TY - JOUR AB - 582 THE BRITISH JOURNAL OF SURGERY Cerebrospinal Fever. (Oxford War Primers. Under the General Editorship of LIEUT.-COL. D’ARCY POWER, R.A.M.C.) By THOMAS J. HOEDER, M.D. Small Bvo. Pp. 179, with 17 illustrations. 1915. Gndon: Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton. 3s. 6d. net. THE prevention, recognition, and treatment of cerebrospinal fever has become such an important matter in this country, that a book which deals with the subject in a simple and practical manner, as this does. cannot fail to be appreciated by those who The reader will find may at any time be brought into contact with this complaint. a clear account of the various clinical manifeatations which the disease may assume, together with a descripgion of the bacteriology. Detailed instructions are given for the management of cades ; and the descriptions of the methods for taking cultures, by swabs from the nasopharynx, and of making lumbar punctures, will be found particularly useful. The author does not think that drugs exercise any definite influence on the coume of the disease, but considers that serum given by the intra- spinal method affords the patient the best chance of recovery, and, further, that the stage at which serum treatment is TI - International Clinics: A quarterly journal of illustrated clinical lectures. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co. 4 vols. 35s. per year JO - British Journal of Surgery DO - 10.1002/bjs.1800031125 DA - 1915-01-01 UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/international-clinics-a-quarterly-journal-of-illustrated-clinical-WbuaDYiGMd SP - 582 EP - 582 VL - 3 IS - 11 DP - DeepDyve ER -