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THE second edition of this fine volume contains nearly a hundred more pages than the first, which was published in 1932 (see NATURE, 131, 895; 1933). In addition to a general revision, new sections have been added on malaria, containing extracts from the works of Hippocrates, Aristophanes, Varro, Celsus, Pliny the Elder, Martial, A. F. A. King and Ronald Ross, and on yellow fever, to the knowledge of which Mathew Carey, Benjamin Rush, Carlos Finlay and Walter Reed, from whose works several passages have been selected, made such valuable contributions.
Classic Descriptions of Disease
With Biographical Sketches of the Authors. By Prof. Ralph H. Major. Second edition. Pp. xxx + 727. (Springfield, Ill., and Baltimore, Md.: Charles C. Thomas; London: Baillère, Tindall and Cox, 1939.) 27s.
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Medicine. Nature 144, 195 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144195b0
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