Practical Handbook of the Pathology of the Skin. ?By J. M. i?- MACLEOD, 31.A. 31.D.

M.R.C.P.

This publication of a work of this description, the first to appear in our language, is an indica- tion of the advance of medical science and its demands for special information on special subjects. A few years ago such a work could

scarcely have justified its existence : now it will be looked upon as an indispensable occupant of the Dermatologist's bookshelves. The author does not claim to have produced a complete treatise on the pathology of the skin, but

merely a "

practical introduction to the Ana-

tomy, Pathology, and Bacteriology of the Skin." Consequently he deals first minutely with the

histology of the different elements of the skin, and then describes the changes which take place in them in disease. Very careful instructions are given for the preservation and examination of portions of the skin, but we consider it hardly necessary, in a special work of this sort, for the author to go so minutely into general histological technique, as this part seems to be

only a repetition of what the reader will find in

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any of the ordinary text-books on pathological histology. The chapters on parasitic diseases of the skin are well written and up-to-date, find form a valuable summary of our knowledge of this part of the subject. The book is well

got u}> and clearly printed, and the coloured and uncoloured plates are excellent.