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A FEW days before this volume was placed in the hands of the reviewer he had been watching for a few minutes the race of a small brook into a larger but more sluggish stream. Curiously near the inrush a wisp of straws lay almost at rest, circling slowly round and round, but not swept with other wisps and leaves into the main current. This arrest was due to a still but deep whirlpool formed by the different velocities of the waters at the angle of meeting. Light objects which skirted this eddy swiftly vanished on their way to the sea; those caught in it were imprisoned. However, by placing a walking stick tangentially to the eddy, now one straw, now another, would dart aside, and, catching a streak of the main current, would speed off into liberty.
Vicious Circles in Disease.
By Dr. J. B. Hurry. Pp. xiv + 186. (London: J. and A. Churchill, 1911.) Price 6s. net.
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ALLBUTT, C. Vicious Circles in Disease . Nature 86, 374 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/086374a0
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