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THIS fine volume, the composition of which was inspired by Long's “Selected Readings in Pathology”(see NATURE for March 29, 1930, p. 488), contains the original descriptions of various diseases, translated when necessary into English, from classical antiquity down to the present day. After an introduction containing passages from Hippocrates, the work consists of ten parts devoted respectively to classical descriptions of infectious diseases, diseases of metabolism, lead poisoning, diseases of the circulatory system, diseases of the blood, kidney diseases, respiratory diseases, deficiency diseases, allergic diseases and diseases of the digestive system. A short biographical notice is prefixed to each writer's account of the disease.
Classical Descriptions of Disease: with Biographical Sketches of the Authors.
By Prof. Ralph H. Major. Pp. xxvii + 630. (London: Baillière, Tindall and Cox, 1932.) 30s. net.
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Classical Descriptions of Disease: with Biographical Sketches of the Authors . Nature 131, 895 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131895a0
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