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Book Review Death Loses a Pair of Wings: The Epic of William Gorgas and the Conquest of Yellow Fever. A novel in cadence, by Robin Lampson, Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1939, pp. 518, Price $3.00.Anatomy of the Eye and Orbit. By Eugene Wolff, M.B., B.S. (Lond.) F.R.C.S. (Eng.). Ophthalmic Surgeon, Royal Northern Hospital; Assistant Surgeon, Pathologist and Lecturer in Anatomy, Royal Westminster Ophthalmic Hospital; Late Chief Clinical Assistant, Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital (Moorfields). Second Edition. 242 illustrations. 374 pages. The Blakiston Company, Philadelphia. 1940. $7.50.These Men. By M. J. Swetland. The Military Publishing Co., Harrisburg. 1940. Pp. 312. $2.50.Diseases of the Urethra and Penis. By E. D'Arcy McCrea, M.D., M.Ch. (Dub.), F.R.C.S.L, F.R.C.S. (Eng.), Hon. Surgeon at Salford Royal Hospital, Manchester. 306 pages. The Williams and Wilkins Company. Baltimore, 1940. Price $6.50.A Practical Manual of Martial Law. By Frederick Bernays Wiener, Harrisburg, Pa.: The Military Service Publishing Co., 1940. Pp. x, 184.Complete Guide for the Deafened. By A. F. Niemoeller, A.B., M.A., B.S. With a Foreword by Harold Hays, M.D., F.A.C.S. Cloth binding, 266 pages. Harvest House, New York. 1940. Price $3.00.Handbook of Hearing Aids. By A. F. Niemoeller, A.B., M.A., B.S. With a Foreword by Harold Hays, M.D., F.A.C.S. Cloth binding, 156 pages. Harvest House, New York. 1940. $3.00.The Kosher Code of the Orthodox Jew. Being a literal translation of that portion of the sixteenth century codification of the Balylonian Talmud which describes such deficiencies as render animals unfit for food (Hilkot Terefot, Shulhan 'Aruk); to which is appended a discussion of Talmudic anatomy in the light of the science of its day and of the present time. By S. I. Levin, Senior Rabbi of Minneapolis and Edward A. Boyden, Professor of Anatomy, University of Minnesota. The University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 1940, pp. 243. Price $4.50.The Chemical Composition of Foods. By R. A. McCance, M.D., Ph.D., F.R.C.P. and E. M. Widdowson, B.Sc, Ph.D. Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge. 150 pages. Cloth binding. Chemical Publishing Co., Inc., New York, N.Y., 1940. Price $2.50.Feldchirurgie (Field Surgery). By Dr. H. Käfer, Generaloberstabsarzt and 10 collaborators. Cloth. Pp. 354. with 58 illustrations. Price Rm. 12.00. Dresden and Leipzig: Theodor Steinkopff. 1940.Introduction to Medical Biometry and Statistics. By Raymond Pearl, Professor of Biology in the School of Hygiene and Public Health, and in the Medical School, The Johns Hopkins University. 537 pages with 121 figures and plates. Cloth Binding. Third Edition, revised and enlarged. W. B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia and London, 1940. Price $7.00. Edgar Erskine Hume, Edgar Erskine Hume Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Elbert Decoursey, Elbert Decoursey Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Joseph Hirsh, Joseph Hirsh Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar James H. Forsee, James H. Forsee Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar C. E. Brand, C. E. Brand Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar James C. Munch, James C. Munch Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Edgar Erskine Hume, Edgar Erskine Hume Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar G. M. Blech G. M. Blech Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Military Surgeon, Volume 88, Issue 4, April 1941, Pages 453–458, https://doi.org/10.1093/milmed/88.4.453 Published: 01 April 1941