In addition to usual division of the subject and the usual description of the various humoral systems, three chapters deal specially with three items : (1) Neuroendocrine and Psychosomatic Aspects of the Endocrinopathies. 'The psychologic forms which contribute to the development and integration of the personality structure stem not only from the biologic inheritance of the human race but also ...

Ten years ago Dr. Belding brought out the first edition of this text and in the present volume follows the original plan of presenting "the protozoan, helminthic, and arthropod parasites of man, and the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of the diseases they produce." Although more material has been compressed into each page and thinner paper permits a convenient reduction in its thickness, 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...

THERE are two types of textbook of medicine. The one deals primarily with principles and omits detail, while the other consists largely of factual information. Both types are necessary. Price's Textbook of Medicine falls into the latter category and is an excellent book of its type. The new edition is extensively rewritten and the new sections are in most cases a considerable improvement on tho...

Topic Areas or Theme ID: discourse analysis, discourse segmentation, discourse plans Word Count: 3196 words (excluding gures) Under consideration for other conferences (specify)? No. Abstract We propose a promising research problem, the machine veriication of textbook proofs. It shows that textbook proofs are a suuciently complex and highly struc-tured form of discourse, embedded in a well-deen...

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 ...

serotonin in platelets or other organs. Giarman and Schanberg (Biochem. Pharmacol. 1:301, 1959) showed that iproniazid does indeed hinder reserpine-induced release of serotonin from storage granules in rat's brain. Recently, the same has been found to be true about release of catecholamines from rabbit's atria. These objections and criticisms are raised here only to present one of the apparent ...