Introduction to Clinical Medicine

of uniform -excellence. This, of course, indicates editorial expertise of a high order. Naturally the expert in a particular field will find matters of detail to criticize-this is inevitable in a comprehensive textbook. For example (p. 82) osteoblasts are said to increase by mitotic activity. They don't. Osteoblasts are always recruited from neighbouring undifferentiated cells: the latter alone have the ability to divide. But this is a small point so far as the general anatomist is concerned, albeit a very basic one for a worker in the field of bone biology.