Diseases of the Joints and Rheumatism
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By Kenneth Stone, D.M. (Oxon.), M.R.C.P. 1947. William Heinemann (Medical Books) Limited, London. Pp. ix plus 362. Illustrated. Price, 30s. His easy style saves this book from becoming boring when the author in a teleological mood excurses into biology or insists on proving the obvious Euclid-wise. 'Rheumatology' is good but orthopaedics not so good. Reasons for discarding the classification of the Royal College of Physicians appear inadequate. There is fibrositis and also vagotonia of the muscle : The latter
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