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A Text-Book of Pathology. By Alfred Stengel.. M. D. With 399 illustrations 

 in the text, many of them in colors, and 7 full-page chromolithographie plates. 

 Fifth edition, thoroughly revised. Cloth. Pp. 979. Price, $5.00 net; half 

 morocco, $6.00 net. Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders Company, 

 1906. 



It is obvious that a work upon pathology which has reached a fifth 

 edition in a period of eight years must be possessed of more than ordinary 

 merit, and have answered the needs of those who have consulted it. 

 Written from the standpoint of the clinical pathologist, the subjects, in 

 the work under review are presented in such a manner as to be of the 

 greatest service to the practitioner and student of medicine, and taken as 

 a whole, the work is one of the most valuable treatises upon pathology 

 contributed by an American author. This edition is well up to date 

 and much recent work has been incorporated or summarized; however, 

 we greatly miss references to the literature of the various subjects 

 discussed, especially in that portion of the work devoted to the animal 

 and vegetable parasites, where a few well-chosen references would have 

 proven of great value to the student. 



The first six chapters of the work are devoted to general pathology, 

 and are most excellent, especially the chapter upon progressive tissue 

 changes, in which is given a beautifully illustrated and concise description 

 of the histo-pathology of tumors. 



Chapters 7 and 8 are devoted to the bacteria and the diseases due to 

 them and to the animal parasites. In the reviewer's opinion the inclusion 

 in a text-book of pathology of anything like an adequate consideration of 

 the vegetable and animal parasites infecting man is impossible and might 

 better be altogether omitted, but, unfortunately, it has become a custom 

 to attempt to do so, and the chapters referred to are very satisfactory and 

 the subjects are presented in an attractive manner ; the author has accepted 

 the classification of amoeba? as defined by Schaudinn, and includes the 

 Spiroclicetce under the bacteria. As regards the position of the Spiro- 

 chcetce, it would have been better to have regarded their biological position 

 as uncertain, especially as the recent work of Breinl appears to have 

 disproven that of the adherents of the bacterial theory and again swung 

 the pendulum toward the Protozoa. The illustrations in this section 

 of the work are as a rule good, but many of them are reproductions of 



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