MAN AND HIS PARASITES
POMP AND PESTILENCE, by Ronald Hare, M.D.; Victor Gollancz, English price 12/6. HE sub-title-Infectious Disease, Its Origin and Conquest-describes better what this book is about. Chapter 3, for instance, on Parasites and Pestilence, gives in outline the history of epidemic diseases; the next chapter, on Miasmas or Microbes, outlines man’s views through the centuries on their cause, The topic throughout is man and his parasites. Discussion ranges from the problem how, in the course of his avolution, man acquited such a rafige of parasites that interfere with his wellbeing to the ways in which modern science has helped him to keep them under control, so that "it is now becoming difficult, given good and adequate treatment, to die of a parasitic infection." The author, no less an authority than Professor of Bacteriology in the University of London, has a nice sense of humour. The book, I should think, will prove as interesting to the medical man as it certainly is to the layman; the practitioner will not find it mere "elementary stuff," nor the layman {po technical. There are ample references,
but the index is inadequate.
L.J.
W.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/NZLIST19541210.2.23.4
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 803, 10 December 1954, Page 13
Word count
Tapeke kupu
192MAN AND HIS PARASITES New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 803, 10 December 1954, Page 13
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Material in this publication is protected by copyright.
Are Media Limited has granted permission to the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa to develop and maintain this content online. You can search, browse, print and download for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Are Media Limited for any other use.
Copyright in the work University Entrance by Janet Frame (credited as J.F., 22 March 1946, page 18), is owned by the Janet Frame Literary Trust. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise this article and make it available online as part of this digitised version of the New Zealand Listener. You can search, browse, and print this article for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from the Janet Frame Literary Trust for any other use.
Copyright in the Denis Glover serial Hot Water Sailor published in 1959 is owned by Pia Glover. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise this serial and make it available online as part of this digitised version of the Listener. You can search, browse, and print this serial for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Pia Glover for any other use.
Log in