Here is a third popular book from the pen of Professor Sigerist. It presents brief biographical sketches beginning with Imhotep and Aesculapius and ending with Osler, whose photograph appears on the jacket, a selection which no doubt the publisher can explain. The chapter on Osler has been added to the second edition which appeared simultaneously with the English translation.

Perhaps the most important aspect of the book is its table of contents, which lists fifty-six names of great doctors. The author is correct in his statement, in the preface to the first edition, that the reader will miss name after name he might have expected mentioned. This