Description

The book “Bacteriology: General, Pathological, and Intestinal” aims at giving a comprehensive survey of our present knowledge of bacteriology, especially in its relation to medical work. The book gives promise of a very valuable contribution to scientific literature. Author can have only a superficial knowledge of many of the articles, and his judgment of the whole work must, to a certain extent, be influenced by the quality of those papers with which he has an intimate knowledge. It deals with all aspects of plague infection-the characters of the bacillus, the problems in plague immunity, the transmission by the rat-flea, the natural disease in rodents, and the various forms of plague in man with reference to its pathology, its diagnosis, and treatment. It is enrich with valuable contributions and regarded as a standard work on the subject.