Handbook of Medical Treatment [antikvár]

Preface Handbook of Medical Treatment is an up-to-date compendium intended as a first reference for students, practising physicians, and all health care professionals. Selection of material and extent of coverage are major problems whenever attempts are made to encapsulate large bodies of knowledge in an easily retrievable form — we hope we have succeeded to some useful degree in this endeavor. In this the seventeenth edition a major revision has taken place in order to more fully satisfy the demands of the fast-moving fields in medicine. We welcome many new authors and sincerely thank all the eminent practitioners who have been associated with this work in the past. We hope this edition will continue to be as valuable to student and practitioner as have all the previous editions. I am indebted to the authors for their careful, clear contributions and to Richard Jones for his steadfast support and guidance. H. David Watts, MD San Francisco, California January, 1983