Iron Metabolism and Its Clinical Significance

This book was written originally in 1942 and translated from the German in 1949, when it was recast and supplemented. It covers the results of investigations carried out by the authors and deals largely with serum iron. They give special emphasis to the separation of the serum iron into four fractions and review the early work of Barkan, Heilmeyer and Starkenstein. This book has little value for the clinicians but may be of some interest to investigators specializing in iron metabolism. Numerous inconsistencies and lack of references to early significant work appear in the introductory chapter on iron metabolism. Figures are presented which do not designate units for the values given, and the bibliography contains misspelled words and incomplete references. Facts pertaining to iron metabolism can be obtained more readily from other books, but it is interesting to obtain the viewpoint of these workers and, as the authors point out,