The toxemia characteristic of upper gastrointestinal tract obstruction may be produced by temporary obstruction of the pylorus. This procedure affords an opportunity for studying the toxemia in the absence of mechanical factors, operative risk, and infection. Animals which spontaneously recover from the toxemia may show a return of the blood chloride to normal when only distilled water is given...

Mcllroy, D.B.E., LL.D., M.D., D.Sc., F.C.O.G., M.R.C.P. 1936. Edward Arnold and Company, London. Pp. xi plus 355. Illustrated. Price, 14s. Although any book by Dame Louise Mcllroy would command attention, this one, which is an amplification of her Ingleby Lectures of 1934, is so important that it should be^ read and re-read by all who are engaged in the practice of obstetrics. If proof of this ...