Essays on Tropical Dermatology

This book was originally intended to include essays which would complement Simons'Handbook of Tropical Dermatology and Mycology, but he died, and it was completed by Prof J. Marshall. The book was written by a distinguished panel of experts, and the chapters are of uniformly high quality. For the most part, the subject matter does consist of tropical, or essentially tropical, dermatology, but, certainly, sarcoidosis and vaccination and its possible complications do not so qualify. Marshall does not contend that dermatology in the tropics differs from dermatology elsewhere, but he states, "The life of most indigenous inhabitants of the tropics is still poor, nasty, brutish and short." This necessarily favors the development of mycoses, pyodermas, treponematoses, and leprosy. All these entities are treated well, and, in addition, there are chapters on tropical phagedenic ulcer, kwashiorkor, lichen planus tropicus, sabra dermatitis, granuloma multiforme, and leishmaniasis. H. P. Wassermann presents a very