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(Contemporary Issues in Nephrology. Vol. 30.) Edited by Michael S. Goligorsky. 499 pp. New York, Churchill Livingstone, 1995. $89. ISBN 0-443-07580-8.
(Developments in Nephrology. Vol. 37.) Edited by J. Gary Abuelo. 276 pp. Boston, Kluwer Academic, 1995. $150. ISBN 0-7923-3438-8.

One of my most treasured possessions is an old textbook on the examination of the urine by James Tyson, one of the early chairmen of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania (A Guide to the Practical Examination of Urine: For the Use of Physicians and Students. First printed, Philadelphia: Lindsay and Blakiston, 1875). Whenever I wonder about the point of having medical textbooks in the age of the Internet, the CD-ROM, and the instantaneous dissemination of new information, I recall my delight in handling that book. There are more than data here, there are personal insights and the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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