Pathology and Treatment of Diseases of the Skin, for Practitioners and Students.

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No one can speak with more authority than Kaposi on any subject connected with dermatology, and in the opening chapter the author points out that the study of skin diseases means the careful study of pathologic processes, which are nearly the same in all parts of the body, and the study of these pathologic changes on the skin furnish a very convenient means of comparison with analogous processes in internal organs. There is a scholarly chapter on the history of the development of dermatology from the ancient to the most recent times, and then follow the fifty-three lectures which form the book. In speaking of lupus, Professor Kaposi states that in Austria, lupus constitutes 66 per cent, of all skin diseases. The removal of lupus, says our author, "can only be effected by mechanical or caustic interference. The most rational and simple mode would be that of excision of the

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