F.M. Rothstein. Pathology and therapy of rickets. With a foreword by Professor S. Brushtein. Gosmedizdat, 1929, 150 pages, c. 1 p. 65 r.

There are two unequal parts in Dr. Rothstein's book. The first, large part is devoted to the pathology of rickets; here we find a fairly detailed exposition of the anatomy, symptomatology, etiology and pathogenesis of rickets. And - some of the author's statements do not fully correspond to the current state of the treated issues. This is, for example, his opinion about the connection of rickets with gastrointestinal disorders; the author believes that those gastrointestinal diseases that “are especially often observed precisely at the end of summer and at the beginning of autumn are precisely the early forms of rickets.” beriberi in the etiology of rickets; contrary to his opinion that there are not sufficient grounds for recognizing the connection between rickets and vitamin deficiency (p. 63), the clinic and the experiment have brought in recent years many facts establishing such a connection with certainty; in the chapter on treatment, the author himself also cites such facts. — The rachitis with Barlow’s disease has now been abandoned, since these processes turned out to be different both in etiology and in anatomical changes. — The author reports on his experiments in which he sought cause rickets in animals by removing the thymus gland; he received changes that “show many similarities to human rickets” (p. 72nd). The history of attempts to experimentally reproduce rickets in animals has shown quite convincingly that similarities are not enough here. In general, we can say that this part of the book will require significant changes in the next edition.