Review: A Pocket Medical Dictionary
| DOI | 10.1177/0032258X4201500213 |
| Published date | 01 April 1942 |
| Date | 01 April 1942 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
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A
POCKET
MEDICAL
DICTIONARY.
By
LOIS
OAKES.
Fourth
Edition.
(E. &S. Livingstone, Edinburgh.) 3s. 6d. net.
ILLUSTRATIONS
OF
BANDAGING
AND
FIRST-AID.
By
LOIS
OAKES.
Second Edition. (E. &S. Livingstone, Edinburgh.) 6s. net.
Cheap edition, 48.6d. net.
AMONG
the books which we have received recently for review there are three
which plainly will be of value to police officers as " working tools."
Two
of
these books are by that great authority on nursing and all that pertains
thereto, Miss Lois Oakes, and are respectively the Fourth and Second
Editions of works which we have already commended.
The
first of them,
A Pocket Medical Dictionary, now appears with additional appendices; the
other is revised and rearranged.
The
Medical Dictionary is a book
that
should be owned by every police-
man, from chief constable to recruit.
It
is a veritable mine of information,
lucid and concise.
The
detective officer whose work brings him in touch with
surgeon and pathologist will find it especially valuable, and indeed it is almost
indispensable to those who would follow intelligently the medical reports
of cases of scientific crime detection.
The
juniorwho is preparing for FirstAid
examinations will also find it a handy pocket-book for reference at all times.
Miss Oakes' other book has now been rearranged both as regards text
and illustrations, so that every method
~f
bandaging can be
seen-and
under-
stood-at
a glance from start to finish.
It
contains some three hundred
illustrations, all from photographs.
Thus
every stage of putting on a bandage,
and incidentally the correct position of the patient, is clearly shown. All the
bandages used in modern First Aid and surgical dressings are included and
depicted. This book, too, will befound by police officersto be of the greatest
help to them in their First Aid work.
POLICE
LAW: An Arrangement of Law and Regulations
for-
the Use of
Police Officers. By C. C. H.
MORIARTY.
Seventh (War) Edition.
(Butterworth &Co.) 5s. net.
MR.
MORIARTY'S
book occupies a niche by itself and it now appears in its
seventh edition.
This
time it contains (in addition to new sections dealing
with recent legislation, with additional references to eleven recent statutes
and four decided cases) some 50 pages of very useful Notes on Emergency
Legislation, arising out of war
conditions-Rules
and Orders superimposed
upon the general body of the Law, in some cases specifically amending the
existing law, in others supersedingit by virtue ofgeneral overriding provisions.
These Notes are well indexed and contain all the above-mentioned Rules and
Orders promulgated down to the date of publication. Once again Mr.
Moriarty is to be
congratulated-and
thanked.
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