Abstract
One of the most reassuring discoveries to make in comparing the best modern textbooks with their ancestors of 30 years ago is that bioscience has become their foundation. The older books were only rambling clinical manuals. This fine two-volume giant dermatology book of more than 2600 pages is an encouraging exposition of the recent advancement of medicine achieved as a result of improved research. Three similar, excellent, up-to-date textbooks are available edited by US authorities for specialists in dermatology, but this one, developed since 1971 into the third edition by Dr Thomas Fitzpatrick of the Harvard Medical School and his associates, most thoroughly and consistently explains diseases utilizing new concepts from the basic sciences. Because of this wide excursion into the sciences, the Fitzpatrick book may appeal most to physicians and scientists working outside of clinical dermatology. Novices ought to know that this is not the book for beginners. Good
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