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This highly readable book by one of the original 'Four-hundred-and-thirty who revolted' is addressed to the layman on the assumption, presumably, that every consumer ought to acquaint himself with the problems and practices of the producer—and that there is no better time for such a rapprochement than just before the collapse of the system in which both are involved. Although the purpose of the author, who is an associate professor of surgery at Johns Hopkins, is unquestionably earnest in his primary emphasis on the patient and his needs, there is nevertheless no concealment of his uneasy recognition of the fact that the shadows are getting longer and the atmosphere perceptibly chillier and that the sun whose rays had bathed the medical man in profits and prestige throughout the long halcyon days is now about to sink into the west. There is about the book, in fact, the touching quality of a deathbed confession, and the lay reader may well experience a mixture of shocking disillusionment and relief at the resolution of certain mysteries as if he were at long last being told: 'My son, your mother and I were never married'.
The content of the book hardly calls for detailed consideration in this review simply because it is a fair exposition of 'what every