New Aspects of John and William Hunter

tinued to use the most familiar term, 'Torula histolytica,' although realizing that this name may be inappropriate." This seems sensible to the reviewer. Let us hope the literature will 'be spared the adversity of "Debaryomycosis." With a readable style the authors present extensive information, original observations, and sound comment. The monograph is a valuable contribution to knowledge of torulosis. This is a very readalble volume about the somewhat unbrotherly brothers Hunter. It is not designed to add new facts or even to summarize old facts with respect to their accomplishments in anatomy, in medicine, and in surgery. Rather, it aims at presenting a clearer understanding of the individuals themselves through their personal relationships with their contemporaries. It seeks to resolve certain unsolved prdblems by bringing to bear on the questions indirect testimony and by a valiant effort to read everything possible into every word of such direct testimony as is available. Yet when all is done, the enigma presented by John Hunter's relationship to Home remains an enigma. Just why Home should have burned Hunter's accumulation of manuscripts is still a question. In a similar way the vagaries of William Hunter in his shifting relationships with political affairs and also with his associates still remain an open question. The approach to this question is a pleasing one, and while the questions still persist, the treatment of them is entertaining. The book consists of two essays, the first entitled "Everard Home and the Destruction of the John Hunter Manuscripts" while the second bears the title "William Hunter and His Contemporaries." Appended to each essay are ample explanatory notes and a bibliography of Everard Home. The only disconcerting sentence appears on page 4 where it reads "There are few of use indeed who can, like Hunter, wholly submerge the evil in our own natures by complete and utter honesty.. ." The binding is very attractive.