Infection and Immunity, with Special Reference to the Prevention of Infectious Diseases

Abstract

IN the preface to this volume we find the general statement that “all infectious diseases are preventable diseases,” and with this proposition, at least in a general sense, we heartily concur. It follows that there can be no more important factor in the extermination of infectious diseases than the education of the public in their essential nature and modes of spread. For with such knowledge comes not only increased personal precaution against infection, but what is even more important, an enlightened tolerance of sanitary legislation. A volume on “infection and immunity” is thus most suitable for such an undertaking as the Progressive Science Series, and the editor has been fortunate in securing the services of Dr. George M. Sternberg as an expositor of the subject. Dr. Sternberg is well known as one of the pioneers of American bacteriology; he has taken a prominent part in the advancement of public health, and, in particular, of military hygiene in that country; disinfection is, moreover, one of the subjects with which his name is especially associated.

Infection and Immunity, with Special Reference to the Prevention of Infectious Diseases.

By George M. Sternberg, Surgeon-General U.S. Army (Retired). Progressive Science Series. Pp. ix + 293. (London: John Murray, 1903.) Price 6s. net.