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Common Skin Diseases Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/ptj/article-abstract/25/1/54/4708866 by DeepDyve user on 03 June 2020 THE PHYSIOTHERAPY REVIEW Vol. 25, No. 1 Burma Surgeon. By Gordon S. Seagrave, Lt. Col., primarily excessive lumbar lordosis, scoliosis, and spinal arthritis, our search for the best method of overcoming M.C., U.S. Army. Cloth. Price, $3. Pp. 295, with 23 these postural defects led to our adoption of the special illustrations. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1943. exercises devised by Goldthwait and his associates." They also advise that a shortened lower extremity should In the North Shan States long before the present war, have a heel lift to correct the discrepancy. Under phys­ Doctor Seagrave was a medical missionary. The Burma ical therapy they say: "In general, the application of Road was near his hospital and the Chinese War called various forms of heat appears to afford the greatest on the physician's help. When the United States came comfort. . . . Galvanism with or without the use of into the war, Doctor Seagrave was commissioned a ionizable medication such as histamine or acetylcholine, Major in the Medical Corps by General Stillwell. This in our experience, does not appear to be of value." is the story as one physician saw it of the days and This monograph is of value to every physician as it nights of Japanese bombing. His crew performed emer­ presents a definite and useful advance in our clinical gency operations amid the flames of burning towns. When the order came he joined the retreat. The author's and therapeutic approach to neuralgia and painful syndromes. description of this retreat is most vivid. It is interesting to read of this retreat and to read in Common Skin Diseases. By A. C. Roxburgh, M.A., the news how the tables are turning. "Lieut. General M.D., B.Ch., Physician in Charge of Skin Department Daniel I. Sultan last week had Bhamo surrounded, and Lecturer on Diseases of the Skin, St. Bartholomew's needed only 65 more miles to link India with the Burma Hospital; Consultant in Dermatology, Section III, Emer­ Road. Because the Japs' main bodies had been forced gency Medical Service; Consulting Physician and Lec­ toward south Burma, there was some reason to hope turer, St. John's Hospital for Diseases of the Skin; that the 65 miles might not be too long or too bloody." Dermatologist to the Royal Masonic Hospital; President, Now, more than ever, the Road was a military "must." Section of Dermatology, Royal Society of Medicine; Late This book gives a vivid picture of the hardships that Editor, British Journal of Dermatology and Syphilis; our troops went through when we gave up the Burma Late Vice President, Section of Dermatology, British Road. The book is filled with adventure and is highly Medical Association; Late Temporary Surgeon, Royal recommended. Navy; Corresponding Member of the Danish Dermato- Segmental Neuralgia in Painful Syndromes. By logical Society. Seventh Edition. Cloth. Price, 18 s. Pp. Bernard Judovich, B.S., M.D., Instructor in Neurology, 486, with 192 illustrations. London: H. K. Lewis & Graduate School of Medicine, University of Pennsyl­ Company, Ltd., 1944. vania; Clinical Instructor in Neurology, Women's Medi­ This is one of the General Practice Series. It is not a cal College; Chief of Neuralgia Clinics, Philadelphia complete textbook for it deals, as its title suggests, with General Hospital, Graduate Hospital and Women's Medi­ the common skin diseases. The author states that there cal College Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa., and William is no account given of the technic of electrical, x-ray Bates, B.S., F.A.C.S., F.I.C.S., Professor of Surgery, or radium treatment as it is improbable that general Graduate School of Medicine, University of Pennsyl­ practitioners will use these themselves. The indications vania; Consulting Surgeon, Babies' Hospital and Phila­ for such treatments and the results to be expected, delphia Home for Incurables; Consulting General Sur­ however, are dealt with. Ultraviolet radiation and Car­ geon, Wills Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa. Foreword by bon Dioxide Snow which are used by many practitioners Joseph C. Yashin, M.D., Professor of Neurology, Grad­ are described in more detail. uate School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, In this seventh edition the section on industrial Philadelphia. Cloth. Price, $5. Pp. 313, with 178 illustra­ dermatitis has been expanded on account of its rapidly tions. Philadelphia: F. A. Davis Company, 1944. increasing importance, also the sections describing other This monograph shows that clinically the interpreta­ types of dermatitis due to external irritants both vege­ tions of pain can be greatly facilitated by eliciting table and chemical. The chapters on scabies and avita- hyperalgesic or tender skin zones which accompany the minoses have been rewritten. The sections on mites, pain. The authors show that the presence of tenderness, pediculosis, impetigo, monila infections, and sulphona- and its distribution, whether local or segmental, has mide eruptions have been revised and enlarged. Para­ been of great aid in diagnosis and therapy. graphs have been added on immersion foot and on the These authors base their monograph upon the fact treatment of sycosis, impetigo and blepharitis by peni­ that clinically the combination of segmental pain and cillin. Five new illustrations have been added. tenderness usually appears to be due to factors which It can be recommended to the general practitioner as irritate roots, ganglia or trunks of the spinal sensory it deals adequately and readably with the common skin nerves, and not due to painful impulses originating in diseases. diseased viscera. It is emphasized that in the chest and Microbes That Cripple. Written and illustrated under abdomen segmental pain and tenderness may simulate the pain of visceral disease, and many patients who the direction of Edward L. Compere, M.D., by T. Arthur have submitted to medical treatment and surgical pro­ Turner. Cloth. Price, $2.50. Pp. 241, with illustrations. cedures are not relieved of pain until treatment is Elyria, Ohio: The National Society for Crippled Chil­ dren, Inc., 1944. directed to the somatic of the pain and its cause. This book is of interest to physical therapists as the Physical therapists constantly treat cripples and are chapter on posture is taken directly from Doctor Car- continually asked all manner of questions about the nett's original article. It may be remembered that Doctor causes of this crippling by the parents and friends of Carnett expressed these views in THE PHYSIOTHERAPY the children. Here for the first time is a book that you REVIEW some years ago. In this chapter on posture in can read or advise the querist to read to answer these relation to abdominal pain and tenderness and ptosis questions. of the abdominal organs, the authors state: "Since the In the prelude to parasitology the authors give the main causes of segmental pain and tenderness are interesting history of Pasteur's predecessors—Pliny the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Physical Therapy Oxford University Press

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Downloaded from https://academic.oup.com/ptj/article-abstract/25/1/54/4708866 by DeepDyve user on 03 June 2020 THE PHYSIOTHERAPY REVIEW Vol. 25, No. 1 Burma Surgeon. By Gordon S. Seagrave, Lt. Col., primarily excessive lumbar lordosis, scoliosis, and spinal arthritis, our search for the best method of overcoming M.C., U.S. Army. Cloth. Price, $3. Pp. 295, with 23 these postural defects led to our adoption of the special illustrations. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1943. exercises devised by Goldthwait and his associates." They also advise that a shortened lower extremity should In the North Shan States long before the present war, have a heel lift to correct the discrepancy. Under phys­ Doctor Seagrave was a medical missionary. The Burma ical therapy they say: "In general, the application of Road was near his hospital and the Chinese War called various forms of heat appears to afford the greatest on the physician's help. When the United States came comfort. . . . Galvanism with or without the use of into the war, Doctor Seagrave was commissioned a ionizable medication such as histamine or acetylcholine, Major in the Medical Corps by General Stillwell. This in our experience, does not appear to be of value." is the story as one physician saw it of the days and This monograph is of value to every physician as it nights of Japanese bombing. His crew performed emer­ presents a definite and useful advance in our clinical gency operations amid the flames of burning towns. When the order came he joined the retreat. The author's and therapeutic approach to neuralgia and painful syndromes. description of this retreat is most vivid. It is interesting to read of this retreat and to read in Common Skin Diseases. By A. C. Roxburgh, M.A., the news how the tables are turning. "Lieut. General M.D., B.Ch., Physician in Charge of Skin Department Daniel I. Sultan last week had Bhamo surrounded, and Lecturer on Diseases of the Skin, St. Bartholomew's needed only 65 more miles to link India with the Burma Hospital; Consultant in Dermatology, Section III, Emer­ Road. Because the Japs' main bodies had been forced gency Medical Service; Consulting Physician and Lec­ toward south Burma, there was some reason to hope turer, St. John's Hospital for Diseases of the Skin; that the 65 miles might not be too long or too bloody." Dermatologist to the Royal Masonic Hospital; President, Now, more than ever, the Road was a military "must." Section of Dermatology, Royal Society of Medicine; Late This book gives a vivid picture of the hardships that Editor, British Journal of Dermatology and Syphilis; our troops went through when we gave up the Burma Late Vice President, Section of Dermatology, British Road. The book is filled with adventure and is highly Medical Association; Late Temporary Surgeon, Royal recommended. Navy; Corresponding Member of the Danish Dermato- Segmental Neuralgia in Painful Syndromes. By logical Society. Seventh Edition. Cloth. Price, 18 s. Pp. Bernard Judovich, B.S., M.D., Instructor in Neurology, 486, with 192 illustrations. London: H. K. Lewis & Graduate School of Medicine, University of Pennsyl­ Company, Ltd., 1944. vania; Clinical Instructor in Neurology, Women's Medi­ This is one of the General Practice Series. It is not a cal College; Chief of Neuralgia Clinics, Philadelphia complete textbook for it deals, as its title suggests, with General Hospital, Graduate Hospital and Women's Medi­ the common skin diseases. The author states that there cal College Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa., and William is no account given of the technic of electrical, x-ray Bates, B.S., F.A.C.S., F.I.C.S., Professor of Surgery, or radium treatment as it is improbable that general Graduate School of Medicine, University of Pennsyl­ practitioners will use these themselves. The indications vania; Consulting Surgeon, Babies' Hospital and Phila­ for such treatments and the results to be expected, delphia Home for Incurables; Consulting General Sur­ however, are dealt with. Ultraviolet radiation and Car­ geon, Wills Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa. Foreword by bon Dioxide Snow which are used by many practitioners Joseph C. Yashin, M.D., Professor of Neurology, Grad­ are described in more detail. uate School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, In this seventh edition the section on industrial Philadelphia. Cloth. Price, $5. Pp. 313, with 178 illustra­ dermatitis has been expanded on account of its rapidly tions. Philadelphia: F. A. Davis Company, 1944. increasing importance, also the sections describing other This monograph shows that clinically the interpreta­ types of dermatitis due to external irritants both vege­ tions of pain can be greatly facilitated by eliciting table and chemical. The chapters on scabies and avita- hyperalgesic or tender skin zones which accompany the minoses have been rewritten. The sections on mites, pain. The authors show that the presence of tenderness, pediculosis, impetigo, monila infections, and sulphona- and its distribution, whether local or segmental, has mide eruptions have been revised and enlarged. Para­ been of great aid in diagnosis and therapy. graphs have been added on immersion foot and on the These authors base their monograph upon the fact treatment of sycosis, impetigo and blepharitis by peni­ that clinically the combination of segmental pain and cillin. Five new illustrations have been added. tenderness usually appears to be due to factors which It can be recommended to the general practitioner as irritate roots, ganglia or trunks of the spinal sensory it deals adequately and readably with the common skin nerves, and not due to painful impulses originating in diseases. diseased viscera. It is emphasized that in the chest and Microbes That Cripple. Written and illustrated under abdomen segmental pain and tenderness may simulate the pain of visceral disease, and many patients who the direction of Edward L. Compere, M.D., by T. Arthur have submitted to medical treatment and surgical pro­ Turner. Cloth. Price, $2.50. Pp. 241, with illustrations. cedures are not relieved of pain until treatment is Elyria, Ohio: The National Society for Crippled Chil­ dren, Inc., 1944. directed to the somatic of the pain and its cause. This book is of interest to physical therapists as the Physical therapists constantly treat cripples and are chapter on posture is taken directly from Doctor Car- continually asked all manner of questions about the nett's original article. It may be remembered that Doctor causes of this crippling by the parents and friends of Carnett expressed these views in THE PHYSIOTHERAPY the children. Here for the first time is a book that you REVIEW some years ago. In this chapter on posture in can read or advise the querist to read to answer these relation to abdominal pain and tenderness and ptosis questions. of the abdominal organs, the authors state: "Since the In the prelude to parasitology the authors give the main causes of segmental pain and tenderness are interesting history of Pasteur's predecessors—Pliny the

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