This brief and concise textbook on pulmonary tuberculosis, in our opinion, fulfills a very definite and until now unsatisfied need in this field. It confines itself to the essentials of the disease and does not include theoretical discussions of the intricate and highly specialized subjects of immunity, resistance, allergy, etc. The student is referred in an excellent bibliography at the end of each chapter to more complete and larger works.
There are sections on the history of the disease, on history taking, on physical examination, on constitutional and local symptoms, on childhood tuberculosis, on the treatment of the disease and