REVIEWS 
The Medical Report of the | Rice Expedition to Brazil | by | W. T. Councilman, 
M. D. | and | R. A. Lambert, M. D. | from the school of tropical med- 
icine | Harvard University | Cambridge | Harvard University Press | 
London | Humphrey Milford | Oxford University Press | 1918 | Cloth, 
i-vi + 3-126 pp. 
The Diseases | of Infants and | Children | by | J. P. Crozer Griffith, M. D., Ph. 
D. | [6 lines of titles] | with 436 illustrations | including 20 plates 
in colors | Volume I, pp. 1-885 including index | Volume II, pp. 1-657 
including index | Philadelphia and London | W. B. Saunders Com- 
pany | 1919 | Cloth, $16 net. ; 
PREFACE 
It has been the effort of the author in the following pages 
to present a review of the subject of medical pediatrics, as com- 
plete as seemed desirable without attempting to make it ency- 
clopedic. Inclusion is made of such subjects in surgery and 
the special branches with the recognition of which physicians 
treating the diseases of children should be more or less familiar. 
While endeavoring to embody the results of his own experience 
through many years of contact with disease in children, he has 
also made free use of the numerous excellent text-books on the 
subject, including the valuable contributions by American 
authors, and of home and foreign pediatric journal-literature. 
To all these authors he would here acknowledge his indebtedness. 
In the course of his own reading he has found quotations 
from medical authorities of much impaired service unless accom- 
panied by references to the places of publication, thus rendering 
possible the consulting of the originals. With the feeling that 
others may share this sentiment, he has in footnote form given 
the references to literature whenever such quotations are used, 
believing that in this way the value of the book to many readers 
would be increased, while the footnote method interferes in no 
way with its usefulness to those others who are not interested 
in this line of research. 
Temperature-charts and photographic and other illustrations 
have been reproduced freely, generally accompanied by brief 
synopses of the histories of the cases, without which their value 
would be much lessened. These are orginal or unpublished ex- 
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