PEDIATRICS Vol. 31 No. 5 May 1963, pp. 823
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Presenting Symptoms in Childhood

Ross G. MITCHELL

The medical care of children in Great Britain is largely in the hands of the family doctor. A monograph on symptoms in childhood as encountered in family practice could therefore be of great value. Dr. Fry has tried to produce such a volume but unfortunately falls short of his aim, for his book unhappily combines a synopsis of rare diseases, inappropriate in a book of this kind, with a rather more useful treatise on diagnosis. It imparts some sound advice but contains much unnecessary and misleading detail. In its emphasis, the book has a curiously old-fashioned flavor, in spite of interpolated fragments of information on "recent advances." Neither in tone nor in matter does it reflect the thinking and practice of British pediatricians.