50 Years Ago

摘要

Natural History of Infectious Diseases. By Sir MacFarlane Burnet - It is a pleasure to review this, the third edition, of such a well-known work, which now presents an up-to-date account of the ramifications of an important subject... Throughout it adopts a Darwinian attitude, often overstepping the realms of human pathology into all kinds of unexpected avenues ... In its ambit it presents a picture of the ravages by bacteria, protozoa and viruses ... He discredits the practical value of antityphoid inoculation and would rather attribute the favourable results obtained to military sanitation ...