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By William Boyd, M.D. Price, $17.50. Pp. 900, with many excellent illustrations. Lea & Febiger, 600 S. Washington Sq., Philadelphia 5, 1958.

William B. Bean, M.D., Reviewer

AMA Arch Intern Med. 1959;103(6):1002.

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EDITED BY WILLIAM B. BEAN, M.D.*

Minor incidents, events, and episodes plant the seeds for later developments which furnish direction, pleasure, and instruction in a medical career. In 1931, during the summer after my first year in medical school, my father put in my hands a book called "The Pathology of Internal Disease," by William Boyd. He said that it had pleased him greatly. Ergo, I should read it. This injunction was obeyed for I had come, perhaps reluctantly, to admire my father's canny judgment. Perhaps today I should say we shared certain tastes. At any rate, having wrestled with the massive tomes of anatomy, histology, and embryology, I was pleased to have a chance to preview what I looked forward to as an introduction to the more clinical aspects of medicine, even if it was only the residue found in pathology. To my great delight, I found Boyd's book . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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Communications to this Department may be sent directly to Dr. William B. Bean, University Hospitals, State University of Iowa College of Medicine, Iowa City, or to the Chief Editor for transmission to him.

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