Handbook of Infectious Diseases

Acute Infectious Diseases: A Handbook for Practitioners and Students

Full descriptions of the acute infectious diseases commonly seen in Britain are to be found in this book, including a very small chapter on the fourth disease. The chapters on typhoid and paratyphoid _ fevers are of particular interest to practitioners in India and are exceedingly informative. The chapter on typhus deals with the classical, louse type only and for that reason is of limited valu...

Handbook of Skin Diseases

Handbook of Communicable Diseases

Students of the nutritional anemia problem, who are members of the so-called Wisconsin school, will doubtless criticize the book on the ground that it does not appropriately recognize the significance of copper in the body's use of iron. Against such an attitude this reviewer would like to point out that many of these apparent shortcomings of the book really involve comparisons of the results o...

Corticosteroids in Infectious Diseases

Accumulated data based on experiences with curtico,teroids in the management uf infectious disea­ses, have proved that they are very dfective and ,afe drugs provided that are administered properly.  The Corticosteroids arc administered mainly be­c,1usc o; antitoxic, antiimflammatory a11d antiallcrgic effects, the cndotoxius are ncuturalized, generalized body reactions are diminished, damaged t...

Gardiner's Handbook of Skin Diseases

GARDINER'S HANDBOOK OF SKIN DISEASES. Fourth Edition, revised. By John Kinnear, M.D., M.R.C.P. 239 pages; i6 Colour Plates; 70 Illustrations. E. & S. Livingston, I939. Price, ios. 6d. THIS handbook sets out to describe briefly the more common diseases of the skin and succeeds in presenting a satisfactory introduction to the subject. In a work of this size, more than a passing reference to some ...