Recent Advances in Clinical Pathology

This volume is a collaborative effort of forty-one pathologists, mostly British, some from various European countries who found refuge in England from persecution in their native lands. Dyke, the editor, pays tribute to these refugees for their contributions to building up the British service in clinical pathology during the war. The gathering of pathologists from the entire continent led to the formation of the European Association of Clinical Pathologists. When the time seemed near that those who came from abroad might be able to return to their homes, the publication of this book was decided to put on record "the present state in Great Britain of the knowledge and practice of Clinical Pathology." The text is divided into four main sections: bacteriology, biochemistry, hematology and cytology, and histology. Each of the chapters deals with subjects in which important recent advances have been made. They include enteric infections, typhus fever, sore