subject. The style is concise; but reads more like a student's note-book than a finished literary work. The diagrams are excellent, some parts of the subject are fairly completely dealt with ; but, the account of the Histology of the nervous system is very meagre and the diagrams few. The chapter on Technique is not sufficiently comprehensive and no mention is made of frozen sections of fresh t...

BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY. By Alexander Gero. New York, The Blakiston Company, 1952. xvi + 340 pp. $5.00. This book is proposed to serve as a nexus between undergraduate organic chemistry and graduate or medical school biochemistry. An indication of its scope can be gained by a listing of the table of contents. There are two chapters on physical chemistry, single chapters on the electronic theory of...

The Weibel graticule was used to assess quantitatively histological changes in proximal jejunal mucosal biopsies from patients with Giardia lamblia infections. Most had malabsorption. A group of patients who had mild abdominal symptoms but no intestinal infection and normal absorption were the controls. There were significant differences in mean surface area (SA) measurements between patients w...

Spindle cell proliferations of diverse types which vary greatly in their behavior may occur in the urinary bladder. Some of them such as the inflammatory pseudotumor and the postoperative spindle cell nodule are reactive and clinically benign although they may be responsible for significant symptoms. On the other hand, certain other lesions such as sarcomatoid carcinomas are typically highly ma...

In this third edition of his practical little handbook, Dr. Gibbes has introduced a quantity of new matter and subjected the previous edition to revision. The chapters entitled " On Bacteria " and " On Staining Bacteria " consist merely of a few isolated extracts on the subject from certain journals, when a well-digested summary would be much more acceptable. Special manuals on Bacteriology are...

This book is the work of a group of professors of the Columbia University. It is written primarily for the student and controversial discussions have been wisely avoided. With each new edition some chapters have been rewritten, so that since the first edition the book is completely changed. In this edition a new chapter on the living cell has been added; in it the subject of tissue culture has ...

Professor Maximow has left his mark in medical history as a cytologist of the first rank, and it is therefore fortunate that he should have left behind him when he died sullicient manuscript and notes to enable a book on histology to be published in his name. The historical value of such a book would in any case be considerable, but it is greatly to the credit of the second author that this boo...