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By Andrew A. Eggston, B.S., M.D., director of laboratories, Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital, and clinical professor of pathology, New York University Medical College, and Dorothy Wolff, A.B., M.A., Ph.D., research investigator, Endaural Hospital, New York, and fellow in research, Harvard Medical School. Price $18. Pp. 1080, with 28 plates in color and 505 figures. Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins Company, 1947.

Arch Otolaryngol. 1947;46(6):860-861.

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This is a monumental work, the first of its kind devoted exclusively to the histopathology of the ear, nose and throat. Those who are only casually acquainted with otolaryngology as a specialty may realize that tonsillitis and adenoiditis, sinusitis and otitis are of importance, but they do not always know how diseases which begin in the ears, the tonsils and the sinuses may finally endanger life itself. Complications in any one of them, especially those involving the internal ear, may lead to death through meningitis, general sepsis, acute or chronic cardiac conditions, nephritis—in fact, there is no organ or tissue of the body which may not be reached by bacterial infection which had its origin in the upper respiratory tract or the ears. This is, of course, no news to otorhinolaryngologists, but it needs to be emphasized still, in spite of the many years that have passed since the age . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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