Recent Advances in Pulmonary Tuberculosis

We are glad to welcome a third edition of this excellent book which needs no introduction to students of phthisiology. The plan of the book has remained the same but most of the chapters Have been re-written and new chapters on infectivity and immunity, childhood tuberculosis and bovine tuberculosis and on classification and types of tuberculosis, including chronic miliary tuberculosis have been added. Tonographic interpretations have been included in the chapter on radiology. No less than five chapters, out of fourteen, have been rightly devoted to treatment, medical and surgical, chemotherapy and the author's experiences with different salts of gold have received dispassionate criticism. Forty-eight skiagrams illustrating normal and abnormal conditions of the lungs and pleura have been conveniently inserted towards the end of the book. Dr. Burrell's book has been noted for a level-headed but up-to-date opinion which will be found to be useful for ^enior students and general practitioners alike. Dr. Burrell thinks, for various reasons adduced by him, that ' the so-called childhood type of tuberculosis is essentiallythe same as the adult type' and that ' children have as much resistance to tuberculosis as adults haveOther workers may not agree with this view but the author's views are entitled to the greatest