlusion of teeth, even at the risk of obtaining only fibrous union of the jaw. The authors of the present volume take the contrary view, maintaining the consolidation of the fracture is above all the result to be attained. The authors give a clear account of the various displacements met with in gunshot injuries of the jaw and of the methods of treatment adopted, the latter being very fully illustrated.

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