A Manual of Embryology

Abstract

STUDENTS of the development of the human embryo will welcome the new edition of Prof. J. E. Frazer's “Manual”. The general plan and scope of the work has not been altered by the changes and additions which have been made since it first appeared. It is a book which keeps close to its subject-matter—human embryology for the medical student and anatomist. Thus Prof. Frazer eschews both histology and comparative morphology. Of the anatomical facts which come within its purview, the book gives an account which is not only comprehensive and thorough, but also in several respects original. The author in his preface points out that in several places his descriptions will be found to diverge from embryological orthodoxy, and emphasizes that these divergences are the result of his own extensive researches. The work is, in fact, an original contribution as well as a text-book, and it will therefore be doubly interesting to the advanced worker. It is, however, unfortunate that no references are given, so that the student may find it difficult to distinguish the more original and controversial parts from the more conventional; but this is a comparatively minor danger which can easily be surmounted if the book is used under the guidance of a teacher.

A Manual of Embryology

The Development of the Human Body. By Prof. J. Ernest Frazer. Second edition. Pp. x + 523. (London: Baillière, Tindall and Cox, 1940.) 30s.