Prof. P. S. Medovikov. Tuberculosis in Childhood. 2nd revised and supplemented edition with 14 figures in the text. In: Prakt. Med., 1926, 250 pp., Price. 3 r.

The second edition of Prof. Medovikov's monograph, coming ten years after the first, is so revised that it can be regarded as a new work. The first chapters are devoted to the predisposition to tbc, its frequency in children, its pathogenesis and immunity; this is followed by a detailed description of the symptomatology of childhood tbc; the section on diagnosis includes, besides specific reactions, numerous supporting diagnostic methods such as morphological and chemical examination of sputum, blood, urinalysis, etc. The chapter on therapy describes primarily the hygiene and dietary regime, but also details tuberculin therapy, which is given very little space in most of the other books available in Russian on pediatric tbc.