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THIS, the` thirty-third annual issue of this publication, contains a summary of the year's (1914) contributions to medicine and surgery by a number of competent authorities. The exceptional lateness of the isue is accounted for by the strain and distraction of a great war, all the contributors, fully occupied as they are in normal times, having been working under exceptional stress from military duties and contingent work. The list of contributors is a sufficient guarantee of the accuracy and up-to-dateness of the information given. Thus we find an account of the latest work on typhus and cerebro-spinal fevers, both of topical interest at the present time. Trypanoso-miasis is dealt with by the competent hand of Sir Leonard Rogers, and the article gives full information of the latest work on the parasitology and treatment of this important condition. About twenty pages are devoted to the important subjects of radio-activity, X-rays, and electro-therapeutics, and useful sections deal with the changes in the new British Pharmacopoeia of 1914. Special articles on naval and military surgery are included, together with references to personal experience in the treatment of wounds. A number of full-page and other illustrations are included, and form a special feature of the volume; they illustrate various disease conditions, details of surgical technique, surgical appliances, pathological features, etc. The two plates of skin eruptions in pellagra are beautiful examples of colour photography. The “Medical Annual” is a book eminently suited to the needs of the busy practitioner who desires to keep abreast with modern progress.
The Medical Annual.
A Year Book of Treatment and Practitioner's Index. Thirty-third year, 1915. Pp. cxx + 830. (Bristol: J. Wright and Sons, Ltd.; London: Simpkin, Marshall and Co., Ltd., 1915.) Price 10s. net.
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The Medical Annual . Nature 95, 614 (1915). https://doi.org/10.1038/095614b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/095614b0