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by Thomas Symington, 551 pp, with illus, $18.25, Edinburgh and London: E. & S. Livingstone Ltd. (Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins Co.), 1970.

William B. Ober, MD, Reviewer
Beth Israel Hospital New York

JAMA. 1970;214(5):917.

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Science advances swiftly these decades, and a monograph on the pathology of a single organ runs the risk of rapid obsolescence from new discoveries in biochemistry and physiology or new technical advances. Professor Symington, to complete his synoptic view of the functional pathology of the human adrenal gland, chose the propitious time of 1969, when the advances of the 1950s and 1960s regarding the biochemistry and physiologic action of adrenocortical steroids and medullary amines have been consolidated.

In the best tradition of Scottish anatomy, both gross and microscopical, Symington has put together a text based on historical knowledge, brought up to date by his gift for synthesizing information and his particular knack for relating symptoms to lesions. Rarely can a pathologist be equally so at home in the clinic, the biochemistry laboratory, and the laboratory of morbid anatomy. The value of this monograph lies in its broad range, its firm . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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