Krankenbehandlung durch Umstimmung. (Sog. "unspezifische" Therapie). Eine Einführung für Ärzte.

Königer's interest in nonspecific therapy developed as a result of his interesting studies on the factor of time relationship to the therapeutic effect of drugs. Being the work of a careful pharmacologist, the book is characterized by thoroughgoing objectivity. It has, however, been written with the idea of being chiefly useful to the practitioner; and this too it should prove to be. Throughout, he has sought to stress the importance of adapting treatment to the physiologic status of the patient, a desideratum which only in recent times and haltingly is being approached. It is, however, a point of view that is of utmost importance in the consideration of nonspecific therapy because this form of treatment depends largely on general biologic alterations of the body. It is interesting to observe the wide latitude now occupied by the field of nonspecific therapy. Much ground has been covered in the fifteen years from