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(1) PROF. GARDNER has managed to include in this small book a surprising amount of information on bacteriology, which is adequate for the medical practitioner who desires to keep abreast of advances in the subject, as well as being detailed enough for the medical student, with some supplementary reading. The matter is well presented and readable, singularly free from errors, and well up to date. Apart from the descriptions of the pathogenic micro-organisms and their effects, such subjects as immunity and antibody-antigen reactions, agglutination and anaphylaxis, and bacterial variation, are particularly well done, and the author has managed to include short sections on disinfection and the bacteriology of water and milk. The additional chapter on viruses in this second edition gives an excellent general account of the subject, together with sections on microscopical visibility and the bacteriophage. This is a book that can be cordially recommended.
(1) Bacteriology
For Medical Students and Practitioners. By Prof. A. D. Gardner. (Oxford Medical Publications.) Second edition. Pp. viii + 274. (London: Oxford University Press, 1938.) 6s. net.
(2) The Microscope Made Easy
By A. Laurence Wells. Pp. 182. (London and New York: Frederick Warne and Co., Ltd., 1938.) 3s. 6d. net.
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H., R. Biology. Nature 145, 293 (1940). https://doi.org/10.1038/145293a0
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