Modern Trends in Paediatrics

Some readers of this journal may think that Paediatrics is a far cry from Mental Health. This comprehensive survey of the latest work on children's diseases contains twenty-one chapters on a variety of subjects each written by an acknowledged expert from this or other countries. Dr. Mildred Creak writes on child psychiatry and Dr. R. S. Illingsworth deals with the normal development of the infant. Although the book will provide a useful medical background for doctors working in child guidance, it is of more particular interest to practitioners in the field of mental deficiency. Recent work in this subject covers a wide variety of diseases and causative factors, and from this point of view nearly every chapter is of significance. Mental deficiency may have a fairly specific connotation from the legal and social aspects, but aetiologically it is almost as wide as medicine itself. With increased research into a subject which has hitherto been relatively neglected we find the formerly clear-cut picture of primary or so-called