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Book Reviews


Claudia Naidu

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Book Review 1

Book Title: Text-book of Medical Physiology

Book Author: Arthur C. Guyton

Pp. xiv + 1030. Illustrations, 577 figs. S13.50. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders Company. 1956.

Book Review 2

Book Title: Medical Terms - Their Origin and Construction. Second Edition.

Book Author: Ffrangcon Roberts

Pp. viii - 88. 6s. net. London: William Heinemann Medical Books Ltd. 1956.

Book Review 3

Book Title: Practical Haematology (Second Edition.)

Book Author: J.V. Dacie

Pp. vii + 229, with 43 illustrations. 20s. net. London: J. & A. Churchill Ltd. 1956.

Book Review 4

Book Title: Gullan's Theory and Practice of Nursing. Seventh Edition.

Book Author: Marion E. Gould

Pp. xvi + 244. Illustrations 2. 18s. net. London: H. K. Lewis & Co. Ltd. 1956.

Book Review 5

Book Title: The Practice of Medicine

Book Author: John S. Richardson (Ed.)

Pp. viii + 1075, 86 illustrations. 4Os. net. London: J. & A Churchill Ltd. 1956.

Book Review 6

Book Title: Annual Epidemiological and Vital Statistics

1953. Pp. 572. £2 10s. Geneva: World Health Organization. Bilingual edition (French and English). Local sales agent: Van Schaik's Bookstore (Pty.) Ltd., P.O. Box 724, Pretoria. 1956.

Book Review 7

Book Title:  Composting: Sanitary Disposal and Reclamation of Organic Wastes

Book Author: Harold B. Gotaas

Pp. 205, 49 figures. £1. 5s. (French edition in preparation.) Geneva: World Health Organization. 1956. Local sales agent: Van Schaik's Bookstore (Pty.) Ltd., P.O. Box 724, Pretoria.

Book Review 8

Book Title: Expert Committee on Trachoma, Second Report. No. 106

Pp. 20. IS.9d. Available also in French and Spanish. Geneva: World Health Organization. 1956. Local Sales Agent: Van Schaik's Bookstore (Pty.) Ltd., P.O. Box 724, Pretoria.

Book Review 9

Book Title:  Food Hygiene-Fourth Report of the Expert Committee on Environmental Sanitation-Technical Report Series No. 104.

Pp. 28. IS.9d. Available also in French and Spanish. Geneva: World Health Organization. 1956. Local Sales Agent: Van Schaik's Bookstore (Pty.) Ltd., P.O. Box 724, Pretoria.

Book Review 10

Book Title: Expert Committee on Professional and Technical Education of Medical and Auxiliary Personnel-Third Report

Technical Report Series No. 109. Pp. 19. IS.9d. Available also in French and Spanish. Geneva: World Health Organization. 1956. Local Sales Agent: Van Schaik's Bookstore (Pty.) Ltd., P.O. Box 724, Pretoria.

Book Review 11

Book Title: Ronrgenologische Differentialdiagnose Der Knochenerkrankungen

Book Authors: Dr. Hans Hellner &  Dr. Hanno Poppe

Pp. 903, with illustrations. DM 270. Herdweg: Georg Thieme Verlag. 1956.

Book Review 12

Book Title: Collagen Diseases

Book Author: John H. Talbott & R. Moleres Ferrandis

Pp. xv+232. 30 Illustrations + 16 Colour Plates. 86· 50. Grune & Stratton, Inc. 1956.


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