"Every three years there is a new edition of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine. This year's version, the 11th, lives up to expectations. Students unfamiliar with this book should be told that it is a 2118-page compendium of medicine written by 280 contributors, each an expert in his or her field. Part 1, the famous "Cardinal Manifestations of Disease," discusses alterations in various body systems and clinically pertinent symptoms and findings. The 80-page section on the nervous system deserves separate mention; it represents a masterful introduction to neurology. Part 2 deals with biologic considerations in the approach to clinical medicine, and part 3 treats infectious diseases and those due to environmental agents. Then follow ten more parts, each of which constitutes a different system. The orientation is pathophysiological and clinical throughout."
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