All students of gastroenterology are familiar with "The External Secretions of the Digestive Glands," written in lucid German and extraordinarily well documented by Dr. Babkin. The present volume constitutes another important contribution to gastroenterology. The subject matter deals principally with the mechanisms which are concerned in the regulation of the secretory activity of the digestive glands. It does not cover the older literature, which was adequately covered in the preceding book. It presents a critical review and summary of the work done since 1929 by the author and his students and the contemporary work of other investigators in the field. However, adequate reference to older work and comprehensive reviews is not lacking. A copy of this book should be in every medical library, and graduate students in the field of digestion will have to use it and will be thankful for having it available. Dr. Babkin and the publishers in
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A 1944 study studied this question.