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MANUAL
Tropical
Medicine”
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effort
or compendiums.
by authorities on tropical medicine A of the Army Medical School, together with
diseases.
civilian
finely reproduced
consultants,
under
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and of
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Medical
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Although
was the
designed
prepared
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of the National
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pictorial
as a
traying agents section
concise and eminently satisfactory text for medical students and offers a convenient summary of up-to-date information for
rickettsial terial
mycotic
diseases, helminthic diseases, miscellaneous
protozoa1
treatment and prophylaxis. The text is concise but is more detailed
por-
for the apt selection
in the omitted
text. The index, which is often from works of this type, is compre-
hensive
and
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the auspices of the Division of Medical Sciences of the National Research Council. By Colonel Thomas T. Mackie, M. C., A. U. S., Executive Officer, Tropical and Military Medicine, Army Medical School, Major George W. Hunter, III, Sn. C., A. U. S., and Captain C. Brooke Worth, M. C., A. V. S. Philadelphia and London, 1945. W. B. Saunders Company. Price $6.00.
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by graphically
the life-cycles of the etiological are especially well done. In the on -malaria there are six colored
facilitates
ready
reference
to
any part of the text.
and complete than is usually found in * A MANUALOF TROPICAL MEDICINE. Prepared under
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the epi-
of glazed paper and is attractivvly bound in a limp fabrikoid cover. A short bibliography of standard references is presented, but in order to conserve space and paper the authors make no bibliographic references
the following heads: synonyms, definition, distribution, etiology, epidemiology, pathclinical characteristics, diagnosis, ology,
JOURNAL
of diseases
drawings. outline
equipped laboratory. The book is well printed on a good grade
diseases, nutritional conditions, medically
important arthropods and laboratory diagnostic aids. Each clinical topic is discussed in an orderly manner under all or part of
AMERICAN
and which
and
photo-
and clear presentation of methods which are suitable for use in the field or modestly
diseases, bac-
diseases,
charts
aids is to be commended
with the viruses,
diseases, spirochetal
diseases,
are profuse
from photographs,
plates which reproduce, with considerable fidelity, the various stages of plasmodial development within the erythrocyte. The final section on laboratory diagnostic
physicians and other persons concerned with public health. The manual is divided into eleven secsuccessively
illustrations
diagrams
demiology
practical reference manual for medical officers in the field, the book provides a
tions dealing
The
micrographs,
Research
primarily
A noteworthy
omission is the failure to mention penicillin in the treatment of any of the spirochetal
authors are
production
to
and be
textbooks
numerous
congratulated
of a timely,
which is a worthy standard
their
for
authoritative
the work
and useful companion on tropical
medicine. H.
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