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La Pratique | du | Pneumothorax | Therapeutique | par | F. Dumarest | 
Médecin en chef | & | C. Murard | Médecin adjoint | des sana- 
toriums d’Hauteville | Paris | Masson & Cie, Editeurs | Libraires 
de l’Académie de Médecine | 120, Boulevard Saint-Germain, VI | 
1919. 261 pp., illustrated. Paper, 12 francs net. 
The practice of artificial pneumothorax has been making con- 
siderable progress in recent years, and it is adapted to the va- 
ried exigencies of the clinic. 
This book by Doctor Dumarest is a thorough study of artifi- 
cial pneumothorax and gives complete information on the tech- 
nic, apparatus, possible accidents, and also the medical rules 
by which the practitioner must be guided, in conducting treat- 
ment; in pleural complications; and in the study of remote re- 
sults. 
The work closes with physiological considerations of the mode 
of action of pneumothorax and touches upon the general indi- 
cations and contra-indications encountered by this method of 
treatment, 
Doctor Dumarest’s practice, extending over many years, lends 
especial authority to his book. He has enriched it by various 
considerations, thereby making the use of this therapy possible 
to the beginner, especially when dealing with tuberculosis, 
which has wrought unprecedented ravages in France. 
The main sections of the book cover: Apparatus, technic, ac- 
cidents; conduction of treatment, constitution and evolution of 
pneumothorax, results, accidents, convalescence; pleural com- 
plications, frequency, clinical study, pathogeny and treatment 
of pleural complications; remote results, interruption of treat- 
ment; mode of action of pneumothorax; indications in pulmo- 
nary tuberculosis; counter indications, clinical technic. 
Toxines | et | Antitoxines | par | M. Nicolle | E. Césari | C. Jouan | de 
l’Institut Pasteur | Masson et Cie, Editeurs | Libraires de 1]’Aca- 
démie de Médecine | 120, Boulevard Saint-Germain, Paris | 1919. 
i-viii -+ 1-123 pp. Paper, 5 francs net. 
This work is essentially a “personal” book; nevertheless, it 
may perhaps be considered a complete monograph and such an 
adjustment of the question of toxins as might be achieved by 
means of scientific experimentation. 
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