Essentials of General Anæsthesia

The present edition includes 45 plates in colour, four of which are new. Most of these are very good indeed; but some are so diagrammatic as to distort the picture they present. In plate 25, illustrating the blood in aleucheemic myeloid leuchremta, the red cells are disproportionately small compared to the leucocytes; plate 11 bears no title, and plate 40, illustrating glandular fever, is very poor. As well as its colour plates, the atlas contains brief notes on the principal diseases of the blood, a small section on hsematological technique and a combined glossary and index. There are no references to the literature anywhere in the book.