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THIS little book is limited mainly to laboratory methods, the descriptions of which are brief but clear. For the simpler pathological investigations most of the recommendations given are good; the Tallquist hsemo-globinometer, which is suggested “for rapid bedside work,” is so inaccurate as to be quite useless. The more complicated tests, such as the Wassermann, Lange's colloidal gold, and the complement fixation for gonorrhcea, are best left entirely to the pathologist, since their use in unskilled hands is likely to be misleading to a dangerous degree. The book is too brief to be of value to students and too simple for the pathologist, but the practitioner will find in it real assistance in carrying out and interpreting the simpler pathological tests.
Diagnostic Methods: a Guide for History taking, Making of routine Physical Examinations and the usual Laboratory Tests necessary for Students in Clinical Pathology, Hospital Internes, and Practicing Physicians.
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Herbert Thomas
Brooks
By. Fourth edition. Pp. 109. (London: Henry Kimpton, 1923.) 8s. 6d. net.
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Diagnostic Methods: a Guide for History taking, Making of routine Physical Examinations and the usual Laboratory Tests necessary for Students in Clinical Pathology, Hospital Internes, and Practicing Physicians. Nature 113, 488 (1924). https://doi.org/10.1038/113488d0
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