Separated from the clinical data the X-ray pictures alone do not mean much to the less experienced physician. It is questionable whether an atlas of this kind will be helpful to the under- standing of anatomical and pathological features in childhood. This atlas contains a large number of good reproductions of skiagrams. The production of the book is of the excellent standard characteristic of the publishers. The painstaking studies collected in this monograph are an excellent contribution to the measures designed to diagnose cancer of the lung in its early stages. Books like that of Anaeker are, therefore, welcome as a guide to the plethora of pictures produced by bronchography, tomography, etc. X-ray diagnosis is growing more and more specialised and complex. This splendid work will be of interest to all who are concerned with thoracic surgery and diseases of the chest.
" In these terms he recognises the value of the work done in general medicine, radiology, anatomy, endo- scopy, etc. Everyone of our generation who has observed the last phase of this tremendous development knows that our success is only due in part to surgery i tse l f. I9): " The history of the stupen- dous advance which thoracic surgery has made in less than a generation puts the surgeon into the forefront. The work is based on the Midell Memorial Lecture on " The Romance of Thoracic Surgery" (Liverpool, November 1954) and on an article in the American Journal of Surgery (I955). Portraits and facsimiles of important articles illustrate the text. Nissen gives a fascinating history of thoracic surgery in its various stages of development.
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