Textbook of Gynecology.

In the preface to the first edition of the book the author stated that it was unnecessary to make any apology for the combined title, Gynecology and Female Endocrinology, so intimarely associated are the two subjects. The title of the second edition is simply, “Textbook of Gynecology,” the implication being that female endocrinology has already become an integral part of the practice of gynecology, which, in fact, it has for all well informed, progressive gynecologists. This second edition contains forty-four chapters, sixteen of which are devoted primarily to the physiology of reproduction in the broadest sense. A very lucid discussion is given in these chapters of the physiology of menstruation, the anovulatory cycle, dysmenorrhea, amenorrhea, functional uterine bleeding, sterility, the menopause and related disorders. Even the serious student of the physiology of reproduction will find little that is inaccurate or misleading and he will be surprised that such a complicated and oftentimes confusing subject can be so carefully simplified as has been done in this book.