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By P. Cazal. Price, 350 francs. Pp. 196. Paris: Masson & Cie. 1946.

Arch Intern Med. 1947;80(6):844.

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This is an extremely difficult book to review. It is on a subject which is comparatively new. In the English language, the terminology employed by pathologists differs from person to person, and many of the papers written in English are difficult to understand for that reason. When a subject is written in French, it can be readily appreciated that the reader is going to have a great deal of trouble in interpreting the French nomenclature, translating it into English and then in turn transferring the English nouns to the terms that the pathologist is accustomed to use.

Undoubtedly the monograph will be of considerable value to one who is interested in the subject matter treated by Dr. Cazal, but most pathologists will probably find that the book is not of practical value to them, and clinicians will discover that they probably will not be able to make use of it . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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