TY - JOUR
AU - Kniseley, Ralph M.
AB - TU B AMEUICAN JOURNAL OK CLINICAL PATHOLOOY Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. (12-U4 January, 1904 Copyright @ l'JOl by The Williams & Wilkins Co. i'rintcd in U.S.A. BOOK REVIEWS Iron Metabolism. By THOMAS H. BOTHWELL, M.D. , the evidence is inconclusive that hemolytic M.R.C.P., Tutorial Physician, Department of streptococcal infection initiates the onset and Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand, recurrence of rheumatic fever, and concludes that Johannesburg, South Africa; and CLEMENT A. a genetically susceptible host, besides possible FINCH , M.D., Professor of Medicine, University immunologic and nonspecific stresses, are im­ of Washington School of Medicine. 440 pp. , plicated.'Injury to heart muscle cells is blamed 120 figs., 20 tables. S15.00. Boston: Little, more than valvular damage for the signs and Brown & Company, 1962. symptoms of impaired cardiac function in chil­ This book aims to consolidate the vas t informa­ dren. Adequate short-term steroid hormone ther­ tion about iron metabolism and to provide a uni­ apy is found effective both in terminating active fied concept of iron metabolism as it is presently carditis and in preventing or minimizing residual understood. It is arranged to provide detailed cardiac damage. information on technical methods and th e applica­ All these 
TI - Iron Metabolism
JF - American Journal of Clinical Pathology
DO - 10.1093/ajcp/41.1.92
DA - 1964-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/iron-metabolism-cXRLuoEDN3
SP - 92
EP - 92
VL - 41
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -