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(Diseases of the Heart and Circulation: Applied Physiology and Functional Therapy.) By Professor Dr. M. Hochrein and Dozent Dr. med. habil. J. Schleicher. Price, DM. 225. Pp. 2,196, 2 volumes. Darmstadt (Dr. D. Steinkopff), 1959.

F. Mainzer, M.D., F.A.C.C., Reviewer
Alexandria, Egypt

Arch Intern Med. 1960;106(4):582.

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This monumental treatise of 2,196 pages summarizes the life work of one of the foremost German cardiologists and his collaborator (and wife). The senior author is well equipped to write a work of such a wide scope, having made many personal contributions to the pathological anatomy and physiology of the heart as well as to clinical cardiology, including some textbooks. One-time professor of Experimental Pathology and Therapy at Leipzig University, now head of a big hospital department at Ludwigshafen (Rhein), he has first-hand knowledge to present in the theoretical as well as in the practical domains of cardiology.

However, the work is not a textbook in the narrow meaning of the word, where every subject has its space allotted according to its intrinsic importance. It is written rather in the discursive style, although not in the form of lectures, where personal interest of the authors has its bearing on the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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