Research on intestinal bacteria began around the end of the 19th century. During the last 5 decades of the 20th century, research on the intestinal microbiota made rapid progress. At first, in my work, I first developed a method of comprehensive analysis of the intestinal microbiota, and then I established classification and identification methods for intestinal anaerobes. Using these methods I...

TREATMENT. By H. J. Parish and D. A. Cannon. Sixth Edition. (Pp. viii + 315; figs. 45. 40s.) Edinburgh and London: E. & S. Livingstone, 1962. THE importance and general appreciation of this book may be gauged by the fact that this is the sixth edition in the space of fourteen years and the fifth edition appeared only a year ago. The text has been thoroughly revised and new material has been add...

on the modern system, the old nomenclature is also given. The chapters on filtrable viruses, immunity, bacterial virulence, toxin, antitoxins and agglutinins are particularly good for the concise and comprehensive way in which these subjects have been dealt with. The inclusion of the more important pathogenic protozoa in a small chapter will be appreciated by the busy practitioner though it is ...

Numerous have been the attempts, ever since bacteriology first took rank as an exact science, to solve the problem as to the nature of the active principle of vaccine lymph; and in consequence of this, and of the great difficulty of the subject, a mass of literature has gradually accumulated, sufficient to appal anyone newly entering upon the task. The fact, however, that, in the absence of any...

This book of 1,000 pages (including preface, contents, etc.) gives to a medical student, medical man or a laboratory worker all that he needs. Besides bacteria it deals with spirochetes, medical micology, medical parasitology, both protozoan and metazoan, rickettsise, viruses and bacteriophage, with all essential details. This feat is made possible by reducing references to the original work to...

hoped that their number will be increased in future editions. The book has been thoroughly brought up to date, and it is specially pleasing to find that the causal parasites of tropical diseases have received their fair share of attention. Only three years have elapsed since the appearance of the previous edition, but much has been done in that time and both the body of the book and the appendi...

practitioners. By H. J. Curtis. Th is little book is arranged in the form of lessons, and contains 133 illustrations of a useful nature. It comprises the course of stud}7 usually required for the diploma of public health, while sufficient details are given to make it eminently useful in the laboratory. Plimmer's recent work on cancer, and much information on the parasites of ringworm are given,...

This seventh edition of this number of the Student Aids Series lias been revised and by the deletion of old and unimportant material new matter has been introduced without any material change in the size of the book. A great deal of obsolete and unnecessary material still remains and certain important groups of organisms are inadequately described. As an example of obsolete material it is state...