Diseases of the New-Born
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M.D. London: J. B. Lippincott Co. Illustrated. Pp. 231. Price, 21s. net. Obtainable from Butterworth & Co. (India), Ltd., P. O. Box 251, Calcutta. Price, Rs. 15-12 net. This little book of 231 pages consists of a series of monographs from the pens of some seven professors of the faculty of medicine of Georgetown University. The whole are collected together by Professor J. A. Foote, the Professor of Pediatrics and diseases of children in the University of Georgetown, who has written the majority of the papers himself. The first part of the book deals with the care of the newly-born child; describes the injuries and accidents which may occur to it during birth; and the proper treatment of such injuries. There is a special chapter devoted to intracranial haemorrhage, and the author has given us an excellent description of the signs and symptoms of this serious accident. He asserts dogmatically that the best treatment of this condition is rest, quiet, the avoidance of all but the most essential movements and external stimulus. In this we are wholeheartedly in agreement with him. Later on there is a description of the skin diseases
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