RT Journal
T1 REcent advances in bacteriology and the study of the infections.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1929
FD June 8
VO 92
IS 23
SP 1985
OP 1985
DO 10.1001/jama.1929.02700490085030
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1929.02700490085030
AB There is a multiplication of attempts to cope with the everincreasing flood of scientific "literature" which bids fair to overwhelm even the most industrious research worker. Journals have been created for the special purpose of reviewing the most recent investigations on the most timely topics. A growing number of books are devoted to the same purpose and it seems probable that the advance of science is served quite as well by these critical evaluations of accumulated knowledge as by the addition of new minutiae to the already unmanageable heap of good, bad and indifferent observations and experiments. This book, dealing with recent advances in bacteriology, covers a wide field but seems generally fair and accurate. The reader who wishes to find brief summaries of our present knowledge of such subjects as bacterial variation, the bacteriophage, filter-passing viruses, the Calmette inoculation method, pneumococcus types, yellow fever and similar subjects will be