A Textbook of the Practice of Medicine

Abstract

The last previous edition of this well known British textbook of medicine appeared only four years ago. Many sections have been entirely rewritten and there have been extensive revisions in others. This revision has encountered exceptional difficulties on account of the war. There are four new contributors; the list includes such authorities as Sir W. Langdon Brown, W. S. C. Copeman, N. Hamilton Fairley, Lord Horder, Donald Hunter, Sir Arthur Hurst and Sir W. H. Willcox (the last having died since this edition went to press). As is inevitable, there is considerable disparity in the information contained in different sections: the treatment of gonococcic infections is given only three sentences, although the treatment of coliform bacillus infections is discussed in detail (the two, incidentally, having been written by the same contributor); in the light of present information available, it would probably have been valuable to write in greater detail concerning