Textbook of Clinical Parasitology Including Laboratory Identification and Technic

Many of the treatises on parasitology have had their origin from biologic and academic backgrounds without medical experience on the part of their authors. They therefore lack the physician's approach in the discussions of pathogenesis, prognosis and treatment. This book is a notable exception to these limitations. Its author is professor of bacteriology and experimental pathology in Boston University School of Medicine and a member of the staff of the Evans Memorial Hospital and the Massachusetts Memorial Hospitals. From this dual background of both teaching and practice this book had its origin. It is a finely organized treatise in both text and illustrations as well as in the use of tables and assembled figures, which facilitate comparisons important in diagnosis and in the identification of species. The scope of the book includes the entire range of the parasitic infections of man with more extended accounts of the commoner and most