Office Endocrinology.

This book has many areas of appeal. As stated on the cover leaf, it is not an encyclopedic textbook but touches on many of the clinical problems in endocrinology that face the general physician. The book is divided into five sections, of which those sections related to gonadal dysfunction are exceedingly well done and would be quite useful as a source of reference for many practicing physicians. However, the section on general endocrinology is exceedingly brief and in many places inadequate, as it provides much less reference material than the average recently published general textbook in medicine. The section on hormonology (a questionably appropriate heading) gives a brief resume of the more obvious physiological activities of the various hormones, along with a rather complete list of the available pharmaceutical preparations. However, even in this section, the advisability of recommending the use of commercially available growth hormones for the production of