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A Practical Text-book | of | Infection, Immunity j and Specific Therapy | with 

 special reference to immunologic technic by ] John A. Kolmer, 

 M. D., Dr. P. H., M. Sc. | [4 lines] | with an introduction by | Allen 

 J. Smith, M. D., Sc. D., LL. D. | [1 line] | with 147 original illus- 

 trations, 46 in colors | by Erwin F. Faber | [1 line] | second edition, 

 thoroughly revised j Philadelphia and London | W. B. Saunders Com- 

 pany | 1917. Cloth, pp. i-xiii— 1-978. Price $7.00 net. Half 

 morocco, $8.50. 



The following is from the preface to the second edition : 



Additions and alterations have been made throughout; special attention 

 has been given the subject of local infection; the Schick toxin test for 

 immunity in diphtheria and active immunization in diphtheria and active 

 immunization in diphtheria with toxin-antitoxin mixtures; complement- 

 fixation in tuberculosis and other bacterial infections and a quantitative 

 Wassermann reaction based upon my studies with the co-operation and 

 assistance of Dr. Claude P. Brown, Dr. Toitsu Matsunami, and Dr. Berta 

 Meine, aiming to standardize this important test. The chapters on ana- 

 phylaxis have been revised and particular attention given the subject of 

 anaphylactic skin reactions. Lunge's colloidal gold reaction has been 

 included. The chapter on the treatment of various infections with bac- 

 terial vaccines has been enlarged and the non-specific activity of bacterial 

 vaccines discussed. The section on the treatment of certain of the acute 

 infectious diseases, and particularly acute anterior poliomyelitis, with the 

 serum of convalescents and normal persons has been amplified; blood 

 transfusion has been included. Special attention has been devoted to the 

 chapter on Chemotherapy, and the results of the studies of Dr. Jay F. 

 Schamberg, Dr. George Raiziss, and the author bearing upon the toxicity 

 of salvarsan and its congeners and the reactions following their adminis- 

 tration have been included and discussed. The subject of Bacterial Che- 

 motherapy, which promises much in the future, has been amplified from 

 the theoretical and technical viewpoints. 



American Addresses | by | Sir Berkeley Moynihan, M. S., F. R. C. S. | 

 [ornament] | Philadelphia and London | W. B. Saunders Company 

 | 1917. Cloth, pp. 1-143. Price $1.75. 



From the preface we quote the following : 



The papers included in this volume were read in Chicago and elsewhere 

 during October and November, 1917. I hope they may help my American 

 colleagues to some appreciation of the causes and conditions of the war, 

 and afford some help to them in their treatment of the many phases of 

 surgical diseases with which they will be called upon to deal. 



The papers represent not only my own views and experience, but those 

 of others also. In forming my opinions upon the several matters dis- 



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