Disorders of the upper respiratory tract and the ear medical care. account for almost 50070 of all illness in children under The photographs of throats were taken on Koda 5 years and 30% in children aged 5-12 years. The chrome 64 film using a Micro Nikkor 55 mm lens and time taken to examine the mouth, throat and ear in a a Nikkormat FTN camera with a Sunpak GX 8R ri- flash. . young child is frequently brief and often no more than a fleeting glimpse can be obtained of the area affected. In the case of ear examination, photography With this in mind we considered. that an atlas of through an auriscope provides serious limitations as common conditions was required in the literature of the pictures obtained give only a narrow angle of view childhood diseases. allowing only a small area of the tympanic membrane This atlas includes conditions which lend them to be seen at one time. For this reason, the ear photo selves to illustration and is by no means compre graphs were taken using a 4 mm diameter Storz Tele hensive. The photographs were all taken from otoscope. This provides a wide-angle view of the children presenting in general practice in the United whole eardrum and adjacent external auditory canal."

Despite the increasing number of andrological pub opment of basic and clinical research in andrology, lications, the diagnostic aspects of andrology have to analyze modern techniques for the evaluation of received relatively little attention. In the last decade male infertility, to stimulate the development of substantial progress has been made in the under guideliness for therapeutic procedures, to recom standing of the fundamentals of andrology, this ment common norms of measurement, to promote progress resulting from modern techniques and and interchange of information and to stimulate the instrumentation in microanatomy, immunology, interest of scientists and clinicians in andrological neurophysiology, pathology, genetics, endocrino problems. logy, biochemistry, biophysics, urology and sur We are grateful to the authors who have given so gery. These studies are scattered in such a wide much of their time and talents to produce chapters spectrum of journals that andrologists can hardly of depth and breadth and who have made such a keep abreast of the advances. There have been significant contribution to the andrological litera textbooks on the testes, male accessory organs and ture. We are also indebted to Morag M. Smith, Lori semen but none that have attempted to bring Rust and Penny Stoops for the time and patience together the various aspects of diagnosis."