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REVIEWS
The second
part of the book
describes
clearly
the organisation
of the Convalescent
Poliomyelitis
Unit established
in the Red Cross
Memorial
Children’s
Hospital
in Cape
Town
in January
1957 when
the severe
epidemic
occurred.
At this hospital
there was no orthopaedic
department,
yet 163 children
were
treated
practical,
in the
first
equipment
nurses
were
and passive
simplicity
treatment
year
simple
with great success.
This meant
that treatment
had to be essentially
and most efficient
use made of the various
grades
of staff.
Thus the
taught
to take splints
movements;
splinting
and ingenuity.
and a survey
on and off,
was kept
to make
splints
to a minimum
and
and
The last two chapters
give an account
of the cases treated
in the convalescent
to carry
out
bed apparatus
the
of respiratory
phase.
routine
positioning
was notable
for
complications
its
and their
Imrnunisation
against
poliomyelitis
has now reduced
the incidence
of the disease
and the liability
to
If, however,
these
occur
again,
they are most
likely
to do so in areas
where
there
are
few facilities
both for immunisation
and treatment
of the disease.
This book
should
be invaluable
to
anyone
who
has to tackle
the problem
of a poliomyelitis
epidemic
such as occurred
in Cape
Town
in l957.-J.
A. CHOLMELEY.
epidemics.
Modern
Trends
M.B.,
4. Science
in Orthopaedics.
F.R.C.S.,
Pinderfields
with eleven
Butterworth
of
Edited
Fractures.
Orthopaedic
Surgeon,
General
Infirmary,
Hospital,
Wakefield
; Senior
Clinical
Lecturer
contributors.
8x
& Co. (Publishers)
5
in.
Ltd.
Pp. viii+254,
Price 60s.
by
Leeds;
John
M.
Consultant
in Orthopaedics,
many
figures.
with
P.
CLARK,
M.B.E.,
Orthopaedic
Surgeon,
University
Index.
1964.
of Leeds;
London:
This is an impressive
than
its title suggests.
list of contents
and
survey
of the present
knowledge
of bone.
As such it is of far greater
significance
This is basic to all departments
of medicine,
as is to be seen from the following
authors
: I) Historical
Introduction-John
M. P. Clark ; 2) The Molecular
Organization
of Bone-F.
G. E. Pautard
; 3) Ultrastructure
of Bone
Formation
and ResorptionN.
M.
Hancox
and
B. Boothroyd
; 4) Calciflcation-R.
L. Hartles ; 5) Histology
of
Fracture
Repair-J.
J. Pritchard;
6) The Blood Supply
of Bone-Murray
Brookes;
7) Non-union
and
Delayed
Union-Robert
Roaf;
8) Biological
Mechanisms
in Foreign
Bone
Transplantation-R.
Geoffrey
Burwell;
9) Metabolic
Response
to Injury-F.
G. Smiddy ; 10) Metabolic
Bone
Disease
in Relation
to
Fractures-John
Chalmers
; 1 1) Effects
of Radiation
on Bone-W.
H. Stephenson.
For the orthopaedic
surgeon
there is one important
omission
: the lack of a section on the reaction
of bone to foreign bodies (including
metallic
and other implants).
Nevertheless
the book is fascinating
in showing
not
only
that bone holds the body together
but is one of the integrating
tissues for the
whole
of medicine.
In repair
the ability
of bone to return
to its most primitive
histological
characters
by Professor
Pritchard
: this should
be remembered
when considering
doubtful
neoplastic
conditions
to which
healing
bone
bears
such strong
resemblance.
In this connection
it is surprising
is emphasised
that the work of Charles
Huggins,
now of Chicago,
should
have been overlooked.
Your reviewer
had the opportunity
of seeing this at first hand,
and of repeating
some of it, thirty-five
years ago.
In dogs the transplantation
of bladder
epithelium
into connective
tissue planes away from bone, results
in the ectopic
formation
of what Pritchard
calls a blastema
in which all the stages from primitive
connective
tissue
described
cells
to osteoid
in this book,
This book
is of
circulation-Norman
wide
and
Huggins’s
mature
work
This
Fractures.
By Olle
monograph
treats
OF
and,
fractures
with
from
1964.
the
as far as the method
of treatment
adopted
is concerned.
radiological
examination
of the subtalar
joint.
Fractures
by
non-weight-bearing
exercises
In the second
in the
posterior
group
joint
and
early
of fractures,
facet,
similar
This
short
Radiological
volume
Aspects
treatment
Royal
Series
written
With
the modern
its excellent
documentation,
technique
should
have
a
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Fractures
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intra-articular
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is recommended.
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deserves
study
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