A Campaign against Consumption

Dr. A. Ransome is the author of several wellknown books on the Causes and Prevention of Phthisis and on the open-air treatment. The present volume is a collection of papers written at various periods during a fifty years' campaign against consumption. Many of the articles deal with the subject from a public health point of view, and others are on more scientific aspects of the problem. The subjects are many, e.g., general chapters on causes, crusades, duties of the State ; others on limits of infection, susceptibility, and bodily conditions resisting phthisis. Another section deals with Iodoform in phthisis, pure oxygen treatment; re-infection, etc. A chiefly statistical section deals with evidence as to tubercular infec-