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There is enough on diagnosis and treatment to make the reader a competent dermatologist, and specialists will profit from much of the author's advice, so obviously based on personal experience.
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Revised by R. M. B. MACKENNA, M.A., M.D., F.R.C.P. sth Edition. Pp. xii + 612, with 215 illustrations. London: Bailliere, Tindall and Cox. 1952. 42S. Dr. R. M. B. MacKenna's revision of his father's book is stimulating, mainly because the author is master of a forthright style of descriptive writing. For example, a few lines are sufficient for him to give an excellent account of a recent advance in diagnosis, the L.E. phenomenon. Any practitioner who would like to have a book at reasonable price describing the more common skin diseases encountered in any part of the world, and well illustrated, should buy it. There is enough on diagnosis and treatment to make the reader a competent dermatologist, and specialists will profit from much of the author's advice, so obviously based on personal experience. Dr. MacKenna has set out to be dogmatic and yet he presents very fairly the most commonly accepted current views. Dermatology is no easy subject and it is no criticism of the book to say that some of its contents will probably be revised by further knowledge. One imagines that it is difficulties associated with book production at the present time that have prevented a fuller account of the value of ACTH and cortisone in dermatology. M.F.