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used a mixture of sulphonamides in the treatment of gonorrhoea, with the aim of obtaining higher bloodl sulphonamide levels without endangering the renal tracts. 4. Ledbetter and Cronheim (1948) claim that, as well as reducing the danger of crystalluria, the use of sulphonamide mixtures will obviate the danger oi alkalosis from the dosage of alkalies required to prevent crystalluria when single sulphonamides are used. The occurrence of anuria in this case emphasises the fact that the use ol compound sulphonamides dloes not eliminate the necessity to administer alkalies and copious fluids. Indeed the manufacturers, although they are not aware of any previously reported case of anuria with "sulphatriad," recomment in the literature supplied with the drug that alkalies and copious fluids should be given. REFERENCES. THIS little volume contains a series of eight lectures given to the authors' students in Edinburgh. It can in no sense he regarded as (nor is it claimed to be) a textbook of Occupational Medicine. Some may consider that it attempts to sketch too much for the undergraduate but it is clearly quite inadequate for the doctor who hopes to enter industry. Occupational diseases are rightly relegated to the minor role they play in industrial medicine although the section "on taking an occupational history" might well have been expanded and more precise advice proffered. For those who come to this subject for the first time this book has many stimulating ideas wvhich should provoke the serious reader to further thought. Students for the D.P.H. and nurses already in industry will find the main features succinctly though dogmatically stated. Executives and shop stewards will learn here something of the contribution which medicine can make to the problems of Management and Labour. It is a pity that an adequate bibliography, or at least a guide to further reading, is not included.