Textbook of Abnormal Psychology

appreciated. Dr. John Ellis, the leading British medical educationalist, in a masterly paper entitled 'The Choice of Remedy', makes very clear the impossibility and the futility of trying to teach the medical student all that is known in all branches of medicine and the vital importance of using the undergraduate years to develop the mind of the doctor so that he may take full advantage of future advances in medical knowledge and so that he can easily assimilate postgraduate vocational training for whatever sphere of medicine he may choose as his life's work. Professor Richard Scott, the new Professor of General Practice in the University of Edinburgh, contributes a splendid paper on the work of the general practitioner in the community which should be read by all who consider this to be their metier. Excellent sections on the importance of the basic sciences, psychology, psychiatry and social medicine in the preparation of the doctor for his work in the community are included and the final paper by Dr. Hobson from the World Health Organisation is outoutstanding. Dr. Hobson reviews the world-wide effect on medical education of the Flexner and Goodenough reports, the work in this field that has been done at Western Reserve University, and the contribution of the Association for the Study of Medical Education and of the World Health Organization itself.