RT Journal
T1 DIseases of the skin and the eruptive fevers.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1909
FD February 6
VO LII
IS 6
SP 504
OP 504
DO 10.1001/jama.1909.02540320076025
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.02540320076025
AB Once in a while some genius succeeds in summarizing satisfactorily a complex and detailed subject. When we try, however, to give an illustration of such a successful summary in medical literature we are at a loss. Such masterpieces in epitome are rare in any department of literature, and when one does exist, as, for example, Darwin's "Origin of Species," it is usually dry reading. So, if we are critical in our estimate of the book under consideration, we believe that our position is due to the fact that Dr. Schamberg—a thoroughly competent dermatologist—has undertaken an almost impossible task. He has written a book of 518 pages and, in emphasizing the eruptive fevers, to which he gives 138 pages, he has left himself 380 octavo pages in which he undertakes to consider all of the remainder of dermatology. Now, it may well be argued that dermatology is over-refined and that some