Clinical Medicine

all he needs to know on a subject of vital importance. Skill in the feeding and management of infants exceeding that of the clinic sister is expected of every doctor, and there are few fields in which a doctor's proficiency, or lack of it, is so obvious. New material in this edition includes reference to the use of protein hydrolysates, diets for the coeltac syndrome, new tormulee and tables, and an excellent chapter on anorexia. The increased emphasis placed on the psychology of infancy during the past decade is reflected in the book; there is some discussion of demand feeding and a tilt is taken at "the mother so misguided as to have hired scales to make every feeding a test-feed". For artificial fe('ding the author inclines to the concentrated milk mixtures so popular in Victoria, in which the Calorie value of all the milk dilutions is brought up to 20 per ounce by the addition of lactose. He adds the warning, with which we would agree, that this method may be unsuitable in hot weather. T'he indications for and merits of all other methods in common use are also discussed. We have nothing but praise for this short book. It continues to be well within the capacity of every student as regards cost, simplicity and reading time, and we feel sure that it will remain as deservedly popular in the future as it has done in the past.