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Edited by Sherman M. Mellinkoff, M.D. Price, $9. Pp. 443, with 29 illustrations. The Blakiston Company (division of McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc.), 330 W. 42d St., New York 36, 1959.

John J. Bergan, M.D., Reviewer

AMA Arch Intern Med. 1959;104(3):508-509.

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A neat balance is achieved in this short volume between information useful to the surgeon and that primarily of value to the internist. The result, a handbook filled with numerous facts about a diversity of diseases and conditions, should help to serve as a chart to guide physicians between "Scylla and Charybdis, between the dangers of operating too much and too little."

Basic physiologic and neurologic considerations are briefly and comprehensively treated by Thomas Almy, Professor of Medicine at Cornell University Medical College. His contribution comes closest in this volume to fulfilling the object of the handbook, to present recent useful research contributions and other up-to-date information not otherwise available in published books. Had the other section authors followed his precept closer, this volume would be an outstanding contribution to the literature of diagnosis.

Victor Richards, Professor of Surgery, Stanford University School of Medicine, makes the longest contribution to this . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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