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THIS volume is an exhaustive thesis dealing with the anatomy, physiology, and clinical aspects of the sympathetic system. Few details are omitted from this ponderous work; indeed, the fault lies in the enthusiasm which tends to implicate the sympathetic system in many conditions of obscure origin. Thus few will agree with the author in associating glaucoma, purpura, and osteodystrophies with sympathetic disturbances. In many instances the evidence in favour of autonomic nervous origin is not sufficiently dealt with; for example, in the section concerning gastric crises in tabes, the role played by the vagus is briefly dismissed, and the possibility of “vagal crises” as an entity is not mentioned. It is a pity that such an exhaustive work should have just preceded the valuable contributions of Hunter and Royle; their work on the sympathetic innervation of striped muscle and on treatment by ramisectomy is of course not included. The volume concludes with a very full bibliography.
Pathologie du sympathique: Essai d'anatomo-physico-pathologie clinique.
Prof.
Maxime
Laignel-Lavastine
Par. Pp. v + 1080. (Paris: Félix Alcan, 1924.) 90 francs.
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Pathologie du sympathique: Essai d'anatomo-physicopathologie clinique . Nature 116, 277 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/116277a0
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