Virus Diseases of Man

Since the first edition of this outstanding monograph covering the field of human and animal virus infections appeared in 1940, many advances have been made in this field and at least twenty new viruses have been discovered. That both the fundamental and applied aspects of virus research have made rapid strides is fully reflected in the extensive revisions and expansions of the text. The authors have critically reviewed and appraised with due regard to respective value every publication on virus infections in the ten year period between 1938 and 1948. For an actively developing field with its ramified ecologic implications this revision was indeed urgently needed. They have added 270 pages to the 1940 edition and vigorously condensed and eliminated unessentials. In so doing, they dropped the chapter by T. J. Mackie which reviewed, in a readable form, the historical evolution of the knowledge of the viruses of man and