knowledge much. Once this experience has been acquired, a good text-book is of the greatest value in enabling one by the help of descriptions and illustrations to recognise the rarer types as they are met with. The value of a book for this purpose will depend mainly on the quality of the illustrations, well-executed coloured plates being by far the best. Dr. Sequeira is particularly to be congr...

A point on pseudo-chancre redux raised by the reviewer in the last edition has been settled in consonance with the modern opinion in this edition. Among the rare diseases are included pemphigus and under it the Senear-Usher type of it. Concerning the non-essential, this edition compares very unfavourably with the last. The binding has been done badly. Stitches crumple nearly every leaf and cut ...

Bullous autoimmune skin diseases, characterized by the formation of bullae or vesicles, are divided into two groups dependent on the location of clefts and the formation of bullae within the skin. In the pemphigus group of diseases the vesicles form intradermally; in pemphigoid the clefts occur at the dermal epidermal junction. The primary lesion of pemphigus is acantholysis in which the epider...

Medical men interested in diseases of the skin have grown grey while waiting for a new edition of this famous book. It has appeared at last, after 20 years ! In this time two of the original authors' students have become his colleagues and collaborators. The old ground has been covered as thoroughly as ever before and with the same mastery in summing up controversies and the same boldness in gi...