Book reviews: A Handbook of Venereal Diseases.

Handbook of Diagnosis and Treatment of Venereal Diseases

are excellent. Most of them are in black and white and some in colour. Marginal headings save waste of time in introducing the items. Several non-venereal conditions causing confusion in diagnosis are included. Some faults usually characteristic of the first edition are still present. Examples : (1) Pages 169-170, a line is out of place. (2) Page 200, from two doses, after the decimal point, a ...

Handbook of Diagnosis and Treatment of Venereal Diseases

REVIEW HANDBOOK OF DIAGNOSIS AND TIREATMENT OF VENEREAL DISEASES. By A. E. W. McLachlin, M.D., Ch.B.(Edin.), D.P.H., F.R.S. (Ed.) Pp. 364. Illustrated. Edinburgh: E. & S. Livingstone. 1944. los. ONE of the important acconmpaniments of war is an increase in the incidence of Venereal Diseases, and the present war has been no exception to the general rule. One good thing has resulted from the pres...

Book Reviews The Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics

This collection of invited papers covers a lot of ground in its nearly 800 pages, so any review of reasonable length will necessarily be selective. However, there are a number of features that make the book as a whole a comparatively easy and thoroughly rewarding read. Multiauthor compendia of this kind are often disjointed, with very little uniformity from chapter to chapter in terms of breadt...

Venereal Diseases

Venereal Diseases.

For many years in each of the Canadian provinces, the law has required that any person suffering from or suspected to be suffering from a venereal disease shall place himself under the care of a physician, and it has been the duty of that physician to report such cases to the Provincial Department of Health. It was not until 1944, however, that, as the result of a recommendation of the Dominion...