BOOK REVIEWS. 



Treatise on Diseases of the Skin. For the use of Advanced Students and 

 Practitioners. By Henry W. Stelwagon, M. D., Ph. D. Fifth Edition. 

 Thoroughly Revised. With 267 illustrations in the text and 34 full-page 

 colored and half-tone plates. Cloth. Pp. 1150. Price $6. Philadelphia and 

 London. W. B. Saunders Company, 1907. 



In this last revision;, the articles on skin diseases of tropical distribution 

 have been largely rewritten, and several affections of this class, have been 

 introduced for the first time. A new chapter on Dhobie-itch, calling 

 attention to the varied affections grouped together under this name, shows 

 a good understanding of these tropical skin lesions, and their etiologJ^ 

 The article on uncinarial dermatitis, also new, is not so satisfactory and 

 will not be of much value in assisting practitioners to recognize this 

 malady which is said to be very common in tropical countries, but which 

 is certainly not frequently recognized in the Philippines where hookworm 

 disease is rife. The chapter on framboesia is especially well presented, 

 but could be improved by a description of the methods of finding the 

 Treponema pertenuis from the serum of the eruption, a very easy procedure. 

 In discussing the relationship of Treponema to yaws and syphilis, and of 

 the Donovan-Leishman body to Oriental sore, the author has, it is 

 thought, been over conservative in view of the large amount of evidence 

 which has been brought forward in support of their causal relationship. 

 Upon the whole, this work, reviewed from the standpoint of the tropical 

 practitioner, is excellent, both as to illustrations and reading matter.- 

 The space devoted to treatment is large and the therapeutic agents recom- 

 mended are, in the opinion of the reviewer, well selected. 



A feature of the book, which will appeal to many is the abundant ref- 

 erences to the recent literature which accompany each subject. 



J. M. P. 



Essential of Sanitary Science. By Gilbert E. Brooke. Cloth. Pp. xii+413. 

 Price, 6s net. London: Henry Kimpton, 1909. 



This manual is one of Kimpton's Essential Series and is designed for 

 students preparing for the D. P. H. examination, being based on the 

 author's own notes in his reading and laboratory courses for that degree 

 at Edinburgh, and is invaluable to those for whom it is intended and 



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