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...format, Principles of Internal Medicine (Blakiston; $12) is a weighty (8¾ Ibs.) volume, and unavoidably full of medical polysyllables. But its spirit is light, largely because of the personality of Editor Tinsley R. Harrison and the youthfulness (by medical greybeard standards) of the writing staff. Dr. Harrison, former president of the American Heart Association, is only 50; most of the associate editors and contributors range from under 30 to 45 and the average is well under...
Virtually all that has been learned so far about ACTH's awesome power to change the innermost workings of the body was published last week in a single volume, Clinical ACTH (Blakiston; $6.50). Normally it would have taken years for 52 such reports to seep into scattered medical journals. Dr. John R. Mote, director of the Armour Laboratories, which produce most of the world's pitifully small supply of ACTH, collected the papers, with 421 illustrations, so that researchers could have all the available data in one package...
...keep his editorial hand in, Dr. Fishbein was taking on more duties as consulting editor of Doubleday & Co. and its medical subsidiary, the Blakiston Co., for which he had long worked in his spare time. He will continue as medical editor of the Encyclopaedia Britannica and Hearst's American Weekly, in his spare time will write a syndicated daily column and two monthly columns, and hold down teaching posts at the University of Chicago and University of Illinois medical schools. Somehow, Dr. Fishbein also expects to have time for a lecture tour and for work on a layman...
...literally, removal of almonds) has slipped into the dictionaries because medieval medicine men, looking at tonsils, were reminded of almonds. The Cleveland notice was posted by Dr. Normand L. Hoerr, professor of anatomy at Western Reserve University and managing editor of the New Gould Medical Dictionary, published this week (Blakiston Co.; $8.50). Dr. Hoerr thinks that all such terms should be discontinued. Also ripe for cutting, he felt, were terms built on researchers' names. Example: the New Gould has no entry for Bright's Disease (chronic nephritis), mentions it only in a note on Richard Bright...
...book, Our Sun (Blakiston; $4.50), Dr. Donald H. Menzel of Harvard tells how new and refined instruments have opened the sun to astronomers' prying eyes. There is plenty of action to watch, for the sun is a vast turmoil of violent storms and convulsions...