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By Percival Bailey, M.D., Professor of Surgery, University of Chicago. Price, $6. Pp. 475, with 155 illustrations. Springfield, Ill.: Charles C. Thomas, 1933.

Arch Intern Med. 1933;52(5):828.

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This is an interesting book, well planned and well written. The material is divided into twenty chapters, beginning with an analysis of the problem of tumors in general and ending with the treatment of intracranial tumors, discussing on the way the anatomy of the brain, its physiology and the various manifestations of different tumors which develop in it. These are classified according to the author's views.

The charm of the book lies in the manner in which it is written. The author maintains throughout the volume a very individualistic point of view, describing cases to illustrate the subject under discussion as though he was giving a clinical lecture. Any reader, even if he is only cursorily interested in the subject of tumors of the brain, will gather a great deal of miscellaneous information about a field of medicine and surgery which of late has been intensively cultivated. He will do . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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