The Nature of Hypnosis: selected basic readings

extended to 1,276 pages and had 713 illustrations, many of them coloured. The numbers and the rarity of many of the specimens brought home to working gynaecologists that the author has had unique experience in obstetrics and gynaecology. Professor Mahfouz has seen the renaissance of the School of Medicine in Cairo. He ascribes this to a combination of factors including the change in language for tuition from Arabic to English and the infusion of new blood in the teaching staff. He himself has made a world wide reputation as the pioneer of both obstetrics and gynaecology in the Egypt of today. He has written his autobiography as a series of self-contained chapters each describing interesting events, some of them personal and domestic, and others of quite historical importance. His style is simple narrative which is pleasant to read and suitable as a bedside book, particularly for the layman. Most gynaecologists will want to read it and a much wider public will enjoy it too. Co-incidentally it is a work of considerable value in medical history, describing how the department of obstetrics and gynaecology of the medical school of Cairo came into being, a first-hand account from one who was present throughout the period.