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A new series of "Medical History Manuals," under the general

editorship of Dr. J. D. Comrie, makes a good begin- ning with an admirable volume entitled Pasteur and after Pasteur (A. and (3. Black, 2s. 6d. net), in which Mr. Stephen Paget gives a lucid account of Pasteur's monumental work, and of numerous methods for the prevention and cure of disease which have arisen from it.