Carbohydrate Metabolism. A Symposium on the Clinical and Biochemical Aspects of Carbohydrate Utilization in Health and Disease

The Rise of Specialization, and Destruction and Rehabilitation. Particularly impressive are the fine illustrations, the plans, the maps, and the "Rules and Orders of the Public Infirmary at Manchester, 1752" printed as an appendix. There is a good index. The volume on the Mount Sinai Hospital of New York is equally well organized and illustrated and proceeds in a warm, narrative style to tell the same sort of story, varying only in person and place, regarding the rapid events and excitement of development and service. Organized as "The Jews' Hospital in New York," the institution filled an immediate need in the rough and poverty-stricken metropolis of the new world. Opening on West 28th Street in New York City in a modest four-story building, the Jews' Hospital quickly took its place in caring for the sick of the community and rendered worthy service during the Civil War. Shortly its name was changed to The Mount Sinai Hospital, and it moved to Lexington Avenue and 66th Street. Here it developed one of the best nursing schools in the country at that time. Its staff included some of the outstanding medical leaders in New York, and in spite of expansions and the difficulties of new buildings, it gradually developed the clinics and laboratory services which were to make it outstanding. The staff of Mount Sinai Hospital included such distinguished leaders as Abraham Jacobi, Arpad Gerster, Carl Koller, Bernard Sachs, Henry Koplik, Nathan E. Brill, Emanuel Libman, Leo Bueger, Reuben Ottenberg, Bela Schick, Gregory Shwartzman, and Moses Swick. In this lively and interesting account of the development of the Mount Sinai Hospital the illustrations are excellent, there is a useful chronology, together with a list of officers and staff, of the Welch and Janeway Lectures, and of endowments and gifts. The volume is well indexed. For these two volumes commemorating two great hospitals, the respective authors are to be warmly commended. Records such as these provoke astonishment at the long continued devotion of many thousands of persons to the high ideals of medical service. These books give fine examples of what such service can accomplish. Although not as frequently undertaken, the biographies of institutions may be equally as interesting and important as the biographies of single individuals. Institutions, which are made up of changing groups of individuals, may often be successfully molded into agreeable and effective developments by frequent attention to the factors in their growth. Certainly in the case of the Royal Infirmary of Manchester and the Mount Sinai Hospital of New York, those who have been concerned can take pride in the richness of the accomplishment.