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Edited by J. Jadassohn, Volume II. Price, 108 marks; bound, 116 marks. Pp. 507, with 236 illustrations. Berlin: Julius Springer, 1932.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1934;29(6):971.

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This is volume II of this distinguished encyclopedia many other volumes of which have been reviewed in this journal. It is rather curious that the volumes should be presented in such an irregular order, but this is about the only criticism to be made of them.

In this volume the diseases of the skin due to protozoa and filtrable viruses and the manifestations in the skin of the reactions of immunity are considered. These subjects take one into an important group of dermatoses, of which the eruptions of smallpox and vaccinia are typical, and into another group of less important but none the less interesting and curious lesions, such as molluscum contagiosum and verrucae. As usual in this series, the subjects are considered with great fulness and in detail, and the authors are among the familiar German dermatologists. The volume comes up to the high standard of excellence which has . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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