Abstract
This book was written to "supply essential facts as dogmatically and concisely" as possible. In an attempt to achieve the first objective, all references to original sources have been eliminated. To serve the second objective, details commonly found in textbooks of parasitology and bacteriology have been reduced to a minimum, since the principal aim was to provide useful clinical information on diseases occurring commonly in the tropics. The first innovation that meets the eye is the order of presentation, namely, by alphabetic arrangement of subjects, beginning with "ainhum" and ending with "yellow fever." In most cases it is easy to follow the sequence by referring to the table of contents or to the subject headings at the top of each right-hand page. It is difficult, however, to understand why dermatomycoses and scabies are associated, even from a strictly clinical viewpoint, and why nutritional disorders are considered in one chapter and
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