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The title of this book is attractive. It is, therefore, disappointing that the contents fail to live up to this initial promise. Much of the text reports this and that regarding antibiotics, and little of it weighs and assesses these reports. If an author writes a book from filing cards it is best that he disguises the fact by careful editing. In eleven successive paragraphs, starting on page 129, Dr. Schindel begins nine of them with the equivalent of "John Doe et al. have reported...gave...also reported...treated...mention etc." The English is difficult to read in many places and in some it is quite wrong, namely: sporiferous, subfebrile, sensibilization, and per oral. In three cases, work by authors mentioned in the text is not listed in the bibliography, and there are at least eleven misprints. There appears to be a direct contradiction between statements made regarding drug rashes on pages 119 and