Woman: an Historical, Gynaecological and Anthropological Compendium

Abstract

FOR fifty years the various editions of “Das Weib” have had a considerable reputation on the Continent, in Great Britain and in the United States. The later editors revised and enlarged the book originally written by Dr. H. H. Ploss and added numerous new illustrations, and it has thus become a unique compilation on womankind. Hitherto there has been no English translation, but now English students can study with ease the accumulated data of the eleventh edition. This work, however, is not a mere translation, as the English editor, Dr. E. J. Dingwall, has made corrections and added supplementary matter, thus bringing it up to date so far as was possible. This laborious task has been performed in a most praiseworthy manner, and we have also to thank him for the very extensive bibliography. A noticeable feature of the work is the excellence of the illustrations, which are more than a thousand in number, but some of them could easily have been dispensed with. Loaded paper is used throughout on account of the illustrations and this makes the volumes uncomfortably heavy to hold; vol. 2 weighs nearly 6 lb.

Woman: an Historical, Gynaecological and Anthropological Compendium

By Hermann Heinrich Ploss Max Bartels Paul Bartels. Edited by Eric John Dingwall Vol. 1. Pp. xiii + 655. Vol.2. Pp. xii + 822. Vol.3. Pp. viii + 543. (London: William Heinemann (Medical Books), Ltd., 1935.) 3 vols., $8 8s. 0d. net.