Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine

This review is made from a single volume (volume 2 C‐F) supplied. Being of a somewhat squeamish nature I have chosen not to delve into too great detail in this title. Even the very informative entry on the common cold (“it is estimated that the average person has more than 50 colds during a lifetime”: the author of that should try living here where 50 a year seems nearer the mark) I thought would be safe goes into some rather messy detail of what exactly is happening to us with the condition. That is really the problem (or, of course,...