Abstract
THE monograph before us gives the results of three years' work by the authors on oysters and disease. This thesis is, of course, by no means new to either the general scientific reader, the medical officer of health, or, indeed, the general public. Oysters have for several years been suspected, and, indeed, in some cases almost proved, to be the source of typhoid fever. A most interesting report was issued upon this subject by the Local Government Board, which, if the reviewer remembers rightly, was fully noticed in these columns. As the readers of NATURE are probably aware, as a result of this report, an Oyster Bill has been laid before Parliament.
Oysters and Disease: An Account of Certain Observations upon the Normal and Pathological Histology and Bacteriology of the Oyster and other Shellfish.
By Profs. W. A. Herdman R. Boyce Lancashire Sea Fisheries Memoirs. No. 1. Pp. 60; 8 plates. (London: George Philip and Son, 1899.)
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Oysters and Disease: An Account of Certain Observations upon the Normal and Pathological Histology and Bacteriology of the Oyster and other Shellfish . Nature 61, 587–588 (1900). https://doi.org/10.1038/061587b0
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