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REVIEWS. 
The World’s Anatomists: Concise Biographies of Anatomic Masters, from 300 
B. C. to the Present Time, Whose Names Have Adorned the Literature of 
the Medical Profession. By G. W. H. Kemper, M. D., Professor of the 
History of Medicine in the Medical College of Indiana. Revised and enlarged. 
Paper; 11 illustrations, 9 of which are portraits. Pp., xiv-+79. Price, $0.50. 
Philadelphia: P. Blakiston’s Son & Co., 1905. 
This small book will find a place on the table of the anatomist or of 
the general scientific worker in biological subjects, as a concise tabula- 
tion of the names and of a few important facts in the careers of a 
number who have worked in the field of anatomy. 
It will also serve to assist somewhat in the study of nomenclature. 
For the student of the history of medicine it will be of but little value, 
as it is a tabulation and not a discussion from the historical standpoint. 
Treatise on Diseases of the Skin for the Use of Advanced Students and Frac- 
titioners. By Henry W. Stelwagon, M. D., Ph. D. Fourth edition, thoroughly 
revised. Cloth; 258 illustrations in the text and 32 full-page lithographic 
and half-tone plates. Pp., 1136. Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders & Co., 1905. 
Stelwagon’s Treatise on Diseases of the Skin would appear peculiarly 
adapted to the use of the general practitioner by reason of the clear 
and concise manner in which the various affections are described. A 
happy faculty of paragraphing, and in this way of presenting separately 
the important questions to be considered in understanding a disease, 
_ gives one a comprehensive grasp of the disease entity which is not always 
obtained in works on skin. 
The fourth edition of this excellent work is filled with plates and 
illustrations which greatly assist one who is not a specialist in this 
branch of medicine and the lack of which makes certain other similar 
volumns less well adapted to the use of the man in general practice. 
The paragraphs on diagnosis, under the heads of psoriasis and eczema, 
impress one as most clearly expressed, and the entire article on eczema 
is clear and to the point. The discussion of tuberculosis of the skin 
and that of syphilis are of great practical value, and many of the 
illustrations under these subjects are more instructive than columns of 
written matter would be. The affections due to parasitic yeasts and 
molds are briefly but well presented, the article on blastomycetic der- 
matitis being particularly satisfactory. 
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