Trauma and Disease

meagre except for case reports, and certain articles widely scattered in medical journals to which the practitioner has usually no access. The rapidly growing social and legal implications of the relationship between trauma and disease have served to focus medical attention on the subject and a treatise dealing with it is, therefore, welcome. This volume deals with the effect of a single trauma? either physical or psychic?in producing disease or influencing its course. Conditions which are obviously caused by a single trauma, viz, sprains, lacerations, fractures, etc., have been excluded as far as possible. Authorities in different fields of medicine have contributed to the book, and therefore the facts are based on pathological and clinical investigations and not on legal decisions. a ,