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THE value of a scientific treatise lies not so much in the information which it imparts as in the inspiration which the reader derives from it to inquire further into the matters with which it deals. We have read “introductions to the study of” subjects, which left the impression that nothing remained worth inquiring into, and even destroyed all desire for such exercises. In his work on “Epidemics and Crowd-Diseases” which will become a classic Prof. Greenwood, far from doing this, introduces his readers to the study of epidemiology in such charming fashion that, as the tale unfolds, each chapter seems to end on a note of lively interrogation.
Epidemics and Crowd-Diseases:
an Introduction to the Study of Epidemiology. By Prof. Major Greenwood. Pp. 409. (London: Williams and Norgate, Ltd., 1935.) 21s. net.
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STOCKS, P. Epidemics and Crowd-Diseases. Nature 136, 700 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136700a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/136700a0