Brucella Infection and Undulant Fever in Man

Abstract

This compact volume sums up the author's experience with brucellosis in Great Britain over a period of more than 30 years. It is a welcome addition to the monographs on a disease which, especially in its chronic form, has been so poorly understood. The author's faculty for clear expression makes the reading of this work interesting and easy. Because of this and its conciseness, this monograph should reach many physicians who hitherto have failed to appreciate the intricacies or importance of brucellosis. The author has preferred the older designation "undulant fever" to "brucellosis" which has largely supplanted it in the world literature because of the undulating pattern of the fever which he has so often observed. However, as he also points out, the fever may not be undulating. Indeed, in the chronic illness, there may be no fever. Brucella spondylitis and affections of the nucleus pulposus are given deserved prominence,