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of exercise. A good feature at the trol will find this a valuable reference,
beginning of each chapter is a non- as well as a guide for procedures in
technical summary. The book has the air-pollution control. The manual makes
limitation inherent in a collection of an excellent source of reference which
rev iews by a large number of authors provides documentation for easy access
from various disciplines. Many inter- to the important articles which have
esting facts from many areas of inves- been reported elsewhere.
tigation are presented. Some idea of HERBERT J. DUNSMORE
the scope can be obtained from the six
major sections of the publication. The ZINSSER MICROBIOLOGY (12th ed.)-
subject is reviewed in relation to the By David T. Smith, et al. New York, N. Y.:
following aspects of exercise and sports: Appleton-Century-Crofts (35 West 32nd St.),
structural and mechanical; physiologi- 1960. 1026 pp. Price, $13.00.
cal; maturing and aging; psychologi- The 12th edition of this book now
cal; cultural and historical; therapeutic. includes all the categories of biologic
The volume should be useful particu- agents of disease. This has been accom-
larly to students and teachers of physi- plished by adding to the already exist-
cal education and physicians concerned ing information on bacteria, rickettsiae,
with sports programs. viruses, and fungi, four new concise
GEORGE M. WHEATLEY chapters which deal with the parasitic
protozoa and helminths endemic in the
United States, exotic parasites which
AIR POLLUTION MANUAL- Part I . . . could be imported into this country
Evaluation. Detroit, Mich.: American Indus-
trial Hygiene Association (14125 Prevost), from other areas of the world, and with
1960. 194 pp. those arthropods which may serve as
vectors of some of the other disease
This manual contains a wealth of in- agents. Included in these chapters are
formation on air pollution that will be a number of excellent figures and plates
found most useful to people in industry, taken largely from Belding's Textbooks
health workers, administrators, and tech- of Clinical Parasitology 1952 and 1958.
nical personnel who are concerned with Certain factors in the epidemiology and
or desire information about incidents control of the parasitic diseases are dis-
and effects of air pollution and means cussed in five instances. Although this
of its measurement. It is written simply procedure has not been followed in any
enough to be meaningful to a wide of the other chapters, it would tend
range of people. while at the same time to make this a more comprehensive text-
provides scientific or factual answers to book if such information accompanied
questions that are most frequently asked. every important disease agent discussed.
It is authored by 13 scientists who are The remainder of the book contains
recognized nationally for their leader- very few changes. Among these are
ship in air-pollution control. Through a partial revision of the chapter dealing
this arrangement this manual has pulled with general morphology and reproduc-
together an extensive coverage of infor- tion of bacteria, new short sections on
mation on status of legal controls; eco- the enteroviruses, Asian influenza, and
nomic losses; the effects of air pollution hemadsorption and other parainfluenza
on health, vegetation, and animals; cost viruses, the addition of a table on re-
of control; instrumentation; meteor- cently isolated viruses which cause re-
ology; odors; radiation; and industrial spiratory infection, a revision of the
site selection. table on Coxsackie x irus infections and
Persons interested in air-pollution con- the updating of some figures in the
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tuberculosis chapter. Otherwise the pagi- lish a claim for compensation. For-
nation and references have been re- tunately, in this country, the Pneumoco-
tained in most part from the 11th niosis Medical Panels usually give doubt-
edition. Since the 11th edition was ful cases the benefit of the doubt."
published in 1957 following a very In the chapter on Pneumoconiosis in
extensive revision of the 10th, the fact Cornwall it would appear that in a tin
that there have not been many changes mine applicants are x-rayed before em-
in most of the chapters may reflect the ployment, but further x-rays are volun-
thoroughness of the previous revision. tary. "Any attempt to introduce oblig-
It might have been of value if the atory routine x-ray supervision is vig-
authors had decided to include a de- orously resisted, and will be so until
scription of the Fluorescent Antibody the tuberculous miner is assured that
Techniques in the chapters on Antigens he and his family will not lose finan-
and Antibodies and on Technical cially if he is removed from the mine."
Methods. Even though still experi- This is contrary to accepted principles
mental, they are of sufficient importance of preventive medicine in industry.
to have received some mention. It is with interest that one notes in
This is a useful book and should the lecture on Rheumatoid Disease and
prove of value to those workers and Pneumoconiosis that there is no obvious
students in the medical and public relationship between the severity and
health fields who wish to have at hand activity of arthritis and the x-ray find-
a single and concise reference book. ings of the lung. While this subject is
ANNA C. GELMAN covered so adequately there is very little
mention of bagassosis and pulmonary
INDUSTRIAL PULMONARY DISEASES- fungus diseases which would be likely
Edited by E. J. King and C. M. Fletcher. to be seen in the working population.
Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown (34 Beacon St.), if not in England, then in areas of the
1960. 273 pp. Price, $8.50. British Commonwealth.
For those physicians interested in oc- Since bronchitis is encountered so
cupational medicine and chest diseases, frequently in occupational medicine in
this book offers a series of lectures de- England as a cause of morbidity and
livered in 1957-1958 at the Postgradu- mortality, the chapter on bronchitis
ate Medical School of London by out- is most revealing with its statistical
standing authorities in their field. They analyses. BERNARD BEHREND
are short, well written, documented, and
illustrated. Various aspects of pulmo. ORIGINS OF ALCOHOLISM-By William
nary diseases in industry are covered, McCord and Joan McCord. Stanford, Calif.:
and especially worth mentioning are Stanford University Press, 1960. 193 pp.
the chapters on Disturbance of Pulmo- Price, $4.75.
nary Function and Pulmonary Function "Origins of Alcoholism" is destined to
Tests in Epidemiology. In research in become one of the fundamental research
pulmonary diseases this manual could documents in the alcoholism field. This
be utilized for a quick reference. book is a report on a study which
A statement which might prove pro- begins with a group of boys and traces
vocative in this country in the chapter them to adulthood. Some of the boys
on Radiologic Diagnosis of Pneumoco- turn out to be criminals, some alcoholics,
niosis is worth quoting: "Lung biopsy while others never come into conflict
is very rarely indicated for the diag- with the mores of society. This publi-
nosis of pneumoconiosis. In the U.S.A. cation compares that group of boys who
it is frequently done in order to estab- became alcoholics with the majority who
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