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By James T. Culbertson, M.D. Price, $3.50. Pp. 274, with black and white illustrations and 5 charts and tables. New York: Columbia University Press, 1941.

Phillips Thygeson, Reviewer

Arch Ophthal. 1942;27(2):430-431.

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This book, which presupposes a knowledge of both parasitology and immunology, is designed as a textbook for the student of immunity against animal parasites and as a review and analysis of the recent voluminous literature on the subject for the trained investigator and the practicing physician. While the book is necessarily of limited interest to ophthalmologists it will be of value to those working with tropical diseases of the eye and to laboratory workers concerned with the diagnosis of such occasional parasitic infections of the eye as are seen in the United States.

The book is divided into three parts. Part I is concerned with natural resistance and acquired immunity, part II with immunity to specific diseases and part III with applied immunology. The final chapter deals with the use of immunologic tests, including the complement fixation reaction, agglutination, precipitation and adhesin and cutaneous tests, in the diagnosis of parasitic . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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