Review: Practical Pathology, Including Morbid Anatomy and Post-Mortem Technique
| DOI | 10.1177/0032258X3901200114 |
| Published date | 01 January 1939 |
| Date | 01 January 1939 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
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THE
POLICE JOURNAL
They
take it for granted that there must be a police laboratory attached
to every large force,
but
no reasons are given to prove the necessity and appar-
ently no consideration to the argument that large forces mean large towns
and large towns mean
that
specialised experts on practically every scientific
subject can be found by those who will take the trouble to look for them.
It
is easy to understand that a police laboratory is a necessity in a terri-
tory where other aid is not available
but
difficult to combat the arguments of
those who feel that where his services are available, the employment of the
best specialised expert on any particular subject from time to time is prefer-
able to and cheaper than the employment of a small permanent staff of jacks
of all trades all the time.
One leaves the book driven to the conclusion that whilst great use can be
made of it by those charged with the task of educating detectives, indiscrimin-
ate distribution to members of the public is likely to do more harm than good.
PRACTICAL
PATHOLOGY,
INCLUDING
MORBID
ANATOMY
AND
POST-MORTEM
TECHNIQUE.
By
JAMES
MILLER,
M.D.,
and
JAMES
DAVIDSON,
M.B.
Third
edition. (A. &C. Black Ltd.) 25s. net.
THIS well-produced book of 518 pages was first published in 1914, and the
present edition has been considerably improved and enlarged.
There
is much
new material; the illustrations have been modernised and a number added,
and there are seven coloured plates. (These plates are excellent; special
mention may be made of the one facing page 416, which shows the extensive
necrosis of mucous membrane of the stomach due to lysol poisoning.)
There
is a useful appendix (with forrnulse) on mounting, fixing and staining speci-
mens, bacteriological methods of investigation, etc.
In
producing the work originally the authors had in mind ahandbook
which would give students the information required for their work in practical
pathology.
This
new edition is something more than that: it is a compendium
of practical work and study in museum and laboratory no less than in the
class-room; and, while the authors modestly claimed for their first edition
that the
book"
in no way attempts to supplant the larger text-books and is
not intended for the advanced
student,"
that claim can hardly be made now.
For the volume before us covers the working ground so thoroughly
that
it may
well become a useful adjunct to the equipment of the practitioner.
To
those of our readers who are medical men we cordially recommend it.
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