Abstract
THIS important work aims at a much more comprehensive account of the essential facts under lying the pathology of diphtheria than its title suggests. It is by far the most complete record of our present knowledge of this disease hitherto written in the English language. Not only is the bacteriology of diphtheria dealt with very fully, but chapters are included which cover the history of the disease, its epidemiology, its mortality, and an account of its toxins and antitoxins. Seeing that we have come to regard the antitoxin treatment as the only rational method of therapeusis in this disease, the reader has here before him practically all he may need to know about diphtheria, except certain clinical facts which he can easily find in any text-book of medicine. The inclusion of a short chapter embodying these facts, indeed, would have completed the whole subject from beginning to end.
The Bacteriology of Diphtheria.
Edited by Dr. G. H. F. Nuttall Dr. G. S. Graham-Smith. Pp. xx + 718. (Cambridge: University Press, 1908.) Price 25s. net.
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H., T. The Bacteriology of Diphtheria . Nature 80, 243 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/080243a0
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