ELSEWHERE in this number of Pediatrics appears a splendid paper by Snyderman and others on the dietary treatment of "Maple Syrup Disease." This news of a successful treatment for so distressing a disorder will be greeted by cheers from all, but there will be also an obligato of groans from the many to whom the biochemistry and the means of measurement of amino acids and of their keto derivatives are formidable and alien. It is the lot and fate of all of us who are away from medical school for more than a few years to lose touch with some or many of the most rapidly changing aspects of the study of human biology, and because we are busy with our own work, we wish to have these advances laid out for us in comprehensive and comprehensible reviews, rather than to persist in the unequal struggle to read and to understand all the original work.
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