Hemolysis and Related Phenomena

Students interested in hemolytic phenomena will welcome this scholarly and up to date presentation. The previous monograph by Ponder on the "Mammalian Red Cell and Properties of Hemolytic Systems" was written in 1934. The present monograph is a critical presentation reflecting not only the author's large fund of authoritative knowledge in this field but his mature thinking on some of the more controversial aspects of the subject. The monograph is not strictly a source book on the subject (although it serves this function equally well), but a critical analysis and discussion of the biophysical and biochemical aspects of the mammalian red cells and hemolytic phenomena written in a most engaging and provocative manner. Although a large body of information is concisely reviewed it is comprehensive in scope and should satisfy the most exacting needs of students in this field. The broad content of the monograph is concerned with shape changes