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respectively. A wide field is covered by chapters on such diverse subjects as convulsive disorders, military neuropsychiatry, and surgery for involuntary movements. It is interesting to note that for the first time since the war the number of the mental hospital population in the United States has declined. That glia is an active agent in neural function rather than a mere supporting structure may surprise some readers. The reported successes in chemopallidectomy for Parkinsonism are heartening, but require confirmation. A. B. Savin, of the University of Cincinnati, shows that the claims for the Russian multiple sclerosis virus are false and that their virus is in reality that of rabies with no relationship to multiple sclerosis.
Although surveys of literature are wide, the editor of the section on neurosurgery tells us that there are no articles from the U.S.S.R.; none has been made available although the editors of the Journal of Neurosurgery have left an open door for them.
We were a little disappointed to find no references to cervical spondylosis or to the carpal tunnel syndrome, but there must obviously be a limit to any field reviewed and there is a very great deal of condensed and highly interesting material in this volume which should appeal to medical readers generally, whether or not they are practitioners of the particular specialties reviewed.
Extracorporeal Circulation. Compiled and edited by J. GARROTT ALLEN, assisted by FRANCIS D. MOORE, ANDREW G. MORROW, and HENRY SWAN. g x 6 in.
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