RT Journal T1 THe british encyclopaedia of medical practice including medicine, surgery, obstetrics, gynaecology and other special subjects JF Journal of the American Medical Association JO Journal of the American Medical Association YR 1939 FD November 4 VO 113 IS 19 SP 1761 OP 1761 DO 10.1001/jama.1939.02800440065038 UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1939.02800440065038 AB This volume is well up to the standard of the previous books in this system. The subjects discussed go from scarlet fever through such other main topics as sciatica, scurvy, sex hormones, sexual behavior and abnormalities, skin diseases, spinal cord diseases, spleen diseases, statistics, sterility, syphilis, and the testis. The authors are all British physicians of considerable note as investigators and practitioners in the fields of which they write. The volume is handsomely printed, profusely illustrated and well indexed.