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By J. A. Kolmer and F. Boerner. Price, $7.50. Pp. 663, with 11 colored plates and 300 illustrations. New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1931.

Arch Intern Med. 1932;49(6):1099.

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This volume was prepared by the authors for the American Society of Clinical Pathologists. It includes instructions for the examinations of the blood, urine, gastric secretions, exudates and tissue fluids; helpful suggestions for the care and housing of the usual laboratory animals; recipes for mediums, stains and reagent solutions; procedures for bacteriologic technic and the identification of the common pathogenic bacteria and molds; methods for milk and water analyses; technic for the complement fixation and precipitation tests for syphilis; directions for quantitative analyses of the blood and urine; information needed in determining basal metabolism; instructions for preparing sections of tissues; and outlines for certain toxicologic examinations and tests for pregnancy. These directions are adequate, and the tests described include those generally demanded of a large hospital or commercial clinical laboratory. There are no instructions for postmortem technic and other procedures in the morgue. This is anomalous, since clinical pathologists are . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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