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By W. A. D. Anderson, M.A., M.D., Assistant Professor of Pathology, St. Louis University School of Medicine. Price, $6.00. Pp. 661, including 294 text illustrations and 17 color plates. St. Louis: C. V. Mosby Company, 1942.

Arch Derm Syphilol. 1943;47(2):300.

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It is remarkable that so much information has been crowded into this little volume, considering the great wealth of illustrations. Even references are supplied, and they are up-to-date. Too, the materials are remarkably fresh, with a chapter on the vitamins and inclusion of toxoplasmosis, torula infection and histoplasmosis. The illustrations are excellent, and it is unfortunate that three of the ones in color (facing pages 116, 132 and 334) were apparently forced into the collection; this appears to be a matter of faulty registering of color during the printing.

Criticisms are few. What might appear to be a certain sketchiness is really unavoidable, when one considers the small compass of the book and the great number of illustrations. Information about the acute stage of coccidioidomycosis is missing. The newly discovered spirochete which causes pinta was omitted from the list of pathogenic spirochetes. For the purposes of the dermatologist the section . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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