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By S. William Becker. Price, $4. Pp. 283, with 83 illustrations. New York: National Medical Book Company, Inc., 1935.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1936;33(6):1100.

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This book covers well the commoner diseases of the skin. The style is didactic (which is a good feature for such a book), and the descriptions are concise and clear. Some chapters are particularly good, for example that on allergy in cutaneous diseases. The book ends with a useful formulary, which is particularly to be recommended because it confines itself to remedies or methods that are in common use and does not confuse the inexperienced practitioner with a multiplicity of little used remedies. The work is of value in furnishing an orientation of the familiar diseases of the skin. The only restriction that must be put on this recommendation is that Becker ascribes to "nervous hyperactivity and exhaustion" in the production of cutaneous diseases an importance far greater than most dermatologists accept. The new student of dermatology will get from his text an exaggerated notion of the importance of . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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