COLOR ATLAS AND TEXTBOOK OF HEMATOLOGY, edited by William R. Platt, M.D., F.C.A.P., F.A.C.P. Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott, 1969, 445 pp., 135 illustrations, 73 color plates, $27.00

TLDR: Books like this one, meant to clarify honestly and thoroughly the prospects of poor children, the fate that awaits them, can only be considered a mixed blessing; one welcomes them, applauds them–and then sinks into a sullen mood or an outraged fit.

Abstract: Dr. Platt9s book attempts to be a laboratory manual, a text on pathophysiology, and a collection of photomicrographs. This reviewer is unable to recommend it over other much less expensive laboratory manuals. The color photomicrographs do not approach the quality present in the Atlas compiled by McDonald, Dodds, and Cruickshank; the pathophysiology sections are too brief, and incompletely referenced. The chapters on technique including special staining and chromosome morphology are among the more useful sections.