572 Philippine Journal of Science 1919 
Notes on the gastric signs and symptoms in diseases other than those of 
the stomach, by Thomas R. Brown. 
Gastro-intestinal disturbances in metabolic diseases and diseases of the 
ductless glands, by John H. King. 
The role of diet in treatment of digestive diseases, by E. H. Gaither. 
Esophagoscopy as an aid in the diagnosis and treatment of esophageal 
disease, by Elmer B. Freeman. 
The roentgenologic signs of joint lesions in children, by Frederick H. 
Baetjer. 
Introductory remarks to a discussion of diabetes, by Louis Hamman. 
Serous membrane tuberculosis, by Louis Hamman. 
Auricular fibrillation, by Louis Hamman. 
A case of multiple tuberculosis in childhood, by Allen K. Krause. 
Barbed Wire Disease: | A Psychological Study | of the Prisoner of War | 
by | A. L. Yischer, | M. D. Basle, M. R. C. S. Eng. J translated from 
the German, with additions by the author | with an introductory 
chapter by | S. A. Kinnier Wilson, | M. A., B. Sc., M. D. Ed., F. 
R. C. P. Lond. | and a frontispiece by | Miss E. Forteseue-Brickdale 
| London: | John Bale, Sons & Danielsson, Ltd. | Oxford House ] 83-91, 
Great Titchfield Street, W. 1 | 1919 | pp. 1-84. 
Cerebrospinal Fluid | in Health and in Disease | by | Abraham Levinson, 
B. S., M. D. | [7 lines of titles] | with a foreword by | Ludvig 
Hektoen, M. D. | with fifty-six illustrations, including | five color 
plates | St. Louis | C. V. Mosby Company | 1919 | Cloth, pp. 1-231, 
including index. 
FOREWORD 
The author was kind enough to ask me if I would look over 
his manuscript and then tell him whether it seemed to me worthy 
of publication. Later, when I told him that in my opinion he 
had produced a valuable little book, he requested me to state the 
reasons for this favorable opinion in the form of a foreword. 
This I can do in a few brief statements. 
In the first place, on reading the manuscript, I soon became 
aware that the author had come to his task with not only a large 
experience behind him in the examination by various methods 
of the cerebrospinal fluid as an aid in diagnosis, but with a 
highly creditable record in the scientific study of this fluid as 
well. Evidently he had been drawn to his work on the cerebro- 
spinal fluid because of its attractiveness as a field of research, 
as well as on account of its importance in diagnosis. 
It is to this happy combination of true philosophic interest and 
first-hand practical knowledge on the part of the author that the 
book owes its chief merit, namely, thoroughness and freshness 
in the parts dealing with fundamental problems, as well as in 
those dealing with practical matters. In the second place there 
could be no doubt in regard to the timeliness of a work of this 
