Pathological Mycology

This work is intended as a practical guide to the examination and cultivation of micro-organisms, especially of those that are supposed to be connected with disease. So far, the authors have fully and satisfactorily succeeded in their purpose. There is no work in the English language which, in so small a space, gives such accurate and trustworthy accounts of the best methods of working at this difficult and delicate subject. There is little attempt at originality, either in method or in pursuit; the work simply represents the most approved practical plans of working at the subject in pathology and experiment. The selections have been made with the judgment and sincerity of full knowledge and honest discrimination ; we are not worried either with the hobbies of laboratories, or with the abuse of investigators, and the whole subject is presented in a simple and workmanlike spirit, which is both soothing and satisfactory. We must once again bestow a word of praise on the