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Diseases of the Skin

For Practitioners and Students, by GEORGE CLINTON ANDREWS, M.D., F.A.C.P., Clinical Professor of Dermatology (retired), College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University; Consulting Dermatologist to the Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York City, and ANTHONY N. DOMONKOS, M.D., F.A.C.P., Associate Clinical Professor of Dermatology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University; Attending Dermatologist to the Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, New York City. x + 749 pages, illustrated. W. B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia and London. 1963. $16.50

This, the best American text on dermatology, has now reached its fifth edition. The statement perhaps should be slightly modified, to say the best text in print. Sutton's Dermatology is a far more scholarly effort but, although still quite useful as a reference, becomes progressively more out of date. This is pointed up by a consideration of some of the entities, drugs, and concepts which have appeared in the recent past. Among these may be mentioned Selye's stimulating discovery of calciphylaxis, such previously unknown entities as cytomegalic inclusion disease, H disease, carcinoid and the like, and new drugs or improved forms of older drugs such as amphotericin B, chlorpropamide and micronized griseofulvin. It not only covers adequately the skin disorders seen in temperate climes but in addition those of special interest to health workers in the tropics, e.g., kwashiorkor, yaws, pinta, leprosy (especially well done), leishmaniasis, and so on.