Weight Gains, Serum Protein Levels, and Health of Breast Fed and Artificially Fed Infants

PROTOZOOLOGY AND HELMINTHOLOGY. By L. R. S. Macfarlane, O.B.E., M.D., M.A., D.P.H. (Pp. vii + 251; figs. 61; plates 8. 35s.) Edinburgh and London: E. & S. Livingstone Ltd., 1960. TtiIs is a useful diagnostic manual. It presents basic information on the above subjects in condeiised form. It will prove most useful, as suggested by the author, to students preparing for the Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. The book is convenient in size and not too expensive. The text is exceedingly well illustrated by Mr. R. M. Leach and this adds to the usefulness of the book. The appendix contains some useful practical laboratory methods particularly applicable to protozoology and helminthology. I found the type-setting far from pleasing. The use of heavy type for headings and occasionally in the text detracted rather than added to the presentation. Furthermore, the notes on treatment were too crvptic and lacked any attempt to give even a suggestion of dose leveLs. They would have been better omitted altogether. These are but minor criticisms of a book which I am sure will find its way into the coat pocket of many a toiling student of protozoology and helminthology. M. G. N.