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Allergy in practice
Allergy
in Practice.
Yearbook Publishers,
Samuel M. Feinberg, M.D., Inc., pp. 798, illustrated.
Chicago, 1944, The
In evaluating yet another book on clinical allergy, the question may be fairly asked, “What is the purpose of this work?” The author answers it in the preface wherein he states that with few exceptions most texts on the subject appearing in the last few years have been either too elementary or too elaborated. The objective in this book was to set forth a practical exposition of the subject, detailed enough to be useful but not encyclopedic. In this, the author succeeded admirably. Clarity of presentation, sequence, and selection of references, are excellent. It is truly a textbook. In controversial discussions, the author offers his own interpretation, and he fairly states those of others. Special features are a rather extensive exposition of mold allergy, with which the author is very familiar, and the collaboration of Durham in the discussion of hay fever. As a presentation of allergy, particularly in its conventional sense, the book is all that it pretends to be. Adverse criticism would concern its balance. It reassembles and exposes with clarity much of the conventional material. The author does deal briefly with the broader concepts of allergy but much of what is known about them is reaching us through others than allergists. The relationship of periarteritis nodosa to asthma, true allergic aspects of rheumatic fever, mediation of adrenal secretions to these mechanisms, newer conceptions of the interrelationship between histamine and acetylcholine and their reciprocal enzymes, are but a few of the challenging things about which we wish to know more. This reviewer believes that such subjects no longer should be looked upon as postgraduate, but should be given adequate consideration so that our horizons may broaden.
in Practice.
Yearbook Publishers,
Samuel M. Feinberg, M.D., Inc., pp. 798, illustrated.
Chicago, 1944, The
In evaluating yet another book on clinical allergy, the question may be fairly asked, “What is the purpose of this work?” The author answers it in the preface wherein he states that with few exceptions most texts on the subject appearing in the last few years have been either too elementary or too elaborated. The objective in this book was to set forth a practical exposition of the subject, detailed enough to be useful but not encyclopedic. In this, the author succeeded admirably. Clarity of presentation, sequence, and selection of references, are excellent. It is truly a textbook. In controversial discussions, the author offers his own interpretation, and he fairly states those of others. Special features are a rather extensive exposition of mold allergy, with which the author is very familiar, and the collaboration of Durham in the discussion of hay fever. As a presentation of allergy, particularly in its conventional sense, the book is all that it pretends to be. Adverse criticism would concern its balance. It reassembles and exposes with clarity much of the conventional material. The author does deal briefly with the broader concepts of allergy but much of what is known about them is reaching us through others than allergists. The relationship of periarteritis nodosa to asthma, true allergic aspects of rheumatic fever, mediation of adrenal secretions to these mechanisms, newer conceptions of the interrelationship between histamine and acetylcholine and their reciprocal enzymes, are but a few of the challenging things about which we wish to know more. This reviewer believes that such subjects no longer should be looked upon as postgraduate, but should be given adequate consideration so that our horizons may broaden.