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THE third edition of Prof. Cummer's manual maintains the high standard of the former, and the same policy of conciseness is apparent in the new material which has been introduced. Perhaps the most important additions are the more detailed description of Kahn's reaction for the diagnosis of syphilitic infection, and a full technique for the carrying out of Kline's reaction for the diagnosis and exclusion of syphilis. Among other recently developed tests in biochemistry mentioned are the erythrocyte sedimentation rate, Ehrmann's alcohol test meal, the use of histamine as a gastric juice stimulant, and agglutination tests for tularemia and undulant fever. The Queckenstedt test for subaracknoid block is described, but its interpretation is very loosely worded. The author also includes now the long-established Alzheimer method for identifying different types of cells in the cerebrospinal fluid, and the silver staining for treponemata.
A Manual of Clinical Laboratory Methods.
By Dr. C. L. Cummer. Third edition, thoroughly revised. Pp. xx – 17 – 585. (London: Henry Kimpton, 1931.) 30s. net.
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A Manual of Clinical Laboratory Methods . Nature 131, 116 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131116c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/131116c0