Agents of Disease and Host Resistance Including the Principles of Immunology, Bacteriology, Mycology, Protozoology, Parasitology and Virus Diseases

The authors of this book have undertaken a very ambitious task. They have attempted to write a treatise on the aetiology of parasitic disease; they have attempted to weid together into one continuous story the various elements which constitute the a;tiology of any disease, epidemiology, immunology and parasitology; they have attempted to produce a single volume which can be presented to the student to whom it can be said ' If you read, digest, and remember the contents of this book, you will acquire a knowledge of the subject of parasitology?in its widest sense?that will be surpassed by few individualsThey have very nearly succeeded, and how (as many an American student has probably said). The volume is magnificent and terrifying; il consists of 1581 large pages with narrow margins covered with print that is ofien quite emal and never very large, and there is certainly the elemen of homogeneity even if it is not perfect.