Despite all standardization efforts, medical diagnosis is still considered an art. Much of this status is owed to the fact that medical diagnosis requires a proficiency in coping with uncertainty simply not found in today's computing machinery. Offering a generic and powerful framework for the remodelling of existing systems and the paradigms they are based on, fuzzy set theory promises to be a...

was congenital in origin, with the remainder almost exclusively rheumatic. Recent surveys tell a very different story. Autopsy incidence. News tends to grow less impressive with every mile it travels, and local information is always more interesting than that from a distance. Fortunately, therefore, autopsy figures are available from local sources. With Professor Hewer's permission I have exami...

It is certainly splendid book. It is divided into four parts?diagnosis in general, methods and their immediate results, symptoms and signs and their clinical application. Dr. Wilson is Professor of Clinical Medicine in the wellknown Jefferson Medical College and has a vast experience. The big volume is one that, cannot lie briefly reviewed, it consists of 1,415 pnges. We have read many of them ...