This new edition is intended to be of practical use to the reader, and places emphasis on the clinical features and investigations used to achieve a diagnosis and also provides more information on the management of various diseases. The text has been updated to ensure that this new edition reflects the practice of medicine in Britain but a the same time carries an account of the experience of medicine in tropical and developing countries. Changes have been made in the chapter layout and content with new sections on disorders of the skin, climate and environmetnal disease and re-organization of the material on infection and antimicrobial therapy. The contributors discuss diseases of connective tissues, bones and joints, psychiatric medicine and acute poisoning. Diseases of the blood, skin diseases, oncology, infections, disturbances in water, endocrine and metabolic diseases.