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May, 1938 eral practitioner and pediatrician to become conversant with the early diagnosis and treatment of speech and writing disorders. With this book as a guide the physician can intelligently instruct the parents whose child presents the problem of left-handedness, baby talk or failure to talk. It should inspire the teacher to a greater acquaintance with the problems of poor writing, spelling, reading, and arithmetic among her pupils. Such an acquaintance would help to reduce the number of " mentally retarded," nervous," and " incorrigible " children in the schools. The understanding parent could learn a good deal from the portion of the book in which the author deals with the emotional reactions of these unfortunately misunderstood and neglected children. Dr. Orton elaborates his subject in a manner which may not at first appeal to a person unfamiliar with or uninterested in neurology. His first chapter deals with " The Language Losses in the Adult as the Key to the Developmental Disorders in Children." This chapter may discourage those who shun precise terminology. However, the author has so simply and logically followed the fundamental patterns described in this chapter that the reader finds the subsequent material expanding and becoming more concise in an effortless fashion. The chapter on the description of the disorders and the final chapter on treatment contribute to clarity by purposeful repetition and summarization. Educators, physicians in behavior, and mental hygiene clinics, and teachers specializing in speech, writing, and reading disorders, should welcome this much needed book. Directors of nursery schools and preschool centers should be thoroughly familiar with Dr. Orton's views on sidedness and problems relating to changed laterality; it may be in this field that unique pre- ventive work can be done to reduce the occurrence of these disabilities. W. F. SCHNEIDER A Workbook in Health for High School Girls-By Gladys B. Gogle. New York: Barnes, 1937. 267 pp. Price, $1.00. This workbook presents various health habits for checking, questions to be answered or discussed, and planned problems for which the pupil is to write out the answers. After many of the units a good bibliography of texts of the proper age level is provided, which enables the teacher to make definite assignments of reading and to develop discussion as a preliminary to written use of the book. A valuable effort to provide the teacher with a usable procedure. CHARLES H. KEENE The Principles and Practice of Clinical Psychiatry - By Morris Braude, M.R.. Philadelphia: Blakiston, 1937. 382 pp. Price, $3.50. Messrs. Blakiston now have two textbooks of clinical psychiatry of the same size and general scope, addressed to the same group of readers. Their earlier text by Strecker and Ebaugh has served and still does admirably serve its purpose. The new text by Braude contains certain differences of emphasis and includes historical references; it relies less upon its case histories which are printed in small type; the bibliographical references are most recent, the literary style is somewhat tiresome and the binding is waterproof. Health officers are usually more interested in mental hygiene than in clinical psychiatry. But they are sometimes called upon to give evidence in sanity hearings. A chapter on the preparation of evidence for such occasions might perhaps have been fairly included in the textbook under review, since it is addressed to students of the
American Journal of Public Health – American Public Health Association
Published: May 1, 1938
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