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THE “Outlines of Medical Zoology,” which has recently been published by Prof. Hegner and his colleagues in the Johns Hopkins University, is a convenient little book for the use of medical men in the field, and for teachers of zoology in schools and universities where the economic applications of the science are included in the curriculum, but it is too concentrated for the elementary student and not sufficiently detailed in description for those who are seriously engaged in the study or the practice of the subjects. There is, perhaps, some danger lurking in these little books that the student, who has not much time to devote to it, may imagine that he has mastered the subject by learning off the tables and diagnoses by heart. They should only be used after or associated with a course of practical work in the laboratory accompanied by some further instruction in the morphology of the animals described.
Outlines of Medical Zoology: with Special Reference to Laboratory and Field Diagnosis.
By Prof. Robert W. Hegner Prof. William W. Cort Francis M. Root. Pp. xv + 175. (New York: The Macmillan Co.; London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1923.) 11s. net.
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Outlines of Medical Zoology: with Special Reference to Laboratory and Field Diagnosis. Nature 114, 893 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/114893b0
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