This stimulating monograph represents another brilliant chapter in the slowly unfolding story of arterial hypertension and hypertensive disease. The authors bring together in their relatively small volume the observations, results, and conclusions of a decade and a half of co-ordinated clinical investigation carried on in the Department of Medicine and of Physiology of the New York University C...

Functional Histology must rank highly amongst text-books on morphology. Such texts tend to be verbose, the author trying to cram so much detail into the work as to obscure the basic essentials and ideas and to confuse the reader. Not so this work, which, in its second edition, maintains the high standard of the first. Whether one is studying normal or abnormal morphology, a clear basic understa...

IMED 801 Hematology/Oncology Credits 1.25 to 10. It is the purpose of this elective to provide the student with an introduction to clinical oncology and laboratory hematology/oncology, particularly the approach to and evaluation of the patient with a hematologic/oncology disorder. The student will assist /perform routine hematologic procedures, including evaluation of peripheral smears and poss...

A review of such a text as this, which contains 311 major headings encompassing over 1,700 printed pages and contributions by 85 authors, is a major chore and this reader has assumed that his mission was obviously not to read all of it in detail. This review is based on an approach from two orientations-the reviewer has read carefully those sections with whose content he is reasonably well info...

IMED 801 Hematology/Oncology Credits 1.25 to 10. It is the purpose of this elective to provide the student with an introduction to clinical oncology and laboratory hematology/oncology, particularly the approach to and evaluation of the patient with a hematologic/oncology disorder. The student will assist /perform routine hematologic procedures, including evaluation of peripheral smears and poss...

FUNDAMENTALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE. By Wallace M. Yater. 3d ed. New York, Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., 1949. xviii + 1451 pp. $12.00. A textbook of medicine is usually intended to orient the beginning student in the fundamentals of the broad field of internal medicine. This book admirably fulfils this concept. The style and format make for easy reading. This edition has been enlarged from the ...

2009 Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment is an excellent resource tool for inpatient and outpatient medicine. The annual review by medical specialists and reprint of Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment ensures that the clinical findings and treatment information, as well as the provided references, are comprehensive and up to date. New additions to this edition include a chapter on diso...

The first section begins with an historical and philosophical account of scientific theory; it discusses the difficulties encountered in establishing biology as a separate entity, apart from the determinist perspective of the classical physical sciences. Mayr eloquently argues against the notion of reducing organisms to the physical-chemical principles of classical science. According to Mayr, o...

, general medical practitioners, hospital doctors, lawyers and police officers to whom the previous texts were also directed? These will still find the book informative and fascinating. The style is lucid and eminently readable, the print is clear and the paper much superior to previous editions. Fev textbooks can be thumbed through as bedside reading but for those people not congenitally nause...