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Lytt Gardner, editor ENDOCRINE AND GENETIC DISEASES OF CHILDHOOD AND ADOLESCENCE Philadelphia: W. B Saunders Company. Second Edition. 1975, 1404 pp., $62.50.
This textbook is a significant addition to the pediatric literature. In the first edition, the editor embarked on an ambitious project. He explained that "the coalescence of certain areas of endocrinology and cytogenetics has accentuated the need to integrate this knowledge." Dr. Gardner and his colleagues have now added luster to this text by creating a second edition containing 300 additional pages that describe advances and new insights, thus enhancing the original goal.
The first chapter of the book is an excellent introduction to the entire text. In fact, it is a self-contained treatise outlining normal and abnormal patterns of growth. With two such experts as Drs. James Tanner and Edna Sobel drawing upon their broad experience, the reader has available in concise form much of the background information needed to understand...