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To those who have traveled the jejune pages of outlines of medical history, reading Professor Sigerist's book, Man and Medicine, will come as an agreeable and profitable interlude. Intended as it is for a guide to young people who have chosen medicine as a career, the book naturally contains material with which the more mature reader is familiar. This fact together with a slight condescension in style, occasionally suggestive of the bedtime story, detracts somewhat from the pleasure which one might otherwise derive from it; though it is perhaps unfair to criticize a book for being what it sets out to be.
The reviewer found himself wishing frequently for more exhaustive treatments of such important problems as the history of specialism, the relation of disturbances of function to organic changes and many other subjects which Professor Sigerist touches on lightly, but illumines with what one feels must be a great store of learning.
In an octavo of three hundred and twenty-nine pages, the author strives to portray the history of man in relation to medicine. Readers