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IT is often said, and with some reason, that the education of medical men is so specialized that they are turned out incapable of intelligible literary expression. The average book on a medical subject is seldom read with æsthetic pleasure. In "The Riddle of Cancer" we find the exception. To have presented the problems of cancer research in such a form that the survey is complete, lucid, interesting and not only valuable to the medical profession but also instructive to the inquiring layman, is a task for which the author and his translator deserve the highest praise. If standard medical text-books were only written in such a style, the student's work would be made vastly pleasanter.
The Riddle of Cancer
By Dr. Charles Oberling. Translated by Dr. William H. Woglom. Pp. viii + 196. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1944.) 20s. net.
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The Riddle of Cancer. Nature 154, 811 (1944). https://doi.org/10.1038/154811d0
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