The skin is the largest bodyorgan and in the normal state, forms a complete anatomic and physiologic barrier between the animal and its environment While providing protection against a variety of noxious physical, chemical, and microbiological agents, it serves as a sensory organ which is in constant communicationwith internal body systemsand reflects pathological processes that may be either p...

vii + 944; figs. 496. 84s.) Edinburgh and London: E. & S. Livingstone, 1960. FROMl the point of view of the undergraduate medical student the text of this book is excellenlt, being writteni in a simple style with clear instructions regarding the various common skin diseases which the student is expected to know about. Likewise, from the general practitioner point of view treatment is given in a...

cell division and cell growth, on the growth of the body as a wvhole, and of the various tissues such as skin, blood, bone, connective tissue, fat tissue, blood vessels, secreting glands, muscles, and nervous tissue; also a survey of the characteristics and abnormalities of tumour growvth. There is a supplementary chapter by the editor, J. S. Haldane. Although we recognize to the full the sympa...

knowledge much. Once this experience has been acquired, a good text-book is of the greatest value in enabling one by the help of descriptions and illustrations to recognise the rarer types as they are met with. The value of a book for this purpose will depend mainly on the quality of the illustrations, well-executed coloured plates being by far the best. Dr. Sequeira is particularly to be congr...