Medical Information in Sickness and Health.

In a previous generation young men earning their way through college used to peddle household medical books from door to door, and the mail-order houses used to list in their catalogues vast tomes prepared by medical nonentities who seemed to be competent to write authoritatively on any subject. The volume by Dr. Skrainka resembles these opuses only in its outward appearance. Guided perhaps by the experiences of the past, the publishers have prepared a heavy work on heavy paper with an imitation leather cover embossed with a torch. However, with the physical appearance the resemblance of the work by Dr. Skrainka to the books that have been mentioned ends.

The author has prepared a household guide which offers much sane and competent advice about practically all the ailments that afflict mankind, which discourses on social medicine and the philosophy of health and disease, and which debunks many current fads in