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Edited by J. Navarro and J. Schmitz. 547 pp., illustrated. New York, Oxford University Press, 1992. $150. ISBN 0-19-261771-0.

If the weight of a textbook bears any relation to the degree of expansion of a new specialty, then this new arrival from Paris, at a weight of 1.5 kg, signals a modest expansion in comparison with other books -- the 5.3-kg Pediatric Gastrointestinal Disease by Walker et al. (St. Louis: Mosby-Year Book, 1991), the 4.1-kg Textbook of Gastroenterology and Nutrition in Infancy by Lebenthal (2nd ed. New York: Raven Press, 1989), the 2.8-kg Pediatric Clinical Gastroenterology by Silverman and Roy (3rd ed. St. Louis: Mosby-Year Book, 1983), and the 1.3-kg Essentials of Pediatric Gastroenterology by Harries (2nd ed. New . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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