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By James D. Hardy. Price, $19. Pp. 704, with 278 illustrations. The Williams & Wilkins Company, Mt. Royal & Guilford Aves., Baltimore 2, Md., 1958.

AMA Arch Ophthalmol. 1959;61(3):513.

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Occasionally one finds a book on general medicine or surgery which looks so interesting that a mental note is made to read it or at least peruse it at some future hoped-for leisure time. This is such a book. There is nothing in it bearing directly on ophthalmology, but there is much in it which would make one a better ophthalmic surgeon. For example, the chapters on the physiology of injury, including the local responses of the tissues; the general consideration of the water content of the body; the physiology of connective tissue and wound healing and the homotransplantation of tissues; the pathophysiology of thermal burns; radioactive isotopes; the biology of aging, and, finally, the physiology of anesthesia, are all parts of this book which are stimulating and look inviting. One functions better in small details if a broad base of general principles has been provided, and this is the . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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