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This is the first volume this reviewer has seen which seems designed as something of a textbook in psychiatric medicine. The authors prefer the newer term psychosomatic medicine which involves a compromise. The authors are Professor of Clinical Medicine and Professor of Psychiatry at Temple University Medical School. They have made an excellent contribution, a good beginning. We are far from the point of discovering an Osier in medicine at this time. It is to be expected that there will be many such needed attempts emanating from the staffs of Medical Colleges in the next twenty years. The field of psychiatric medicine had grown so great that there was a definite place for organizers of the knowledge. Pre-medical students will be better prepared than heretofore, in that the Universities are offering better courses in psychology and kindred subjects.
The first chapter is splendid and a reprint of it should be sent to every physician in the United States. It is time the medical profession was awakened to the fact that the patient is a human being and not a guinea pig. The volume takes up each body system separately, giving cases and methods of study and examination. It would seem that the authors are trained better and more systematically in the psychoanalytic field than in the broader domains of psychotherapy and living. They show the customary psychoanalytic primness. This whole field is new and one could