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THIS book, by one who is a pupil of Sir Almroth Wright and the director of the department of bacterio-therapeutics of a London hospital, may be taken as an authoritative guide to the inoculation method for the treatment of infective diseases. It is divided into two parts, the first dealing with the principles underlying the method, the second with its practical application. Stress is rightly laid on the importance of the exact diagnosis of the nature of an infection by bacteriological, methods, and it can scarcely be doubted that in the future exact diagnosis of the condition and the treatment of the infection itself will become more and more laboratory procedures, the function of the clinician being to decide if the disease is an infective one, to aid the recognition of the disease by the use of physical methods of diagnosis, to invoke laboratory methods to assist in the diagnosis, to exercise a general control over the patient, and to treat the general condition of the patient and any complications that may arise.
An Introduction to Therapeutic Inoculation.
By Dr. D. W. Carmalt Jones. Pp. xiv + 171. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1911.) Price 3s. 6d. net.
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H., R. An Introduction to Therapeutic Inoculation . Nature 89, 60 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/089060b0
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