This Article  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

By Professor Dr. W. Grunke. Price, DM 51, 60. Pp. 620, with 177 illustrations. VEB Georg Thieme, Hainstr. 17/19 Aufg. C, Leipzig C. 1.

Werner Gottstein, M.D., Reviewer

AMA Arch Intern Med. 1957;99(2):316.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

The author emphasizes in the preface that he did not intend to describe and discuss the infectious diseases so thoroughly as in the German "Handbook of Internal Medicine," but to present the facts of general importance to the practitioner. Therefore, controversial problems and theoretical bacteriological or serological findings are omitted or briefly described, inasmuch as the author provides the reader with such a wealth of personal war and after-war experiences that the limitation to clinical observations is fully justified. The classification is original and deviates from the customary European and American differentiation. He divides the main chapters into the exanthematous diseases, the septic-typhoid group, infectious maladies with predominant localization in single organs ( tonsillitis, pneumonitis, dysentery, hepatitis, encephalitis, meningitis, erysipelas, tularemia, cat-scratch disease, etc.), finally infectious diseases characterised by manifestations in various organs, such as toxoplasmosis, Coxsakie virus, and infectious mononucleosis. Such classification is disputable, and not everybody will approve that . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?