This is an extremely valuable addition to the literature of pain and it is to be

hoped that it will remain available to a wide readership for a long time.

W. Noordenbos Amsterdam (The Netherlands)

Alternatives to Pain, by D. Pratt, Argus Archives, New York, 250 pp., $ 3.95.

The experiments on animals and what this entails in suffering and pain is the subject of this monograph. Alternative solutions are suggested. The problem con- cerns us although many will push it from their mind deeming it to be necessary and inevitable. The facts are exposed and the sources namend. It makes unpleasant

reading and there is so much of it in each chapter that the reader almost becomes

inured against so much misery. Thereby the author probably weakens his case. The study of pain is the aim of our society. And just because of that members can

expect that any experimental work on these matters will be the subject of close scrutiny by the public. It is better that we know what goes on, which is a great deal

and some of it may well prove to be unnecessary or even irrelevant. Read it and take

note for it is no use hiding behind that expression so well known to us Europeans:

‘Wir haben es nicht gewusst’ (we didn’t know about it).

W. Noordenbos Amsterdam (The Netherlands)

The Fundamentals of Ear Acupunctur’e, by H. Kropej, Haug Verlag, Heidelberg,

1980, 94 pp., $ 16.66.

English translation of the third German edition. Clear diagrams are given of the topographical localisation of the reflex areas

believed to represent the various body organs on the ear. It deals with this form of therapy in the practical sense only and makes no attempt to explain the manner in which it works.

W. Noordenbos

Amsterdam (The Netherlands)