Part 31

FRACTURES OF THE ORBIT AND INJURIES OF THE EYE IN WAR. By Felix Lagrange, Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, Bordeaux. Translated by Herbert Child, Captain R.A.M.C. Edited by J. Herbert Parsons, D.Sc., F.R.C.S., Temp. Captain R.A.M.C. With 77 illustrations in the text and six full-page plates. Price 6/- net

Grounding his remarks on a considerable number of observations, Professor Lagrange arrives at certain conclusions which at many points contradict or complete what we have hitherto believed concerning the fractures of the orbit: for instance, that traumatisms of the skull caused by fire-arms produce, on the vault of the orbit, neither fractures by irradiation nor independent fractures; that serious lesions of the eye may often occur when the projectile has passed at some distance from it. There are, moreover, between the seat of these lesions (due to concussion or contact) on the one hand, and the course of the projectile on the other hand, constant relations which are veritable clinical laws, the exposition of which is a highly original feature in this volume.

HYSTERIA OR PITHIATISM, AND REFLEX NERVOUS DISORDERS. By J. Babinski, Member of the French Academy of Medicine, and J. Froment, Assistant Professor and Physician to the Hospitals of Lyons. Edited with a Preface by E. Farquhar Buzzard, M.D., F.R.C.P., Captain R.A.M.C.(T.), etc. With 37 illustrations in the text and eight full-page plates. Price 6/- net

The number of soldiers affected by hysterical disorders is great, and many of them have been immobilized for months in hospital, in the absence of a correct diagnosis and the application of a treatment appropriate to their case. A precise, thoroughly documented work on hysteria, based on the numerous cases observed during two years of war, was therefore a necessity under present conditions. Moreover, it was desirable, after the discussions and the polemics of which this question has been the subject, to inquire whether we ought to return to the old conception, or whether, on the other hand, we might not finally adopt the modern conception which refers hysteria to pithiatism.

WOUNDS OF THE SKULL AND THE BRAIN. Clinical forms and medico-surgical treatment. By C. Chatelin and T. De Martel. With a Preface by the Professor Pierre Marie. Edited by F. F. Burghard, C.B., M.S., F.R.C.S., formerly Consulting Surgeon to the Forces in France. With 97 illustrations in the text and two full-page plates. Price 7/6 net

Of all the medical works which have appeared during the war, this is certainly one of the most original, both in form and in matter. It is, at all events, one of the most individual. The authors have preferred to give only the results of their own experience, and if their conclusions are not always in conformity with those generally accepted, this, as Professor Pierre Marie states in his preface, is because important advances have been made during the last two years; and of this the publication of this volume is the best evidence.

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LOCALISATION AND EXTRACTION OF PROJECTILES. By Assistant Professor Ombrédanne, of the Faculty of Medicine, Paris, and M. Ledoux-Lebard, Director of the Laboratory of Radiology of the Hospitals of Paris. Edited by A. D. Reid, C.M.G., M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P., Major (Temp.) R.A.M.C. With a Preface on Extraction of the Globe of the Eye, by Colonel W. T. Lister, C.M.G.. With 225 illustrations in the text and 30 full-page photographs. Price 10/6 net

This volume appeals to surgeons no less than to radiologists. It is a summary and statement of all the progress effected by surgery during the last two and a half years. MM. Ombrédanne and Ledoux-Lebard have not, however, attempted to describe all the methods in use, whether old or new. They have rightly preferred to make a critical selection, and--after an exposition of all the indispensable principles of radiological physics--they examine, in detail, all those methods which are typical, convenient, exact, rapid, or interesting by reason of their originality: the technique of localisation, the compass, and various adjustments and forms of apparatus.

WOUNDS OF THE ABDOMEN. By G. Abadie (of Oran), National Correspondent of the Société de Chirurgie. With a Preface by Dr. J. L. Faure. Edited by Sir Arbuthnot Lane, Bart., C.B., M.S., Colonel (Temp.), Consulting Surgeon to the Forces in England. With 67 illustrations in the text and four full-page plates. Price 7/6 net

Dr. Abadie has been enabled, at all the stations of the army service departments, to weigh the value of methods and results, and considers the following problems in this volume: (1) How to decide what is the best treatment in the case of penetrating wounds of the abdomen; (2) How to install the material organisation which permits of the application of this treatment, and how to recognise those conditions which prevent its application; (3) How to decide exactly what to do in each special case--whether one should perform a radical operation, or a palliative operation, or whether one should resort to medical treatment.

WOUNDS OF THE BLOOD-VESSELS. By L. Sencert, Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, Nancy. Edited by F. F. Burghard, C.B., M.S., F.R.C.S., formerly Consulting Surgeon to the Forces in France. With 68 illustrations in the text and two full-page plates. Price 6/- net

Hospital practice had long familiarised us with the vascular wounds of civil practice, and the experiments of the Val-de-Grâce School of Medicine had shown us what the wounds of the blood-vessels caused by modern projectiles would be in the next war. But in 1914 these data lacked the ratification of extensive practice. Two years have elapsed, and we have henceforth solid foundations on which to establish our treatment. In a first part, Professor Sencert examines the wounds of the great vessels in general; in a second part he rapidly surveys the wounds of vascular trunks in particular, insisting on the problems of operation to which they give rise.

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THE AFTER-EFFECTS OF WOUNDS OF THE BONES AND JOINTS. By Aug. Broca, Professor of Topographical Anatomy in the Faculty of Medicine, Paris. Translated by J. Renfrew White, M.B., F.R.C.S., Temp. Captain R.A.M.C., and edited by R. C. Elmslie, M.S., F.R.C.S.; Orthopædic Surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and Surgeon to Queen Mary's Auxiliary Hospital, Roehampton; Major R.A.M.C.(T.) With 112 illustrations in the text. Price 6/- net

This new work, like all books by the same author, is a vital and personal work, conceived with a didactic intention. At a time when all physicians are dealing, or will shortly have to deal, with the after-effects of wounds received in war, the question of sequelae presents itself, and will present itself more and more. What has become--and what will become--of all those who, in the hospitals at the front or in the rear, have hastily received initial treatment, and what is to be done to complete a treatment often inaugurated under difficult circumstances?

ARTIFICIAL LIMBS. By A. Broca, Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, Paris, and Dr. Ducroquet, Surgeon at the Rothschild Hospital. Edited and translated by R. C. Elmslie, M.S., F.R.C.S., etc.; Orthopædic Surgeon to St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and Surgeon to Queen Mary's Auxiliary Hospital, Roehampton; Major R.A.M.C.(T.). With 210 illustrations. Price 6/- net

The authors of this book have sought not to describe this or that piece of apparatus--more or less "newfangled"--but to explain the anatomical, physiological, practical and technical conditions which an artificial arm or leg should fulfil. It is, if we may so call it, a manual of applied mechanics written by physicians, who have constantly kept in mind the anatomical conditions and the professional requirements of the artificial limb.

TYPHOID FEVERS AND PARATYPHOID FEVERS (Symptomatology, Etiology, Prophylaxis). By H. Vincent, Medical Inspector of the Army, Member of the Academy of Medicine, and L. Muratet, Superintendent of the Laboratories at the Faculty of Medicine of Bordeaux. Second Edition. Translated and Edited by J. D. Rolleston, M.D. With tables and temperature charts. Price 6/-net

This volume is divided into two parts, the first dealing with the clinical features and the second with the epidemiology and prophylaxis of typhoid fever and paratyphoid fevers A and B. A full account is to be found of recent progress in the bacteriology and epidemiology of these diseases, considerable space being given to the important question of the carrier in the dissemination of infection.

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