An exceptionally well selected group of contributors has enabled the editors to present a picture of the relation of trauma to disease which is of great interest to all internists. To those physicians who are concerned with the determination of compensation for trauma it will be invaluable.
There is a very sane introductory chapter by the two editors, in which the requisites for allocating a causative rôle to trauma are analyzed. This is followed by chapters on the relation of trauma to heart disease, peripheral vascular disease, pulmonary disease, gastrointestinal disease, genito-urinary disease, obstetric and gynecologic conditions, mental disorders, neurosyphilis,