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Edited by Jack H. Mendelson and Nancy K. Mello. 699 pp., illustrated. New York, McGraw-Hill, 1992. ISBN 0-07-041491-2.

"To know alcoholism is to know medicine." Medical scholars will quickly recognize that I have used literary license in paraphrasing an adage attributed to Sir William Osler, one that referred to syphilis, a disease that in the pre-antibiotic era was certain to tax the diagnostic and therapeutic skills of the physician. The protean clinical manifestations of alcoholism are an equal challenge to the modern clinician, as demonstrated by this multidisciplinary book, which "was prepared to assist health care providers to alleviate both the symptoms and consequences of alcohol abuse and dependence."

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