[Short Notices]

Abstract

IT is not surprising that within a very short time a second edition of a book of such outstanding merit as Barclay's “The Digestive Tract” should be called for. The foundation laid by the first edition is, however, so solid that, little being required in the way of alteration, the author can be content with merely bringing the book up to date. He introduces notes on the latest developments in technique, such as X-ray cinematography, a branch of the science of radiography, at present in its infancy, which should prove of great utility in investigations of the movements of the digestive organs in health and disease.

The Digestive Tract:

a Radiological Study of its Anatomy, Physiology and Pathology. By Dr. Alfred E. Barclay. Second edition. Pp. xxxvi + 427. (Cambridge: At the University Press, 1936.) 36s. net.