Abstract
THE native races of the tropics have their various plagues and pestilences; tuberculosis is generally regarded as the white man's scourge. The incidence of tuberculous diseases among the inhabitants of the British Isles is indeed a heavy one, as shown by the statistical data contained in the opening chapter of the book under review, but it may not be so generally known that tuberculosis has been introduced by the colonising white man among many native races, among whom in some instances it is assuming alarming proportions. On these grounds, therefore, there is ample justification for the publication of this work, which deals first with the causes, and then with the prevention, of this disease.
The Prevention of Tuberculosis.
By Dr. Arthur Newsholme. Pp. ix+429. (London: Methuen and Co., n.d.) Price 10s. 6d. net.
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H., R. The Prevention of Tuberculosis . Nature 79, 422–423 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/079422a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/079422a0
