Genital Abnormalities, Hermaphroditism and Related Adrenal Diseases

This volume marks an important milestone in medical literature. The interest of its content extends far beyond the realm of urologic and gynecologic surgery and impinges forcibly on the spheres of the internist, the psychiatrist and the pediatrician as well as on those of the urologist and the gynecologist. Nothing of its kind has appeared before and the book is destined to be a standard for many years. Dr. Young has had the rare opportunity of having access to a huge clinical material and has shown the same genius for pioneering in the correction of congenital abnormalities that he has demonstrated in his earlier publications. The first seven and ninth chapters are devoted to a discussion of hermaphroditism and pseudohermaphroditism and occupy approximately 200 pages. The discussion is inclusive and takes up the subject from the classical period of Greek art to the most recent contributions on the embryology of