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Michelle Camille Thuriaux: Health problems of Yemen and its populations; a bibliogaphic review. iv, 145 pp. Miami, California: Field Research Projects, 1983.

This is not a purely medical essay but includes information of a more sociological nature. It opens with a section on the physical geography of the Yemen, including such items as mineral springs, fauna and flora and a short section on society. There is a page on qat which is sensibly treated without the somewhat hysterical condemnation repeated by so many writers—Rodinson's ' Esquisse' in the JA (1977) might, however, have been included in the literature. Diseases are arranged by categories, those transmitted through the urinary and alimentary tracts, by droplet infection, through contact, etc. Nutritional disorders, animal bites and stings, genetic disorders have a more than medical interest, as do leprosy, tuberculosis and malaria. There is an account of the development of health services, still of course at a not very high level. Statistical tables on various subjects occupy 26 pages. To the list of bammams might be added another, just south of Barat in the Jawf. The bibliography contains more than a few items not found in other bibliographies of the Yemen, notably much material on the Yemenite Jews. Dr. Thuriaux had no access to publications in China (which has an interest in the Yemen) or Turkish, but he could now consult the account of the Turkish physician of the Yemen during the second Ottoman occupation in Arabian Studies, vn. His book, it should be remarked, was in the press before the appearance of San'd' : an Arabian Islamic city. Though obviously a sketch, not a complete finished study, this introduction to health conditions contains much of interest to nonmedicals concerned with Yemeni studies.