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THE title of “Morphologie Médicale,” which the distinguished French authors have given to their book, did at first suggest to the reviewer that he was to have the pleasure of making a new subject of research known to the readers of NATURE. The subject, however, is not a new but a very old one, for in its essential nature “morphologic medicale” is really a resuscitation of the old doctrine of “constitutions”or “temperaments,” which was so beloved by physicians who lived before the days of Pasteur and Lister. The names are changed with the times; certain “physical types,” not “constitutions,” are recognised. The exact methods of the anthropologist are employed to distinguish one type from the other.
Morphologie Médicale: Étude des quatre types humains.
Applications à la clinique et à la thérapeutique, par A. Chaillon and L. Mac-Auliffe. Pp. iv + 248. (Paris: Octave Doin et Fils, 1912.) Price 5 francs.
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K., A. Morphologie Médicale: Étude des quatre types humains . Nature 89, 237 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089237a0
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