RT Journal
T1 The organs of internal secretion: Their diseases and therapeutic application. a book for general practitioners.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1919
FD August 16
VO 73
IS 7
SP 552
OP 553
DO 10.1001/jama.1919.02610330090031
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1919.02610330090031
AB In spite of the statement in the preface to the second edition of this book, there is no evidence that "the entire book has been carefully revised and brought up to date." It is virtually a reprint of the first edition. Aside from the addition of several paragraphs and one new chapter, it contains the same misinformation, contradictions, misleading statements and typographic errors as in the first edition, and is in the same excellent literary form. The review of the book printed by The Journal, March 23, 1918, p. 876, applies as well today to the new edition as it did when the book first appeared, with the exception that the page references given in the first review are necessarily not the same. The chapter on "The Endocrine Glands and Nervous Disorders" which has been added to the new edition conforms in style and content to the remainder of the