Disease in Childhood

Abstract

IN his preface to this book the author explains that his material is mainly drawn from 8,823 cases seen during seventeen years as physician to the out-patient department of Great Ormond Street Hospital, London. These cases he has arranged in three age groups?namely?those of the first month of life; those of one month to six months; and those of six months to twelve months. This method is thought to offer a better means of studying the special characteristics of disease as it exists during these periods of life. It is clearly implicit in this method that there must be much repetition. The book as a whole has, however, the merit that the author's observations are founded on his own personal experiences, and is not a mere compilation. The majority of medical men who write books, or at any rate first editions, do so at the commencement of their careers, at a time when they have more leisure than experience. Medical books are indeed seldom written at the end of a successful career, when a man has neither the energy nor the incentive to give the world the benefit of his mature experience.

Disease in Childhood:

a Clinical Study. By Dr. Robert S. Frew. The First Year: Birth to One Month, One Month to Six Months, Six Months to One Year. Pp. xv + 669. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1936.) 30s. net.