PREFACE TO THE ENGLISH EDITION 



The translation of a work on an intricate subject 

 such as anaphylaxis is not without its special diffi- 

 culties. It is not sufficient merely to produce an 

 accurate rendering of the original text; a clear ex- 

 pression of the author's meaning is even more im- 

 portant. Some of the technical terms, for example, 

 have no satisfactory English equivalents. I have 

 therefore endeavoured throughout to keep the sense 

 of the subject, rather than the literal text, intact. 

 Apart from this no alterations or additions to the 

 original have been made. References^ have all been 

 verified in order to avoid as far as possible any errors 

 in transcribing, and an index has been prepared. 



In the concluding chapter I have endeavoured to 

 bring together the results of recent work on this 

 complicated subject, and for this I am solely respon- 

 sible. Original communications to the journals on 

 anaphylaxis appear almost every month, and at the 

 present time interchange of foreign publications is 

 not always easy; I have therefore to ask the indul- 

 gence of the reader for any errors of omission which 

 may have been made. 



S. ROODHOUSE GLOYNE. 

 London. 



