Abstract
This book is designed as a handbook for general practitioners of medicine. Emphasis is given chiefly to the diseases of the gonads. Very few pages are allocated to the thyroid or to the adrenal glands. The fundamental physiology of the sex glands is reviewed briefly and in an acceptable fashion. From the point of view of diagnosis the advice offered is, on the whole, sound. Many of the modern diagnostic procedures are described and discussed. However, such useful indices of endocrine function as the urinary ketosteroids and the urinary follicle stimulating hormone are hardly mentioned. Throughout the sections dealing with diagnosis there is a tendency to lean towards an endocrine diagnosis. Possibly this tendency may be misleading at times. Of more concern to the reviewer is the great enthusiasm of the author for endocrine therapy. Thyroid, estrogens, androgens, adrenal cortical preparations, etc., are recommended for many conditions.
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