Immunomodulators in the Rheumatic Diseases

(Springfield, IL, Charles C. Thomas, 1970, 65 pp.) will be much more useful in writing the report. The book will have its greatest value in counseling the budding scientist that things never move as fast as hoped, that there are usually a few catastrophes during research, that it is important to find a topic compatible with the laboratory in which you work, but not too similar to what others in the lab are doing, and that sometimes a topic turns out to have gone sour and would best be abandoned. But these sensible bits of information should be available from the thesis advisor or supervisor. Much of this book would be worth a glance, even by an American neophyte; little of it would justify purchase as a vade mecum.