Volume 3 (1954): Issue 3 (May 1954)

Transactions of the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Second Annual Meeting Louisville, Kentucky, November 12–14, 1953
Book Review
The Conquest of Plague. A Study of the evolution of epidemiology
by L. Fabian Hirst, M.D. Lond., with a foreword by Lieut.-Gen. Sir William Macarthur. 478 pp. with illustrations and maps. New York: Oxford University Press, 114 Fifth Avenue, 1953. Price $11.00
Book Review
Global Epidemiology. A Geography of disease and sanitation. Volume 3. The Near and Middle East
by James Stevens Simmons, Dean, Harvard University School of Public Health; Tom F. Whayne, Colonel, M.C., United States Army; Gaylord W. Anderson, Director, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota; Harold Maclachlan Horack, Instructor, Tulane University School of Medicine. Associate Author, Ruth Alida Thomas, and collaborators. 357 pp., New York, J. B. Lippincott Co., 1954. Price $12.00
Book Review
Expert Committee on Plague, Second Report
WHO Technical Report Series No. 74. 13 pp. Available also in French edition. WHO, Geneva, 1953. Distributed by Columbia University Press, International Documents Service, 2960 Broadway, New York 27, New York. Price $.10, 9 d., Fr.fr. 30.00, Sw. Fr. 0.40
Book Review
Atlas of Diseases
1. Poliomyelitis, 2. Cholera, 3. Malaria Vectors, 4. Helminthiases, 5. Dengue and Yellow Fever, 6. Plague, 7. Leprosy, 8. Study in Human Starvation, I. Sources of Selected Foods, 9. Study in Human Starvation, II. Diets and Deficiency Diseases, 10. Rickettsial Diseases, I. Mouse-borne and Flea-borne Typhus. Department of Medical Geography, American Geographical Society, New York 32, N. Y. 1952–1953. Price $1.25 each
Book Review
Salmonellae and Shigellae. Laboratory diagnosis correlated with clinical manifestations and epidemiology
by Alfred J. Weil, M.D., the Bronx Hospital, New York, and Ivan Saphra, M.D., The Beth Israel Hospital, New York. 252 pp. with 29 illustrations. Chas. C Thomas, Springfield, Ill., 1953. Price $7.75
Book Review
W. H. O. Expert Committee on Leprosy, First Report
Technical Report Series No. 71. 28 pp., available also in French edition. W.H.O. Geneva, 1953. Distributed by Columbia University Press, International Documents Service, 2960 Broadway, New York 27, New York. Price $.20, 1/6, Fr. fr. 65., Sw. fr. 0.80
Book Review
Respiratory Diseases and Allergy. New Method of Approach
by Josef S. Smul, M.D. Fellow National Gastro-Ent. Assoc., Member New York Academy of Sciences, 80 pp., New York 3, N. Y., Medical Library Co., 232 East 15 St., 1953. Price $2.75
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