Abstract
THE present edition of this book has been revised throughout, and fresh details have been inserted where necessary. It gives an excellent and, on the whole, a simple account of the salient facts connected with infection and immunity, antitoxins and other sera, cytotoxins, opsonins, vaccines, and other reactions of immunity, and the practitioner will find it a trustworthy guide to modern views on these subjects. We suggest that the details of the partial saturation method and of “toxin spectra” in connection with antitoxins are somewhat beyond the general scope of the work, and that the space devoted to them might be better employed in extending the more directly practical subject of agglutination. The technique of the Wassermann test for syphilh has been included in this edition in response to many requests for information concerning it. Here, again, we think that the description is too technical for the average reader, and might be simplified with advantage. These, however, are minor faults, if faults they be, and do not in any way detract from the general excellence of the book. Several figures serve to visualise the descriptions given in the text, and the book is very readable.
Immune Sera: A Concise Exposition of our Present Knowledge of Infection and Immunity.
Dr.
C. F.
Bolduan
J.
Koopman
By. Fifth edition, thoroughly revised. Pp. viii + 206. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1917.) Price 7s. net.
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H., R. Immune Sera: A Concise Exposition of our Present Knowledge of Infection and Immunity . Nature 104, 434 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/104434b0
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