Cerebro-Spinal Fever. By Michael Foster and J. J. F. Gaskell.
(Cam- bridge University Press. 12s. 6d.)—We must leave criticism of this book to the specialist. Tho disease is elusive, spread by those who do not suffer from it rather than by those who have the misfortune to secrete the bacteria where they cannot hand them on. The medical profession does not claim to have mastered the cure, but even the layman can be as excited by the vigilant tracking of the malevolent organisms as by a tale of Poe. Tho chapters, therefore, that deal with the history and
epidemiology are interesting even to those who cannot follow the pathology with much benefit. The opportunities of studying the disease wore, as we know, unfortunately great last year, and the book is one of the visible results. It is likely to be a standard work for a time at any rate. There are some ghastly full-page coloured illustrations which the student will doubtless call " beautiful," and ho ought to know best.
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