The Penguin Medical Encyclopedia

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This encyclopedia, which has been revised and brought up to date, is addressed to anyone who is concerned with the care of sick people and in particular to the patient himself, who should be the doctor's principal colleague. However, Dr. Wingate is emphatic that it is not a 'Home Doctor' or do-it-yourself medical manual. In hundreds of entries, running from abdomen and abortion to zygote and zymosis, he deals with the body and mind in health and sickness, with drugs and surgery, with the history, institutions, and vocabulary of the profession and with many other aspects of medical science. "A highly commendable book which will no doubt go through many future editions." - Journal of the Institute of Health Education