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By Donald W. Hewitt, M.D. Price, $3. Pp. 112, with 2 charts. Lea & Febiger, 600 S. Washington Sq., Philadelphia 6, 1957.

D. B. Stone, M.D., Reviewer

AMA Arch Intern Med. 1958;101(4):840-841.

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