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Recent Advances in Dermatology—4

1977; Elsevier BV; Volume: 69; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/1523-1747.ep12688384

1523-1747

Lawrence M. Solomon,

Dermatological and Skeletal Disorders

Dr. Rook brings us the fou r th in his edited series of r eviews of selected topics of concern to dermatologists.Most of the contributi ng a u thors have limited their approach to a 10-year retrospective view of so me aspects of their subject so that this volume stands as a sor t of textbook-for-th einformed.The li terature on each topi c is scanned a nd the individua li ty of the a uthor and his opinions becomes more r eadi ly appa rent in t he papers chosen, rather tha n a ny critiqu e of the work cited .There ar e a number of excell en t ch apters.Savin and Noble, in discussing opportunism a nd s kin infection s, str ess the trend towards studying th e terrain on whi ch the drama of microbiological invasion and immunologica l defense takes place rather than focusing on the orga nims th emselves.Bagnall and Rook on a nthropods and Harman , discussing tropica l diseases in temperate climates provide us with fa scin ating r eviews con taining much materia l which may be new to many dermatologists.For example: The hen flea a nd pigeon fl ea were found to be the source in 5 of 21 infested houses studi ed in Britain; thrips bite man, causing a characteristic eruption; sparga nosis may be acquired by the application of a poultice of raw spli t frog to an infla med smface; h orsefli es tr a nsmi t tularemia .Grice a nd Verbov review disorders of sweat glands in a compreh ensive a nd readable ma nner.Epstein et a l, review conditions recently described .suchas actinic reticuloid , and angioly m-561 Vol.69, No.