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By WILLIAM L. BALLENGER, M.D. Revised by H. C. Ballenger, M.D. Price, $11. Pp. 1138, with 583 engravings and 29 plates. Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger, 1930.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1930;12(1):126.

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This is the second revision of the treatise by H. C. Ballenger. The first revision was reviewed in the ARCHIVES in January, 1926. The first revision made by the present author showed a decided improvement over previous editions. The present volume is a vast improvement. Many of the bizarre features of the original text have been revised or left out entirely. Valuable chapters have been added, one by G. Tucker and Chevalier L. Jackson on bronchoscopy and another by A. Lewy on the labyrinth.

The book is rather cumbersome, consisting of 1,138 pages with 583 engravings and 29 plates. The style is rather rambling with a superfluity of repetitions, some subjects being discussed with slight variations in several places. The cullings from the literature in the present volume show, on the whole, a better appreciation of the evalution of published articles than was apparent in the first editions, in which . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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