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THE important subject of diseases of children is one which is too often neglected in the curriculum of the medical student. Dr. Bernard Myers has produced a handbook in which he has treated the subject mainly from the practical side. He has adopted the usual arrangement of considering anatomy and physiology first, then clinical investigations and the diseases of the various systems. Articles have been contributed by experts in their special branches, e.g. biochemistry, serum therapy, physiology of digestion, and syphilis. Some confusion may arise from the separation of nutritional disturbances from affections of the stomach and intestine, and also from the classification of nutritional disturbances as “failure to gain,” “dyspepsia,” “decomposition,” and “intoxication.”
Practical Handbook on the Diseases of Children: For the Use of Practitioners and Senior Students.
By Dr. Bernard Myers. (Lewis's Practical Series.) Pp. xvi + 548. (London: H. K. Lewis and Co., Ltd., 1922.) 21s. net.
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 111, 531 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111531d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/111531d0