Handbooks are popular with the student, if only because they help him to coven the subject of his study relatively quickly; they are of little value to the intern, to the practitioner, or to the embryonic pediatrician, for these all need books with more substance to them. This little handbook is eminently readable, and on this account may be popular with the student; it cannot, however, be recommended, for its pages still pulsate with anachronisms that were once popular with a past generation of teachers.