Third edition. Edited by Lester M. Haddad, Michael W. Shannon, and James F. Winchester. 1257 pp., illustrated. Philadelphia, W.B. Saunders, 1998. $150. ISBN 0-7216-6409-1.
In an increasingly technological world, humans are attractedto the outdoors, "organic" foods, and weekend forays for exoticmushrooms. They are thus exposed to snake venom, botulism, anddeadly hepatotoxins. As we seek political domination, the weaponsof war include nuclear bombs, biologic agents, and evil concoctionssuch as nerve gas. As pharmaceutical scientists release evermore potent agents to mitigate high blood pressure, arrhythmias,depression, clogged prostates, and everything else that ailsus, the pill vials sit in the medicine cabinet waiting for aninquisitive child or a morose adult to gulp a fistful. MiddleAmericans labor in factories . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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