Like all authors, I hope that this book will find wide readership. At the same time, I believe that good books are intensely personal objects. As readers, we have our favorite books, and this is an emotional statement, laden with context.1 Similarly, writers bring not just their knowledge and their technical skill to the creation of a book, but also their personalities. In writing something whi...

successful attempts to put information into what is termed "popular" language. The medical writers are beginning to see the value of a literary style, and now and then a writer of real genius arises in that learned profession. Such a man has recently been making his presence felt by contributing articles of very great value, on subjects of medicine, hygiene, and the like, to popular magazines. ...