William H. Wehrmacher

Ischemic Heart Disease.

Postgraduate courses have attracted internationally famous lecturers to the Boerhaave Quarter of Leiden in the Netherlands since 1952. The university faculty designed the continuing educational plan to keep practicing physicians and specialists abreast of recent progress in a wide variety of medical fields. They dedicated the program to Herman Boerhaave who joined the medical faculty in 1693 when medical practice throughout the world was chaotic and confused by the introduction of concepts of chemistry, physics, anatomy, and pathology. Herman Boerhaave succeeded so well in organizing 17th century medical thought that his students were able to carry their progressive scientific attitudes throughout Europe to establish great centers of medical learning—van Swieten and De Haen in Vienna; von Haller in Gottingen; J. Th. Eller in Berlin; C. Linnaeus in Uppsale, Sweden; and Monro, Rutherford, Plummer, Sinclair, and Innes in Edinburgh—and, by transplantation from these great schools of Europe, to the original medical

Tampa Tracings: Hemiblock Lecture Slides.

Challenging new concepts of the intraventricular conduction system of the heart have revitalized interest in electrocardiography and have increased its diagnostic yield as nothing else since the precordial and vectorial analysis Frank N. Wilsons group did a quarter of a century ago. Modern electrocardiographers are as obligated to recognize hemiblock of this conduction system as their predecessors were obligated to recognize bundle-branch block and infarction of the myocardium. Beyond this, they must take on the new responsibility to make this new diagnostic information meaningful and useful in the practice of the clinician who depends upon their interpretation of the electrocardiogram. They need to show how hemiblock can simulate infarction when it is actually absent or how it may conceal infarction when it is actually present. They must make the clinician aware of those circumstances in which multiple blockade within the fascicles portends life-threatening disturbances of rhythm in time to take

Koronarographie: Methodik, Indikation und Ergebnisse.

Intravital coronary arteriography has now made it possible to close the gap between the clinical symptoms of coronary artery disease and the morphological basis for them. Dux has produced the first comprehensive German treatise about it. He describes essential technical details and the results of his investigation of the function of the coronary circulation in 75 patients with pain in the chest that was either characteristic or suggestive of angina pectoris. For the most part, Dux supports current concepts of coronary arteriography held elsewhere and recommends wider use of the technique as a routine diagnostic procedure. While he recognizes the electrocardiographic identification of cardiac necrosis and fibrosis, he refuses to admit that any method, other than arteriography, will demonstrate the extent of collateral circulation. Thus he concludes that the arteriogram provides a diagnosis of coronary artery disease earlier than other methods. Thirteen of the patients studied were considered to have

Stoffwechsel und degenerativer Rheumatismus, Symposium, Bad Nauheim, 1964.

The 18 dissertations and the discussion of them at a symposium on rheumatology held in Bad Nauheim, Germany, April 24-26, 1964, provide both orientation and stimulation for physicians interested in the rheumatic diseases. They summarize considerable existing knowledge and add add some new personal observations of the investigators. Research with histochemical models, of keratosufate transformation, in molecular pathology, of mesenchymal and cartilaginous metabolism, and in the biochemical alterations of synovial fluid demonstrate important precursors of the rheumatic state. In the fibrositis syndrome, intramuscular pressure was elevated as shown by manometric readings and the circulation was impaired as shown by delayed disappearance of radioactive iodine from a depot. Primary metabolic abnormalities produce secondary skeletal manifestations; special attention is given to phenylalanine and tyrosine, ochronosis, thyroid activity, and diabetes. This is the 36th volume of a series of detailed presentations in the field of rheumatic diseases published since the founding of the

Illustrierte Geschichte der Medizin von Th. Meyer-Steineg und K. Sudhoff.

Why should another book on medical history appear? There is no dearth of them. One hundred forty-three different books of more than 100 pages on medical history were added to the National Library of Medicine between 1959 and 1964. Available in almost any language: 37 were in English; 21 were in German; 15 each were in French, Italian, and Spanish; 7 were in Russian; 6 were in Japanese; 4 each were in Swedish and Yugoslavian; and 3 each were in Danish, Dutch, Polish, and Rumanian. The goals vary: an appeal to provide detailed information, a broad general coverage, an illustration of modern problems, a fight in historical perspective to promote ideas in diagnostics, therapeutics or teaching methods, and a sublimation of a burning interest of the writer. As the goal, so the style varies. The Neyer-Steineg and Sudhoff history of medicine has been out of print repeatedly since it first

Luschka's Joint.

The Architecture of Bone. By Michael C. Hall, PhD, FRCS (C), FACS. Price,

Sudden Cardiac Death.

21.75. Pp 347, with many illustrations. Charles C Thomas, Publisher, 301-327 E Lawrence Ave, Springfield, Ill 62703, 1966. The Locomoter System: Functional Histology. By Michael C. Hall, PhD, FRCS (C), FACS. Price,

Perfusionstheorie der Arteriosklerose.

19.75. Pp 562, with many illustrations. Charles C Thomas, Publisher, 301-327 E Lawrence Ave, Springfield, Ill 62703, 1965. The Locomotor System: Function Histology. By Michael C. Hall, PhD, FRCS (C), FACS. Price,

Die Unspezifische Mesenchymreaktion.

15.50. Pp 436, with 170 illustrations. Charles C Thomas, Publisher, 301-327 E Lawrence Ave, Springfield, Ill 62703, 1965. When I finished Halls delightful little book on Luschkas joint, I wrote to Dr. Stone in Iowa City to ask if he would like to have a review of it for theArchives. At the same time, I wrote to Dr. Hall in Toronto to ascertain what led him to choose both the comparative anatomy

Kreislaufdiagnostik mit der Farbstoffverdünnungsmethode.

Resuscitation and Cardiac Pacing: The Proceedings of a Conference Held in Glasgow, March 18th-20th, 1964, Under the Auspices of the Glasgow Post-graduate Medical Board. Edited by Gavin Shaw, George Smith, and Thomas J. Thomson. Price,