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Edited by Judith C. Brillman and Ronald W. Quenzer. 951 pp., illustrated. Boston, Little, Brown, 1992. $150. ISBN 0-316-10838-3.

For the past third of a century, some of the greatest strides in medicine have been made in the area of infectious diseases. The number of causative agents identified and the development of antibiotics have been phenomenal. These achievements gave us a false sense of victory over infections only to see it overturned as infectious agents returned with a vengeance, beginning with legionella and culminating in the AIDS pandemic.

The past third of a century also witnessed the development of emergency medicine as the newest specialty and the most exciting to appear in a long time. As a new area . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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