BOOK REVIEWS
of exercise. A good feature at the
beginning of each chapter is a non-
technical summary. The book has the
limitation inherent in a collection of
rev iews by a large number of authors
from various disciplines. Many inter-
esting facts from many areas of inves-
tigation are presented. Some idea of
the scope can be obtained from the six
major sections of the publication. The
subject is reviewed in relation to the
following aspects of exercise and sports:
structural and mechanical; physiologi-
cal; maturing and aging; psychologi-
cal; cultural and historical; therapeutic.
The volume should be useful particu-
larly to students and teachers of physi-
cal education and physicians concerned
with sports programs.
GEORGE M. WHEATLEY
AIR POLLUTION MANUAL- Part I . . .
Evaluation. Detroit, Mich.: American Indus-
trial Hygiene Association (14125 Prevost),
1960. 194 pp.
This manual contains a wealth of in-
formation on air pollution that will be
found most useful to people in industry,
health workers, administrators, and tech-
nical personnel who are concerned with
or desire information about incidents
and effects of air pollution and means
of its measurement. It is written simply
enough to be meaningful to a wide
range of people. while at the same time
provides scientific or factual answers to
questions that are most frequently asked.
It is authored by 13 scientists who are
recognized nationally for their leader-
ship in air-pollution control. Through
this arrangement this manual has pulled
together an extensive coverage of infor-
mation on status of legal controls; eco-
nomic losses; the effects of air pollution
on health, vegetation, and animals; cost
of control; instrumentation; meteor-
ology; odors; radiation; and industrial
site selection.
Persons interested in air-pollution con-
MAY. 1961
trol will find this a valuable reference,
as well as a guide for procedures in
air-pollution control. The manual makes
an excellent source of reference which
provides documentation for easy access
to the important articles which have
been reported elsewhere.
HERBERT J. DUNSMORE
ZINSSER MICROBIOLOGY (12th ed.)-
By David T. Smith, et al. New York, N. Y.:
Appleton-Century-Crofts (35 West 32nd St.),
1960. 1026 pp. Price, $13.00.
The 12th edition of this book now
includes all the categories of biologic
agents of disease. This has been accom-
plished by adding to the already exist-
ing information on bacteria, rickettsiae,
viruses, and fungi, four new concise
chapters which deal with the parasitic
protozoa and helminths endemic in the
United States, exotic parasites which
could be imported into this country
from other areas of the world, and with
those arthropods which may serve as
vectors of some of the other disease
agents. Included in these chapters are
a number of excellent figures and plates
taken largely from Belding's Textbooks
of Clinical Parasitology 1952 and 1958.
Certain factors in the epidemiology and
control of the parasitic diseases are dis-
cussed in five instances. Although this
procedure has not been followed in any
of the other chapters, it would tend
to make this a more comprehensive text-
book if such information accompanied
every important disease agent discussed.
The remainder of the book contains
very few changes. Among these are
a partial revision of the chapter dealing
with general morphology and reproduc-
tion of bacteria, new short sections on
the enteroviruses, Asian influenza, and
hemadsorption and other parainfluenza
viruses, the addition of a table on re-
cently isolated viruses which cause re-
spiratory infection, a revision of the
table on Coxsackie x irus infections and
the updating of some figures in the
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tuberculosis chapter. Otherwise the pagi-
nation and references have been re-
tained in most part from the 11th
edition. Since the 11th edition was
published in 1957 following a very
extensive revision of the 10th, the fact
that there have not been many changes
in most of the chapters may reflect the
thoroughness of the previous revision.
It might have been of value if the
authors had decided to include a de-
scription of the Fluorescent Antibody
Techniques in the chapters on Antigens
and Antibodies and on Technical
Methods. Even though still experi-
mental, they are of sufficient importance
to have received some mention.
This is a useful book and should
prove of value to those workers and
students in the medical and public
health fields who wish to have at hand
a single and concise reference book.
ANNA C. GELMAN
INDUSTRIAL PULMONARY DISEASES-
Edited by E. J. King and C. M. Fletcher.
Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown (34 Beacon St.),
1960. 273 pp. Price, $8.50.
For those physicians interested in oc-
cupational medicine and chest diseases,
this book offers a series of lectures de-
livered in 1957-1958 at the Postgradu-
ate Medical School of London by out-
standing authorities in their field. They
are short, well written, documented, and
illustrated. Various aspects of pulmo.
nary diseases in industry are covered,
and especially worth mentioning are
the chapters on Disturbance of Pulmo-
nary Function and Pulmonary Function
Tests in Epidemiology. In research in
pulmonary diseases this manual could
be utilized for a quick reference.
A statement which might prove pro-
vocative in this country in the chapter
on Radiologic Diagnosis of Pneumoco-
niosis is worth quoting: "Lung biopsy
is very rarely indicated for the diag-
nosis of pneumoconiosis. In the U.S.A.
it is frequently done in order to estab-
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lish a claim for compensation. For-
tunately, in this country, the Pneumoco-
niosis Medical Panels usually give doubt-
ful cases the benefit of the doubt."
In the chapter on Pneumoconiosis in
Cornwall it would appear that in a tin
mine applicants are x-rayed before em-
ployment, but further x-rays are volun-
tary. "Any attempt to introduce oblig-
atory routine x-ray supervision is vig-
orously resisted, and will be so until
the tuberculous miner is assured that
he and his family will not lose finan-
cially if he is removed from the mine."
This is contrary to accepted principles
of preventive medicine in industry.
It is with interest that one notes in
the lecture on Rheumatoid Disease and
Pneumoconiosis that there is no obvious
relationship between the severity and
activity of arthritis and the x-ray find-
ings of the lung. While this subject is
covered so adequately there is very little
mention of bagassosis and pulmonary
fungus diseases which would be likely
to be seen in the working population.
if not in England, then in areas of the
British Commonwealth.
Since bronchitis is encountered so
frequently in occupational medicine in
England as a cause of morbidity and
mortality, the chapter on bronchitis
is most revealing with its statistical
analyses. BERNARD BEHREND
ORIGINS OF ALCOHOLISM-By William
McCord and Joan McCord. Stanford, Calif.:
Stanford University Press, 1960. 193 pp.
Price, $4.75.
"Origins of Alcoholism" is destined to
become one of the fundamental research
documents in the alcoholism field. This
book is a report on a study which
begins with a group of boys and traces
them to adulthood. Some of the boys
turn out to be criminals, some alcoholics,
while others never come into conflict
with the mores of society. This publi-
cation compares that group of boys who
became alcoholics with the majority who
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