Blood Diseases in General Practice

This pocket, monograph series of books on practical medicine has proved a great, success, and we must congratulate the publishers on their enterprise. However, it cannot have entailed any great mental strain on their part to think of the name ' Piney' when the question of a book on blood diseases arose: they are fortunate in having been able to negotiate I he next, step successfully. It is quite impossible to dismiss the subject of blood diseases in twenty-five thousand words and th*3 author has necessarily had to skate rapidly over the surface. The information he has given is up to date and will be found valuable by the practitioner. The question of aetiology is not gone into to any great extent. Suggestions for treatment are made, but they are seldom explicit; some readers will be disappointed by this. No attempt at classification of the anaemias has been