Life SciencesDermatologyMicrobiologyMedical MicrobiologyDisease MechanismsClinical Mycological DiagnosisMycological Identification
Any author would be fortunate in having either one of the flattering introductions written by such distinguished men as Dr. Schamberg and Dr. Morrow, but to have two such introductions in his volume is honor indeed. Reviewing the great developments in medicine due to such giant intellects as those of Pasteur, Lister, Koch, Roentgen, Ehrlich, the Curies, Dean and Wrenshaw, Dr. Morrow, in bringing the progress of medicine down to date, says: "This is what Dr. Jacobson has done in his treatise on Mycology. It comes to the medical world as a new departure in an hitherto uninvestigated branch of medicine. Most books on dermatology written in Europe treat the subject lightly; few books in America treat of the subject at all." One wonders what is meant by the statement that the book "comes to the medical world as a new departure in an hitherto uninvestigated branch of medicine." Such