Recent Advances in Pathology

Abstract

The title of this book might well be changed to "Recent Advances in the Scientific Phases of the Practice of Medicine." Seventeen chapters cover in terse and easily understood language the newly acquired information on resistance to infection, the reticulo-endothelial system, cancer research and therapy, deficiency diseases, cardiovascular and renal diseases, the respiratory tract, the digestive system and liver, the central nervous system and the ductless glands. Every student of medicine, young or old, should be acquainted with the facts which are here so admirably condensed and clarified. Even recent graduates from medical schools may profit by such a review, and for older practitioners and those specializing in the laboratory divisions of medicine the book is a real vade mecum. As is inevitable in such a work, certain important omissions might be mentioned, particularly Goldblatt's work on experimental hypertension, recent developments concerning so-called vitamin K, the modern classification of the