Troubles DES ÉCHANGES NUTRITIFS DANS LA TUBERCULOSE PULMONAIRE.

This book is valuable for physicians, not only for its details but particularly for its point of view. As the author points out, the bacteriologic aspect of tuberculosis today receives much more attention than the physiologic. The emphasis is on the infectious character rather than on the infected soil. The author considers the disease in the ancient aspect of "consumption," but in the light of modern chemistry. The first fifth of the book is devoted to an exposition of the principles of physiologic metabolism, and the remainder to abnormalities of metabolism in tuberculosis. The majority of abnormalities are traceable, in the author's view, directly or indirectly to impairment of oxidation. The physician will find most useful the suggestions in the last chapter on the treatment of the disease by improving the metabolism. The fact that carbohydrate metabolism is little affected and the metabolism of proteins and lipins impaired furnishes important