Will Pickles of Wensleydale

to those tragic instances when a previously well infant, usually between two and four months, is found dead in its cot (cot death), or is brought dead or dying to hospital. The incidence of this approaches 2.5 per 1,000 births in areas of adequate assessment, and the practitioner may at any time have such a tragedy in his practice. From this book he will learn much of the theories, discarded or still tenable, which have been proposed to explain these cases. If he reads critically he will appreciate that very real progress is being made, especially since the first conference in 1963. While no answer to the problem is available, both the papers and discussions contain valuable suggestions, and both pathologists and paediatricians may be surprised by how much information, some of it perhaps valuable in other contexts, they will find as the discussion ranges widely. Prominent among the papers presented were three by Professor Peter Froggart and one by Dr. T. K. Marshall recording work done in Northern Ireland, and these representatives from Belfast contributed in a valuable way to the discussion. It is hoped that the next number of this Journal will carry a more detailed report of these important investigations in this province. J.E.M.