Medical Laboratory Methods and Tests

The opening chapter on the examination of the urine is particularly full and good, all the chief tests, both qualitative and quantitative, being given. The second chapter, dealing with the examination of the blood, includes the differential leucocyte count, the detection of the presence of the more important blood nara?iif-p<? WirM'^ reaction, etc. With regard to this latter, the form of glass pipette, recommended by Professor Wright, for the collection of blood from the patient, appears to us to possess several advantages over that described by the author, not the least of which is the doinoaway of' the necessity of sucking up the blood "into the pipette. The chapter on the examination of the sputum deals with both its macroscopical and microscopical characters as found in different morbid conditions, the staining for tubercle bacilli being fully and carefully described. That portion of the book dealing with the examination of pus includes the various methods of staining for the more important micro-organisms commonly found therein.