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Atlas of Skin Diseases. By Louis A. Duhring, M.D., Professor of Skin Diseases in the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, etc. Part VI. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & Co., 1879.

In this fasciculus are represented with great i)erfection Syphilo- derma (pustulosum). Erythema nodosum, Seborrhoea, and Eczema (papulosum), all frequent affections, and, at times, very difficult of diagnosis.

The plate of pustular syphilis is in the main most excellent, espe- cially the eruption on the chest. We cannot quite understand the condition of crusting shown on the nose, and on the face there exists a certain amount of erythematous redness between the pus- tules which does not appear quite proper to the disease.

The representation of erythema nodosum is simply perfect : the best that has appeared in any atlas. For, while one occasionally sees the typical almond-shaped elevations, with the long diameter parallel to the limb, as described in the text-books, such phases as here shown are much more common, where the patches are more irregular in size and shape. In one or two of them the moderate elevation is very perfectly shown.

There exist very few good pictures of seborrhcea, and it is a dis- ease difficult to represent. Hebra's plates neither of them represent the common form of the affection, as shown here, and Wilson's plate is much exaggerated. The dry form in the scalp is exceed- ingly well exhibited in the plate before us, but the surface beneath the crusts on the nose and cheek is, we think, more red than is usually seen.

The last picture, that of eczema papulosum, is hardly as good as the rest, although no one could mistake the disease who knew this plate well. Papular eczema presents itself in so many different forms that it is difficult to call any case typical, and it is therefore peculiarly difficult to represent. We might offer the criticism that there was hardly sufficient idea of elevation given to the lesions, they appearing too level, like a purpura or an erythema.

Little need be said in regard to the text, other than to commend the clear and judicious expressions in it. The entire fasciculus maintains the excellence which renders this a work of which Ameri- can dermatology may justly be proud.

Photographic Illustrations of Skin Diseases. By George Henry Fox, A.M., M.D., Clinical Professor of Dermatology, Starling Medical College, Columbus, Ohio, etc. Parts III., IV., Y., and VI. E. B. Treat cSc Co., New York.

These four parts of this series of Photographic Illustrations of Skin Diseases portray fibroma, varicella, zoster, eczema (in various