Diathesis and Ocular Disease

are discussed. Nevertheless the book is a very interesting one and draws attention to an aspect of disease which is far too much neglected, and by no one more than by the Specialist. The necessity of treating patients, not diseases, is too often lost sight of. As the author well puts it?"Too much attention is being paid to the germ, and far too little to the soil on which it falls," and he points out that the results obtained from the study of bacteriology