The Colon: Its Normal and Abnormal Physiology and Therapy

essays represented the most stimulating part of the book to this reviewer. I was particularly interested in the papers by Simpson and Tait on Aldosterone and the one by Harris and Fortier on the regulation of the release of ACTH. All of the essays are useful, but their contents have appeared in previous reviews elsewhere, often by the same authors; indeed, Moore's paper on "Bodily changes in Surgical Convalescence" is merely a reprint of a paper which appeared in 1953 in Annals of Surgery, slightly modified to bring it up to date. The Fourth Annual Report on Stress (AROS, 1954, in the Selye shorthand) is, therefore, likely to appeal chiefly to those workers who have patterned their thinking on Selye's hypotheses. For readers who prefer to work out their own medical cosmogeny the main interest of the book will probably lie in the reviews it contains.