MEDICAL PARASITOLOGY (4th Edition)

THIS is an excellent book although unhappily the only coloured plates concern artists' impressions of various Plasmodia; there is available, however, a set of 180 colour illustrations which can be obtained separately, but the reviewer did not have the pleasure of secinz these. It must be added that many of the black-and-white illustrations given in the text are of outstanding quality; several modern laboratory techniques have been introduced in this edition and there has been an up-dating of virtually every chapter. Whilst one would not expect it to be compulsory reading for the senior clinical undergraduate, the continuing increase in what used to be regarded as exotic tropical infections now occurring in Britain demands that this book should be available for immediate reference when one is faced with a pyrexia of uncertain origin or other apparently baffling clinical situations in a patient who has been abroad at any time in his life. R.R.G.