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Paris : Libraire Maloine, 1939, 4°, (8), 167, (1) pp., 80 Textabbildungen, orig. Leinenband. 3me édition entièrement refondue et considérablement augmentée avec 80 figures dans le texte. Préface couronne de M. le Professeur H. Rouvière. "The word labyrinth cannot be uttered without evoking Ariadne's thread. But how much better than the classics does Dr Girard guide us into the very heart of the rock, into the meanders of those deep and delicate regions towards which modern surgery has only recently concentrated its daring explorations. In fact, this famous thread is lacking in the classic, somewhat schematic description, which is merely an exposure of the intus petros in successive slices. Here, on the contrary, Dr Girard gives the labyrinthine skeleton all its individuality. This approach gives the first part of the book, devoted to the topographical study of the labyrinth, a much appreciated clarity of exposition. The reader will quickly forget the arduous work of his first studies when he reads the relationships, however meticulous, of this new labyrinth with, in the foreground, the rocky frame which encloses it, and then with the peripheral organs. I would point out to him a very interesting and complete description of the perilabyrinthine cell trails and the surgical facial. I note some very judicious reflections by the author on the orientation of the semicircular canals and some important anatomical details for the surgeon. The entirely new chapters on surgical access to the labyrinth and the techniques of the various otologists serve as a transition between this anatomical presentation and the atlas proper. The latter is made up of some fifty superb life-size photographs, most of which are accompanied by stereoscopic views and reproduced in heliogravure. Behind the anatomist lies the clinician. So it is in the depths of the operating cavity of the petro-mastoid recess, at the surgical threshold of the labyrinth, that Dr Girard invites us to meet him with his gouge. Gradually, the labyrinthine skeleton appears, with its permanent orientation, thanks to the profile of the head, which remains inseparable from it. Immediately the obstacles rise up beneath the footsteps of the profane. Here, the middle cerebral fossa; there, the cerebellar fossa and the lateral sinus. There again, it is the carotid artery or the dome of the jugular gulf which, with its unexpectedly large jumps, seems to be a fearsome cerberus of the labyrinthine vestibule. Not far from there is the facial, almost unchanging in its aqueduct, but whose voi sinage is always worrying. However, the safe routes leading to the labyrinth stand out clearly in the attractive succession of photographs. The last plates show us the different surgical techniques of those who, in previous years, have not been afraid to pursue the infection into the labyrinth. As for peri-labyrinthine infections, we can easily understand their mechanism by following these peri or translabyrinthine cellular trails which lead up to the petrous carrefour, medial to the superior semicircular canal and which, along the edges of the petrous pyramid, reach the apex. In 1912, the first edition of this atlas won Dr Girard the Meynot prize from the French Academy of Medicine. The rapid exhaustion of this first edition seems to herald a bright future for the second, to which the incessant work of its author has given a new cachet. We wish our young colleague, both pupil and friend, many readers, or better still, we wish our colleagues to place this lively atlas of practical documentation in a prominent place in their library." J. Fournié, Gazette des hôpitaux civils et militaires (Lancette française), 87 (1914), p.1211 (Translated). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 67101
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