Abstract
The proceedings of the Fourteenth Annual Conference on the Kidney (1962) sponsored by the National Kidney Disease Foundation, recently published in a new and attractive format, maintain the standard of excellence of previous volumes. The first part of the Conference is concerned with an up-to-date review of our present knowledge of Angiotensin and the Kidney. The reports are excellent and bring out well the most important structural and functional aspects of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system. The discussion which follows each paper is lively and is often clarifying. As might be expected from a meeting of this type, many diverging views are brought to the fore and the many areas still needing exploration are pointed out. For example, it is apparent that the renin system is all important in malignant hypertension, while it may have a less important role, or act through a different mechanism, in chronic benign hypertension. The second part
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