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THE time is not yet ripe for the production of a comprehensive text-book on virus diseases because virus research is proceeding at such a pace that many accounts are outmoded almost by the time they are published. It is unfortunate that the book under review has been given the title it bears for it deals with very few virus diseases, and those from strictly limited viewpoints. It is a collection of six Messenger Lectures delivered at Cornell University by six experts in different branches of virus research. The founder of the series prescribed its title as “The Evolution of Civilization”, and the appositeness of the subjects chosen cannot be questioned. Each author naturally lays particular emphasis upon the more recent developments in his own special field. A more appropriate title would have been “Recent Advances in Virus Research”.
Virus Diseases
By Members of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research: Dr. Thomas M. Rivers Dr. Wendell M. Stanley Dr. Louis O. Kunkel Dr. Richard E. Shope Dr. Frank L. Horsfall Jr. Dr. Peyton Rous. Pp. ix + 170. (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1943.) 12s. net.
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SMITH, W. Virus Diseases. Nature 152, 584 (1943). https://doi.org/10.1038/152584a0
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