<scp>Annual Review of Medicine</scp>, Vol. 8

Abstract

While the Annual Review series has been increasingly popular and continues to be very useful for the busy physician, this particular number has special appeal for pediatricians. The pattern of reviews has now reached a pretty regular and high standard. In addition to those topics which are reviewed annually, there is a special section on pediatrics, a detailed review of experiments on retrolental fibroplasia and a chapter on the special therapeutics of helminthic disease. Whereas the reviews in these volumes consistently have been more than the mere enumeration and listing of work which has been done, perhaps the increase in complexity on the speed with which research is advancing has resulted in some decline in the critical element and some increase in the trend of these reviews in the direction of catalogs or indices.