Resistance to Tuberculosis: Experimental Studies in Native and Acquired Defensive Mechanisms.

Abstract

It is indeed a privilege to read the life's work of an extremely competent investigator. This is the case with respect to Max Lurie's work, Resistance to Tuberculosis. The book is written in a most logical, clear and concise fashion. Each series of experiments follows one another as carefully planned building blocks to a most logical conclusion. It is difficult to "put this book down" as the reading is so fluid and experiments defined with such clarity that their significance is very easily grasped. Certainly this book gives not only tremendous insight into the mechanisms involved in resistance to tuberculosis but an insight into integral body mechanisms of defense as a whole. I feel that this book is one of the major contributions in its field.