Controversy in Internal Medicine

, 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 nauseated by forensic pathology, this is one. It's heavy on the fingers but it rests comfortably on the bedclothes. A word of warning. This book, like its predecessors, contains no toxicology. Those with poisoning in their hearts must turn to the companion volume Clinical Toxicology THIS is one of a series of publications of symposia held at the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh. This is a short and brief book which gives an up-to-date summary of the diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of abnormalities of puberty and adolescence. It is not possible in a summary of the published proceedings of a conference of this type to do full justice to the subject. Nevertheless, the main function for such a conference is to act as an introduction to the subject and this little volume is an excellent beginning to someone interested in this field. There is a good brief summary by W. A. Marshall of the physical changes at puberty, which is based on the much more extensive volume by J. M. Tanner (Growth at Adolescence). There are good summaries of adrenocortical function and gonadal problems at puberty and a sensible discussion of what is perhaps the most common problem, the delayed onset of puberty in adolescent short boys. The book ends with some review of medical services and social services available for the adolescent based on the Scottish experience. This symposium is a good attenmpt to bridge the gap between paediatrics and adult medicine, into which the adolescent child falls, and will be of interest to those physicians whose clinical interest falls on either side of that gap. ONE of the major dangers in the path of the mature physician is that of adopting an increasingly philosophical approach to his practice of medicine. This book caters for that need. It probably represents the point of view of your reviewer that he found it very interesting. A reviewer of the first volume stated "the frontpiece should contain in bold red type a warning to all residents who propose to sit for …