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"A TEXTBOOK OF HUMAN EMBRYOLOGY" 



1959 

 by R. G. Harrison Blackwell Scientific 



244 pp., 144 figs. Publications Ltd. 



Oxford 

 Price: 45 s. 



The present book was written primarily for the use of medical students. 

 It presents human embryology as a science which in turn can assist the 

 understanding of adult human anatomy. Therefore prenatal and postnatal 

 development are presented as an integrated whole. 



The book is shorter than most textbooks on this subject, because the 

 morphological aspects of human development have been condensed rather 

 a lot. In this respect the book is more like an outline. On the other hand much 

 emphasis has been placed on functional, clinical and pathological aspects. 



The treatment of development as such is preceded by well-illustrated chap- 

 ters on the male and female reproductive systems, and on the pituitary and 

 adrenal glands and their function in reproduction. A short chapter on 

 regeneration concludes the book. 



Much of the illustrative material consists of simple line-drawings, but these 

 are supplemented by carefully selected photomicrographs. Selected references 

 at the end of each chapter point the way to important original literature. 



There is a very extensive subject index, and an author index. The book 

 is well-printed and well-bound. 



"A FUNCTIONAL APPROACH TO NEUROANATOMY" 



1960 

 by E. L. House and B. Pansky McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. 



494 pp., 348 figs. New York, Toronto, London 



Price: 97 s. 



This book was written primarily for the medical student. Without giving 

 an extensive review one may mention that the book contains a chapter of 

 26 pages on the development of the human nervous system. This chapter is 

 characterised by good diagrams and semi-diagrammatical illustrations, clearly 

 visualising and summarising the principal features of the comphcated process. 



"HUMAN DEVELOPMENT" 



1960 



by Ph. C. Martin and E. L. Vincent The Ronald Press Company 



541 pp., 205 fiqs. New York 



Price: $ 6.50 



This is a text book written for the use of first-year students. It forms an 

 introduction to human biology, taken in its widest sense. It gives the basic 

 anatomical and physiological facts, supplemented by embryological, psycholo- 

 gical and anthropological material. 



The general scope of the book implies that those elements of human embryology presented 

 are usually in a very schematic form, and are so widely scattered that they do not provide 

 a coherent picture of human development. This, of course, has not been the purpose of the 



