to detect the earliest disease in the maximum number of patients at least cost to the community. In conclusion, there is offered an ideal community program of eradication of tuberculosis-a disease which still claims 60,000 deaths annually in the United States. This small volume is very readable, authoritative, and well documented. It offers much of interest-and a challenge-to all charged with t...

I scarcely know how to begin this review. The Oxford Textbook of Medicine is no ordinary book. For a start it weighs about one and a quarter stone, and as I know to my cost it is not easy to carry home on foot. An African-style head cushion might help you here. Secondly, as a well meaning colleague said unexpectedly tartly well you've got a lot of reading to do before filing your review. True, ...

The first edition of this book proved to be very popular. A very large number of the readers of this journal appear to possess a copy, as it is frequently quoted. We are not surprised that it should be popular. Victor Heiser, who is at present in India, and the late Dr. Charles W. Young. Many advances have been made in the last four years, but they have not entirely changed the face of medicine...