RT Journal
T1 Kayne, pagel and o'shaughnessy's pulmonary tuberculosis: Pathology, diagnosis, management and prevention
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1949
FD September 17
VO 141
IS 3
SP 233
OP 234
DO 10.1001/jama.1949.02910030063031
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1949.02910030063031
AB The second edition of this text book on tuberculosis is particularly welcome, for it has been considered a standard reference for information in the many fields concerned in tuberculosis. Since the printing of the first edition, in 1939, two of the original three authors, Kayne and O'Shaughnessy, have died. As the new authors point out, nine years is an unusually long interval in a period so fruitful in the development of knowledge of tuberculosis and so critical in the problems raised by tuberculosis in a world much of which has been devastated by war and famine. Originally the work was intended to combine in one volume a presentation of the pathologic, clinical and surgical aspects of pulmonary tuberculosis based largely on the individual conceptions of the authors, with the addition of essential references to general literature on the subject. This plan has been preserved in the second edition, which has