A veterinarian himself as well as the curator of the Research Institute and Natural History Museum Senckenberg at Frankfort/Main in Germany, Köhler offers a guide to practicing veterinarians who are presented with sick reptiles and amphibians. His information might also be helpful to people who keep and breed these animals, he suggests, but warns against home surgery or medication. He covers animal rights and species protection, diagnosis, treatment, congenital defects, tumors, euthanasia, amphibians and reptiles as transmitters of zoonotic diseases, and specific diseases. Color photographs are used throughout. Krankheiten der Amphibien und Reptilien was published by Eugen Ulmer GmbH, Stuttgart, in 1996, and is translated by Valerie Haecky. Annotation ©2006 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Read Less