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Child Health: A Manual for Medical and Health Workers in Health Centres and Rural Hospitals.
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Child Health: A Manual for Medical and Health Workers in Health Centres and Rural Hospitals.2nd ed. Edited by P Stanfield, B Balldion, Z Versluys. (Pp 525; KSh360.) African Medical and Research Foundation, 1997. ISBN 9-966-87407-0.
Rural hospitals in Africa sometimes have a small library, often in the senior doctor’s office, where the books are not accessible to the staff who would benefit from reading them. They are usually old editions of standard British or American textbooks, long winded, with drug doses in minims and guidance for making tincture of belladonna. Occasionally, there would be a paperback edition of Clayton’sTen …