Volume 5 (1956): Issue 3 (May 1956)

Immunization Against Epidemic Typhus
A Brief General Review and a Description of the Status of Living, Avirulent R. prow azeki (Strain E) as an Immunizing Agent
Book Review
Virus and Rickettsial Diseases
by S. P. Bedson, M.D., D.Sc., F.R.C.P., F.R.S., Emeritus Professor of Bacteriology, London University; Downie, A.W., D.Sc., M.D., Professor of Bacteriology, Liverpool University; F. O. MacCallum, B.Sc., M.D., Director Virus Laboratory Central Public Health Laboratory; C. H. Stuart-Harris, M.D., F.R.C.P., Professor of Medicine, University of Sheffield. Second edition, 406 pp. illus. Baltimore, Williams and Wilkins Company, 1955, $6.75
Book Review
Introduction to Virology
by Gilbert Dalldorf, M.D., Director, Division of Laboratories and Research, New York State Department of Health, Albany, New York. 102 pp., illustrated. Springfield, Illinois, Charles C. Thomas. 1955. $3.50
Book Review
A Textbook of Medicine
edited by Russell L. Cecil, M.D., Sc.D., Professor of Clinical Medicine Emeritus, Cornell University, New York and Robert F. Loeb, M.D., Sc.D., D. Hon. Causa, LL.D., Bard Professor of Medicine, Columbia University, New York. Associate Editors: Alexander B. Gutman, Walsh McDermott and Harold G. Wolff. Ninth Edition: 1,786 pp., illustrated, with many in color. Philadelphia, London: W. B. Saunders Company, 1955, $15.00
Book Review
Origins of Resistance to Toxic Agents
Proceedings of the Symposium held in Washington, D. C., March 25–27, 1954. Ed., M. G. Sevag, Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania; Roger D. Reid, Head, Microbiology Branch, Office of Naval Research; and Orr E. Reynolds, Director, Biological Sciences Division, Office of Naval Research, Department of the Navy. With 28 contributors. 471 pp. New York: Academic Press, Inc., 1955. Price $12.00
Book Review
Nutrition in India
by Dr. V. N. Patwardhan. 345 pp. Bombay: The Indian Journal of Medical Sciences, 1952. Rs 15-8
Book Review
“Map: World Distribution of Spirochaetal Diseases. 3. Leptospiroses
Plate 17, Atlas of Diseases. New York: American Geographical Society. 1955. $1.25 folded, $1.50 flat
Book Review
Dried BCG Vaccine
by Yoji Obayashi, M.D., Japan Anti-Tubereulosis Association, Tokyo, Japan. 220 pp. WHO Monograph Series No. 28. Columbia Univ. Press, International Documents Service, 2960 Broadway, New York 27, N. Y. 1955. $5.00 (cloth)
Book Review
Chemotherapy of Malaria
by G. Covell, G. R. Coatney, J. W. Field and J. Singh. 121 pp., (French edition in preparation). Geneva, World Health Organization: Monograph Series, No. 27. 1955. $3.25 (cloth) 17/6, Sw. fr. 10.-
Book Review
An Attempt to Control Leprosy by B.C.G. Vaccine in the Loyalty Islands
by Médecin-Capitaine des Troupes Coloniales Lacour, Directeur de L'Institut Pasteur de Nouméa. 45 pp., with maps and charts. Paper cover. Mimeographed. Sydney, Australia, Box 5254 G.P.O. The South Pacific Commission. 1955
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