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The Fifth Edition of this useful textbook has been expanded by almost 100 pages. The Editor, together with twenty-five collaborators, devotes 63 chapters to the discussion of all of the infectious diseases of importance in the economically more privileged parts of the world, including such newly elucidated entities as Mycoplasmal pneumonia and Rhinovirus infections. He is to be congratulated for including syphilis, and also infectious diseases so important to the world at large as tuberculosis and malaria, as well as leprosy. Unfortunately, perhaps, discussion of parasitic infections such as amebic dysentery is only fragmentary. Since the previous edition, several improvements have been made in classification of individual diseases, for example, the discussions of Amebic Dysentery and Trichinosis have been removed from the “Diseases Caused by Bacteria” and placed under “Diseases Caused by Parasites;” the chapter on Enteroviruses has been expanded to Picornaviruses in keeping with the times.