Human Blood Coagulation and Its Disorders

Abstract

This new edition of a well-known book should be of great value to the student of coagulation, featuring as it does the coagulation disorders. One hundred ninety-four pages are taken up with the theories of blood coagulation and various blood clotting factors. There is an excellent section on hypoprothrombinemia, a relatively small one on hemophilia, and a good section on fibrinogen deficiency. The section dealing with thrombosis and anticoagulant therapy is outstanding, but the clinical sections are relatively poor and contain little information. Thus, the general subject of hemostasis and the hemorrhagic disorders is not as well covered as it might be. This is perhaps due to the particular bias of the authors, who have been among the foremost students of blood coagulation but whose work with clinical material has not been correspondingly as great.