This Article  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

By John Crofton MA, MD, FRCP, Andrew Douglas MB, ChB, FRCP. Price, $27.50. Pp 719, with 108 illustrations. FA Davis Co, 1915 Arch St, Philadelphia 19103, 1969.

William W. Stead, MD, Reviewer
Milwaukee

Arch Intern Med. 1970;126(1):172.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

It is commonly agreed that medical knowledge about diseases of the lungs is rather advanced in England. This book gives further evidence of that observation. The authors offer a remarkably complete coverage of diseases of the lungs ranging from the age-old problems to challenges that surround lung transplantation. Probably the most remarkable aspect of the work is that it represents the effort of two men in a time when most such compendia are usually the product of many authors. This book has much less duplication and ambiguity than multiple-authored texts.

It will serve the general physician and internist extremely well, while, at the same time, it will provide a source of up-to-date information for the chest specialist.

A separate section on diagnostic techniques in pulmonary diseases is particularly valuable for the nonchest physician. About the only technique not mentioned is the taking of films with a slight degree of obliquity . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?