REVIEW. 



Practical Bacteriology, Blood Work and Animal Parasitology including Bac- 

 teriological Keys, Zoological Tables and Explanatory Clinical Notes. By 

 E. R. Stitt, A. B., Ph. G., M. D., Surgeon, U. S. Navy; Graduate London 

 School of Tropical Medicine; Associate Professor of Medical Zoology, Phil- 

 ippine Medical School. * * * Second edition revised and enlarged with 

 91 illustrations. Cloth. Pp. 345. Price, $1.50. Philadelphia: P. Blakis- 

 ton's Son & Co., 1910. 



The reviewer's prejudice against all pocket manuals is strong. As a 

 rule they contain nothing but what may be had in the larger works, and 

 in the attempt to abridge it becomes a task to know what to omit and 

 what to include. As a result many important facts are omitted, others are 

 only partially stated, if not actually given a wrong setting, and hence 

 the student receives a wrong conception of the actual facts in the case. 



While the volume under consideration is no exception to the above 

 criticisms, still it contains some things that the student will not readily 

 find elsewhere. It is more than a compilation of facts from larger works. 

 The author has drawn extensively from his wide experience as a clinical 

 laboratory worker and teacher, both in the temperature zones and in the 

 Tropics, which gives the book a different setting from the ordinary pocket 

 manual, and forms the real worth of the volume. The reviewer would not 

 recommend it as a text-book, but the busy interne in the hospital and the 

 practising physician would find it helpful and suggestive. 



V. L. A. 

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