Science Since 1500
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The death of one patient with secondary purulent bronchopneumonia has led the authors to recommend prophylactic treatment with sulfonamides and penicillin. Many and important changes have been introduced in the field of influenza during the past 5 years, and it is therefore unfortunate that the authors were compelled to defer publication for so long a period. Within the scope of slightly more than 300 pages the author has succeeded in bringing together in a fascinating manner the story of mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology during that period when such phenomenal advances were being made. A reading of the text leaves one with two dominant ideas. First, it is made clear that the so-called independence of a field of science is largely that conferred upon it by the catalog-maker, and has little to support it in historical perspective. Interdependence has been the dominant characteristic and has been responsible for many of the great steps forward. One wonders what physiology, for example, would now be had not mathematics, again for example, taken those forward steps which we assume as a matter of course. The second point that derives from reading the book is a realization of the amazing fact that a man can, and too often does, work a lifetime within a limited field of science only to find himself with scanty knowledge of the currents which have merged to make up the theoretical and factual background of his science. Of the major currents and of the men who directed them he is, of course, aware. But of the many lesser men responsible for so many lesser facts in themselves, but facts which in the aggregate were frequendy essential for the greatness of the great, no information is available. It is becoming more and more evident that if we are to achieve a clearer understanding of the mechanism of the cancer process, a greater knowledge of the physics and chemistry of cells and tissues is essential. The author of this book has mustered an enormous number of facts from the extensive literature on this subject. A little less than half of this volume is devoted to the classification of tumors and to a discussion of their induction as influenced by intrinsic and ex-trinsic factors. The remaining portion considers the chemistry of tumors, and of tumor-bearing animals. it is to this section that the title of the book is applicable. In evaluating studies …
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- The Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine
دوره 19 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1947