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 zero is missing. (3) Trichomonas ' infestation' should be infection. Then there are some obscurities. Example : Page 125, para 3, sentence 4; the fact that the disease is not confined to a 1 single bone ' has