Inflammation An Introduction to the Study of Pathology

HEWLETT, R. T.

doi:10.1038/077126a0

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Inflammation An Introduction to the Study of Pathology

R. T. HEWLETT

Nature volume 77, page 126 (1907)Cite this article

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REPRINTS in book form of articles appearing in larger volumes are not always desirable, but in the present instance so much has been added to the matter as virtually to constitute a new work. We congratulate Prof. Adami heartily on the successful issue of an arduous task; no one knows how difficult until he attempts to write on inflammation. The subject of inflammation, forming, as it does, the fundamental basis of pathology, and it might be said also of the science and practice of medicine, is beset with difficulties. The literature on it is voluminous and be wildering, and pathologists owe a debt of gratitude to Prof. Adami for having the courage to attack it. The matter is divided into sections; the first gives a general survey of the inflammatory process, the second deals with the various factors of the process—the part played by the leucocytes, the exudate, the blood vessels, the nervous system, cells of the part, and the temperature changes; the third section deals with general considerations, and includes a chapter on the principles of treatment of the inflammatory state. Every statement made is based on published work, to which the reference is appended (and the book there fore forms a valuable bibliography on the subject of inflammation), and critical additions and summaries are liberally interspersed. The book is well and sufficiently illustrated, and no student of pathology can do without it.

Inflammation. An Introduction to the Study of Pathology.

Being the reprint (revised and enlarged) of an article in Prof. Allbutt's “System of Medicine.” By Prof. J. George Adami. Pp. xvi + 240. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1907.) Price 5s. net.