Mental Deficiency
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every aspect of the vast and widening field of mental deficiency. There is a very complete index, so that information can quickly be obtained on any of the subjects covered, and the illustrations are plentiful and clear. From the point of view of the medical reader one would have liked to see all the information about a single type of mental deficiency concentrated in one chapter. It is, for example, very irritating to have to turn to a previous chapter to get some information about the pathology of mongolism. This of course is the kind of difficulty inseparable from the preparation of a text book by several different authors, but one hopes that in future editions one may see two authors collaborating to write a single chapter rather than preparing separate articles in different parts of the book. This would perhaps diminish the reader's feeling that on occasions the author has been limited to a number of words and was not telling all he knew?a feeling which ought to be avoided in a work of this scope and cost. However, the authors obviously had very much in mind the objective of keeping the book as readable as possible to a very wide audience and it must be said that in this respect they have achieved a very large measure of success. Of all the commendable features of this work perhaps the most impressive is the sense of activity in the mental deficiency field which it manages to impart. One is left in no doubt as to how much can be done to improve the lot of
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دوره 17 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1951