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Author(s) -
Batty Shaw
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of biogeography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.7
H-Index - 158
eISSN - 1365-2699
pISSN - 0305-0270
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2699.1998.00291.x
Subject(s) - citation , library science , information retrieval , computer science
and therefore demands a lengthier notice than does the ordinary reissue of a text-book. The size of the volume has only been increased by some fifty pages, despite the addition of several important new articles, this desirable result having been attained by the omission of the chapters on acute rheumatism, sprue, diaphragmatic hernia, and gynaecological diagnosis, by the excision of some obsolete passages, and by a rearrangement of the paragraphing and typesetting of the pages. The principal changes in the arrangement of the articles are the transference of seaand mountain-sickness from gastric to general diseases, and the relegation of peritonitis to the end of the volume. It will be of interest to compare, in some little detail, the various articles with the corresponding