Tubercle Bacillus Infection and Tuberculosis in Man and Animals. Processes of Infection and Resistance. A Biological and Experimental Study.

The second French edition of this book has already been reviewed in these columns. We may repeat that in it we have the product of an able investigator who has given many of the best years of his life to the study of tuberculosis in a broad, scientific way. The point of view from which the book is written is that of the experimental pathologist rather than the clinician, but no field is neglected that bears on the essential nature of tuberculosis. Special emphasis is laid on immunology, and unusual attention is devoted to bovine tuberculosis and preventive vaccination against it, a subject that must have loomed large in the author's mind in the four terrible years of internment following the closure of his experiments in this direction, forced by the German occupation of Lille.