Pediatrics

laid down by the experts who contribute to the volume. " The best is the enemy of the good," and what is needed for the practitioner in India is a clear statement of the best methods of diagnosis and treatment which it is practicable for him to carry out, rather than an account of the methods which are followed by highly specialised practitioners working under the conditions that prevail in London or New York. It does not help the Indian physician to tell him that the only treatment of hypertrophic stenosis of the pylorus is surgical; too often he cannot get a surgeon to operate, even if the parents of the infant are prepared to consider the question of operation. The statement that