Psychological medicine

Psychological Medicine

The third edition of this textbook for students and newly qualified Practitioners is the first to be published since the untimely death of Dr. Eric Guttmann, one of its original authors. Largely as a result of this apparently, there are few major alterations in this edition, though the sections on Mental Deficiency, Hysteria and Schizophrenia have all been added to and brought more in line with...

Psychological Medicine

The sixth edition of this perefl't ally popular book is well up to tb1] standard of the earlier ones and |i remarkably good value at todaVi prices. This has been an introdu^ tion to psychiatry for severe generations of professional work; ers in mental health, and at i1 own level it has not yet beei excelled. There is a certain wardian panache to the style whi^ makes it refreshingly differed fro...

Psychological Medicine

Psychological Medicine

Psychological Medicine

placenta przevia in the Royal Maternity Hospital and in private practice. During the years 1937-1949 there were 275 cases. There were two maternal deaths, a mortality rate of 0.73 per cent. The fcetal mortality was 20.4 per cent., and, if deaths from foetal abnormalities were excluded, the corrected figure was 17.1 per cent. These figures were compared with those of the Royal Maternity Hospital...