+ R of Rs 62:669 D ’20 280w
“Mr Bishop has succeeded in giving us two volumes of great value and readability.”
+ Wis Lib Bul 16:236 D ’20 110w (Reprinted from Atlantic D ’20)
BISHOP, LOUIS FAUGÈRES. Heart troubles; their prevention and relief. il *$3.50 Funk 616.1
20–13070
A book written in popular style and addressed to the layman. The author believes that a patient is entitled to the full confidence of his physician and thinks that in heart disease “the educated patient can help more when wisely advised than in almost any other form of disease.” The book is in two parts: Physiological and symptomatic, and Therapeutic. The final chapter is devoted to Nursing in heart troubles. The book is illustrated and indexed and there is a one-page list of collateral reading. The author is professor of the heart and circulatory diseases, Fordham university, New York city.
+ Cath World 112:410 D ’20 90w
“The immediate effect of this sane and sensible work should be a wider dissemination of modern knowledge of the heart, its affections and their treatment; the ultimate result should be a reduction in the alarming death rate from heart disease in the United States.” V. B. Thorne
+ N Y Times p17 Ag 29 ’20 3000w