Diagnostic Clinique: Examens et Symptomes.

From the beginning of the new diagnostic science, most significant of which was Laennec's invention and use of the stethoscope a century ago, the French have contributed their share to the art of making clinical diagnosis more thorough, more accurate and more useful. The plan of Dr. Martinet's book is simple, his aim having been to meet as fully as possible the needs of the average practitioner. He presents in detail the two steps that enter into diagnosis: the collection of signs and symptoms by means of the clinical history and the examination, and the coordination of the data obtained so that the character of the disease may be inferred. The complete diagnosis is for him the sum of four partial diagnoses: clinical or syndromatic, lesional or anatomic, functional or physiologic, and causal or etiologic. The book is divided into three parts. In the first, entitled "Généralités," the author discusses