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Edition 1. By Richard F. Sutton, Jr., M.D. Pp. 350. Double-day and Company, Garden City, New York, 1962.

John R. Haserick, M.D., Reviewer

Arch Dermatol. 1962;86(5):702.

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Sutton's The Skin should be subtitled "An Evening (or two) With Richard Sutton." Suttonisms, which friends anticipate in his conversation, appear with delightful regularity, and the reader who is familiar with the author will doubly enjoy the identifying passages. Sutton makes the reader feel at ease, and his homespun (but not corny) style makes one want to continue reading.

No one doubts Sutton's authority to write a book on clinical dermatology; he is eminently qualified to do so. Moreover, he has the ability to translate the dermatologist's cloudy jargon into clear nonprofessional prose. This is a volume for both the intelligent layman and the nondermatologic physician, as well as for the sophisticated dermatologist. There is much of real value—old and new—in this book.

It is probably impossible to write a perfect text, but the errors in The Skin are minimal and few. (How can we agree, for example, with Sutton's . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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