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WE have here an excellent treatise—exhaustive, clear, well illustrated. The like may be said of many medical books, but the present work is especially good in that it links up, better than most of its predecessors, the student's early scientific work with his later practical instruction. An unavoidable fault of medical training is that it is conducted by relays of specialists, each of whom concentrates on a single subject and trenches as little as possible on the work of his colleagues. First one group of subjects is laid aside, then another, and so on. Theoretically the endeavour is to base practical efficiency on antecedent scientific knowledge; but the human mind forgets as well as learns, and the curriculum is long. Commonly at the end of it something of anatomy, physiology, and biology has faded from the mind of the budding surgeon, physician, and student of man. However well equipped to deal with cut-and-dried matters in established ways, he may fail, through lack of understanding, to meet Strange emergencies with new expedients. Becoming a practitioner, he may not remain a thoughtful man of science. In the present work all that is necessary to a full understanding is dealt with lucidly, if briefly. The immediate subject-matter is handled as clearly, but in greater detail. The book may be cordially recommended, for it is very good.
Gynecology.
Dr.
Brooke M.
Anspach
By. Pp. xxvi+752. (London: J. B. Lippincott Co., 1921.) 42s. net.
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Gynecology . Nature 108, 206 (1921). https://doi.org/10.1038/108206a0
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