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Book Reviews The Electrocardiogram and X-Ray Configuration of the Heart. By Arthur M. Master. Philadelphia: Lea and Febiger. 1942. Price $7.50.Plastic Surgery of the Breast and Abdominal Wall. By Max Thorek, M.D., LL.D., F.I.C.S., F.I.C.A., K.L.H. (France); K.C.I., C.O. St. Alex; Medal of Hon. Rep. of Venezuela; Professor of Surgery, Cook County Graduate School of Medicine; Attending Surgeon, Cook County Hospital; Consulting Surgeon, Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium, Chicago; Surgeon-in-chief, American Hospital of Chicago; Fellow (Honoris Causa), Surgical Society, Sofia, Bulgaria; Corr. Academician, Mexican Academy of Surgery; Fellow, National Gastroenterological Society; Corresponding Member, Societe de Chirurgiens de Paris; Royal Academy of Medicine, Torino, Italy; Surgical Society, Madrid, Spain; Sociedade das Sciencias Medicas de Lisboa, Portugal; Fellow, National Academy of Medicine, Colombia, South America; Honorary Fellow, Peruvian Academy of Surgery; Honorary Fellow, Egyptian Medical Association, Cairo, Egypt; etc. 446 Pages. Charles C Thomas, Spring-field, 111. Price $16.50. 1942.Synopsis of Ano-Rectal Diseases. By Louis J. Hirschman, M.D., F.A.C.S. Ex-Vice President, A.M.A.; Ex-Chairman, Section on Gastroenterology and Proctology, A.M.A.; Ex-President American Proctologic Society; Chairman, American Board of Proctology, Inc.; Professor of Proctology, Wayne University; Fellow (Honorary) Royal Society of Medicine; Extra-Mural Lecturer on Proctology, Post Graduate School, University of Michigan; Proctologist, Harper, Charles Godwin Jennings, and Woman's Hospitals; Consulting Proctologist, Detroit City Receiving, Evangelical Deaconess, Wayne County Hospitals, Children's Hospital of Michigan, Detroit Tuberculosis Sanitarium, Detroit. With 182 text illustrations and 12 color plates. Second Edition. St. Louis. The C. V. Mosby Company, 1942. Price, $4.50.The Army Clerk. Published by the Book Service, Adjutant General's School, Fort Washington, Maryland, 1942. Price 75¢.Roentgen Treatment of Diseases of the Nervous System. By Cornelius G. Dyke, M.D, F.A.C.R., Associate Professor of Radiology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University; Director, Department of Radiology, Neurological Institute of New York and Leo M. Davidoff, M.D., F.A.C.S., Chief, Department of Surgery, Attending Neurological Surgeon, Jewish Hospital of Brooklyn. 198 pages, 12 figures, 16 graphs, 7 charts, Lea & Febiger, Philadelphia, 1942. Price $3.25.Engineers in Battle, By Paul W. Thompson, C.E., Harrisburg, Pa.: The Military Service Publishing Co. Price $1.50.A Short History of Cardiology. By James B. Herrick. 1942. Springfield, 111. Chas. C Thomas. Price $3.50.Electrotherapy and Light Therapy. With the Essentials of Hydrotherapy and Mechanotherapy. By Richard Kovacs, M.D., Professor of Physical Therapy, New York Polyclinic School and Hospital; Attending Physical Therapist, Manhattan State, Harlem Valley State, West Side Hospitals, etc. Fourth edition thoroughly revised. 735 pages, illustrated with 314 engravings and a color plate. Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1942. Price, buckram, $8.00.Military Medical Manuals—Manual of Dermatology: Issued under the Auspices of the Committee on Medicine of the Division of Medical Sciences of the National Research Council by Donald M. Pillsbury, M.D.; Marion B. Sulzberger, M.D.; Clarence S. Livingood, M.D. 421 pages with 109 illustrations. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders Company, 1942. Price $2.00.Diseases of the Liver, Gallbladder and Bile Ducts. By S. S. Lichtman, M.D., F.A.C.P. 906 pages. Lea & Febiger, Philadelphia, 1942. Price $11.00. H. P. Marvin, H. P. Marvin 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 James W. Minteer, James W. Minteer Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Karl H. Planitz, Karl H. Planitz Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar A. A. De Lorimier, A. A. De Lorimier Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Emmett M. Connor, Emmett M. Connor Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar M. H. Saffron, M. H. Saffron Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Benjamin Burbank Benjamin Burbank Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Military Surgeon, Volume 92, Issue 4, April 1943, Pages 468–472, https://doi.org/10.1093/milmed/92.4.468 Published: 01 April 1943