COLOUR ATLAS OF HISTOPATHOLOGY
R. A. B. Drury · Journal of Clinical Pathology · 1967
reviews widened to include changes in body water, total extra- cellular fluid sodium and potassium.In common with other books produced by this pub- lisher the standard of printing, paper and binding is excellent, but expensive.M. G. RINSLER COLOUR ATLAS OF HISTOPATHOLOGY By R. C. Curran.(Pp.94; 765 figures 75s.) London: Balliere, Tindall and Cassell.1966.This atlas contains 765 colour photomicrographs, 8-0 + 5-5 cm. in size, on 85 large pages of good paper.At the foot of the page about 50 words of explanatory test for each picture are grouped together, and there is a full index.The quality of the photomicrography is very high, the test is short and sharp, the production excellent, and the price is a bargain.This beautiful book is a spectacular success that breaks new ground in the presentation and the teaching of histopathology.The number of photographs and the diseases chosen are excessive for most students though adequate for pathologists in their early training.Selection must be arbitrary, but it is unfortunate that squamous carcinoma of bronchus is omitted whilst four photographs of alveolar carcinoma and three of metastatic osteogenic sarcoma of lung are included.On p.78 'endarteritis' is used in place of 'endophlebitis'.These are trivial, but of more importance are the great length (25 cm.) and close setting of the lines of the text, making combined reading of text and examination of the photographs extremely difficult.This book will enjoy a long life and, if the text could be broken into sections closer to the photographs, it would be difficult to fault and would set a standard for years to come.