A Synopsis of Skin Diseases

(Pp. 116. 57s. per volume.) Amsterdam: Elsevier (Agents, D. van Nostrand, 358 Kensington High Street, London, W.14), 1959. "EPILEPSIA," which is the oflicial organ of the "International League against Epilepsy," has, until March, 1959, been published once a year, but it is now under a new editorial board, and they intend to publish the new "Epilepsia" quarterly. As the editors point out, it will have only a limited appeal, but with recent advances in epilepsy, it is difficult to find space in neurological journals for the wealth of material resulting from clinical and neurophysiological research. In some ways it is a pity to divorce a symptom from the body of medicine, but this journal should provide material of interest for the neurologist, neurosurgeon, neurophysiologist, and biochemist. The first number contains articles from Britain, France, Germany, U.S.A., Czechoslovakia, and Ireland, and it is pleasant to read that the editors prefer papers to be written in English. J. H. D. M.