RT Journal
T1 ACtualités de médicine infantile.
JF American Journal of Diseases of Children
JO American Journal of Diseases of Children
YR 1949
FD May 1
VO 77
IS 5
SP 690
OP 690
DO 10.1001/archpedi.1949.02030040704019
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.1949.02030040704019
AB This book was written in honor of Prof. P. Rohmer, head of the pediatric department of the Universití de Strasbourg Faculté de Medicine since 1923. It consists of a collection of articles covering subjects in many fields of current pediatric interest. The articles either concern the problems of everyday practice or are discussions of conditions of rare occurrence or controversial nature. The authors are outstanding authorities in their fields from Belgium, Egypt, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Yugoslavia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland.The 29 articles deal with topics in the fields of public health, infectious diseases and antibiotic substances, genetics, chemotherapeutics, vitamin, water and mineral metabolism, child psychiatry, infant feeding, hematology, rheumatic fever, tuberculosis, urology and others. Some of the articles lack desirable detailed information, as might be expected from their shortness and the range of subject matter they try to cover; others, however, are interesting as to the ideas brought