TY - JOUR T1 - THe 1948 year book of general medicine Y1 - 1949/06/11 N1 - 10.1001/jama.1949.02900410072031 JO - Journal of the American Medical Association SP - 576 EP - 576 VL - 140 IS - 6 N2 - Part I of the 1948 Year Book of General Medicine contains a review by Paul B. Beeson of the literature on the subject of chemotherapy and antibiotic therapy in various infectious diseases, and a review of literature on the use of para-aminobenzoic acid and chloromycetin in typhus and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. One chapter is devoted to the literature on the effectiveness of vaccine against influenza. There is also a brief discussion of more recently recognized and less widely known clinical entities such as Q fever, rickettsialpox, leptospirosis and toxoplasmosis. J. Burns Amberson reviews in part II diseases of the chest, the normal and abnormal physiology of respiration, the normal and abnormal anatomy and the diagnostic and therapeutic procedures. There is an adequate discussion of the vascular and circular disturbances which embrace such clinical entities as the tetralogy of Fallot, pulmonary arteriovenous aneurysm, pulmonary embolism, asthma, neoplasms and cysts and SN - 0002-9955 M3 - doi: 10.1001/jama.1949.02900410072031 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1949.02900410072031 ER -